or Hauren in the Riuer of Seuerne so called after her name Locrine raigned twenty yeares and left a Sonne named Madan Madan sonne of Locrine and Guendolen began his raigne ouer the Britons an mundi 2909 He vsed great tyranny among his people builded Madancaistre now called Dancaster Hauing ruled this land 40. yeares hee was deuoured of Wolues other wild beasts as he was abroad in hunting He left 2. sons Mempricius Manlius Mempricius eldest sonne of Madan succéeded his Father and slew his Brother Manlius for better confirmation of his gouernement He fell into vnlawfull lusting after women so that hee forced his peoples wiues and daughters and albeit he had a wife and many Concubines yet he vsed the abhominable sinne of Sodome So that becomming hatefull both to God and man being one day lost of his people as he was hunting hee as his father was eaten of wilde beastes after he had raigned 20. yeares Ebranke sonne of Mempricius by his lawfull wife succéeded in rule ouer the Britons Hee had one and twenty wiues on whom he begat twenty Sonnes and thirty Daughters He was the first Prince of this Land that euer inuaded Gallia now called France from whence he returned with great riches and triumph Hee builded the Citty of Caerbranke nowe called Yorke about the 14. yeare of his raigne in Albania or Scotland hee builded also the Castle of Maidens and the Cittie of Alclud He gouerned Brittain very nobly forty yeares and lieth buried at Caerbranke or Yorke Brute Tarianlas or Greeneshield Sonne of Ebranke succéeded his Father in the regiment of Brittaine Hee sought to bring all Gallia vnder his subiection and some do auouch that hee performed it albeit Brinchild gaue him a great foile in Henault He raigned twelue yeares and was buried by his father at Yorke Leill the sonne of Brute Greenshield raigned after his Father He builded the Citty called Caerleil that is to say Leill his Citty or the Citty of Leill and repaired also Carleon now called Chester which is saide to bee built before Brutes entrance into this land by a Gyant named Leon Gauer Leill raigned 25. yeares and was buried at Carleill Lud or Ludhurdibras the Son of Leill ruled Britaine after his Father He builded the Citty of Kaerkin now called Canterbury the Citty of Caerguent now called Winchester and Mount Paladour now cald Shaftsbury Aquila a Prophet or Bardh of the British nation wrote diuers Prophesies concerning the building of Shaftsbury Lud raigned 29. yeares and was buryed at Canterbury Baldus or Bladus son of Lud-hurdibras succéeded his Father in the rule of Brittaine Hee was skilfull in the Sciences of Astronomy and Nigromancy he builded the Citty of Caerbran now called Bathe and made there hot Bathes though William of Malmsbury is of the mind that Iulius Caesar made those baths which cannot bée so because Iulius Caesar neuer went so farre that way into the Land This Bladud was so proud of his art that he would needes presume to fly in the aire but hee fell on the Temple of Apollo in Troy-nouant and was there torne in pieces hauing raigned twenty yeares Leir the Son of Bladud followed his Father in Britaines gouernment being a Prince of most Noble Nature and gouerned his Subiectes very royally He builded the Towne of Caerleir now called Leircester And because the History of his thrée Daughters Gonorill Regan Cordeilla with their seuerall marriages to Henuinus duke of Cornewall Maglanus Duke of Albania and Agauippus prince of Gallia is very wel known and all the fortunes thereto belonging I am the easier induced to passe it ouer with all the troubles happening to King Leir through his owne weaknesse Leir raigned forty yeares and was buried at Leircester Cordeilla youngest daughter to K. Leir succéeded as Quéen and Gouernesse of Britain but her two Nephewes Cunedagius and Morgan sons to hir as vnkind Sisters made short hir time of gouernment after the decease of her Husband Aganippus For they imprisoning her and shee being a Lady of vnconquerable courage gréefe and despaire of liberty made her there to slay her selfe after she had ruled fiue yeares Cunedagius and Morgan deuided the whole land between them after Cordeillas death But enuy and couetous desire in either to rule alone raised them in armes against each other Morgan was slaine in Cambria by Cunedagius and the place of his death is yet called Glan-Morgan Morgans land he not hauing raigned aboue two yeares with his Brother who afterward builded thrée temples one to Mars at Perth in Scotland another to Mercury at Bangor in Cambria and the third to Apollo in Cornwall He raigned 33. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Riuallus Son of Cunedagius next ruled Britaine in whose time it rained blood 3. daies together which blood engendered such multitudes of Horseflies that many people were stung to death by them In his time was the City of Rome builded he raigned 46. yeares was buried at York Gurgustius son of Riuallus raigned 37. years Sysillius or Cecilius Brother of Gurgustius 49. yeares Iago or Lago Cozin to Gurgustius twentie eight yeares Kinimacus or Kinmarus Son of Sisillius 54. yeares Corbodug Son of Kinimacus 43. yeares or by some 62. yeares Ferrex and Porrex Sons or Gorbodug raigned ioyntly till ambition deuided them Ferrex being slaine in battaile the Mother of them both wrought afterward the death of Porrex After which great troubles endured for the space of fifty yeares for the Sole-Monarchie of this land became then a Pentarchie as deuided betwixt fiue Kinges or Rulers And héere ended the line of Brute The Pentarchy 1. Rudacus King of Cambria or Wales 2. Cloton King of Cornewall 3. Pinnor King of Loegria 4. Staterus King of Aibania 5. Yewan or Owen King of Northumberland Mulmutius Dunwallo the Sonne of Cloton who was allowed for most rightfull Heire hee succéeded as Sole-Monarch of Britaine after his Father This Mulmutius builded a Temple in Troy-nouant cald the Temple of Peace which some do hold to be that ancient monument called Blackwell-Hall He builded also two Townes Malmsbury and the Vies and was the first king that was crowned with a Crowne of Gold He made diuers good Lawes which long time after were called Mulmutius lawes being turned out of British into Latine by Gildas Priscus long time after translated out of Latine into English by Alfred K. of England and mingled among his statutes He began to make the foure great high waies of Britain and gaue priueledges to Temples Ploughes Citties high waies leading to them so that whosoeuer fled to them should bee in safety from bodily harme and thence he might depart without preiudice to his person In regard that he was the first king crowned with a golden Crowne most writers giue him the name of the first King
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
extendure and beautie of buildings but also in election of Companies and Corporations for better supply of the Magistracy and conueniency of all the aptest meanes thereto belonging this Branch of your honorable Society of S. Iohn Baptist deriued of that ancient and memorable Stem of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem grewe to burgen and spread it selfe in goodliest manner Beeing Tailors of the Linnen-Armory and brethren of Saint Iohn Baptist as most Companies in those times had a Saintes appellation they grew to be great in Kinges fauours who thought it no indignity to themselues to be stiled in the Brother-hood of S. Iohn Baptist and from theyr Guildes first Creation by King Edward the third with authority to hold a feast yearely at Midsommer and to make choyce of a Gouernor or Mayster according to the order of a Great Maister among the Knights Hospitallers of Saint Iohn Baptist of Hierusalem and Wardens to assist and ayde him in that weighty charge they proceeded on still by the ensuing Kings in further additions of gracious regard till King Henrie the seauenth confirmed their Charter naming them Merchant-Taylors of the Brother-hood of Saint Iohn Baptist to continue still the memorie of their Originall Heere may I not also forget that as the Knightes Hospitallers at Hierusalem were alwaies respectiue in seruice to Pilgrims and Trauailers euen so as if such an humble condition did well merit not to be forgotten in this Brotherhood at the beginning they did vse ech yeare to chuse a Pilgrime who attended the seruice of the Maister of the Company and trauailed in behalfe of the whole Society One of the Pilgrimes names is recorded by Iohn Stow to be Henrie de Ryall and that name of Pilgrime continued vntill the eleauenth year of Richard the second when the foure Wardens were then called Purueyors of Almes now called quarterage of the fraternity Seauen Kings haue borne Bretherens name of that Society viz Edward the third Richard the second Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift Henrie the sixt Edward the fourth and Henrie the seauenth and as is credibly affirmed wearing the Liueryhood on their shoulders they haue gone on the election day from the Hall to the Pallace of Saint Iohns in Saint Iohns Streete there to heare diuine seruice and graciously permitted the Maister to goe on the vpper-hand such in those times was the milde nature of Princes shewing by their owne example how Magistrates and other their meaner Ministers ought to be held in honor and respect Passing ouer the Dukes Earles Lords Byshoppes Knightes and Gentlemen who haue likewise beene Bretheren of that honorable Society and many other memorable persons of whom this little limit alloweth no speech I wil conclude this Epistle with a briefe note of two or three worthy Bretheren among infinite other whose deserts doe iustly challenge perpetuall acknowledgement Sir William Fitz William the elder being a Merchant Taylor and Seruaunt sometime to Cardinall Wolsey was chosen Alderman of Bread-street-Ward in London in Anno. 1506. And going afterward to dwell at Mylton in Northamptonshire in the fal of the Cardinall his former Maister he gaue him kinde entertainement there at his house in the Countrey For which deede being called before the King and demaunded how he durst entertaine so great an enemy to the State his answere was that he had not contemptuously or wilfully done it but onely because he had been his Maister and partly the meanes of his greatest Fortunes The King was so well pleased with his answer that saying himselfe had too few such Seruaunts immediatly hee knighted him and afterward made him a priuy Counceller This worthy Knight dying gaue an hundered pounds to poore Maids marriages His debs and debtors ouer whose names he had written Amore Dei remitto he freely forgaue He gaue to the Vniuersities forty pound to the poore thirty pound to mend the high-waies betwixt Chigwell and Copersale in Essex 50. pounds to mend other high-waies about Thorney and Sawtrie Chappell and the Bridge fifty pounds more And to the Merchant-Taylors his Bretheren hee gaue his best standing Cuppe as a friendly remembrance of him Sir Thomas White Lord Maior of this honourable Citty and a worthy Brother likewise of that Society beeing a louer of Learning and an earnest furtherer thereof first purchased the Hall in Oxenford called Glocester-Hall for Students and Schollers to receiue there the benefit of learning But his priuate thoughts very often solliciting him that he should in time meet with a place where two Elmes grewe and that there his further forward purpose should take effect At length he found out the place where at his owne cost and expences hee founded the famous Colledge in Oxenford called Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge where those two Elmes as I haue heard are yet standing endowing it with such liberall Guifts Lands and Reuennewes as would require too much time here to be remembred Beside his prouision for Learning in this worthy place he erected other Schooles as at Bristow Reading and a Colledge at Higham Ferries More he gaue to the Citty of Bristow the summe of two thousand poundes to purchase Land amounting to the yearely valew of an hundred and twenty pounds the Maior and Cittizens paying therefore yearely an hundred pounds Eight hundred pounds must bee lent to sixteene poore Clothiers fifty poundes each man for ten years space sufficient security being giuen by them for the same Afterward that eight hundred poundes was to passe to other sixteene Clothiers according to discretion of them put in trust Two hundred poundes beside was reserued for prouision of Corne and needfull occasions for the poore in the order and care of the Maior Aldermen and Cittizens c. Then according to his will which remaineth yet to be seene out of this bountifull guift to Bristow these memorable braunches and beneuolences were by himselfe deuised and ordered beginning in the yeare â—577 and thence forward they went on according to his owne direction Then was brought to the Merchant-Taylors Hall an hundred and foure pounds the hundred pound to be lent for ten years space to four poore men in the Citty of Yorke And the foure pound ouer plus to be imploied about the charges paines that no man vsed in the businesse might receiue discontentment Then in An. 1578. the like summe was to be deliuered thence to Canterburie and so thence-forward the same summes yearely to the Citties and Townes following orderly 1579. Reading 1580. The Merchant-Taylâ—rs themselues 1581. Glocester 1582. Worcester 1583. Excester 1584. Salisbury 1585. West-Chester 1586. Norwich 1587. Sothampton 1588. Lincolne 1589. Winchester 1590. Oxenford 1591. Hereford East 1592. Cambridge 1493. Shrewesbuâ—ie 1594. Lyâ—ne 1595. Bathe 1596. Derby 1597. Ipswitch 1598. Colchester 1599. New-Castle This summe of one hundred and foure pounds passing yearely to these fore-named places from the Merchant-Taylors Hall and to the good intended vses of the giuer that there might bee no breathing while for so iust a Stewards Talent but to haue it
kept on in continuall imployment for the poore the same order was to take beginning againe as before at the Cittie of Yorke and so successiuely while the World stands to the Townes before named in selfe-same course as it had the originall with great care and obseruaunce in them to whom it belongeth that the dead may not be abused nor poore mens right iniured But did he thus shut vp his Pursse and say to himselfe I haue giuen sufficient No hee did cast his pittying eie next on the Citty of Couentry distressed at that time in great and grieuous manner What his instant beneuolence was he tooke it to bee but as an houres Sun-shine after a whole day of storme and tempest although it might yeeld some comfort were the season neuer so short But to establish a certainty that no dismay or doubt should euer after bee able to remooue euen as a worthy Piramide erected to perpetuity he gaue to the Citty of Couentry 1400. pound therewith to purchase Lands rising to the anuall value of 70. li. Twelue poore Inhabitants of that Citty were to haue in free Almes twenty foure poundes each man forty shillings yearely on the eleauenth day of March Four young men were also to haue fortie poundes yearely ten pound each man and for nine yeares space vpon sufficient security giuen And their turnes thus serued then foure other young men to haue the like summe and like limitation and so from nine yeares to nine yeares for euer Afterward it was ordred to two poore men of the same Citty and lastly to one in which nature according to the seuerall limitations it doth yet and doubtlesse shall for euer continue Also the same summe to one young man in Northampton next in the Citty of Leicester Thirdlie in Nottingham Fourthly in Warwick Then returning to Couentrie again for one year it repasseth to the said Townes againe each after other yearely for euer And least his worthy intent should faile in the continuance hee enlarged his first gift to Couentrie of 1400. poundes to 2000. and 60. pound to bee imployed as hath beene remembred fortie pound yearely being paid out of it to Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge in Oxford And allowances also by himselfe giuen in each place that bonds should be made without any charge to the receiuer Sir Thomas Row Lord Maior of this famous Citty and a worthy Merchant-Taylor beside his charitable cost and charges in building the new Church-yard in Bedlem for such Parishes as wanted benefit of buriall Gaue forty poundes yearely to maintaine tenne poore men for euer such as were not Bretheren of his owne Society but chosen out of fiue seuerall Companies viz. Clothworkers Armorers Carpenters Tylers and Plaisterers As considering that by ouer-toyling labour dangers fals bruizes and such like inconueniences they were soonest like to become impotent and vnable to helpe or maintaine themselues Therefore to each of these ten men hee freely gaue the sum of foure pound quarterly to be paid them at the Merchant-Taylors Hall during their liues and then to succeede to other men in the same Companies according to due consideration of iust cause and most necessity Lastly worthy Gentlemen to hold yee no longer in matter better knowne to your selues then mee because it is in your owne eyes and eares almost dailie the neuer dying memory of a yet liuing and long may he so be Brother Merchant-Taylor shall be my conclusion This vertuous and Religious man knowing Death to be an vnindifferent Executor and Life much more worthy of trust and imployment hath preuented that gripple greedy Tyrant and made such large Legacies to Life that Death neuer deserued to be put in trust withall If men of this World such as GOD hath liberally bestowed his blessings on would with this good-minded man consider that let their willes bee neuer so wisely made yea all Art and Dexterity therein to the very vttermost imployed yet death and his long wide gaping Children haue many hangers on many meanes deuises but many more tricks and vnfaithfull performances they would trust life the better as this man hath done and let death haue only the reuersion which is the easier to bee considered on It is not for my pen to set downe his praises leaues of Marble or Brasse are meeter for those Carracters that the deuouring teeth of Time may neuer deface Let this thâ—n 〈◊〉 â—ome addition to your honour that you haue suâ—h a â—orthy Brother mindful of the works of Mercy to thâ—â—oore among your selues and many places else-where carefull of offendours whom law sentencing with Death by the Watch-bell of Prayer are encited to compunction and hopefull of al goodnesse to pursue 〈◊〉 vertuous determinations euerie where So that wâ—en â—is Dooue shall finde no resting place for his foote 〈◊〉 reason of this Worldes tumultuous waues hee may returne to the Arke of blessednesse the happy home that he you and all else that feare God should daily long for Yours euer A. MVNDY TO THE ANCIENT WOORTHY AND RIGHT Worshipfull Company of the Gold-Smiths the Maister Wardens Assistants Liuery and likewise to euery louing Brother and member thereof LEt me not be thought Right Worshipfull Society more bolde then becomes me that in search of Antiquitie and Successe of Times guided by good obseruation and probable Authorities I thus present you in vnfaigned affection what I haue gathered concerning your worthy Brother-hood If I had time heere to set downe without preiudice to any other Misterie whatsoeuer that which Holye Writ recordeth of you and of men then most expert in your profession this poore Epistle would encrease it selfe to a very large discourse and exceede the limit wherto I haue tied my self in the whol labor I passe ouer the captiuity of Gods chosen people in Babylon and the Offices of those three especiall chosen men Zerubbabell Ezra and Nehemiah the first being their Captaine to guide them home and prouided that the Temple was builded the second reforming manners and making a plantation of Religion the third and last to builde vp the wals and make a new Citty of Ierusalem againe Yet let me tell you that among the multitude of Officers and Offices appointed to this businesse for building the walles the Merchants and Goldsmithes do beare a remarkeable note the very words in Scripture being these Betweene the Chamber of the Corner vnto the Sheepe-gate fortifyed the Gold smiths and the Merchants Beside that which is spoken of Malchiâ—h the Goldsmithes sonne fortifying to the house of the Nethinims And then of Bezaleell the Sonne of Vri filled with the Spirit of God in wisedome and vnderstanding to worke in Gold Siluer Brasse who had Aholiab ioyned with him to make all curious workes appointed by God himselfe for the Tabernacle of the Congregation the Arke of the Couenant and the Mercy-seat c. If these be not Testimonies of extraordinary honour and respect in the very names of Merchants and Goldesmiths but much more in the matter of so
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
Deuill But our good God being made all of mercy perceiuing the offence of Man did promise him that the séede of the Woman which is Iesus Christ should breake the head of the Serpent that is to say his kingdome and power deliuering vs from the captiuity of sinne death the Deuill In this promise we may note the sourse or spring-head of the Gospell which afterward was oftentimes repeated and diuersly signified by sundry figures for comfort of our holy Forefathers euen to the comming of Iesus Christ When Adam was throwne forth of Paradice he began to labour in the earth with great pain Afterward he knew Heuah his wife who brought him a sonne called Caine who was an husbandman and the first murtherer of his brother Abell the iust Shepheard In whom began the first persecution of the Saintes by the wicked for the true and sincere seruice of God In this man also began the Kingdom or citty of God and in the other the citty of the World and of the Diuell as shal be better manifested in Nimrod This murder being thus committed Caine was abhominable in the sight of God he withdrew himselfe from his father and builded a Citty after the name of his first son Enoch Adam had daughters also and at the age of 230. yeares he begat Seth. Seth at the age of 105. yeares begat Enos Enos aged 99. yeares begat Cainam Cainam aged 70. years begat Malaleel Malaleel aged 605. yeares begat Iared Iared aged 160. yeares begat Enoch Enoch who at the age of 65. yeares begate Methusalem walked with God declaring his iudgements to ensue vppon men degenerating from humaine and reasonable Nature into brutish and vnbrideled voluptuousnesse For the Sonnes of God that is to say the Sayntes by the generation of Seth beholding the Daughters of men that is to say the wicked by the generation of Caine to be fayre tooke them to Wife without any regarde and celebrated marriages with the people of abhomination of whome Gyants were borne men of might and great Renowne Methusalem at the age of 187. yeares begate Lamech Adam dyed aged 930. yeares Iust Enoch was carried aliue vp into heauen Lamech at the age of 182. yeares begat Noah the deliuerer of Iustice whom the Poets not vnderstanding the creation of the worlde called Heauens Chaos Seede of the world Father of the Gods Noah being 500. yeares of age with his wife Thitea that is to say Earth or according to the Poets Aretia Cybele Vesta and Mother of the Gods begat Sem Cham and Iaphet with whom by the commandement of God in the hundred yeare after he entered into the Arke which had béene built by him and was preserued from the Flood The Generall Deluge BY which invndation of waters God brought an horrible vengeance to punnish the wicked liues of men Sem who was Melchizedech two yeares after the flood begat Arphaxad beeing then aged 100. yeares Arphaxad aged 35. yeares begat Salê Salê at the age of thirty yeares begat Heber and builded the Citty of Salem though some say it was Sem that should be called Ierusalem the Citty of God seated in the midst of Iudea Heber of whom the Hebrewes were after named being aged 34. yeares begate Pâ—aleg at which time the earth was diuided betwéene the sonnes of Noah Sem and his off-spring enioied the East part of Syria to wit Asia C ham Zoroastres had Iudea Egypt Arabia and all Affrica Iaphet who by the Poets is called Iapetus had with his people all Europe Phaleg at the age of thirty yeares begat Reu at which time Nimrod the Babylonian Saturn hindmost Nephew of Cham began his raigne builded the Tower of Babell where beganne the confusion of tongues into seauenty two the common language of the Hebrew remaining entyre Samothes or Dis King of the Gaules of whom the Gaules or Celts tearme themselues to be discended as Caesar declareth in his sixt Booke began also his raigne in short time after as Gomerus Gallus likewise did his in Italy and Tuball the Sonne of Iaphet his rule in Caltiberia now called Spaine Oceanus swayed in Egypt as Tuiscon or Ascenas did in Allemain or Germany Reu at the age of 32. yeares begat Saruch Saruch aged thirtie yeares begat Nahor or Nachor tearmed Fayre Iupiter the second King of the Assyrians Nachor at the age of 29. yeares begat Thares or Terah who is saide to be Ninus the third King of the Assyrians Hee erected Temples Altars and Statues to his dead father which were a great occasion the verie sourse of Idolatries Osyris and Isis first found out the means of Corn at this time in Egypt and nowe did Aegiaâ—eus become first King of the Sicyonians or Peloponnesus now named Morea Thares a maker and seller of Idolles being 70 yeares of age begat Abraham Nahor and Aran the Father of Lot Semiramis the wife of Ninus in habit of a man raigned ouer the Assyrians in the name of her Sonne Noah died aged 905. yeare old 350. years after the flood Saturne Pluto Cybele Mother of the Gentiles Gods Sol Iupiter Pallas or Minerua Venus Cupid Vulcane Mercury and all the crew of these faigned Gods then began Abraham boing aged 75. yeares by the Commaundement of God departed from his owne Country and Kindred for God had promised vnto him the land of Canaan and blessing vppon all people by his wisedome which is Iesus Christ he begate Isaac Saron King of Gaule ordained publicke Schooles Druis his successor being a verie wise Prince of whom the Druides are saide to be deriued appointed Priests Phylosophers among the Gaules So do affirme Berosus in his fift Booke Caesar in his sixt Booke and Cornelius Tacitus in the Manners of the Allemaynes or Germaines Isaac aged 60. yeares begat on his Wife Rebecca Esau and Iacob twinnes Abraham Sem and Heber dyed Inachus was the auncient and first King of the Argiues At this time Bardus K. of the Gaules became the inventer of Verses and of Musicke and Hercules ruled in Lybia Iacob called Israel at the age of 84. years maried Lea and Rachel and of them together with their two Hand-maids had twelue sonnes Ruben Simeon Leui Father of the Leuites and Priestly lignage Iuda of whom the Iewes doo hold their name and the Royall lignage of Iesus Christ discended Issachar Zabulon Gad Aser Dan Nephtalin Ioseph and Beniamin all Patriarkes with Dina one only daughter who was the wife of Iob according as Philo the Iew recordeth Of these twelue Patriarkes the 12. Tribes or Linages descended Afterward Iacob being aged 130. yeares went downe into Egypt with all his family to his Sonne Ioseph the Deputie to Pharaoh who had bin sold by his Bretheren In that place he gaue vppe the ghost being aged then
147. yeares hauing prophesied that Iesus Christ should come before that the Scepter were taken from Iuda or a Duke of his generation Galathes the Sonne of Hercules was King of Gaule whereof it tooke the name Prometheus and Atlas at this time were very excellent Astrologians Ioseph dyed 54. yeares after his Father The Israelites now began to be euill intreated by the Egyptians Moses the last Nephew of Leui was borne 64. yeares after the death of Ioseph Cecrops then builded the Citty of Athens and was first King thereof Also he was the first Authour of the most abominable idolatries that euer were among the Grecians The Deluge of Deucalion Princes and Iudges of Israel MOses aged 80. yeares by the commandement of God reproued Pharoah wrought many myracles in Egypt with-drew the people of Israel our of Egypt by the Red-Sea béeing in number more then sixe hundred thousand This their departure thence happened in the yeare 430. of the promise made to Abraham for the blessing of all Nations by his séede Moyses gaue the Law to the people in the Deserts of Arabia as a School-maister vntil the comming of the promised séed For this cause he ordained for the sins of the people diuers Ceremonies of sacrifices marriages punishments solemnities of feasts For the action of War he numbred more then six hundred and thrée thousand without comprehension of the Leuites to whom he prescribed theyr charge In the end he instructed the rude people in diuers commandements For Gods ordinances he constituted Iosuah his successour and rendred vp his spirit in the 120. yeare of his life and of the departing out of Egypt the 40. read Exodus Leuiticus Numbers and Deuteronomy all which are heere thus briefely collected Daâ—danus hauing slaine his Brother Iason was the first King of Troy Ianigines was then King in Italy the most cruell Tyrant Busiris King in Egypt and Mercurius Trismegistus that is to say thrée times the most great King Priest and Philosopher See M. Ficinus in his life Iosuah passed the people dry foote thorough the Riuer of Iordan into the Land of Promise The Sunne stayed while he fought the battel he slew one and thirty Kings And after he had distributed their Countries amongst the people he died thirty yeares after the death of Moyses The Israelites then left God and serued Idols Orcus King of the Molosses made then a rape of Proserpina And Cadmus brought the Charracters of Letters into Greece Othoniell of the Lignage of Iuda gouerned the people eight yeares and was the third Iudge of Israel in order and not the first as some haue supposed He deliuered the people from the oppression of the King of Mesopotamia Aiod or Ehua slew the king of the Moabites raigned eight yeares and deliuered the people from the idolatry of the Moabites In this time began but much rather encreased the Gods and Idolatries of the Gentiles according to Iosephus as Bacchus Pandion Radamanthus Aeacus Minos King of Creet Dedalus and Icarus at this time made their flight Tantalus Amphion founder and first King of Thebes Linus Barach with Debora the Prophetesse iudged 40. yeares ouercame with ten thousand men only the Army of Sisara consisting of two hundred thousand men The Argonaâ—tes sayled then to Colchos then liued Areus and Thiestes Pan also and Midas King of Phrygia abounded in Treasures Gedeon a valiaunt Captaine iudged fortie yeares and deliuered the Israelites from the seruitude of the Madianites In this time liued Circes Medea Enchanteresses with Medusa and Andromeda Euristheus first king of Mycena was slaine by Aeacides hauing commaunded well néere thorough all Greece for the space of forty fiue yeares togither Abimelech the naturall Son of Gedeon was Iudge thrée yeares he slew 69. of his naturall legitimate Brethren only that he might raigne Sparta or Lacedemon was theÌ„ builded by Spartus the Sonne of Phoroneus Others doo attribute the building thereof to Aristhenes who was their first king Thola was Iudge 25. yeares then liued Ruth Mother to the Grand-mother of Dauid then also were Castor Pollux Apollo the inuenter of Musicke Aesculapius his Sonne Orpheus and Museus who were the first Poets according to Linus Iair iudged 22. yeares during which time the people liued in maruailous quiet as they did before in the raigne of Thola But afterward there happened interregnum eightéen yeares together in all which time the Israelites were seruile to the Philistims for their idolatries Pyrrhus then inuented the Tennis Play Theseus vanquished the Minotaure and Hercules came from Spayne into Italy 55. yeares before Aeneas Iephta the Bastard was Iudge sixe yeares and being thereto compelled by his vow hee slew his onely Daughter Theseus now made his rape of Helena shee being then a very young Mayden Sybilla Aericthrea liued in this time shee that fore-told the ruine of Troy and of whom Homer telleth many goodly tales Abesan or Ibsan iudged seuen yeares The History of Ruth happened in this time Pluto Neptune then were and Paris stole Helena the wife to Menelaus king of the Lacedemonians Elon was Iudge ten years in whose time happened the Warre betwéene the Greekes and the Troyans for the rape of Helena Wife to Menelaus by Paris Sonne to Priam the last King of Troy Abdon iudged eight yeares Aeneas with his companions came into Italy and Francus if wée may beléeue Manethous and others the Sonne of Hector with his followers also came into Austria Of the one descended the Latines kings of the Romaines and of the other the Kinges of France In these dayes liued Pilades and Orestes the two loyall friends Sampâ—on the strong was Iudge 20. yeares he slew a thousand Philistims with the iaw-bone of an Asse and was deceiued by a Strumpet The Linage or Tribe of Beniamin was now almost vtterly destroyed onely thorow detestable voluptuousnesse Hely Priest and Iudge raigned fortie yeares and was punnished of God for his ouer great indulgence towards his children The Ark of Moses was then taken by the Philistims Bâ—ute the Sonne of Syluius third King of the Latines expulsed then the cruell Gyants out of the Island which after his owne name he called Brittaine now England and deuided his Land to his thrée Sonnes in thrée seuerall kingdoms to wit Loegria to Locrine Cambria now called Wales to Camber and Albania now called Scotland to his third Sonne Albanact Samuel the Prophet and innocent Iudge to those wicked children He annointed Saul to the Israelites they desiring a King t And then began the Kingdome of the Lacedemonians instituted by Euristhenes and of the Corinthians founded by Atletes Kings of all the Iewish people SAule first King of the Israelites with Samuel raigned fortie yeares Hee pardoned Agag King of Amalec his Prisoner and reserueth the spoile to Sacrifice to God
two and thirty thousand footmen and foure thousand fiue hundred horsemen marched thorow all Asia In the seuenth yeare of his Monarchy he was poysoned in Babylon Read his life set downe in Plutarch and Iustine lib. 11. After his death there grew dissention betwéene the Captaines and Macedonian Lordes who should be successour of this great Empyre At length it was resolued on the person of Arideus sur-named Phillip the Brother of Alexander Perdiceas was created Captaine General Soone after the Prouinces and Gouernments were distributed among Alexanders Captains who immediately appropriated them to themselues each one enioying the title and quality of a king Thus this great Monarchy was deuided into many parts and kingdomes all which neuerthelesse were in short while reduced into three principall kingdomes Macedon Syria and Egypt Of Macedon and the succession of Kings there raigning ARideus Phillippus the Brother of Alexander who had bin elected successor raigned in Macedon six yeares gouerning wholy by Antipater who managed all the affaires of the kingdome This king was slain by Olympias the mother of Alexander Cassander the Sonne of Antipater after the death of Arideus inuaded Macedon hauing caused the Mother and wife of Alexander to be slain Olympias and Roxana hee raigned eightéene yeares Antipater and Alexander the sons of Cassander raigned together foure years Antipater slew his Mother Alexander made warre vpon Antipater calling Demetrius to his aide who caused him to be slaine Demetrius after the death of Alexander raigned seauen yeares But hauing attempted to recouer the Empire of his father Antigonus in Asia-minâ—r which Seleucus then held he was vanquished and taken by Seleucus and dyed in prison Antigonus Gomathes the Sonne of Demetrius raigned afterwarde in Macedoâ— for the space of 36. yeares hauing recouered the kingdome which after his Fathers death had béene inuaded by many that held it for the space of eight yeares For Pyrrhus King of the Epirotes held it first Lysimachus next tooke it from him while he was seriously busied with the Romaines Lysimachus being dead Prosomâ—us Ceraunus invaded it but in short while after this Ptolomie was slaine by the Gauâ—â—s who came into Macedon and by this meanes Antigonus re-entred vpon the kingdome of his Father Demetrius who raigned eight yeares left his Sonne named Phillip verie young in years and one Antigonus was made his Tutor or Gouernor who marrying with the Mother of his Pupill by that meanes made himselfe king Antigonus Doson raigned twelue yeares Aratus chiefe of the Achaian line hee called to his aide against Cleomines King of the Lacedemonians who was vanquished by Antigonus and tooke the Cittie of Sparâ—â— Phillip the son of Demetrius raigned 44. years and hauing made warre against the Romaines he was vanquished vnder the conduct of T. Quintus Flaminius and all taken from him that he inioyed except the sole kingdome of Macedon wherein succeeded Persâ—us who raigned eleuen yeares Hée was vanquished and taken prisoner by Paulus Aemilius Consull and Captaine Generall of the Romaines and led in triumph to Rome the yeare of the Citties building 587. And then was Macedon reduced into the forme of a Prouince Of Syria and the Succession of the Kings there raigning AFter the death of Alexander the Great Seleucus was the first king of Syria Perdiccas being dead he regained the Cittie of Babylon part of the Indiaes Soone after by the helpe of Ptolomy king of Egypt hee made warre against Antigonus who commaunded in the lesser Asia and hauing ouercome him laid claime to the kingdome and was made King thereof and in short time after he ioyned al Asia-minor to Syria Antigonus being slaine in battaile And thus by him was established the great Empire of Syria Hee vanquished also Lysimachus and took from him the kingdom of Macedon But soon after he was slaine by Ptolomeus Cerannus hauing raigned 32. yeares in Syria Antiochus Soter that is to say Sauior or Preseruer the Son of Seleucus raigned 19. yeares to whom succéeded Antiochus sur-named Deos that is to say God who raigned 15. yeares Seleucus Callinicus the son of Antiochus raigned twentie yeares In his time Arsaces the Parthean reuolted from his obedience hauing vanquished manie of his neighboring Nations hee founded the kingdom of the Partheans which afterward became most potent Seleuchus sirnamed Cerannus that is to say Lightning raigned thrée yeares And after him came Antiochus the great who raigned 36. yéers He was conquered by the Romans vnder the Scipioes conduct in two foughten battailes with whom afterward he made peace on condition that he should leaue the lesser Asia from the mountaine Taurus to the Romans After whom succéeded his sonne Seleuchus Philopater that is to say A Louer of his Father who reigned twelue yeares Antiochus Epiphanes that is to say Famous who also was sonne to great Antiochus raigned twelue yeares This is the King that took Ierusalem and did so much harme to the Iewes polluted and contaminated the Temple and would constraine them to change their Religion He put the seauen brethren most cruelty to death made a most famous Martyrdome of them His Army was vanquished by Iudas Machabeus and after him his sonne Antiochus Eupator raigned two yeares In which time Demetrius the Sonne of Seleuchus Philopater who had béene giuen in Hostage to the Romans for the peace of Antiochus the great his Graundfather being fled from Rome come into Syria caused a great number of the people to reuolt that afterwarde deliuered him into the handes of the said King Antiochus who caused him immediatly to be put to death Demetrius Soter after the death of Antiochus raigned x. yeares In this time the Iewes were gouerned by the Machabees Alexander the naturall sonne of Antiochus Epiphanes hauing gathered an Army and being seized of some Citties in Syria vanquished Demetriu in battaile and slew him This Alexander raigned fiue yeares Demetrius Nicanor the sonne of Demetrius Soler came into Syria with an Army and being ayded by the King of Egypt he invaded the kingdome Alexander fled into Arabia where he was slaine and Demetrius raigned two yeares Antiochus Sedectes the sonne of Alexander assisted by Triphon expulsed Demetrius and inuaded the kingdome which he held 3. yeares Triphon slew Antiochus and possessed himself of Syria where he raigned three yeares Demetrius being yet liuing who was in short while after taken by the Partheans Antiochus surnamed Soter and Pinus Brother of Demetrius Nicanor vaÌ„quished Tryphon who afterward was slaine And hauing raigned twelue yeares he died in a battel against the Partheans Demetrius Nicanor who before had raigned two yeares was let go by the Partheans raigned afterward foure yeares more But being ouercome in battaile by Alexander Zebin he was slaine Alexander Zebin whome the King of Egypt had sent to the Syrians complaining of the cruelty of Demetrius raigned
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
forenamed Peter so soone as he heard the tidings of his fathers hard aduenture departed presently from Fraunce and went directly to Constantinople where he was receyued as Emperor in the yeare 1220. There hee carried himselfe valiantly vntill such time as hée tooke to wife a young Lady who was promised troth-plighted to a Gentleman of Burgundy that neither could or would endure such a shame But he boldly comming into the Pallace did cut off the Ladies nose and threwe hir mother into the Sea because she had béen the procurer of this vniust marriage To all which the Emperour durst not say one word but went to Rome to receiue the Crowne And returning thence not long after with an intent to bee revenged he died of a strange disease in Achaia Baldwine the second sonne to the said Robert succéeded his Father in the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 1228. But because he was ouer-young Brennus King of Ierusalem in title onely was sent from Italy to be ioyned with him as his gouernour whose daughter hee married making none account of the daughter of the king of Pontus whereby great warres ensued Baldwine being but barely stored of money for these warres and very hardly pressed engaged his son to the Venetians and to the King S. Lewes a peece of the true Crosse as it was reported to be and many precious Reliques of the Church So leuying a great Army he planted it at the entrāce of the straite of Constantinople But in the meane while by secret intelligence Michaell Paleologus had gotten into the Citty Then Baldwin flying thence with the Patriarch betooke themselues to Negropont dreading only the outward harmes while they within were ten times worse Then did the Greekes recouer the Empire of Constantinople which the French hadde helde almost the space of thréescore yeares Michaell Paleologus hauing thus cunningly seized on the Empire and got it into his owne possession held it stil very manfully for the space of two and twenty yeares But hee ran into his peoples hatred for making agréement with pope Gregory the tenth in the Councell at Lyons and acknowledging duty to him After him his son succéeded Andronicus who within a while after tooke his sonne Michaell to be his associate in the empire But Michaell being dead his sonne Andronicus the younger made warre vpon his graundfather Andronicus and compelled him to accept him as companion with him in the Empire Whereat the Emperour Andronicus conceiued such inward dislike that he soone after died hauing raigned 43. yeares Andronicus the yonger carried himselfe both wisely and valiantly in gouerning the Empyre He died of a burning Feauer hauing raigned 33. yeares his sonne succéeding Iohn Cantacuzen who was Schoolmaister to Iohn Paleologus and fellow also with him in the Empires gouernment of whom more shal be said in the life of Iohn Paleologus Iohn Paleologus called also Caloian succéeded his father in the Empire of Constantinople the yeare 1341. He being very young had for his Tutor and companion in the Empire Iohn Cantacuzen who was expulsed by the seditious deuises sleights of a man of meane birth but yet quicke dexterious and full of courage which made him the better accepted in Court It is said also that the ambition of the Patriarch of Constantinople was thereto a great furtherance But he being impatient at such an iniurie made war for fiue yeares against the mother of Iohn Paleologus and against Iohn the said Emperour and was the first man that brought the Turkes in Armes into Europe At length Constantinople yeilded it selfe vnto him and when he tooke it he did no wrong to any one but carried himselfe as fellowe Companion of the Empire giuing his daughter in marriage to the said Emperour Iohn Afterward he made warre vpon the Genowaies spéeding one while well and another ill hauing neuerthelesse with him the Venetians and the men of Arragon Then Iohn Paleologus whoe had béene banished made warre vpon him being principally ayded by the Turkes and to whome hee gaue first habitation in Europe by which meanes he cunningly entred Constantinople in the yeare 1357. And then Cantacuzen forsaking the Empire entred into a monastery and liued there as a Monke But Matthew his sonne séeking to be Competitor with Paleologus was constrained to desist So Paleologus hauing had the victory in diuers warres died in the yeare 1384. hauing raigned sixtéene yeares with his Tutour Cantacuzen and 27. yeares alone by himselfe in all 43. yeares After him was Emperour for the space of thrée yeares Andronicus the eldest sonne who neuerthelesse is not set in the number of the Emperors Manuell by some called Emanuell son to the said Iohn Paleologus held the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 1387. And the most remarkable matter in his life was that he left seauen sonnes of which Iohn the eldest succéeded in the Empyre in the yeare 1421. Iohn eldest sonne to Manuell entred on the Empire after his fathers decease He being more addicted to peace and quietnesse then War gaue his assistance in the Councell at Ferrara which was afterward transferred to Florence Eugenius the fourth then being Pope As Emperour of the East he was graciously welcommed by both the Churches the Greek and Latine which were then made one Returning home to his Empire he liued no long time after but died not leauing any posterity of him in the yeare 1445. Constantine the eleauenth and sonne of Manuell after the death of his brother Iohn held the Empire called the Greeke Empire in the yeare 1445. He hauing bin King of Morea before was called Draco for the cruelty which hee exercised against the Turkes But when Constantinople was taken by Mahomet the second son to Amurath the second Then all trembling and hee retiring to a gate of the Citty to escape by flight was stifled to death in the prease and confusion of people that likewise fled away the 29. day of May 1453. His head was carried on the point of a Launce to be shewn through the enimies camp in derision And vndoubtedly it is a matter worthy note as also of some meruaile that Constantinople edified or re-edified enriched and exalted by Constantine the first sonne to S. Helena and after the manner of Rome shoulde vnder this Constantine the eleauenth hauing his mother to beare the same name of Helena likewise bee surprized and kept vnder the power of the Turkes euen to this instant A briefe History or summarie of the Othomans or Emperors of the Turks for the space of three hundred yeares OThoman the sonne of Orthogules was Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare of our Saluation 1300. He was the first of this Nation that carried this name which he had in regard of a Castle that he took in Galatia And he was the first also that renewed the glory and honor of his Nation For these people hadde taken Ierusalem in the yeare 1008. but they were
conquered by the Christians vnder the conduct of Godfrey of Bullen and those that then remained of the Turkes retired themselues to Nicea hauing neuer after any one K. of renowne vntill this man who made himselfe a Monarch hath the first place in the History of the Turkes He was but of meane descent yet of great spirit cunning dilligent and ambitious hauing euermore in his hart a desire to raigne and pondered vpon all meanes that thereto might best aduance him In this high disposition hee founde Fortune very fauourable to him for he subdued the greater part of Bithinia tooke many fortes néere to the Pontick Sea But his very greatest honour was the surprising of Sina a Citty anciently called Sebastia He died aged in the first yeare of Phillip de Valois King of France and Edward the third King of England Orchanes Son to the said Othoman was Emperour of the Turkes after his father He would not alter a iote of this newe authority no more then his father did and whom he farre surpassed in Warlike actions By his liberality and good carriage he woon the hearts of his people pursuing on very well what his father had begunne By his industry vigilancie and prouidence he woon the Countries of Mysia Lycaonia Phrygia and Caria and tooke in Warre Prusya which is now called Bursia and which was the aboade of the Kings of Bithynia where he receiued a hurt whereof he died in the first yeare of the raigne of Io. K. of France Edward the third of England stil raigning He raigned 22. yeares leauing Soliman and Amurath his sons and successors Soliman sonne of Orchanes raigned 2. yeares after his Father He made warre vpon the Greekes passed from Asya into Europe where he vanquished the Bulgarians and tooke many places from them especially in Thrace he got the Citties of Adrianople and Philopolis Some say that he died in his Fathers life time with a fall from his horse in hunting and that very soone after his father died with gréefe And this is the reason why some doe not set him in the rank of Turkish Emperors Amurath first of that name and sonne to Orchanes was Emperor of the Turkes in the year 1350. Good Fortune attended on him as shee did on his Graundfather and on his own Father likewise But he was as contrary to his graund father by the mothers side as his father had béen to his predecessor who bereft him of a great part of Cilicia by killing his sonne Amurath incited thereto by Iohn Paleologus sent twelue thousand Turkes for seruice of the said Paleologus which was the source and beginning of the ruyne of Constantinople For being allured with the riches of Europe to make another voyage he passed in the Genowaies gallies six thousand Turks vnder colour of yet giuing fresh succour to the Emperor of Constantinople and to expell his enemies out of the Empire But it was with full intention to vsurpe Greece So he crossed the arme of the Hellespont Sea to Abydos seazing Calypolis and other Citties Afterward with a verie strong power he set vpon the Emperor himselfe who no way doubted him Then tooke he Seruia and Bulgaria whose Princes he foiled comming in good manner against him But one of the followers of Lazarus Despote of Seruia in reuenge of his Maisters death slaine in the fight killed Amurath in the yeare 1378. Baiazeth King or Emperor of the Turks first of that name after the death of Amurath his Father slew his elder brother Solyman by Treason and enioyed the Empyre of the Turkes alone to himselfe To reuenge the death of his Father he made warre against Marke Lord of Bulgaria both vanquishing and killing him and subduing beside a great part of his country In short while after he ran thorow the Countries of Hungaria Albania and Valachia and doing great hurt vnto them tooke many Christians whom he carried Prisoners into Thrace In regard of most bold attempts in his Martiall businesse wherein hee was both hot and sudden hee was called Baiazeth Hildrin that is to say Heauens Lightning He subdued almost all Greece being assisted with the guifts and graces of Nature both in body and mind He besieged Constantinople for the space of eight yeares the Emperor wherof was gon into France to require assistance which was granted him Neuerthelesse Baiazeth had the victory ouer the French Hungarians Germaines Seruians Mysians at once assembled against him And so returning to Constantinople with a fresh besieging and finding no meanes to preserue the Empire of Constantinople suddenly Tamberlain came against Baiazeth and gaue him battel on mount Stella where Pompey fought with Mithridates There did Tamberlain conquer him bound him in chaines of gold placing him in a Cage of yron led him in that manner thorough Asya and Syria In which miserable estate Baiazeth died and after his decease we find that there was interregnum vntil Mahomet one of his sons came Iosuah or Cyriscelebes whom some wrongly name Calapine the eldest sonne of Baiazeth after the foyle of his Father was defeated of Asya by Tamberlain led Captiue to Constantinople for the Emperor as a singular prize But he was vsed as the sonne of a Prince and soon after with great humanity in the Emp. released and sent home into Asya where he recouered his Fathers kingdome After when he had well reestablished his forces he stoutly resisted Sigismond King of Hungary who came to assaile him and had woon diuers Prouinces from him presuming that the Turks could no way reléeue him after so great an ouerthrow giuen by Tamb. But Fortune spake no friendlier to Sigismund then she had formerly don to him when he fought against Baiazeth at Nicopolis his people being al larded with arrows before they could fall into order of battell For the Horsmen turned bridle euen at the first shocke noise of the Enemy and Cyriscelebes remained conqueror who was slaine by his brother Mustapha otherwise called Musulman in the very flower of his age the yeare 1407. Mustapha or Musulman was Emperor of the Turks a very small time for his brother Moyses possessed himselfe of the State and expelled him Som name this Mustapha Orchanes the second whom they tearme to be son and heire to Iosuah or Cyriscelebes and that he was slaine by Moyses his vncle by the fathers side but Moyses quickly did suffer his deserued punnishment For loosing both goods and life together himself was also slain by his owne brother Mahometh There be that write that this Mahometh raigned next after his father Baiazeth making no mention of Iosuah or Cyriscelebes neither of Mustapha or Orchanes nor of Moyses but after Baiazeth do make his sonne Mahometh presently to follow Moyses was expulsed and put to death by his brother Mustapha or as others say his nephue Orchanes and soone after he was likewise slaine by his brother Mahometh And these twoe by some are not set in ranke with
the Turkish Emperors because they are said to raigne very little time or not at all Mahometh first of that name brother to Iosuah Mustapha and the forenamed Moyses is said notwithstanding the rest to be Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare 1409. There are som that doo attribute only to this man all those matters which are reported of Iosuah or Cyriscelebes He ouer ran the Countries of the Bulgarians Valachians imposing great Tributes and Taxations vpon them Then he entred on the Satrapes of Asya recouering all those places which Tamberlaine had taken He chased out of Galatia and the Countries of Pontus and Cappadocia his own kindred and Allies without extending any pitty to any Princes and Lordes of his owne blood albeit it is true that he left some in their own intire dwellings Being returned into Greece hee came to Adrianople the Metropolitan Citty of Thrace and there he constituted the seate of his Empire expelling thence the Christians that had there any abiding He died in the twelft yeare of his Empire which is reckoned to be in the yeare 1418. leauing his sonne Amurath the second to be his successor Amurath the second Sonne to the forenamed Mahometh succéeded his Father in the Turkish Empire in the yeare 1418. He vnderstanding the death of his father and desiring to passe from Asya into Thrace vanquished his Vncle Mustapha to whom the Gréeks gaue fauour and succour He was the first that for the guard of his person made election of Christian Renegados to bee his Ianissaries by the power and courage of whom both he and his successors haue subdued almost the whole East He assailed with his forces and did great dammages to the Countries of Hungaria Bosnia Albania Valachia Greece He tooke Thessalonica from the Venetians He had victory against Ladislaus King of Poland against the Cardinall Iulian and against Huniades He held the Empire or Kingdome of the Turks for the space of 32. yeares and then left it to Mahomet his Sonne Mahomet the second Emperor of the Turks succéeded his Father Amurath in the year 1450. He began his reigne as an Homicide causing his younger Brother to be murthered because his fathers body should not be buried alone He was a most wicked and sinfull man not beléeuing in any God For he would say that his Mahomet was a false Prophet like vnto himselfe made a mockery of the Saintes Prophets and Patriarches He woon and left the sirname of Great to the house of the Otthomans Hee ruyned the Empyre of Constantinople which he seized by assault the 29. day of May 1453. as hath béene already declared in the report of the life of Constantine the eleauenth togither with the Empire of Trebisonde He tooke twelue kingdomes two hundred Citties from the Christians in the year 1479. He besieged the Isle of Rhodes which was then held by the knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem but his labour was in vaine for it was couragiously defended by the said Knights their great maister Peter d'Aubusson or d'Ambois a French man At length he died of the Collick the fourth day after he sickened hauing liued 58. yeares reigned one and thirty Baiazeth second of that name and sonne to Mahomet the second by meanes of the Ianissaries was made Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare 1481. He conquered and expulsed Zizim his younger brother whom the chiefest Lordes would haue had to be Emperour but hee beeing fled for refuge to the Isle of Rhodes the great master of the Knights sent him to King Charles the eight Baiazeth vanquished Caraman and recouered all whatsoeuer hee hadde gotten from the Turkes on either side of the Mount Taurus He subdued Valachia and so went on against the Sultane of Aegipt who was too strong for him For hauing receiued the fugitiue Mamelukes after the death of Caraman and entertaining besides a great number of Arabes for his defence oftentimes hee conquered and put Baiazeth to flight Afterward Baiazeth subiected the Inhabitants of the Ceraunian Mountaines and tooke from the Venetians Lepanto Modon and Duraz. In the end his youngest sonne Selim whoe by means of the Ianissaries had gotten preferment before the eldest and was declared to be Emperor in his fathers life time enforced him to flight and afterward poisoned him in the yeare 1512. at the very same time when the battell of Rauenna was fought vnder the happy reigne of King Lewes the twelfth Selim hauing expulsed and after poisoned his Father because he liued too long was Emperour of the Turkes in the yeare 1512. To this parracide he added the murder of his brethren Achmet and Corcuthus and caused seauen of his Nephewes to be strangled that were the Children of his brothers He conquered and expelled the Sophi of Persya and in diuers battels discomfited the two Souldanes Campson and Tomombeus with the Mamelukes and Arabes Hee added Aegipt and Arabia to his Empire and tooke the great Cayro Then returning home to his countrey of Greece an vlcer ingendred in his Raines which increasing continually like a Canker procured his death in the eight yeare of his reygne Anno 1519. Soliman whom some tearme to be the second of that name Emperor of the Turks carried that name as is said because he very wisely prouided for all affaires whereunto the yssue of them was also as correspondent For this name of Soliman by som transposed sillables deliuereth the name of Salomon the most renowmed King for Wisedome There was not any before him nor of the race of the Othomans more seuere and valiaunt For the déedes and warres of Soliman came not one iote behinde those of his Father hauing recouered Syria vanquished Gazel that was reuoulted and surprised Belgrade and Rhodes then afterward Buda two seuerall times and put to the worse the Army of Austria that fled away before him And néere vnto Buda had the victory ouer Rokandolphe who had a great Army He vanquished the Spaniards at Castelnoua in Dalmatia and put to flight the Army by Sea which séemed inuinsible In the yeare 1543. he tooke Strigonia and Alba Regalis two worthy Citties of Hungaria He conquered the kingdomes of Assyria and Mesopotamia with the Citty of Babylon that might be compared with Memphis and Aegypt conquered by his Father He ouer-ran and wasted the frontiers of Armenia Medea and Persia and twice tooke Tauris the principall Cittye of Persia chasing the Sophi farre off before him into the mountaines For the rest the Turks themselues doe confesse that for 200. yeares before they neuer had Lord that was a greater Iusticer more sober wise and humane then he was But this humanity ceased in him when he caused his eldest sonne Mustapha to bee strangled to please his Concubine Rosa who desired that hir Sonne Selim might be Emperour after his Father Hee was repulsed by the Emperour Charles the fift when hee came with a powerfull Army to besiege the Citty of Vienna in Austria He
kindes of Théeues as formerly hath bin saâ—â— who name themselues Sarracenis not in regard of Religion or bloud but by an auncient appellation of the said people of whome Ptolomey makes mention and saith that their liuing is in Idumea Amianus Marcellinus in the History of Iulian the Apostat Emperour makes a description of them and saith that Those places more than two hundred yeares before the Originall of Mahomet or of his Alcoran were fully furnished with the said Sarrazins and Assyria afterward euen so farre as the Cataracts of Nylus or the kingdome of Prester Iohn where they vsed the same courses violences thefts vpon merchants and inhabitants of the neighboring Countries according as the Arabes or Alarbes doe at this day Whereupon because that their chiefest habitation was in the Desarts and Mountaines which are in Arabia and the neighbouring quarsers or Countries as Chaldaea Assyria Mesapotamia Suria and Aegipt when the Arabes arose with their new Religion and had frequented the foresaid Regions the néerer Countries supposed that these people were those former Sarazins by ignorance of their Language as also by rashnesse of some Writers who liued then in Suria and since that time in Spaine séeming to haue good knowledge of those people and therefore continually then called Sarazins Moreouer to confirme that vaine appellation those Interpreters in Spaine who by commandement of S. Bernard were appointed to interpret the Alchoran in euery place where they found the vocable Mulsulman which is as much to say in the Arabian tongue as Peaceble and faithfull towards God they interpreted the same Sarraceniâ— or Sarazins This Mulsulman then is the vocable whereby al that beléeue in the Alcoran will be called whether they bee Arabes Syrians Persians Tartars Turks or Moores Whosoeuer then would enter into any peaceable and friendly conference with them albeit none doe hate their name more than the Turks must call them Mulsulmans as we do our selues Christians or faithfull people So are they all named by the Author of the Ismaell or Ismaelitish race and by their Bastard Prophet After our manner and in respect of Religion they term a man Mulsulmam and a woman Mulsulmina or Mulsulminet albeit some say Mussim by a corrupt pronunciation As we may well conceiue by our owne selues who do vse to call those disfigured wanderers that walke among vs with deformed faces and long ilfauored lockes vsing all subtle Thefts piâ—â—eries and legerdumaines they can deuise we nick-name them to be Sarrazins Aegiptians or Gypsies I thus conclude then that when Hystorians write that the Sarrazins inuaded and made vse of Rhodes next of Thrace then of Italy Spaine and other Countries it is to be vnderstood of the Orientall people and Affricanes that were of the Mahometan Religion because they vsed the selfe same cruelties thefts and robberies as the Sarazins of rockie Arabia did And to speak truly all Europe wold at this instant haue bin haunted with those people if they had not béene formerlie expelled and spoiled It remaineth yet freshe in memory that the great Graundfather to Phillip king of Spaine not long since deceased named Ferdinand expulsed them out of the Kingdom of Granado with their king called Melen and he bestowed six whole years together in stout wars onely in foiling them And then the dominion which the Sarazins and Moores held in Spaine had finall conclusion After which time those faith lesse Mahumetists durst neuer presume any more vpon Spaine where they had held the Kingdome of Granado eight hundred yeares Before the said Ferdinand king Alphonsus in the yeare of our Lord 1233. slew in diuers places aboue two hundred thousand of them when they held strong forts and Citties in Spaine which he forced them to forsake and since then haue béene vtterly ruined Henry the Emperour made another great massacre of them in the yeare of Iesus Christ 1010. in Italy expelling them wholy out of that Countrey Among the Sarazins there were not only very generous persons but likewise some men of great learning as Auicen Mesuus Isaac Mansor Auerroes and many others Now as all things haue their vicissitude and alteration by courses so after that the Sarazins had raigned in Africa and partly in Europe for about the space of eight hundred yeares there came a people from diuers parts of Scythia which at this day we call Turks who in lesse than twoe hundred yeares ouercame in Armes those people called Sarazins with many other Christians beside not onely in Asya but in Europe and Affrica And albeit that those Turks were of the same Religion to wit Mahumetists yet did they not abstaine from vexing and troubling them with warre euen in like manner as they did the Christians For in the yeare 1012. they took Ierusalem and all Iudaea from them but the Sarazins of Aegipt recouered them againe and held them for three hundred yeares after Neuerthelesse they were yet againe deiected thence in the year 1517 by the Turks the Sarazins loosing then not onlie Palestine and the Holy-land but likewise Egipt Syria Arabya and the very same Countrey of Idumea where as the Sarazins had their original and are there subiect to the Turkes nowe at this instant For Campson their King lost the daie against Selim Emperor of the Turks and Tomombeus his successour being next chosen to bee King in his place was taken and afterward ignominiouslie strangled in the graund Caire the very principall Citty of Egypt where we may behold the end of the Sarazins not any part of them now remaining except such few as are in the Turks seruility This short discourse giues vs to vnderstand that Sarazins were not all such as are called Mahumetists but they that had their beginning in the Countries of Idumea and the desart or rockie Arabia and all those that being ioined with them commanded vnder them in diuers Countries rendring other Nations subiect to them by Armes Vncill such time as they were exterminate by the people whose Countries they vniustlie vsurped and planted their Religioâ— by war As also at length by the Turkes although they be of the same Religion For warre is maintained among them for desire of soueraignty and ambition euen as well as among vs that are Christians ¶ A briefe Collection of the Byshops and Popes of Rome from the yeare 44. to this instant 1611. With the seuerall Ages of the Church since the Ascension of our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ vp into Heauen OVr Lord Iesus Christ the Nazarite God and man Messias Sauiour of the world Holy of holies Soueraigne and Eternall Highe Priest head of the Church 1 Peter called Cephas borne in Bethsaida the sonne of Iohn and first called of the Apostles is said to hold his seat seauen yeares at Antioch and afterward at Rome xxiiij yeares vnder the Empire of Claudius and Nero who caused him to be crucified in the same place Simon Magus being reputed to be
second of Sauona called Iuliano de Rouero sonne of Raphaell Brother to Pope Sixtus the fourth of Cardinall-Priest became Byshoppe of Alba afterward Byshop of Ostia and great Penitentiary vnder Maximilian Hee held the See nine yeares three moneths twelue dayes vacante seauenteen dayes The generall Councell of Laterane was then 226 Leo the tenth a Florentine called Iohn de Medicis sonne of Laurence Cardinall Deacon vnder Maximilian and Charles the fift He held the see eyght yeares eight months twenty one dayes vacante one month seauen daies 227 Adrian the sixt a natiue of Vtreicht in Galia-belgica sonne of Florent of Byshop of Ertusa was made Cardinall-Priest vnder Charles the fift to whom hee was Schole-mayster he held the see one yeare eight months sixe daies vacante two months foure daies 228 Clement the seauenth a Florentine called Iulius de Medicis Knight of Hierusalem nephew to Pope Leo the tenth elected Arch-Byshoppe of Florence Cardinall-Deacon afterward Priest Chancellour of the Church vnder Charles the fift he celebrated the ninth Iubilie in the yeare 1525. And helde the see ten yeares tenne monthes eyght dayes vacante sixteene daies 229 Paule the third called Alexander Farnese sonne of Peter Lewes Cardinall-deacon was afterward Byshoppe cardinall of Tusculanum Palaestrina Sabina Portua and Ostia and Deane of the cardinals vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand Hee held the see fifteene yeares nineteene daies vacante two months 29. daies The generall councell of Trent beganne Anno. 1525. 230 Iulius the third borne at Arezza called Iohn Maria de Monte sonne of Vincent Arch-Byshop of Sipontum cardinall-priest and afterward Byshop of Palaestrina vnder Charles and Ferdinand Hee celebrated the tenth Iubilie in the yeare 1550. and held the see fiue yeares one moneth sixteene dayes vacante seauenteene daies 231 Marcellus the second a Tuscane called Marcellus Ceruinus sonne of Richard of Byshoppe of Castello Nouo hee was made cardinall-priest vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand He held the See twenty two daies vacante seauenteene daies 232 Paule the fourth a Neapolitane called Iohn Peter Caraffa sonne of Iohn Alphonso Count of Mataluna of Archbyshop of Naples he became Cardinall Priest of Alba Sabina Tusculanum and Ostia and Deane of the cardinals vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand he held the See foure yeares two Moneths seauen and twentie daies vacante foure monethes sixe dayes 233 Pius the fourth a Milainois called Iohn Angelo de Medicis sonne of Bernardino Cardinall Priest vnder Ferdinand and Maximilian the second he helde the Sée fiue yeares eleauen moneths eight daies vacante nine and twentie dayes In his time the counsel of Trent was concluded an 1563. 234 Pius the fift an Alexandrine Lombard of the preaching Fryers order called F. Michael Giller of byshop of Surrina and Nepesina became cardinall Priest Graund Inquisitour and byshop of Montrâ—all vnder Maximilianâ— Hee held the Sée six yeares three moneths sixteene dayes 235 Gregory the thirteenth a Bolonois called Hugo Bâ—n-compagnio son of Christopher Cardinall Priest vnder Maximilian the second and Rodolphus the second He celebrated theeleauenth Iubilee in anno 1575. and helde the See twelue yeares xi months xii daies vacante eleauen dayes 236 Sixtus the fift De la Marche d' Ancona cardinall de Montalto called F. Foelix Peret of the Friars Minors order cardinall Priest vnder Rodolphus the second Hee helde the Sée fiue yeares foure months xxi dayes vacante fouretéene daies 237 Vrbane the seauenth a Romaine called Iohn Baptista Castagnia Sonne of Cosimo cardinall of S. Marcellus vnder Rodolphus the second He helde the Sée fifteene dayes vacante two months 238 Gregory the fourteenth a Milanois called Nicholas Sfondratus cardinall of S. Cecilia vnder Rodolphus the second Hee helde the Sée ten monethes tenne dayes vacante fifteene dayes 239 Innocentius the ninth a Bolognois called Iohn Baptista Fachineti cardinall of SS quatuor vnder Rodolphus the second he helde thee Sée two months vacante two months 240 Clement the eight a Florentine called Hyppolito Aldobrandino Sonne of Syluester Auditor of Rota and Datary or Almoner to the Pope was made cardinall Priest of S. Pancratia and great Penetentiary He was sent Legat into Poland by Pope Sixtus the fift in the yeare 1592. Hee was elected Pope vnder Rodolphus the second and held the Sée thirteene yeares one moneth fiue dayes vntill the thirde of March 1605. and then died During his Pontificacie which deserueth to bee noted hee procured peace betweene the two Kings most Christian and catholicke and the Duke of Sauoy hee reduced Ferrara vnder obedience to the S. Sée and celebrated the twelft Iubilee in the yeare 1600. 241 Leo the xi a Florentine likewise called Alexander de Medicis Sonne vnto Octauian of the most famous house of the Medici of Byshoppe of Pistoya became Byshoppe of Florence and Ambassadour of Fraunces de Medicis great Duke of Tuscany vnto Pope Gregorie the thirteenth Hee was made Cardinall beeing entitled with Saint Quirice and Saint Iulita after of Saint Iohn and Saynt Paule and in the ende of Saint Praxedes Beeing sent Legate into Fraunce by Pope Clement the eyght Hee mediated the peace with the Spanyarde and returning to Rome hee was made chiefe of the Congregation of Byshoppes And the second of Aprill 1605. hee was created Pope But his Pontificate was of small continuance because he helde the See but seauen and twenty dayes onely and dyed the seauen and twenty day of the sayde moneth vnder the same Rodolphus the second 242 Paule the fifte a Romaine Originally descended from Sienna called Camillo Borghese who had beene Referendary vnto eyther Signature Vicar of the Patryarchall Churche of Saint Maria Maior Vice-Legate to Bolognia Generall Auditour of the Apostolique Chamber and Nuntio from the S. See into Spayne Hee was made Cardinall Priest of Saynt Eusebius in the yeare of our Lorde 1596. by Pope Clement the eight and afterward Byshoppe of Esino in the Marchia d'Ancona After the decease of Pope Leo the eleauenth Hee was elected in his place the sixteenth daye of May 1605. As yet to this present yeare 1611. Hee remayneth lyuing and hath held the Papacie the space of fiue yeares and somwhat more TO THE HOnourable Company of the Marchant Taylors being the Society of Saint Iohn Baptist ¶ A briefe Collection of the Originall and Progresse of the Knights of the worthy Order of S. Iohn of Ierusalem who were afterward called Knights of Rhodes and Knights of Malta Likewise their exployts in warre vnder the conduct of their Great Maysters from the yeare 1099. vntill this present With some as briefe report also of the Knightes Templers and all other Orders of knight hood thorough the world THe Militarie Order of S. Iohn of â—erusalem had her byrth and firste Originall in the holy Citty of Ierusalem and passed there her first yeares of Infancie with a great part of her adolescentie When as the Sarazins were Maisters of the holy Citty and of the
country all about the sacred Sepulchre of our Lorde which was ruined about the yeare of saluation 1012. by the commandement of Equin Califfe of the Sarrazins and continued so ruined vntill the time of Constantine Monomachus Emperor of Constantinople who at the intreaties of the christians which then dwelte in Ierusalem with the consent of Bomensor Elmonius Stensabus Califfe or Soldane of Egypt built it againe at hys owne charges in the yeare 1048. About which time certain Gentlemen and Italian Merchants of the Citty of Melphes frequenting the Portes and Maritane Citties of Syria and Egypt and bringing good Marchandizes into those Countries woon themselues much loue and liking not onelie of the citties Gouernours but also of the Califfe of Egypt and being wel disposed christians they would oftentimes goe to Ierusalem to visit the holy memorable places and hauing no place of retirement in the citty they obtained fauour and permission of the Califfe to builde there a Church and a Pallace for their owne vse and habitation as also for others of their Nation in that quarter of the cittie where the christians might dwell neere to the holy Sepulchre There they erected two Monasteries one in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary called S. Maria de la Latina differing from the Greeke churches whych were in Ierusalem and placed there an Abbot of Mont-Cassina and was builte to lodge christian Pilgrims therein The other was dedicated to S. Mary Magdalen as a place of entertainment of all such women as should aduenture thither in pilgrimage they being both Religiously gouerned Not long after they builded an Hospital wherein to lodge as well all sickly trauaylers as any other Pilgrimes of honest disposition with a Church also thereto belonging beeing both dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist These Monasteries Churches and Hospitals were long time mayntained by the care and cost of the Amalphitanes who founded them and vntill such tune as the Citty was conquered by the Christians from the Infidels and that Godfrey of Bullen was there elected King which was in the yeare 1099. 1. The Citty being thus woonne F. Gerard was the first Rector or Gouernor of the hospital of S. Iohn who when the Citty was besiedged by the Christians was very ill dealt with by the Infidels was long time by them kept a captiue prisoner because they distrusted that he had some secret intelligence with the Christians which beleagered the Citty But after that the Christians were maysters thereof he was delyuered out of prison and gouerned both wisely and charitably the Hospitall of S. Iohn perswading and induring Christian Kinges and Princes to enrich and endow it with their liberality which indéed they did in bountifull manner so that in France Italy Spaine and other Prouinces of christendome the Hospitall of S. Iohn founde good Benefactors and attained in short time to great reuennewes and possessions In the yeare 1113. Pope Paschall the second receiued F. Gerard and the Knights of S. Iohn vnder protection of the Apostolique Seate and graunted them great priuiledges ordayning that after the decease of F. Gerard they shold proceed cannonically to the election of another Rector or Gouernour who was afterward called Great Mayster of the Order or military hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem a name which continueth yet to this present after fiue hundred yeares from the beginning thereof 2 In the yeare 1118. F. Gerard departed out of this life in the Papacie of Gelasius the second and when as the order of the Knights Templers began After his decease there succéeded him by election F. Raymond de Puy who was a professed Knight of the Order Albeit some holde opinion that F. Roger succéeded deceased Gerard and gouerned the hospitall of S. Iohn from the yeare 1118. vntill the death of Baldwine second of that name King of Ierusalem who died in the yeare 1131. F. Raymond in a generall Chapter assembled in Ierusalem with aduise of the other Knights made Statutes for the Order formed and instituted a rule of life which all the following Knights were to obserue Hee was called Great Maister of the Order and yet he qualified that Title by calling himselfe Seruant vnto the poore of Christ Iesus and Guardian of the hospitall of Ierusalem This Great Maister perceiuing that the reuennewes of the Hospitall did daily encrease and that hee could not better employ such wealth then against the Infidelles by making war vpon them he made offer to the K. of Ierusalem of himselfe his strength and all his Knightly Brethren who bare in their streamers Ensignes a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules And thence forward these religious brethrē were distinguished into thrée degrees for one company were knights another Captains the third Seruants not hauing from the beginning any other difference among them but that some were Ecclesiastical persons the other Layicks And from that time forward there was not any enterprize in Palestine against the Infidels but the Great-Maister was present thereat in person with his religious Knights who were first called knights Hospitallers or of the hospital of S. Iohn of Ierusalem afterward knights of the Rhodes lastly knights of Malta They grew into so great credit and reputation that they were employed in the managing guiding al affaires of chiefest importance Among others Gerard Gebert Knight of this Order was sent by Foulkes K. of Aniou into England to treat on the marriage of Constance Princesse of Antioch Néere to the Q. Melisenda daughter to Prince Boemond with Raymond son to the Earle of Poicters who was then in the Court of Henry King of England In like maner this mariage being thus concluded by the ingenuity of this knight at the same time Raymond Berengarius earl of Barcelona Prince of Cathalonia who had cōquered the isles of Maiorica Minorica from the Mores in single combat defended the chastity honor of Mahauld wife to the Emperor Henry the fift against two Allemaigne Knights that had falsely accused her of Idolatry to shut vp the conclusion of his dayes resolued to take the habite of this famous Brother-hood and in that sacred profession he perseuered al his life time after which was in the year 1131. Not much differing from this time it is reported that three Knights of this Order beeing natiue Frenchmen of Picardie detained then by the Soldan of Egypt in captiuity were admirably deliuered and trans-ported out of Egypte with Ismeria daughter to the saide Soldane to the place where at this instant is the church of Nostre Dame de Liesse and this hapned in the yeare 1139. In the yeare 1153. Raymond the Great Master caused the siedge to be continued before the cittie of Ascalon which the Infidelles had defended against the christians more then fiftie yeares and at length it was yeilded to the saide Maister the 12. day of August 1154 which was in the tenth yeare of King Baldwine the 3. In acknowledgement
of a prize so signale and beneficiall to all christendome Pope Anastasius the fourth gaue and granted verie great priuiledges to the Order of these Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem the first day of Nouember in the same yeare exempting them from the iurisdiction and controule of the East Ecclesiasticall Prelates which was the cause of great troubles betwéene the Bishops of the country there and the knights of this order albeit the Pope and his Cardinals maintained them still stoutly Some haue held that this Great M. Raymond was a Florentine but the most credible opinion is that hee was a French-man a Natiue of Daulphine issued of a verie Noble house called du Puy whereof namelie â—acques Bosius the Italian who hath amplie written the historie of this order is an ingenuous witnesse Hee died in the yeare 1160. with this reputation that hee had bin a man of good and vertuous life fearing god valiant wise and aduised in the affaires of the world and one wel approued in warlicke exercises 3 After that Raymond was deceased there succéeded in the Maister-ship and gouernment of the Order F. Auger de Balben of whome there is found nothing deseruing memorie but that in his time died King Baldwin the third who was not onlie much bemoaned of the christians but likewise of the Infidelles who saide That the Christians had iust cause to lament for the death of Baldwine because they had lost a Prince that had not his equall in the world This Great-Maister Auger after he had gouerned his charge in peace and repose about thrée yeares died in the yeare 1163. 4 Arnold de Comps was next elected Mayster in his place who was a man of great spirite valour and councell And in short time after his election he entered into Egypt with Amaulrie the new King of Hierusalem who made warre vpon the Califfe of Egypt because he refused to continue and pay the anuall tribute wherein hée had bound himselfe to King Baldwine the third for a perpetuall payment to the Kinges of Hierusalem Arnold after he had with great wisedom and courage gouerned the Hospitall of S. Iohn about foure yeares died in the yeare 1167. and then succeeded him 5 Gilbert d'Assaly or de Sailly who was of stout mind and so liberall that hee flowed in bounty especially to his Souldiers so that he fel into great expences and wasted the whole treasure of the house Insomuch that hee was enforced to borrow Money at interest with conditiâ—ion that if he tooke from the Infidels the Citty of Belbeis anciently called Pelusium he should stand acquitted to his Brother-hood as indéed he did and victoriously performed his promise the third day of Nouember 1168. In which yeare he held a Chapter generall in Hierusalem where perceiuing that he was greatly indebted and had charged the Hospitall with more than an hundred thousand Crownes of méere debts beeing also much grieued that his attemptes found not equall Issue to his high desires hee determined to renounce his great Maistership which he did in the yeare 1169. 6 By his resignation or renunciation rather another Knight was chosen Great Maister named F. Gastus or Castus of whom there is nothing found that makes to any purpose of this our briefe History And the breuity of his time of gouernment was the cause by reason he was not a full yeare in the charge but dyed in the very same yeare of his election and had 7 F. Ioubert a very religious man for his successor who in the yeare 1176. ioyned himselfe with Phillip Earle of Flanders that was then come into Syria to assist King Baldwine the fourth against Saladine who had a very powerfull Army miraculously vanquished by the Christians that were but few in number in the moneth of Nouember 1177. at which time the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander the third were reconciled together At length Saladine with-drew himselfe from the Countrey of Damas in the year 1179. And then dyed Ioubert Maister of the Hospitallers a man very charytable to the poore and sickly It is saide that méere conceite of griefe to behold so manyfestly the ruine of christian affaires in Syria with the shamefull and damageable truce made betwéene the King of Ierusalem and the Earle of Tripoli by his example with Saladine was the onely cause of abridging his dayes hauing gouerned the Order of Saint Iohn about tenne yeares 8 In his stead was elected Roger de Molins a man of high discretion and courage In his time happened a great dissention betwéene the Prince of Antioche and the Patriarch of the said place and this Roger was chosen to be mediator of peace and agréement betwéene them which followed in the yeare 1181. This Roger with Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem and Arnald de Trogo Master of the Knights Templers was sent by the King of Hierusalem in quality of an Ambassador into the West to require ayde of the Christian Princes These Ambassadours were kindly entertained by the Emperour King Phillip Augustus Gods gift sirnamed the Conquerour the Kings of Sicily England and Hungary they returned back againe into Syria all but the Maister of the Templers who dyed by the way In the yeare 1187. the Earle of Tripoli being leagued and confederated with Saladine graunted him passage and reléeued his Army with victuals And Saladine hauing besiedged the citty of Ptolomais the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers ioyning together disordered the whole Army and Roger the great Mayster fighting valiantlie there dyed with the fall of his Horse vpon him and smothered in his Armour as also being much troden on with the enemies Horses His body being afterward found among the dead was buried with great woe and sorrow And notwithstanding this losse of the great Maister yet the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers won the day of battaile against the Turkes and Sarrazins of whom died then in the field about fiftéen thousand the first day of May in the yeare 1187 After whom 9 F. Garnier of Naples in Syria which was the ancient cittie of Sichem in Canaan was elected great Maister In his time was a bloudy battaile fought betwéene the Christians and Infidels wherein the King of Hierusalem named Guy de Lusignan was taken Prisoner with the very chiefe Lordes of his Kingdome It is said also that the Christians had then the true Crosse in the battell but it was taken from them by the Infidels and almost all the Knightes of Hierusalem and the Templers were one part slaine in the battaile and the rest beheaded in cold bloud F. Garnier after he had fought verie manfully yet being mortally wounded in many places of his body by the goodnesse and swiftnes of his Horse escaped into the Citty of Ascalon where ten daies after hee departed into a better life the fouretéenth of Iuly hauing béene great Maister but two months and sixe daies 10 The twenty day of the saide moneth of Iuly 1187. the Knights
that were in Ierusalem chose F. Ermingard d'Aps to bee their Mayster The second day of October in the same yeare the Citty of Hierusalem was submitted to the power of Saladine 88. yeares two months and seauentéene daies after that it was deliuered by Godfrey of Bullen from the handes of the Infidels Frederick the first sirnamed Barbarossa then holding the Empire of the West and Isaac the Angell that of the East at Constantinople Vrbane the third beeing Pope of Rome and Phillip the second called Augustus Gods Gift and Conquerour raigning in Fraunce Then were expulsed out of Hierusalem the Knightes Hospitallers Templers and al the Latine Christians of which Christians the Hospitallers redéemed from captiuity of the barbarous to the number of two thousand with their Money All the Churches of the cittie were then polluted and prophaned except the Temple of the Resurrection which was bought with a great summe of Money by the Christians of the East After the losse of Hierusalem the Knights Hospitalers were continually in Armes faithfully assisting the Christian Princes that had put on Crosses for the recouery of the holy Land and did actions of high desert at the siedge of Ptolomais which after a long siedge of thrée yeares was regayned from the Infidels by the Christians the twelft day of Iuly 1191. And in that Citty the Knights of Saint Iohn kept then their ordinary aboad and residence And in the verie same yeare the Christians wonne a notable victorie against the Barbarians and Saladine theyr chiefe wherein they were worthily assisted by the knightes Hospitallers and Templers The yeare following beeing 1192. in Winter dyed Ermingard d'Aps the great maister in the cittie of Ptolomais and then was chosen in his place 11 Geoffrey de Duisson In his time there was truce taken for fiue yeares betwéene the Christians that were in the holy Land and Saladine by which meanes many Lords and Gentlemen of diuers Nations who had worne the Crosse and gotten great store of goodes and possessions returned home to their Countries and gaue their goods to the Brotherhood of saint Iohn which greatly did augment their renennewes And after the death of Henry Earle of Champaigne the Hospitallers and Templers remayned gouernours and administrators of the kingdome of Hierusalem howbeit that by the fewer number of Christians there abiding election was made of Amaury de Lusignan who had succéeded the king of Ierusalem in the kingdome of Cyprus with consent of the Patriarch the Prelats and Barons of the Realme in the yeare 1194. when soone after died Duisson the Great-Maister and then succéeded him by election 12 F. Alphonso of Portugall a knight of the Order of Saint Iohn and of the Royall house of Portugall though it dooth not appeare certainely to what king he was Sonne He made very worthy and commendable statutes whereof to this day there are some inuiolably kept But because he was of too stiffe nature ouer-rough surely and seuere hee encurred the hatred of the greater part of the Knights Hospitallers Which was the cause that hee renounced his Maistershippe and shipt himselfe for returne home to Portugall in the same yeare of his election But he dyed the first day of March in the yeare 1207. 13 The same yeare that Alphonso renounced the Great Maistershippe to wit in the yeare 1194. Geoffrey le Rat who was Graund-Pryour of Fraunce was chosen Mayster And Saladine then dying his Sonne Noradine Lord of Alepo succéeding him About this time Simon Earle of Montfort was sent by King Phillip Augustus with an Army into Syria where finding much disorder he tooke truce for tenne yeares with the Infidels in the yeare 1198. In the time of this tranquile estate there chanced a great difference betwéene the Knights Hospitallers and Templers grounded on this occasion The Hospitallers complayned that the Templers had enterprised too farre vppon their iurisdiction with much contempt and violation thereof Which quarrell after manie rough encounters and skirmishes was appeased accorded by the interposition of king Amaury the Patriarches of Antioch and Hierusalem and other Princes and Christian Prelats who comprimitted this difference in the name of Innocentius the third which fell out very successiuely For after that God the onely Staffe and stay of all affaires in the holy Land had permitted this friendly vnity betwéen these two millitary Orders of Knight-hood King Amaury of Lusignan so preuailed that the Great Mayster and Knights of Saint Iohn might liue with him in the Isle of Cyprus where hee graunted the gouernment of the Kingdome to them In the yeare 1205. King Amaury dyed so did Quéene Isabell who appointed her Daughter Mary which she had by Conrade of Monferrat to be her heire and he left her to be tutoured and guided by the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers In the yeare 1260. Geoffrey le Rat the Great Mayster dyed and then succéeded him 14 Guerin de Montagu of the language of Auuergne who with the Knights of his order ayded Lyuon King of Armenia against the Turkes and Barbarians that had intruded into his Kingdome In recompence whereof he gaue them the citty of Salef with the castles of Camard and new castle and their dependances Hee likewise recommended his heire and Kingdome to the Knightes of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn which guift was confirmed by the Pope the fift of August 1209. Then were Iohn de Brienna and Mary his Wife Heire to the Kingdome crowned King and Quéene of Hierusalem At length in the yeare 1230. Guerin the great Maister died in the citty of Ptolomais and during his tyme all the Christians affaires in the holy Land depended very much vppon the Knightes Hospitalers and Templers who albeit they had many contentions betwéen them yet did they still agrée together in all matters against the Infidels After him succeeded 15 One F. Gerin of whom no other name is found remembred Richard Duke of Cornewal and Brother to Henrie then King of England arryued soone after in Palestine with an Army of forty thousand men and did many worthy actions there The great Maister also and his knights with him bearing him company fought valiauntly against the Corasmine Infidelles There the saide Mayster was taken and sent as a Prisoner to the Soldane of Egypt where he died and in his place the Knights of S. Iohn elected in the citty of Ptolomais for their great Maister 19 Bertrand de Comps in the time of Pope Innocent the fourth and when the Generall Counsell was called at Lyons 1245. This great Maister was present in a furious battaile fought against the Turcomans that wasted all the country about Antioch in the month of August 1248 where hauing receiud sundry deadly wounds he ended his daies And in the Citty of Ptolomais on the 24. of Aug. was elected as Great maister 17. Peter de Villebride In his time Lewes K. of France called S. Lewes tooke on him the crosse against the Infidels with
many Princes Prelates of France who went and besieged Damieta where they were ayded by the knightes hospitallers Templers and the City was soon after surrendred to K. Lewes in the yeare 1250. Then did the Soldan of Egypt giue battel to the christians wherein King Lewes with his brethren Charles and Alphonsus the King of Cyprus as also the Great maister many knights of the hospitalers Templers were all taken prisoners Whych surprizall caused an attonement betwéene King Lewes and the Soldane the hospitall Knights lent mony to King Lewes to pay his ransom In the year 1251. Villebride the great maister dyed in the City of Ptolomais succéeded by election 18 Guillaum de Chasteau-neuf or de Castelno of the spéech of Auuergne He was a great obseruer of Iustice pope Alexander 4. gaue to the knights hospitallers the castle lands of Bethania in the yeare 1256. In his time the Christians lost their vtmost hope of any succour from the Princes of Europe and in the yeare 1280. the Great Maister of Castelno died when as the Hospitall Knights of S. Iohn elected in his sted 19 Hugues Reuelle or Reuel in the tyme of Pope Vrban the fourth who gaue to the knights of S. Iohn Mont-Tabor 1261. and in Anno 1262. they bought the Castle of Assur but in the following two yeares they tooke from the Sarazins a Castle named Lilion whereuppon the Soldan of Egypt concluded to worke the ruin of the Knights Hospitallers and as an instance he forcibly tooke from the saide Knights in the year 1265. the Castle of Assur at the surprizal wherof there were slaine to the number of 90. knights of S. Iohn which greatly abated their power and repute And in the yeare 1267. the Knights hospitallers and Temples were assailed and much confused in battaile by the Sarazins néere to the City of Ptolomais for they wasted and spoiled al the countrey thereabout In the yeare also 1270 the Knights of S. Iohn lost the Castle of Cracquo which was assaulted by the Soldane and all the knights within it were put to the sword It is likewise saide that this Great Master Reuel assisted King Lewes in the voyage to Tunis where the said King died of the plague and that in the ende about the yeare 1278. the Great Maister Reuel ended his daies hauing helde fiue Chapters or assemblies of the Brother-hoode of S. Iohn wherein manie notable Statutes were made for gouernement and reformation of the Order 20 After his decease Nicholas Lorgus was chosen Great Maister who not to swerue a iot from his predecessor wel knowing that nothing sooner procureth the ruine of Common-weales Comminalties then discord and dissention tooke such paines to reconcile the Knights hospitallers with the Templers that he drew them to accord and made them good friends In the yeare 1282 the Knights of S. Iohn woon a famous victorie against the Sarazins who proudely came to besiedge the Castle of Margate their very principal Fortresse which was very manfully defended by the Hospitallers and in the ende quitted at composition by the knights who returned with their Ensignes displayed to the Citty of Ptolomais And in the yeare 1288. Lorgus the Great Maister died with very griefe because hee saw the Christian affaires in the Holy land dailie to fall from il to worse without any means or hope of remedy 21 In the same yeare Iohn de Villiers a Frenchman borne was created Great Maister of the Order In his time the Citty of Tâ—ipoly was taken from the Christians by the Infidels as in like manner were the citties of Sidonia Baâ—uth in the yeare 1289. all which were ransacked ruined and burned and the citty of Tyre brought vnder the Soldanes subiection whereon the christians of Ptolomais were gladde to séeke their owne peace During which time the Great Maister went to Brundusium with the Great Maister of the Templers to sollicite the christian Princes of the Croisade and the Soldane came to assaile the citty of Ptolomais which was vertuously defended by the Knights of the Hospitall and Temple with many braue sallies forth vpon the besiedgers Especially the Great Maister Villiers who was sore wounded with long sustaining the whol charges of the Barbarian Infidels the Knights Barricadoing themselues in a quarter of the Citty which yet was afterward taken on Friday the 18. of May the same yeare 1292. With this great losse the Christians were driuen out of the holy land 191. years ten months thrée daies after it had bin Conquered by Godfrey of Bullen The Great M. with the rest of his Knightes fled for safety to the Isle of Cyprus where they were very kindly entertained by the K. of the Island who assigned to theÌ„ the Templers the Citty of Limosson which was a Port Towne or Hauen on the Sea There did they inhabite and there did the Great Maister assemble two generall Chapters one in December 129â— and the other in October 1293. making therein dyuers good Statutes for the Order and in the yeare 12â—â— he dyed at Limosson then succéeded him 22 F. Odo des Pins borne in Prouence in the time of Pope Boniface the eyght He incurred the hatred and disgrace of the knightes of his Order by reason of his negligence and couetousnesse And there was a purposed determination to depriue him of his Great maistershippe but it was impeached by the Pope to auoide scandall and at length he was cited to appeare at Rome in person to answere to the complaintes of the Hospitallers and thitherward he trauailed But before he could sée Italy he dyed by the way in the year 1296. hauing in the precedent yeares held two generall Chapters at Limosson Hee caried also along with him a manuscript Chronicle wherein hee had appealed certaine letters of the Popes containing excommunication whereby he pursued and reléeued his owne appeale 23 The Knights hearing the death of theyr Great Maisters des Pins elected at Limosson the twenty foure day of March 1296. F. Guillaume de Villaret to succéed him who was of the same Countrey of Prouence and Prior of S. Gilles where he was at the time of his election But hauing intelligence thereof he trauailed immediatly to the Kingdome of Cyprus and gouerned in his charge very prudently In his time Vsau Cassanus King of the Tartares became a Christian and recouered the Citty of Ierusalem where hee placed the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers in Garrison in the yeare 1300. Hée tooke the Citty of Damas likewise but it was quickly regained by the Infidels and the Hospitallers and Templers returned then to Cyprus againe where the Great Maister departed out of this life in the yeare 1308. hauing helde fiue generall Chapters at Limosson and séene the vtter ruine of the Knights Templers 24 The great Maister being dead Folquet de Villaret of the same Nation of Prouence was elected in his roome He was a man of liuely spirit and great courage and
séeing that he had attained to this Soueraigne dignity he resolued to put in execution a matter which in his predecessors daies had often béene intended but could not any way be effected viz. to depart from the Isle of Cyprus and to get a dwelling some where else which hee very happily performed For in Anne 1308. the very yeare of his election hée made a voyage to Constantinople and afterward into France where the Pope gaue him the Isle of Rhodes if he could get it which with his Knights he conquered in the yeare 1309. and seauen other Islands néere adioyning So that thither was the residence of saint Iohns knights transferred and then they were afterward called Knights of the Rhodes yet kéeping the Name of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem still Not long after Otthoman first Emperour of the Turkes came and besiedged Rhodes with a Potent Army but it was reléeued by Amadis the fourth Earle of Sauoy and Otthoman was compelled to raise his siedge After which time the Earles of Sauoy wore on their Armours a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules in memory of the helpe they had giuen to the Knightes of the Rhodes The order of the Templers hauing béene vtterly suppressed in a generall Councell holden at Vienna in Dolphine the greater part of theyr goods was giuen to the Order of the Rhodes and confirmed by Pope Clement the fift 1312. In the yeare 1314. the Knightes of the Rhodes conquered the Isle of Lango with other Isles in the Archipelagus And in the yeare 1317. Folquet the Great Maister pleasing his owne humour ouer-much in his victories and conquestes beganne to grow haughty proud and insolent which brought him into contempt of his companions whereupon the Knights reuoulted from him and if he had not saued himselfe in a Castel they had seized his person But in regard they could not get him they deposed him from the dignity of Great Maister in his place elected 25 Maurice de Pagnac wherof Pope Iohn the twenty two beeing aduertised hee was greatly offended thereat and sent two Prelates to the Rhodes to informe themselues of the fact with commaund to cite the Great Maister de Villaret and de Pagnac to appear at Auignon in person Gerard des Pins beeing appointed Lieutenant Generall in the meane while At this instant time Orchanes Emperour of the Turkes came boldly and besiedged the Isle of Rhodes but the knights had an admirable victory against him for there were then tenne thousand Turkes hewen in péeces In this Interim Maurice de Pagnac died at Montpellier Anno. 1322. and Folquet de Villaret was re-established in the dignity of Great Maister But hee perceiuing that it was against the liking of his fellowe knights renounced his Great Maistership in the yeare 1323. and liued as a priuate Knight vntill the first day of September 1327. when he dyed and was buried at Montpellier 26 The same yeare that he gaue ouer his dignity the Knights of the Rhodes chose Elion de Villeneufue borne also in Prouence and Priour of Saint Gilles In the yeare 1343. a league was made betweene the Seigneury of Venice the K. of Cyprus and knights of the Rhodes And the Great Master hauing won the name of an happy gouernor died the 27. of May at Rhodes In his life time he had enclosed the great Maisters Pallace with wals towers and deuided the languages Bayliwicks and other dignities of the Order 27 After the decease of Villeneufue Deodon or Gods-gift a Natiue of Prouence was elected Great Maister About foure yeares before hée was promoted to this Dignity hee had fought with an horrible and monstrous Dragon that greatly afflicted the Isle of Rhodes And hauing kild the Monster he was therefore so highly honored and estéemed that his memory yet remaineth renowned to posterity In the yeare 1347. he ayded the King of Armenia against the Soldane of Egypt Pope Clement the sixt helde the Knights of Rhodes in such estéeme that almost all the Fortes in Italy belonging to the Sée were gouerned seuerally by one of them In the yeare 1351. Constance King of Armenia became a Brother Knight of Rhodes And in the yeare 1353. the Sonne to Iohn Canta-cuzen Emperour of Constantinople came and required ayde of the Great Maister of Rhodes who after he had gouerned this Order of Saint Iohn seauen yeares sixe months and ten daies dyed the seauenth of September in the saide yeare 1353. and was buried in the Church of S. Iohn of Rhodes Hee builded Milles in the Citty of Rhodes and engirt the Subburbs with walles making them very strong on the Sea side 28 Next succéeded him by election as Great Maister Peter de Cornilian Priour of S. Gilles borne also in Prouence Hee was Maister but one yeare eight months and seauentéene dayes for falling into a gréeuous sicknesse hee died in the Citty of Rhodes the 24. of August 1355. He was a man of very exemplarie life and so seuere that hee was sur-named the Corrector of Customes He held a generall Chapter at Rhodes 1354. wherin many good Statutes were made 29 After the great Maister was deceased according to acustomed form Roger des Pins born likewise in Prouence did next succéede him In his time the Pope perswaded the Knightes of Rhodes to buy the Principality of Achaia of Iacques de Sauoy Prince of Piedmont and the Knights of Rhodes made a generall assembly in the Citty of Auignon to effect the treaty of buying the sayd principality of Achaia and to reform some abuses crept into the Order For their statutes were now traduced into the Latine tongue and to all Princes were sent authenticall Copies or Volumes of them by appointment of the great Maister And in the yeare 1359. the great Commander the Marshall of the Order were sent into France in quality of Ambassadors to be visiters and reformers There was an assembly of the Knights called at the Cittye of Carpentras but it could not hold in regard of the great Maysters death who dyed the 28. of May 1365. and was much lamented but by the poore especially to whom hee was a great and charitable Almoner 30 Raymond Berengarius of Prouence also was next chosen great Maister who had bin before Commander of Castle Sarrazin In his time the King of Cyprus and the Knights of Rhodes made a league together and tooke perforce the Citty of Alexandria in Egypt which they ransackt spoyld and burnt The Armenians being expulsed by the Sarazins out of their dwellinges wer charitably entertained by S. Iohns knights in the Isle of Lango and at the same time the Citty of Tripoli in Syria was taken and sacked by the King of Cyprus and the Knightes of the Rhodes In the yeare 1371. the Great Master was by the Pope elected Nuntio from the Apostolique seat to appease the rumors and diuisions which were then in the Kingdome of Cyprus whether he went in person and both by his Authority and wisedome he soone seased
all the trobles and mollestations The Great Maister hauing gouerned his Order about eighteene yeares and an halfe departed this life in the yeare 1373 31 In the same yeare Robert de Iuliac or of Gulich great Priour of Fraunce was chosen Great-Maister who at the time of his election had the charge of his Priory but vnderstanding the newes he went forthwith to Auignon where he was receiued with great honor an assemblie general of this Knightly Order being then there held and the Great Maister had the gouernment of Smyrna imposed vpon him vnder paine of excommunication At his comming to Rhodes he qualified all the contentions which had hapned in the time of his absence At this time went the Pope to hold his seat at Rome againe which he and his predecessors had kept at Auignon for the space of seauenty one yeares 1376. In which yeare the 29. of Iune dyed the Great Maister and then 32 In his place came Iohn Fernandes d'Heredia a Natiue of Arragon in the Citty of Valentia who was Prior of Cathalognia and Castillian d'Emposta Twice he had bin marryed and chancing to be a Widdower he was made a Knight of Rhodes in the time of Villeneufue who was then Great Maister Being then but a simple Knight hee went to visite the holy Sepulchre and other memorable places in the holie Land He was also Ambassador from Pope Clement the sixt to the Kings Phillip 6. of France and Edward the third of England and did verie good seruice to King Phillip in the yeare 1346. For he being dismounted from his horse on a day of battaile against the English he gaue him his owne horse whereby the King escaped to a place of safety In like manner he fortified the Bastions and new wals of Auignon whereof hee was made Gouernor by the Pope Being great Maister hee tooke his way to Rhodes in the yeare 1377. and being required by the Generall of the Venetians Army to vnite their forces together they went to Morca in the yeare 1378. where they besiedged the Citty of Patras and tooke both it and the Castle The great Maister fighting man to man with the Gouernor of Patras slewe him manfully Afterwarde in an ambuscado of Turkes hee was taken prisoner by reason hee was too well knowne to them Whereuppon to worke his liberty Patras and other places which had bin won from them were re-deliuered to the Turkes And yet notwithstanding they would néeds carrie him with them into Albania where they kept him as a slaue thrée yeares In the year 1381. the great Maisters fréedome was bought with money and hee returning to Rhodes the Ambassadors of Smirna came to desire succour of him In the yeare 1391. Baiazeth Emperour of the Turkes made some preparation to besiege Rhodes whereupon Phillebert de Naillac Priour of Aquitaine was sent by his fellow knights to Auignon with Letters to the great Maister to require aide against Baiazeth Naillac returning to Rhodes in the yeare 1396. Heredia the great Maister died and was buried at Caspa 33 Newes beeing brought to Rhodes that Heredia the great Maister was dead Phillebert de Naillac grand Priour of Aquitaine borne in France succéeded in his roome At the Spring time he was inuited by Sigismond King of Hungaria to come and assist him with his Knights against Baiazeth which hee did in person in the yeare 1397. And then was a battaile fought at Nicopolis where Baiazeth had the victorie the K. of Hungary being glad to saue himselfe and with the Great Master retyred to Rhodes Thither also did the Emperor of Constantinople send all his precious Iewelles to be kept by the Great Maister fearing least Baiazeth shoulde surprize Constantinople But hee was disappointed by Tamberlain who ouercame Baiazeth and kepte him captiue in a Cage of yron so long as he liued and the siege of Constantinople being raised the great Master sent home again the Emperors Iewels After the foyle of Baiazeth the great Maister de Naillac sailed with an army into Caria there builded an inexpugnable fortresse which he named S. Peters Castle in the year 1399. vnder the raigne of Charles the sixt king of France In the yeare 1403. there happened wars betweene the k. of Cyprus and the Genewayes which was pacified and ordered by the wisedome and authority of the great Maister to whom the Soldan of Egypt sent an Ambassador for request of peace In the yeare 1409. the Great Maister gaue his personall assistance in the Counsell of Pisa assembled to quench the Schismes which were then crept into the Church and the guard of the Conclaue was committed to the great Maister when Alexander the fift was elected Pope The sayde Maister was likewise at the generall Counsell of Constance where thrée Popes were deposed and Martine 5. elected an 1414. the guard of the Conclaue being then againe giuen to the great Maister Trauelling into France he held a general assembly of his knights at Auignon afterward at Florence and last at Ancona whence returning to Rhodes an 1420. he held there a general chapter and in the beginning of Iune 1421. he dyed 34 And then in the deads place Anthony de Fluuiano or de Riuers reported to be a natiue of Arragon but more say of England was created Great Maister In his time began the generall Counsell of Basile 1430. And not long after the Soldan of Egypt puft vp with the victory which he wonne at Cyprus brake the Truce and prepared a great Armye with intent to besiedge Rhodes But when hee heard that the Great Maister was prouided of sufficient strength to withstand him he left off his determination and so the Order that way remained in quiet This Great Master founded and endowed a Chappel in the Citty of Rhodes which afterwarde hee made a Church for his Knights And the 29. of October hee died after hee had gouerned in his place with much wisedome 16. years an halfe 35 The sixt of Nouemb. in the same year 1437 Iohn de Lastic borne in Auuergne was elected Great Maister albeit he was absent at his election remained in Auuergne whereof he was prior Before he wold go to Rhodes he made a general assembly of his knightes at Valentia in the month of Decem. 1438. when he cam to Rhodes he began to build the new hospital for sick people which the precedent great M. by his wil had appointed to be done at his expences In his time Pope Eugenius 4. was deposed by the Counsell of Basile and Foelix the fift created in his place who was held at Rome to be an Antipope In the yeare 1440. the Soldane of Egypt beeing come néer to the port of the isle of Cast-Lerouge which appertained to the Knights and from thence turning towards Rhodes he was put to flight by an army of the Knights who had but eight Gallies and in the Soldanes army there were eightéene and there were slaine about seauen hundred Sarazins beside a
Knights had not any assured place of abyding vntill the Isle of Malta was giuen theÌ„ by the Emperor Charles the fift For they departed first into Candie from thence they went into Sicilie and Italy where the Pope sent them the City of Vitterbo and where they held a generall Chapter Afterward they soiourned for some small time at Cornetto then at Villefranche and at Nicea While they remained at Nicea the great Maister made a voyage into England and from thence to France where being at Lyons a great sicknesse tooke him but after his recouery he went to Cambraye to hold the Baptisme Font for Phillebert Emmanuell sonne to Charles Duke of Sauoy Afterwarde comming with his Brethren-Knights to Malta on Wednesday morning the sixt of Octob 1530. he caused a Pallace to be there erected for the abiding of him and his successors calling it Castell Angelo building another pallace also in the old Citty of Malta When he had gouerned his Order thirtéene yeares and seauen months being aged seauenty yeares the 21. of Aug. 1534. he died at Malta and was buried in a Chappell which he had builded néere to Castel Angelo and then succéeded him by election 44 Pierrin du Pont a Natiue of Ast and an Italian by language Before the taking of Rhodes he was Gouernor of the Isle of Lango and after the â—osse thereof he departed with al the knights vnder his gouernment and ioyned his power in Candie with the armye of the Order In his time Charles the fift Emperor attempted to go in person to the kingdome of Tunis in Affrica where he was assisted by the Gallies belonging to the Order and the Knights also who performed there great exploits of Armes especially in the surprizing of Goletta which was helde to be a Fort vnconquerable This war being ended the great Maister aged seuenty and thrée years dyed hauing gouerned onely fourtéene months and 22. daies and was buried by his predecessor Villiers 45 Desirê or Didier de S. Iaille de Tolon borne in Prouence and Priour of Tholossa was next made great Maister when lifting vppe his eies to heauen he vsed these words O my God if thou thinkest me fit for this great charge I wil not refuse the paine and labour In his trauayling towards Malta being very aged so soone as he arriued at Mont-pellier he fel into an extream sicknesse whereof he died the 26. of September 1536. and was buried with much solemnitie in the church of the Commandery of S. Gilles without the gates of Mont-pellier when the knights were aduertised of his decease the eightéenth of October in the same yeare they procéeded to the election of 46 Iohn d'Homedes a natiue of Arragon who being then in Spaine made hast to Malta where he was ioyfully receiued Albeit he was discontented that they had not sent some of the gallies nor the great Carrack of the Order for his conduct thither wherefore he disarmed and destroied the great Carrack which caused manie complaints against him Very often would hee discourse of the siedge at Rhodes because hee gaue generall notice thereby that there he had lost one of his eies He made a goodly Parke of Dear and a very beautiful Garden in the Isle of S. Michael there would he spend the greater part of the day which raised occasion of murmuring against him that he was slacke in his publicke gouernement and no way carefull to prouide the Isle of Malta of needfull supplies against the Turks forces for he trusted too much in the strength of Castell Angello In his time the Citty of Tripoli in Barbary was lost by the Knights of the Order taken by the Turkes which droue him to no little feare and amazement In the year 1552. Leo Strozzi an especiall Commander of the Order made an attempt vpon the Isle of Zoara which had very hard successe because many Knightes were then slaine there of all Nations especiallye many French Auuergnacs and Prouenceals It being declared to the Great Mayster he grieued extraordinarily thereat and sayde That a greater losse had not happened to the Order since the surprizall of Rhodes Hee builded the Castles of Saint Elme and Saint Michaell and being eighty yeares old died the sixt of September 1558. hauing gouerned sixtéene yeares ten months and xv daies and was buried in the Great Maisters Chappell 46 Claudius de la Single borne in Fraunce was next created Great Maister and at his election there were then present at Malta aboue 400 Knights of the Order Hee gouerned verie discréetly by Counsell of fiue woorthie Knights his Officers and attendaunts to witte by his Steward Mayster of the Houshold Maister of the Horsse the Treasurer and Secretary So that the Order was in great happynesse during the time of his Maister-ship hauing obtayned the priuiledge of Neutralitie of King Henry the second and Charles the fifte Emperor who made Warre against him Hee was verye valiant Religious and a most profitable Administrator of the Orders reuennewes in whose Treasurie he left abundant store dying of a Catarrhe which had much suffocated him after he had attained to the Climacteriall yeare 63. of his age 47 F. Iohn de Valette borne in Prouence succéeded next as great Maister and his election was very pleasing to all the Order of S. Iohn because he was generally beloued of all the Nations and vniuersally desired as most woorthie of that charge and dignity In lesse space then two yeares hee was Generall of the Gallyes Bayliffe of Lango Great Commander Priour of S. Gilles and Lieutenant to the great Master and now at length great Maister also He did so affect his Knights Order that after the day he first entred in it he wold neuer more return into his country So that by making continuall residence therwith them he passed thorow al the degrées offices of honor in the profession apearing still in all his actions to bee of rare iudgement perfect integrity and incomparable valour So soone as he was aduanced to this soueraigne dignity he resolued to builde a new Citty at Malta vpon the Mountaine of S. Elme knowing that al the other Forts were not sufficiently mumted to endure the battery of a potent enemy yet this desseigne was deferred till a further time Hee fortified the Castle of the Isle of Goza and forsaking his abiding at the Castle of S. Angello came and dwelt within the Towne of Malta which he defended most valiauntly agaynst the siedge of the Emperor Sultan Soliman when he was gréeuously wounded in his leg in the yeare 1565. But the siedge being raised to the shame and confusion of the Turkes hee greatly strengthened the Isle of Malta and began to builde the new Citty which was called Valette according to his sur-name and whereof himselfe solemnely laide the first stone on Monday the eight and twenty of March 1566. And by the sollicitude of the Great-Maister the building thereof continued on still eight thousand persons being
Temple ANno Domi. 1117. Gotfredus Aldemarus Alexandrinus and Hugo de Planco de Paganis Godfrey Duke of Lorraine and King of Hierusalem beeing dead and Baldwine then raigning this order of Knight-hood first began And a seat was graunted them in the Temple of Hierusalem whereupon they were cald knights Templers or Knights of the Temple By entreaty of Stephen Patriarch of Ierusalem Pope Honorius brought in this order and confirmed their Society giuing them a white garment whereunto Eugenius the third added a red Crosse on the breast The charge of these Knightes was to guide trauailers on the way of Ierusalem and to entertaine strangers Anno Domini 1310. Clement the fift who then helde his Sée in Fraunce by perswasion of Phillip King of Fraunce gaue order for the vtter subuersion of this Knight-hoods Society and all their Colledges thorough-out our Christian world wheresoeuer they were builded in regard of a most abhominable treachery by them intended and ratified Knights Teutons or Knights of Allemaigne SOone after that Hierusalem was regained from the Christians one Teuto a Nobleman and abounding in riches instituted this Society of knight-hood building an house for their entertainment at Ierusalem called Hospitium virgini Mariae Among this Order of Knight-hood neyther Knight of Malta nor any other except a Germain and he likewise to be Noble by birth could be receiued into their degrée Their garment was white and a blacke Crosse figured vppon theyr breasts In the yeare 1184. these Knightes the Cittie of Hierusalem being surprised by the Sarrazins Ptolomais was graunted them but beeing likewise driuen thence they came into their Country of Germany In the yeare 1220. they entreated Frederick the second Emperour that he would suffer them to take Armes against certaine fugitiue Idolaters in Prussia who beeing by them subdued they obtained there a newe seating and theyr Dition or Lordship of Liuonia was then added to them ¶ Calatranian Knights or Knights of Calatrana IN the yeare 1130. this Order of Knight-hood was instituted by Santio King of Toledo in imitation of the Order of Saint Iames. These Knights tooke the name of Calatrana which was a place granted vnto them where in former times had stood a Church that belonged to the Knights Templers And when the Sarazins were ouer-powerful for them those knights were constrayned to surrender this place vnto them These Knights did weare a blacke Garment with a red crosse vpon their breast and were said to be of the Cisternian Order holding in Spayne very large possessions ¶ Knights of Alcantara THese Knights held their name of a Citty in Castile called Alcantara and were of the Cisternian Order They had a goodly Temple néere to the Ryuer Tagus where they held very ample possessions Their Ensigne or Badge was a greene Crosse ¶ Knights of the Redemption IN Anno Dom. 1212. this Order was instituted by Iames King of Arragon who conquered the Islands called Baleares or Maiorque and Minorque in the Spanish Sea It was the Office of these Knights to redéeme Captiues whereuppon the Tytle of Redemption was giuen them they were also called Knights of Marie These Knights Order was confirmed by Gregory the ninth By shoppe of Rome And they wore a white Garment with a blacke Crosse vpon it ¶ Knights of Montesia THis order was instituted much about that very same time as the Knights of Calatrana were They deriued their name from Montesia in Valentia where was their place of abiding The Ensigne of these Knights was a red crosse ¶ Knights of the holy Sepulcher THese Knightes who deriued their name of Christs Sepulcher did wear two red crosses This order at this day is quite extinct or as some do imagine the Order of the Knightes of Malta is said to be some-what néere it ¶ Knights of Christ IN Anno Dom. 1320. this order was instituted by Iohn the twentith Byshop of Rome The place of these Knights abyding was in Portugall A blacke garment and a double Crosse were the Ensignes of this Knight-hoods order ¶ Knights of Saint Marie the Mother of Christ CErtaine Noble-men of Bolognia and Modena in Italy being much troubled and molested by perturbations among the Princes desired of Vrbane the fourth Bishop of Rome that they might be suffered to begin some kind of Society Whereupon this order was graunted them to holde in frée and peacefull manner A little red Crosse reflected with Golde they wore vpon their breasts These Knights did weare costly Garmentes and fared delicately whereuppon they were vulgarly called by the Italians Frati Gaudenti They might not weare any gilt Spurs or vse any Gold on their Horses furniture ¶ Knights of Saint Lazarus of Hierusalem THis Order was confirmed or as some will haue it restored by Pius Quartus And yet the Knightes of this Order are saide to bée in the times of Basilius and Pope Damasus when Iulian the Apostata raigned and then they flourished as some do affirme The Ensigne or Imprese of this Order was a gréen Crosse worn on the left side of the breast A man twice married might not bee admitted into this order ¶ Knights of the round Table IN Anno Domini 516. Arthur a worthy and Warlike King raigning in the Isle of Brittaine the Countrey beeing infested and troubled with Armies of Saxons c. was yet by him very valiantly supported and his fame out-stretched to the remotest Regions Afterward when peace was established that other Knightly mindes might bée inflamed with the like glory this Order hee instituted which contynued with others in long and honourable obseruation The Order of these Knightes was especially in the Citty of VVinchester as some haue recorded and theyr yearely méeting was there at the Feast of Pentecost or Whitsontide ¶ Knights of the Garter IN the yeare 1349. Edward the third King of England hauing hadde verie great victories against the French and other neighbouring Nations did institute this Order and consecrated it to S. George The King appointed a Garter to be the Ensign of this Order wrought richly with Golde and precious stones which should circle the Leg beneath the knée and on it to haue these words apparantly discerned HONI SOIT QVI. MAL. Y. PENSE The number of these Knights are 26. whereof the King himselfe is the chiefe The time of this Societies méeting is the feast of Saint George and celebrated at Windsore These Knightes doe weare the Ensigne of S. George fighting with a Draggon fastened to a rich Chaine or Collar which weigheth or valueth neither more or lesse then eighty poundes of English Money as hath béene saide in former times Their garments is Purple with a redde Crosse ¶ Knights of the Starre ANno Dom. 1350 Iohn King of Fraunce being much mooued with the glory of Edward the third King of England did institute this order of Knight-hood entitling it by those 3 Magi who going from the East to honour Christ were guided by a
to our Sauiour descended and he himselfe according to the flesh Of whom they kéepe a very solemne memory and aboue any other of the Apostles thinke reuerently of S. Thomas the Apostle Of the Kingdome of Persia PErsia hath carried the same name from the beginning to this day containing in it these Regions Lar and Requelmall The principall Citty thereof is called Siras in elder times tearmed Persipolis which is gouerned by the Sophy Great Lord of all Persia and Azimia called by our elders Assiria and the Kingdom of Dearbech sometime named Mesopotamia And Seroan that was Media and Parthia now called Iex with Hirca nowe tearmed Coraxan Sarmania nowe Dulcendano and Asia nowe at this instant called Hetti All these seuerall Regions with the greater Armenia which is a part also of them are gouerned by the great Sophy and their greatest or chiefest Cittie is named Tauris being built in the midst of the Mountain Taurus foure daies iourney off from the Caspian Sea Next vnto Tauris there are other Cittyes as of Soltauia Concassan Spahan Corazan Lera Mora Sarmachand Gesti Far Siras and Ormuz a Citty in the Persick Sea which at this day is called Mare Misindia In this Citty is great commerce of Merchandize made with the Portugales and there they fish for great aboundance of Pearles There are other Citties also Cureh Iex Casmine Coy with infinite Castles On the West side of Tauris are the Caspian Mountaines which are nowe called the Mountains of Arath And on the Bacchan Sea aunciently named the Caspian Sea are these Citties Sumacchia Derbent Bacchan and Mamutaga All these Prouinces and their Regions are very barren because they haue small store of Riuers the greatest whereof is called Bindarin but in former times they entitled it Bragada Concerning the gouernment obserued among the Persians it differs farre from all the other Mahumetists because they hate Nobility and relying on the seruile fidelity of slaues eyther murther their Friendes and Kindred or put out their eyes But among the Persians the Sophy is highly respected Nobility had in Honour and many wealthy Lordes are liuing amongst them whereof not one is to bee found in the Turkish Dominions The people also are the very ciuillest in all Asia men of vndaunted courage and speciall good Warriours both on Horse-backe and foote affecting Musique Learning and Poesie wherein some attaine to no meane excellency and they are much addicted to the study of Astrology So much in bréefe concerning the Persians the rest remaineth to our Generall History of the World ¶ Of the Kingdome of Thunis THE Citty of Thunis or Tunis being very great was by the Latines called Tunetum and of the Arabians Tunus but they holde that name to be a very corrupt vocable because in their Language Tunus dooth not signifie any thing This Cittie was anciently called Tharsus as that other in Asia and was at first but a very little Cittie builded by the Affricanes vpon the Lake which was formed from the Goletta distant from the Mediterranian Sea about twelue miles But after that Carthage was destroyed then did those Citties beginne to encrease both in number of habitations and dwellers in regard that the Armies which surprized Carthage béeing vnwilling to tarry there for feare of fresh supplyes from Europe came to abide at Tunis and there they builded many Houses Not long after there came thither a Captaine named Hucha di Vtmen who gaue them to vnderstand that an Army ought not to shut vppe it selfe in any Citty that shoulde touch or bee néere vnto the Sea And therefore they made a Citty which they named Cairoan about the distaunce of thirty sixe miles from the Sea and accounted to be an hundred miles from Tunis Then did the Armies forsake Tunis and inhabited this newe Citty other people gouerning those houses in Tunis that had bin abandoned by the Armirs After this about thrée hundered and fiftie yeares the Citty of Cairoan was destroyed by the Arabians so that the Rector or Ruler thereof fled thence into the West and raigned in Buggia as also ouer all the neighbouring partes but there remained still in Tunis a Family or kindred of the said Rector or Gouernour fledde from Cairoan who still possessed the same as Soueraigne Lordes thereof About ten yeares after they of Buggia were expulsed by Ioseph the son of Tessino but beholding the humility and kindnesse of the saide Lord they left the State vnto him which continued in tranquility so long as the Family of Ioseph raigned But Abdull Mumen King of Marocco hauing regained Mabdia which had béene taken by the Christians passed homeward in his returne by Tunis where hée tooke the gouernment vpon him And all the time that Abdull Mumen liued and Ioseph his Sonne with their Successours Iacob Mansor Tunis continued in peace vnder the rule of the Kinges of Marocco After the death of Mansor his Sonne Muhamet Ennasir mooued Warre against the King of Spaine but was ouercome and forced to flight escaping backe to Marrocco where after this foile hee liued but few yeares Then was his Brother Ioseph elected King who was slaine by certaine Souldiers to the King of Tebesm Now in the Interim betwéene the ouerthrow of Muhament his death as also the murthering of his Brother Ioseph the Arabians returned backe on Tunis and besiedged it But the Gouernour of Tunis gaue notice thereof to the King of Marocco that if he sent him not some immediate succour he should be constrayned to deliuer the Cittie to the Arabes The King well considering on a case of such importance did as became a man of his high spirit and experience electing aboue all other in his Court one borne in Ciuill a Citty of Granado named Habdulnaihidi whom hee foorth-with sent thyther with the same authority as if he had gone himselfe in person Béeing accompanyed with twenty goodly great Sippes he arriued at Tunis which was then euen halfe vanquished by the Arabes But by his wisedome prouidence and flowing eloquence hee foyled the Enemy pacified the State set all thinges in good order and made the Countries entrance sure against all Intruders After him his Sonne succeeded named Abu Zaccheria who in learning and wisedome excelled his Father Hée caused to bée builded in Tunis on the West side of the Cittyes very highest part a mightie great Rocke and many goodly Pallaces in the Cittie with a beautifull Temple that had an high Tower on the top thereof round engirt with strong wals This Abu Zaccheria went likewise to Tripoli where his valour won him such renowne and his wisedome made so good benefite of the Countrey that at his death hée left an infinite Masse of Treasure behinde him Hée being dead his Sonne succéeded him who was an ambitious proude young man and would no longer suffer himselfe vnder command of Marocco because he perceiued the declining and downfall of those Lords and that the family of Marino began to
get fooling raigning ouer the Regions of Fez as Beni Zeiren did in Telensm and in Granado These two great Potentates beganne to warre vppon each other and to contend for priority of State But by this their discord the power of the Lordes of Tunis encreased so that they went with an Army against Telensi and compelled them to pay them tribute Whereupon the King that new arose from the House of Marino and had béene at surprizall of Marocco sent many rich presents to the Gouernour of Tunis recommending both himselfe and his whole State vnto his fauour The Gouernour accepted him as a Friende alwaies prouided that hee should be inferiour to him And so he returned in tryumph to Tunis causing himselfe to bée called King of Affrica which Tytle was thought very desertfull for him because as then there was not a more powerfull Prince in all Affrica then hée He began then to ordaine his Court Royall with Secretarie Councellers and a Captaine Generall vsing all those Ceremonies that the Kinges of Marocco formerly had done And from the time of this Prince euen to our dayes Tunis held on the same encreasing Dignity as well in habitations as ciuility so that it became the onely and singular Cittie of Affrica Where now wee leaue her to our larger History as also the Kingdome of Fez because the Originall of the one came from the other and therefore they are the more capable of an intire discourse which aryseth to a very spacious and large quantitie There also will we relate the condition and originall of sundry other remote Kingdomes which for the reason before alleadged are in this briefe Chronicle purposely omitted ¶ Of the great Prouince of Moscouia As also the Manners Religion and power of the Prince their ruling MOscouia is a very great Northerly Region containing more then fiue hundered leagues in length The principall Citty thereof beeing called Mosca or Moscuua greater then the Citty Paris in Fraunce and seated on the Riuer Mosqua There is a large Stone squared in the middest of the Cittie whereon whosoeuer can mount himselfe without beating down in the vacancy of the Crowne he is held as Prince of the Countrey and obtayneth the principality For very great fightes and combates the Inhabitants haue had one against another about the mounting on that stone Hée that comes to be Prince of the Countrey dooth not call himselfe King but Duke being contented with that popular name and differeth not in Garments from the other Noble-men of the land saue only that he weareth a higher bonnet It is a Countrey rich in Siluer and so stronglie guarded thorow out that not onely straungers but their owne natiue people likewise can passe no way without the Princes Letters The countrey is flat and plaine without any Mountains therefore that which is saide of the Ryphean Mountaines and that they are in this Countrey is méerely fabulous for there is not any such hill at all There are great store of Forrests abounding with wilde Beasts which are daily chased and great profite is made by Trafficke for the skinnes of those Beasts as of Harts Wolues Ermines Martines Zubelines Fouoynes and diuers others This Prouince confineth Liuonia on the one side Tartaria on the other on the third quarter it hath the Euxine Sea containing many other Prouinces to it so that the Prince can in very few daies leuie foure hundered thousand men on foote to begin warre withall They drinke nothing but a kinde of Béere and yet none but the rich may drinke thereof for they haue no Wine but what is broughte from other countries They be subiect to drunkennes as all other Northerly people are and Winter is there so sharpe long and extreame that if any Water be hurled vp into the Ayre it fréezeth before it can fall to the earth Their Corne â—â—uer perfectly ripens but when they haue reaped it they dry it in their stoues or hot-houses and then grinde it The Spring time is very colde with them and their Summer which lasteth but two months onely is extreamly hot They haue not any vse of money but instead thereof they haue Plates of Gold or siluer squared without anie marke or stampe thereon which is taken for as much as it weigheth in merchandize As for their Garments they go cloathed like Turks in long Gownes or Robes hauing narrow sléeues and girded about their middle Their buildings and manner of life differeth very little from them of Poland and Bohemia They are Christians like vnto the Greekes receiuing order of Priest-hood from the Patriarche of Constantinople saying Seruice in their Temples in their vulgar toong which is the Sclauonian Language and theyr Carracters are Greeke The abiding of the Prince is in a goodly great Pallace in the Citty of Moscuna built after the Italian manner being so strong and spacious as in our times the like is not to be found There are in the fore-named Citty as also in diuers other places men very learned and wise that did make their aboad whereas the Schooles be The Muscouite is Tributary to the King of Tartaria who ouercame them in the yeare of the Worlde 6745. according as their Annales doo deliuer their Chronologies are not according to our Obseruation in accounting after the yeares of Iesus Christ When the Tartarian Ambassadors doo come before the Moscouite Prince hee standeth bare headed before them and they sit couered He hath wel-néere daily Warres against the Polonois and Scythian who albeit they are subiects to other Kings yet doth he much enlarge his dominions ouer them Now although as we said at the first these Princes contented them-selues with the name of Duke vntill the time of hys Father now raigning yet would he néeds vsurp the name of King giuing himselfe these ensuing Titles as his Son also doth the same The great Lord Basilius by the grace of God king Prince of Russia Great Duke of Volodimeria Moscouia Nouogardia Plescouia Sureluchia Tuueria Iugaria Permia Vraquia Bulgaria Great Lord and Duke of the Lands in Nouagadia the lower of Cyeruigouia Rezauia Riscouia Belloya Iaroslauia Bierosolia Vdoria Obdoria Condidia c. By which large plurality of Titles it appeareth that he is farre more potent then some haue immagined him to be But concerning his vassailage to the King of Tartars he holdes it no dishonor to him for he doth it to this end That while hee kéepeth peace with him hee bringeth much more easily vnder his obedience all the néere neighboring people and with the power of the great Tartare he is ten times stronger then of himselfe For the saide Tartare bringes ordinarily a Million of men with him to the field al well appointed for warre with two or thrée hundered péeces of Cannon and thrée hundred thousand horsse c. Of the Kingdome of Poland POlonia in elder times called Sarmatia is said to receiue that name of the worde Pole which in that
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
chéefest mishappes amongst the Barbarians Whereupon it is saide that euen then a great number of persons with-drewe them-selues from the firme Land to the Isles where Venice at this instant is builded hasting thither from all other partes especiall vpon the arriuall of this cruell Enemie Attila Some of the better sort of Padua first began the retreat and being come to the entrance or issue of the Riuer which was then very déepe whence the name of Rialto hath remained to the same place as deriued of the word Riuealto they there laid the first foundation of the Cittie of Venice The meaner people of Paduaj enforced by the selfe same feare fled thence and began to people themselues in Chioggia Malamocco and Albiola Some of them of Aquileia at the same time betooke themselues to the Marshes or Fennes of Grada and vpon the fresh returne of Attila the people ranne in mighty affluence along the sea Coastes to the neighbouring Isles They of Aquileia bestowed themselues in Grada a place néerest to firme Land yet engirt with Waters They that fledde from Concordia made vse of Coarli and the Attinois sixe little Islands néere to one another which they gaue names vnto according to the Names of the Gates of their former lost and ruined Citties To wit Torcello Maiorbo Buriano Muriano Amiana Gonstantiaco These seuerall places where at this present the citty of Venice is seated were in elder times very straite or narrow Islandes and néere vnto each other sauing onely that they were separated by the pleasing course of Riuers which ranne into and returned againe from the Sea according to the changes of his fluxe and reflux Nor in these straites were then any dwellinges to bee discerned but onely of Sea-Fowles that flew thither from the Seas to sport themselues vppon the Sunnie banckes and Fishermen also would some-times there put in for harbour The Paduans that tooke vp the Rialto were the first that beganne to builde and it was in the very same place where the first Foundation of the Citty was laid namely the 25. day of March in the yeare of our Lord 421. and second yeare of the raigne of Pharamond first King of the Gaules or French-men in the time also of Pope Boniface the first and of the Emperour Honorius Whereby it plainly appeareth that at one and the selfe-same time began both the kingdome of France and the Commonwealth of Venice And that both the one and the other haue continued to this present for twelue hundred yeares very little either more or lesse This Cittie so newlie begun encreased dailie both in people and buildings But sée what happened vppon a suddaine a Greeke Carpenters House or rather he was one of the Shipwrights named Entinopus falling a fire consumed in a moment with a violent continual embracing 24. faire new built Houses Which when these new-come Inhabitantes perceiued and fearing that Heauen was offended with this their manner of beginning forgetting God and seruing their owne appetites They fell all to praier and made a solemne vow to builde a Church in the honour of God and in memory of the Apostle S. Iames at which very instant time a mighty tempest of raine as suddainelie fell whereby the rest of the new-begun Cittie was happilie preserued That Church is yet at this daie plainelie to be discerned with the markes and appearances of great antiquity euen in the very midst of the Rialto And it was then consecrated by foure Byshops to wit Seuerianus Bishop of Padua Ambrose Bishop of Altina Iocundus Bishoppe of Treuisa Epodius bishop of Vderzo a Priest was there appointed to performe diuine seruice The first foundations of this famous Citty were men of honest repute Noble and rich For the ancient Venitians at the change of their abiding brought with them thither their Wiues and Children with the very wealthiest mooueables which they had and so at leisure withdrew themselues to places of a more secure dwelling But béeing impeached by incurssions of the Hunnes to Till the Groundes vppon the Sea Coastes such as had any meanes or apt commoditie gaue themselues to fighting and to make Salt or to transport the goods of their neighbors estéeming the benefite thereby gotten to bee no more dishonest or vnbefitting then to Plough and husband the grounds of others As for the wealthier sort they addicted themselus to Traffick Merchandizes with strangers and by their frequent aduenturing into diuers Countries some of them being very skilfull Miners and well experienced in the triall of seuerall Dors or Mettals hidden in the ground which by industry and endeauour they found in the earth became Finers or Triers of those Mettals and extracted from the grosser substances the purer perfections of Golde and Siluer whereby in their owne language they were tearmed Orifici deriued of the Latin word Aurifex Gold-smiths or Hammer-Men that of those refined Mettals could frame Cuppes Pots Ringes Basons Ewres or any other néedfull matter whatsoeuer both for the seruice of God in Churches and Temples and for the royaltie of Emperors Kinges and Princes So that by the consent of diuers good Authours as Liuie Florus Cassidorus Trogus Pompëius and others the first Gold-Smiths Workers in Gold and Siluer and framers of those excellent Mettals into such orderly meanes for vse within the partes of Europe liued in Venice whereas yet to this day doe remaine the very best ingenious and perfect work-men for such matters according to the iudgement of many that are to bee found in any part of the World Concerning such as remained more ordinarily at home for rare and safety of the Cittie they applied their Spirites to deuise good lawes and customes for generall benefite During which time such was their due respect of Iustice and so precise care of equitie and right to all men as among so great a number of people there could not bee any disorderly differences noted Catholique Religion they so singularly commended and the daylie presence of some reuerend Prelates who had saued themselues with their Compatriots that it augmented among them a common affection to piety And their assistance appeared very requisite not onely for the ministry of holy offices but also for retention of the Inhabitants of this new Citty in auncient piety and Religion Fearing least they might bee infected with the poyson of Arrian Heresie because nothing else made more spoyle and hauocke thorough all the Prouince except the Weapons of the Gothes and Hunnes Such was the beginning of the Citty of Venice and in such manner of liuing and in such exercises shee spent her first infancy till by her Vertues shee attained to greater groweth and grounded her selfe in her instant state and condition It hath constantly bin held that this common-wealth euer-more retained that forme of gouernment which is tearmed Aristocratia that is that the most noble and woorthiest Cittizens should guide and gouerne For although it be saide
that it hath bin gouerned first by Consuls then by Tribunes and lastly by Dukes Maisters of warlicke power yet notwithstanding al these Dignities being but electiue and not hereditary the election should in right appertain to the most Noble Islanders and Gentlemen of name by whose aduise the Common-weal ought to be managed euen as it hath bin and still continueth to this day Consuls to the number of thrée were chosen for two yeares and albeit that this kinde of Gouernment lasted for about the space of thréescore yeares yet we finde only but thrée consecutiue or succéeding elections of them The first Consuls were Albertus Phalarius Thomas Candianus and Zeno Daulo These men first gouerned the Citty in her Nonage and some are of the minde that they were the first Authors of the Padnaus slight and their retyrement to the Lakish or marshie Isles as also of their first building there The second Consuls were Lucianus Graulus Maximus or Marinus Lucius and Hugo Fuscus The third were Marcus Aurelius Andreas Claudius Albinus Maurus The names of such as were elected after these are not to be found in any Histories After that the Isles about the Rialto were filled with Inhabitants in sted of Consuls Tribunes were created and for their creation the matter was first debated priuately by fewe people afterwarde it was ordained and resolued in open assembly of the Islanders that in each Isle there should be a Tribune and he shoulde bee a yearely Magistrate to render Iustice to the Cittizens and with seuerity to punnish their offences But the remainder which concerned the generality of the Common-weale was referred to the generall assembly of the Islanders to bee by them determined Afterward there was but one Tribune created for gouernement of the Isles which continued for some yeares Finally they concluded to create tenne whereunto were added two more who should dwell in Heraclea And this Tribunary dignity held place for more then two hundred yeares Héere is to be noted that the Tribunes of the Isles abusing their authorities did so trouble the State with ciuill dissentions as it plainly appeared that the maine bodie of the Citty would bee dissolued without some good and immediate remedy Which gaue occasion that to heare the complaints of euery one a generall assembly of the Isles was published and their méeting to be in Heraclea In this assembly Christophero Bish of Grada was President accompanied with a great number of the Clergy after diuine seruice was performed the first proposition which he made was that for good of the commonwealth each man might complain of the future Tribune which being done and the offences no longer to be indured for publick benefit of the state in general resolution was set down to make election of a Duke who should represent all honor and Maiesty in the State or Siegneurie and he should haue power to assemble the generall counsell when questions were to be made of any important matter concerning the Common-wealth He should haue power also to elect yearly Tribunes or Magistrates in euery Isle and their appellations to bee brought before him Moreouer if any should obtaine any dignity Prelacy or benefice by Suffrages of the Cleargie or people that he should not enioy it or be possessed thereof without the good liking and consent of the Duke whose power also ended with his life This being thus concluded in the yeare 697. Paullucio was created the first duke and so hath that Ducal dignity continued euer since Saue only that in the yeare 737. after the death of the third Duke Orso it was determined that no Duke should be elected for six yeares but that a Master of the armed troopes or soldiors should bee established and his authority to be annual which lasted no longer then fiue yeares For in the yeare 742 they procéeded againe to a Dukes election since that time the Commonwealth of Venice hath euermore had Dukes and Princes of the Seigneury by whose wisedome and his Counsell assisting it hath bin preserued in an euer flourishing estate euen to this instant yeare 1611. ¶ A short Summary of the liues of the Dukes and Princes of Venice and a breuiate also of the most remarkable actions in the times of their gouernment PAuluccio Annapesto was firste Duke of the people chosen in Heraclea Hee tooke his Oath before Christophero patriarch of Grada to gouerne according to the Lawes and to regard nothing more then the weale publicke He pacified the difference which Luitprand k. of the Lombards had with king Aribert and made friendship with them both As well by his authority as by armes He brought the rebellious Aequilius vnder obedience encreased the Citties customes and reuennewes and dyed hauing bin Duke xx yeares vi months and viij daies 2 Marcello Tegaliano of the same place of Heraclea was elected his successour by common voyce of the people Hee was deuoute modest and affable but much lesse diligent in gouerning then his predecessor The Patriarchat of Grada was trans-ferred into Aquileia in hys time by Luitprand and there he had great wars about the dissentions of the Byshops whereinto he would not interpose himselfe but died hauing bin Duke nine yeares and xxi dayes 3 Orso Hipato a Noble-man of Heraclea woon himselfe great Reputation by his famous déedes Paulo the Exarcho had recourse to him the Grecian Army being broken and siedge laid to Rauenna by Luitprand He regained Rauenna made the Kings Nephew his prisoner slewe the Duke of Vicenza and reseated the Exarcho in his due rights Hee brideled the Aquileians who troubled the publicke peace and put courage into the soules of the younger sort He was slain by reason of the dissentions of Iesolo the xi yeare and fift month of his Principality 4 Theodato Hipato sonne of Orso was proclaimed Duke fiue yeares after the death of his Father during which time the people were gouerned by a Marshall or Maister of the soldiors and forsaking Heraclea he brought the State to Malamocco There he was the first created and limitted his confines with Astolpho king of the Lombards He was also slaine by Galla a citizen of Malamocco in the 13. year of his principality 5 Galla de Malamocco a wicked and seditious man yet shewing himselfe as Protector of publick peace he was established in the place of Theodato But his wickednesse being knowne and that being but a subiect he would néedes make himselfe absolute Lord hauing before slaine his chiefe Maister Theodato the people pluckt out his eies and tooke from him the dignity which he had a yeare vsurped 6 Dominico Monegario of Malamocco was seated in the sted of Galla. Somewhat to bridle his Dukes authority the people ioined two yearly Tribunes with him But he being a man audacious and arrogant sought to tiranize ouer the people whereat they growing into fury pluckt out his eies the 8. yeare of his Principality 7 Mauritio Galbaio a Noble Heraclean for his Iustice wisedome
and wealth was chosen to this dignity Hee made his sonne Duke with him and they gouerned together In his time the church of Grada being mollested he sent an Ambassador to pope Stephen to accord the difference The Bishopprick of S. Peter de Castello Oliuolo was then erected And he died hauing gouerned 23. yeares 8 Giouanni Galbaio hauing bin Duke 9. years with his father gouerned the commonwealth yet 9. yeares more and after the said time hee made Mauritio his Sonne companion with him in the Principality But they being both of wicked and vnsufferable life hauing murdered Iohn Patriarchat of Grada throwing him downe headlong from an high tower Fortunatus successor in the Patriarchate made a conspiracy against them another was elected Duke Wherat being not a little confounded the Father fled into France the son to Mantua the xvi yeare of their rule 9 Obelerio being elected Prince by them that had intelligence with Fortunatus tooke his Brother Beato as his associate and Valentine beside being their thirde brother was admitted with them in the same dignity And it is worth note that of these thrée brethren Beato is onely placed in the rank of Dukes in the Counsell chamber of Venice where as Obelerio incited Pepin king of Italy to make war on the Venetians and Beato maintained the cōmonwealth raigning 5. years 10 Angelo Participatio after he had well born himselfe in the warre against Pepin was elected Duke the people being summoned to the Rialto He founded the Dukes Palace in the same place where that now built standeth The deuision of the Empire was made in his time the Venetians left in their own liberty The City was diuided into wards stréets and precinctes The Pregadi the Ouaranta who for criminal offences was then instituted among them He gouerned eightéen yeares 11 Giustiniano Participatio hauing bin an associate in the dignity with his father was after his death confirmed by the people He repealed home his brother Iohn who was then at Constantinople accepted him as his fellow ruler he made the peoples authority greater than before gaue aid to Michael the Emp. against the Sarazins The body of S. Mark was in his time broght from Alexandria accepting into his protection the church remaining at this day was cōsecrated in his memory He died the 2. year of his dignity 13 Giouanni Participatio remained in the royaltie inlarged the Church of S. Marke placing therein a great number of priests Canons and appointing a Primicerio to gouern them He caused the head of Obelerio to be cut off whom hee had besiedged in the Isle of Curtia He made war vpon the Nauratines and ouercame them In the end a conspiracy was deuised against him and being confined to Grada in the eight yeare of his Principality he shaued his head and bearde and made himselfe a Monke in which estate he died 13 Pietro Tradonico of Pola hauing carryed himselfe to the peoples contentment in the wars against Pepin was elected duke He ioyned Iohn his son in rule with him gaue succor to the Emp. of Constantinople who made request thereof by Theodosius Patricius He was made Protospatary of the empire in help whereof he sent 60. gallies Lewes 2. granted him many priuiledges in the end he was slain by a sedition in his 27. year 14 Orso Participatio hauing appeased the sedition was made Duke The Turkes hauing spoiled Dalmatia euen so far as Grada wer vanquished by him Giouanni Participatio his son whom he had made associate with him in his gouernment Basilius the Emperor highly honored him for that good Seruice and made him Protospatarie of the Empire He gouerned 17. yeares 15 Giouanni Participatio beeing confirmed in his dignity tooke and burned Comachio wasted the County of Rauenna to reuenge himselfe on the Count of Comachio who had imprisoned and wounded to death his Brother Badoario He growing much ouercome with sicknesse caused the Church of Saint Cornelius and S. Cyprian to be built at Malamocco and hauing gouerned fiue yeares and sixe monthes renounced the Dignitie 16 Pietro Candiano was elected after the voluntarie dismission of his Predecessour Hée was a valiaunt Man and expert in Armes and yet notwithstanding greatlie addicted to deuotion He went in person with tenne Gallies against the Narantines who as Théeus robbed and purloined from the Venitians Fighting valiantlie against them hee died at the second time with the weapons in his hands He gouerned no longer then fiue months Dominico Tribuno is set by some in rank with the Dukes but others lesse curious in search of the History haue omitted him because hee was Duke but thrée months and thirtéen daies and nothing is remarkeable in his time but a certaine priuiledge granted by him to Chioggia 17 Pietro Tribuno Sonne of Dominico was elected Duke He obtained of Guydo Emperour and King of Italy a confirmation of all auncient Priuiledges The Barbarian Hunnes came againe into Italy and burned Heraclea Capo de Arger and Chioggia This Prince ouercame them with very much honour and this was the third time that those Strangers sought to vsurpe on that State Hee gouerned twentie foure yeares 18 Orso Badoaro called himselfe Participatio and was the first that changed his name He sent for his Son Pietro to Constantinople and he was made Protospatarie In the yeare 920. he obtained of Rodolphus Emperour and King of Italy the confirmation of the Venitians auncient authority to stamp Monies He addicted himselfe wholy to piety and in his 20. yeare hee renounced the Dignity to make him-selfe a Monke and liue priuately 19 Pietro Candiano the second was a worthy man and made war on Lauterio Marquesse of Istria who hindred the Traffique of the Venitians he ouer-came him and reconquered the people of Capo d'Istria He vanquished Albertus Son to the Emperour Berengarius who impatronizing himself of Rauenna impeached the passage of the Venitians Ships In his time Maydens were stolne by the Testaines to ioyne in marriage with them but they were soone recouered He gouerned seauen yeares 20 Pietro Badoaro the Sonne of Orso was redéemed by him from the Sclauonians Hée gouerned but two yeares and seauen moneths alwaies in peace which he much affected Berengarius the Emperour did him many fauours for his great deserts 21 Pietro Candiano the third Sonne to the second Candiano associated himselfe in his dignity with his son Pietro at two seuerall times armed 33. Shippes against the Narentines but at the second time he made peace with them His son being reproued by him for his bad behauior reuolted from him and against the Common-wealth The people would haue slaine him but he was sent into exile where ioyning with Guydo Sonne of Berengarius hee endangered the Common-wealth Whereat his father grieuing died in his fiftéenth yeare of his gouernment 22 Pietro Candiano the fourth being repealed from exile albeit the people had sworne neuer to receiue him was made prince with very great
instaunce and hee so preuayled that Dominico his Sonne was made an Earle He beautifyed the buildinges of the Cittie of Venice and began the Tower of Saint Marke He died seauen monthes after the eight yeare of his Election 38 Vitale Michele the second subdued the Tarentines which nowe had rebelled the third time He imprisoned Vlrick Patriarch of Aquileia and twelue Channons In an hundred dayes hée put foorth an hundred Gallies and twenty Ships on the Sea against the Emperor Emanuell The great Family of the Iustiniani were in his time brought to one onely man and hee was become Religious whom hee tooke forth of his Monastery by the Popes consent and gaue him his owne daughter in mariage beâ—ause he would not haue so worthy a house to bee extinct There happened a great pestilence in hys time the occasion whereof the people in theyr weake iudgement laid vpon him He was wounded and dyed hauing gouerned xvij years and xxvij daies 39 Sebastiano Ziani was the first that euer was elected by the eleauen electors In his time there was a great Schisme in the Churche by meanes of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who caused Alexander the thirde to forsake the Sée Octauian hauing bin made Anti-pope Alexander made his retirement to Venice where hauing a long time serued in the Monastery of la Charita he was in the end knowne and taken thence by the Prince and Seigneury Héereupon Barbarossa made warre against the Venetians but his sonne Octauian being taken he mediated reconciliation betwéene them He died in the fift yeare of his gouernment 40 Orio Malipiero or Mastropetro was the first Duke elected by the 40. and for that purpose was created by the death of Ziani He hadde sixe Councellors allowed him to authorize his deliberations He reconquered Zara that had nowe the fourth time rebelled He sent supply vnto the Christians against the Moores who beganne to vsurpe in the Holy-Lande 88. yeares after that Baldwine had deliuered it Ptolomais was recouered and Andronicus successor to Emanuell the Emperour deliuered many Venitian Merchants He renounced the Principality in his 14 yeare and entred into Religion 41 Henrico Dandolo was likewise elected by the forty They of Zaro were once againe vanquished and Pola conquered In his time was the surprizall of Constantinople and the acquisition of the East Empire wherein hee assisted the Princes and French Barons Hee dyed in his thirtéenth yeare being Generall of all the Christian Army 42 Pietro Ziani son of Sebastian was made Duke within a while after the death of Dandalo the Correctors being then first instituted In his time came Ambassadors from Athens Achaia to submit themselues in obedience to the Common-wealth Candie was then peopled with a Colony of Noble Vinitians He married Constance Daughter to Tancrede King of Sicilie In the end hee renounced the Principality hauing gouerned 24. yeares 43 Giacomo â—epolo was made Duke by chance in concurrency of Renieri Candolo who had as many voyces as he Candie rebelled and the seditious were seuerely chastised Zara that had long borne the yoake was now reduced vnder obedience Hee had Warre against them of Ferrara and against Ezzelino who would haue inuested himselfe with Padua In conclusion he gaue ouer the Principality in his twentith yeare and dyed soone after 44 Marino Moresini was made Duke by the one and fortith by reason of the precedent concurrence In his time was another Colony of Noblemen sent into Candie who builded there Canea Hee made Warre against Ezzelino who besiedged Mantua and who in a furious rage caused twelue thousande Paduans to bee hewne in peeces which he had with him then in his Army He died in the fourth year of his Principality 45 Reuieri Zeno Podesta at Fermo was elected Duke and sent to bee fetcht thence with foure Gallies Vnder him the Commonwealth won a famous victorie against them of Genes but the contentment therewith was very briefe because Michaell Paleologus expelled both the French-men and Venitians out of Constantinople being ayded by the Genewaie forces whych was eight and fiftye yeares after the surprizing of the sayde Citty yet once more after that the same people were againe reconquered And hauing gouerned this Dignity sixtéene yeares he dyed 46 Lorenzo Tiepolo was made Duke in memory of the victory hee had againste them of Genes at Tyre hee allyed two of his Sonnes verie Nobly with two strange Ladies by reason whereof a Law was then made that the like might not afterward be done He brought Seruia in obedience to the Common-wealth and the Bolognians were vanquished by him he gouerned seauen yeares and xxv daies 47 Giouanni Contarini being aged eightie yeares and Atturney of S. Marke was made Duke The Law against illegitimates was then enacted and they excluded from all publicke offices There were some rebellions moued in Istria and by them of Genes but they were quickly appeased At length through vnwieldinesse of age and by aduise of the Senat he gaue ouer the dignity hauing gouerned foure yeares and six moneths 48 Giouanni Dandolo was elected beeing then absent The Citty was in his time much afflicted by water and an Earthquake He made war in Istria aginst the Patriarch of Aquileia the Count of Goritia At the instance of pope Nicholas he assisted the Archbyshop of Tripoli with 25. gallies He died seauen months after his viij yeare of rule 49 Pietro Gradanigo a man of great courage deliuered the common-wealth from two important dangers One was a high disgrace which hapned in a battel against them of Genes The other was the conspiracy of Baiamonte which was boldly checked with weapon in hande vpon the place of S. Marke It was then ordained that Noblemen onely should gouerne and the counsel of tenne was then instituted Hauing ruled 22. yeares and nine months he died 50 Marino Giorgio was a man of such life that they termed him a Saint Venice was continually excommunicated in his time by reason of the taking of Ferrara Zara rebelled againe the sixte time and much labour it cost to reduce it vnder obedience againe After hee builded the Monastery of S. Dominick and died aged 81. yeares in his first yeare hauing gouerned ten months and ten daies 52 Giouanni Soranzo had the honor of recouering Zara and many other places which had reuolted in his Predecessors time Negropont was re-obtained and Warre afresh commenced against them of Genes The excommunication was quitted from Venice by the interposition of Francisco Dandolo knéeling before the Pope with a Chaine of yron about his necke The number of Atturneyes of S. Marke was increased to sixe He gouerned sixtéene yeares and sixe months 52 Francisco Dandolo who had so lowely humbled himselfe for his Countreyes good was therefore exalted to her highest Dignitie They of Pola and of Valesia submitted themselues to the Common-wealth which gaue way vnto the warre against the Patriarch of Aquilea Padua was taken on Albert Scaliger and Treuisa and the County remained to the
Common-wealth This man was of the league with the Christian Princes againste the Turke and in his time were sixty seuerall Ambassadors at Venice He gouerned ten yeares and ten months 55 Bartolomeo Gradenigo Atturney of Saint Marke was made Duke at 76. yeares of age by the intercession of Andrea Dandolo and his cessation In his time was Venice myraculously deliuered from a mighty imminent invndation Candie rebelled and the Rebelles were seuerely punnished There happened a great Dearth in the Cittie which droue the people to discontentment Hee died in his fourth yeare 54 Andrea Dandolo who had before resigned his place to Gradenigo caused the dearth for to cease by sending for great store of Corne out of Sicilie Hee obtained of the king of Babylon frée Nauigation into Egypt Zara rebelled the seauenth time and was reprized The Warre betwéene them of Genes and the Citty was trobled by two great accidents One was an earthquake verie dreadfull and the other was a gréeuous Pestilence Hee gouerned twelue yeares wanting some few months 55 Marino Faliero was elected Duke being then Ambassador at Rome Hauing receyued an iniurie by some perticulers which was not reuenged according vnto his owne desire he determined in the eighty yeare of his age to make himselfe absolutely Lorde without any controule The Conspiracy beeing discouered by Nicholo Lion he had his head smitten off within the Pallace And it was ordayned that his Picture shoulde not bee placed among the other Dukes but the place being left voyde had onely this Writing This is the place of Marino Faliero who for his greeuous offence had his head cut off he was Duke but ten moneths 56 Giouanni Gradenigo had an excellent spirite but a much mishappen countenance The Warre was renewed againste the Genes which tearmined with a mutuall peace Hee had warre against the King of Hungarie for Dalmatia Treuisa was besiedged in his time and thether hee went in person He gouerned one yeare thrée moneths and fourtéene daies 57 Giouanni Delfino was elected Duke when he was in Treuisa defending it against the King of Hungary The Senat sent to demand free passage for him which being denied he came foorth with 200. horse to beard the enemy so attained to Margliera where the Senat in person receiued him In short time he gaue end to this war recouered Conciliano Serualla Asola He made peace for the soueraignty of Dalmatia and died aged 45. yeares hauing gouerned foure yeares two months eleuen daies 58 Lorenzo Celso vpon a false bruit of a victory against them of reuolted Genes was made duke in concurrence of Pietro Gradenigo Leonardo Dandolo Marro Cornaro Candie rebelled again it was regained with very great difficulty On this occasion a Iusts and feast was publickly made in the place of S. Mark he died 2. dayes after the fourth yeare of his Principality 59 Marco Cornaro a man very wise learned was sent into Candie which was rebellious and there he made a cruel bloody war the Pope granting plenary Indulgence to al such as went thether The Rebels being seuerely punished the commonwealth sent to Pope Vrbane 5. a certain nuÌ„ber of their Gallies He gouerned 2. years 5. moneths and 24. daies 60 Andrea Contarini â—led to the Paduans fearing to be elected Duke and as presaging the ruine which in his time wold betide the common-wealth First of all he made warre with them of Triesta then soon after with Carrara for the confines of Padua and such was the fortune that Chioggia beeing taken the Cittie of Venice found it selfe to bee in extreame daunger But in the ende hee went and opposed him-selfe in person against the Enemies vanquished them and regained Chioggia Hee dyed hauing gouerned fiftéene yeares foure months and fiftéene daies 61 Michele Morisini was a man well furnished with Learning and Wisedome Some say that in his time the Isle of Thenedes was taken and not in the time of his Predecessour Contarini There were diuers Lawes then made and amongst others it was ordayned that Homicides who formerly had beene hanged should afterwardes haue their heads smitten off He liued but four months fiue dayes in his Dignity and died in the 74. yeare of his age 62 Antonio Veniero was a rigorous obseruer of Iustice He confined one of his owne Sonnes in exile because he had ouer-lightly offended the Familie of a Noble Venitian Hee made league with Galeazzo the Vicounte against Carrara whereupon hee tooke Padua Hee assisted the Emperour Emmanuell against the Turke and gaue ayde also vnto Sigismond King of Hungaria who afterward came to the Empire The place of Saint Marke and that of the Rialto were greatly beautified in his time He died two months and thrée daies after the 18 yeare of his rule 63 Michele Steno had the dignity of Atturney of Saint Marke with that of Duke Hée wonne an important battaile against the Genewaies Carrera was now the last time vanquished and Padua and Verona surprized They of Vicenza to frée themselues from his tyranny yéelded themselues to the Common-wealth Ladislaus King of Hungaria did likewise for-goe Zara. He died hauing gouerned 13. yeares and thrée daies 64 Thomaso Mocenigo was first Generall of the Goulfe Hee embraced peace to the ende that the Cittizens might Traffique Vdina became obedient to the Common-wealth with the Countrey of Friuoli by meanes of the Lordes of Sauorguani who were made Noble-men of Venice The Florentines were also succoured against the Duke of Milaine In his tenth yeare he died 65 Francesco Foscari did stoutly represse the Duke of Milaine who procéeded too farre on the liberties of Italy Brescia Bergamo and other Citties of Lombardie were then won among which were Loda and Parma and Rauenna in Romania Hée made also a large progresse on the Seas euen into Morea The Senate assisted Paleodogus the Emperour against the Turkes who vsurped Constantinople in the yeare 1453. Hée was made Arbitratour by the Duke of Milaine in certaine differences of neighbour-hood The King of Dacia was made a Noble Venitian And afterward the Duke in regard of his age and infirmities was dismissed hauing gouerned 34. yeares and sixe months 66 Paschale Malapiero was appointed in the place of Foscari being Atturny of S. Mark who died two daies after his dismission Hee made a Law that in following times the Duke should not be deposed In his daies the famous Arte of Printing was brought into Venice The Arsenall was greatly encreased And hee maintained the people in peace during foure years 6. months and fiue daies that he gouerned 67 Christophoro Moro of Procuratour of S. Marke was made Duke He liued for some time in peace till the second yeare of his gouernment and then the Turke proud of his surprizall of Constantinople declared Warre against the Venitians He made heace with Pope Pius the fift and the Duke of Burgundy But the Pope dying they remained alone and maintayned war which lasted twenty yeares And yet he dyed hauing raigned 9
yeares and sixe months 68 Nicholo Tâ—ono had such good happe that in his time the common-wealths affaires went well against the Turke Pietro Mocenigo General in the Archipelagus vnited his power with the Popes The King of Naples they of Rhods sent 85. Gallies together and tooke Satalia a cittie of Pamphilia He made league likewise with the King of Persia against the Turke Iames King of Cyprus comming to Venice espoused Catharina Cornara adoptiue Daughter of S. Mark He gouerned one year eight months and fiue daies 69 Nicholo Marcello Atturney of S. Matk after some lawes made by the Correctours was elected Duke In his time there was a conspiracie in Cyprus to haue the Kingdome fall into the power of Ferdinand King of Naples Pietro Morcenigo went thither with a great Armie where hee appeased all troubles and seuerelie chastised the Rebelles Scutari a Cittie in Liburnia was besiedged by the Turke and valiantly defended by Antonio Loredano This Duke gouerned one yeare foure monthes and 17. daies 70 Pietro Mocenigo was elected Duke in desert of all his worthy deeds Lepanto was besiedged in his time by the Turke vertuously maintained by Antonio Loredano They brought their power likewise before the Isle of Stalimena but the same Loredano by his valour defended it The Daughter to King Ferdinand came to Venice with the Cardinall her Brother where they were roially entertained This Prince caused a Mony to be stamped which he sirnamed by his owne name And gouerned but two yeares and nine months 71 Andrea Vendramino had such ill hap in his gouernment that the Venitian Army was two seuerall times put to flight by the Turkes Once néere to Croya in Albania and the other in the Countrey of Friuli He was a goodly man of person and had a most beautifull Ladie to his Wife by whom hée had as goodlie Children whom he allyed in marriage with the chéefest Families He gouerned one yeare and eyght months 72 Giouanni Mocenigo Brother to Pietro Mocenigo hauing continued the Warre against the Turke in the ende made peace with him Ordering the matter so that hée left Scutari and Stipula in libertie of commerce and power to kéepe a Deputie at Constantinople Hée made Warre against Ferdinand King of Naples at the instance of Pope Sixtus the fourth which occasioned the long Warre called Sociale In the ende peace was made the Common-wealth hauing gotten Rouigo and Polesano The Cittie became much disgraced by fire and a pestilent sicknesse The Prince dyed hauing raigned seauen yeares and six moneths 73 Marco Barbarigo the Plague béeing ceased caused all to bée new builded which the Fire had defaced in the Pallace Hee was greatly differing from from all other Princes to wit in pardoning and forgetting perticuler iniuries doone vnto him but such as were committed against the State he would haue reuenged with stricttest seueritie The Grand Signeur or Turke sent a perticular Ambassadour vnto him to congratulate his election He gouerned but nine months 74 Agostino Barbarigo withstood the progresse of Charls 8. King of France when he made war against them of Arragon for the kingdome of Naples which he conquered The Turke vsurped on the Common weales of Lepanto Modona and Corona The Kingdome of Cyprus was brought vnder the tutelage of the Senate and Quéen Catharina brought thence to Venice The Office de la Sante was created by occasion of the Pestilence The Duke gouerned 15. years and 21. daies 75 Leonardo Lauredano sustained a very rigorous war against the chiefest Princes of the world there being a league made at Cambray betwéene the Emperor Maximilian the King of France them of Naples and the Dukes of Sauoy Ferrara and Mantua incited thereto by Pope Iulius the second All the whole estate of firme land was surprized except Treuisa but in the end it was recouered He liued in the Principality ninetéene yeares eight months and 20. daies 76 Antonio Grimani being Generall had a most infamous disrout or foile by which occasion he was dismissed of the charge of Procurator of S. Marke and confined to Cherso Hee brake his limitation and with-drewe himselfe to Rome to the Cardinall his Sonne where hee had so many woorthy Offices imposed vppon him as not onely he was re-established in his Atturnies place againe but hée was likewise made Duke at the age of eighty two yeares and gouerned but one yeare ten monthes and two daies 77 Andrea Gritti gaining best part of the glory for the reprisall of Padua was in very great estéeme Hee dealt so with the King of Fraunce to whom he was Prisoner that his Maiesty allyed himselfe with the Common-wealth and Brescia and Verona were reconquered Hee knew very well how to make his carriage pleasing to the Senate during the warres betwéene Charles the fift Emperour and King Fraunces the first as also against Solyman Hee gouerned fiftéene yeares seauen monthes and eyght daies 78 Peitro Lando continued the defence of the Common-wealth against the Turk with whom at last he made a peace knowing how to make vse thereof maintaine his owne charge while the war continued betwéen Charles the fift and King Frances the first He gouerned sixe yeares and eight months 79 Francesco Donato making benefit also of this peace beautified the Citty with many goodly buildings besides that of the Pallace He sent succour to the Emperour against certain Rebels in Germany The Princes of Guise comming to Venice in his time were entertained as fitted their dignity He gouerned seauen yeares and six months 80 Marco Antonio Treuisano a Man altogether deuoute laboured that the Common-wealth might abound in goodnesse and ciuill manners preuenting by his owne worthy example that vices should not be winekt at as in too many Countries they are He gouerned a yeare wanting thrée daies 81 Francesco Veniero could so well skill of gouerning the Common-wealth that albeit the Turke in his time made Warre in Apulia and the King of Fraunce in Tuscanie yet all was well at Venice and the Quéene of Poland Royallie welcommed thither Hée gouerned two yeares one moneth and twentie daies 82 Lorenzo Priuli was sollicited by the Pope to make Warre against the Emperor But hée being a Friend to the Common-wealth by no meanes would offend him but mediated a pacification of those affaires In his time peace was made betwéene Fraunce and Spayne and Charles the fift dyed This Prince gouerned thrée yeares eleauen months and eyght daies 83 Girolamo Priuli Brother to the precedent Prince enioyed those great Honours which Pope Pius the fourth gaue to the Common-wealth And all his delight was to heare Ambassadours in the Hall of Kinges In his time the Councell of Trent was concluded whither he sent as Ambassadors Nicholo de Ponte and Matheo Dandolo The Common-wealth held at Baptisme the Sonne to the Duke of Sauoy bâ— a Deputie borne of Marguerite of France He dyed hauing gouerned eight yeares two monthes and foure daies 84 Pietro Loredano by the concurrence of two others was elected Duke
contrarie to the hope of all or his owne expectation The Arsenall was burned in his time and there then also happened a very great dearth of all thinges Selim Successour to Solyman tooke occasion to breake peace with the Common-wealth demaunding of them the Kingdome of Cyprus and mooued Warre vppon this Subiect He gouerned foure yeares fiue monthes and eight daies 85 Luigi Mocenigo Warre beeing kindled against the Turke lost the Kingdome of Cyprus Nicosia béeing taken and Famagosta surrendered The Common-wealth made league with Pope Pius the fift and Phillip King of Spayne so that their Armies béeing ioyned together in the yeare 1571. they obtayned a woorthy victorie against the Turkes Soone after Henry the third King of Fraunce came to Venice where hee was magnyficently entertayned This Prince dyed in his seauenth yeare 86 Sebastiano Veniero was elected by common voyce and with such applause that dyuers Turkes ranne to him and kissed his féete Hée created fiue Correctours of the Lawes for ruling the affaires of the Pallace The Citty was deliuered of a dangerous plague and the Pallace was againe very greatly defaced by fire This Prince gouerned not aboue one whol yeare 87 Nicholo de Ponte was created Duke a man very learned in al the Sciences and whereof he had made publicke profession in Venice He passed thorow all the honours of the Common-wealth wherewith the Cittizens coulde possibly gratifie him The Seminary of S. Marke was instituted by him Certaine Princes of Iapponia arriuing then at Venice were by him most honourably entertained He builded the Bridge of Canareggio and gouerned seauen yeares nine months and thirteene daies 88 Paschale Cicogna Procurator of S. Mark was elected when he was at diuine seruice in the Church In his time there was great warres betwéene France and Spaine about Piedmont and betwéene the Emperor and the Turke for some parts in Hungaria He caused the Town of Palma to be builded in the confines of the countrey of Friuli and a newe Castle or Fortresse in the Isle of Cephalonia He hadde the honour of the wonderfull Bridge of the Rialto which hee builded And gouerned ten yeares or thereabout 89 Marino Gâ—imini Procurator of S. Mark was so highly in grace and fauour of the people that on the day of his election they declared extraordinary signes of ioy and continued them for many following daies The second yeare of his Principality he caused the Dutchesse his Wife to be crowned in great Triumph At which time Pope Clement the eight sent hir the Rose of gold In his time much ioy and triumph was made for the peace concluded betwéen the Kings of France and Spayne Vppon occasion of the Popes comming to Ferrara obtained by the Ecclesiasticall Estate the Cardinall Aldobrandino passed thence to Venice where he was most honorably welcommed with diuers other Cardinals There was such an extraordinary ouer-flow of waters in the fift yeare of his Principality that the Barks Boats and Gundeloes floated on the place of S. Marke euen as if they had béen in a ful maine riuer He dyed and was much bemoaned of the people hauing gouerned ten yeares and eight moneths 90 Leonardo Dandolo hauing by his woorthy deseruings singuler wisedom and dexterity managed passed affaires and gone through al honors of the Common-wealth giuing euident testimony of his care and faithfulnesse was aduanced in the place of Grimani the tenth day of Ianuary 1606. He had bin sent Ambassador to Constantinople to Mahomet hee being newlie come to the Empire of the East in the common-wealthes-name to salute him with accustomed complements He hath such a practiue brain and so happy a memory seated in a soule so religiously zealous for common benefite that the Senate hath referred more to him then to any other of his Predecessors The Citty hath in his time béene excommunicated by Paulus Quintus now pope about some pretentions appertaining to his Sée But it may well be saide of this Prince that against such Thunder-clappes and lightning flashes he hath shewne himselfe like an immooueable Rocke in defence of that estate in generall In like manner two principall Pillers of Christendome threatned great disaster and ruine buâ— that most Christian Henry the fourth King of Fraunce embracing those two Collombes vpheld both the one and other redressed all discontentment by the entermise of his Ambassadors and hath erected a Triumphall Arche to the immortality of his glorie This Prince now liuing happily in peace doth dayly acknowledge to Fraunce his particular affection for such fauour and may in time much better declare it God long preserue him and all other good Princes ⧠Of the Kingdome of Spaine SPaine was in her yonger daies held by sundry petty Kings and Tetrarches and afterward became deuided into many Commonweals The Carthiginians a people of Affrica hazzarding their fortune thither helde one part thereof and possessed themselues of many Citties Townes and places vntill they were expelled thence by the Romaines in the time of the Punick warres Since when it was continually subiect vnto the Commonwealth of the Romaine reduced into forme of a Prouince only in the raign of the Emperor Augustus So it remained till the Emperor Honorius in whose daies the Vandales a people of the North parts broght it vnder their command But they were soone after chased thence by the Gothes who established there the seate of their kingdom which in that kind they maintained for the space of about two hundred years nor were they then called kings of Spaine but kings of the Goths In the raigne of Roderick king of the Goths the Moores of Affrica entred Spaine in the yeare 715. they beeing brought thither by one named Iulian in very despightfull indignation and to shape out a way to his bloody reuenge because King Roderick had dishonoured his Sister or as some others say his daughter And so did the Moores possesse themselues wel-néer of al Spain seizing the city of Tolledo which was theÌ„ the capital city Thus ended the kingdom name of the Goths in Spain Nor rested they so but pursued on their conquest still there remained none but Galitia the Asturies Leon which countries king Pelagius Vnkle successor of Roderick had fled to for refuge there shut vp himself in regard that those places were inuironed with Mountaines might wel defend shelter him for some time But his successors being hardly pressed by the Sarrazins could no longer resist wherefore vnder the raigne of Alphonsus the seconde they were forced to craue the helpe of Charlemaigne King of Fraunce by whose valour and Vertue the Moores were beaten thence a great way and had bin quite cast out of the Country if the Spaniards mallice had bin no hinderance thereto Afterward the kings of Leon and Galicia for such were then their only titles being so formerly preserued began somwhat to increase in power And in regarde of this expedition performed by the French the strength of the Moores was
afterward by those of Gregory of Tours of Rheginon and of Sigisbert good Authors do make a méere mockery of it for they neuer knew any other Citty named Sicambria but that famous Citty which is in Allemaigne So that by this our instant deduction it euidently appears that the Sicambrians dwelt with the Pannonians that from thence they came into Germany to the shâ—ars of Rhine and hauing in such manner obtained their liberty they were then first of all called Francs But now to come againe to our Francs Francions or Francones admit them to be issued of the Sâ—cambrians or of the Cimbrians or of the Germans or of any other It is notorious enough that two great Prouinces were by them inhabited named to wit Orientall France or Françonia in the Country of Saxony the kingdome of France in Gaule and that the very first time that any speach was heard of theÌ„ it was in the declining of the Romaine Empire vnder the Emperors Aurelianus Probus Florianus and Proculus Which hath made some to conceit the very same matter of the Sicambrians and that the name of Francs was giuen them eyther after one of their Kings or of their bold courage or of the Hebrew Fraci The Emperor Aurelianus had to deale with them when they would needs passe the Rhine to come into Gaule and as some report slue a great number of them And yet they were not so much weakened but they could rebell againe and withstand the succéeding Emperors Now let vs come to the Etimologie of this name of Franc or Francs there are some who make no other proofe thereof but that it was only in regard of the immunity giuen vnto them by the Emperor Valentinian after they had holpen him against the Alaines Inferring also that he called them so by a Greek name François which is as much to say as bold hardy valiant and by those means were enfranchised from all touls subsidies and tributes for ten years space But there is not any Etimology receiued by our Frenchmen but such as certaine Authors by idle forged Histories of their owne braine would make them to beleeue and that they are deriued of Françus or Françion son to Hector according as we haue already declared Now to answere all these recited opinions and to begin with the word Ferocitie as deriued of the adiectiue Ferox and whereof some great estimulation is made There is no apparance at al that they shoulde deriue their name from thence this Etymologie being but puld in by the eares and so farre off from the name of Francs as there néeds no other reason to obiect against it but the very spacious distance betwéene these two words Ferocitie and Francois considering withal that all Authors haue described the French to be men milde courteous and affable and not fierce stern or cruell As for the other reason the best receyued of them that striues to make vs beléeue that they are issued of Francus or Francion the son of Hector It is most certain that there neuer was any such Francus or Francion son to Hector because Hector had but one son named Astianax who at the surprizail of Troy was thrown by the Greeks from a very high Tower to the end that no one of the Troyans race might remaine to reuenge vpon the Greekes the sacke of Troy And to say that the Etymology of the name of Francs came from the franchise and immunity which was giuen vnto them by the Emperor Valentinian It hath no likelyhood of reason because they were called so before Valentinian was borne Now albeit that the name of franchise comes néerest to that of Francs yet cannot that deriuation be receiued for authentical because the name of this Nation is more auncient by more then a thousande yeares then the worde of franchise which is but a new coynde word in respect of the other and which by Frenchmen louers of their owne language hath bin allowed to signifie the said liberty ¶ The Election of Pharamond who was the first King of France how he was elected for his Vertues and Heroyick actions only The Francs gaue ayde to the Emperor Valentinian and by that occasion were exempted from paying Tribute for ten yeares In like manner what Ceremonies were aunciently obserued in election of their Kings and of the Salique Law THe Francs Francions or Francons of whose aduentures and Etymologie wee haue amplie discoursed hauing after many peregrinations Voyages and Trauerses made choise of their abiding at Paulus Maeotides very néere thereunto and according to the opinion of the most common and receiued they builded a Citty where they inhabited vntill the time of the Emperor Valentinian whom they valiantly assisted against the Alaines that had rebelled against the Emperor and the Romaine Empire In recompence of which good succour seruice the Emperor discharged them for tenne yeares space from paying the ordinary Tribute which they owed to the Romains yet ordering that at expyrarion of such time they shoulde returne to their former seruitude The ten yeares being expyred constraint came for repayment of the Tribute But they féeling the swéetnes of such an immunity desirous to reduce to a perpetuall priuiledge that which the Emperour had but in grace graunted in pride and presumption replyed that they purposed no longer paiment of any thing but since with price of theyr bloude and no meane daunger of their lines they had fréely bought and purchased their fréedome they were not so weakely aduised to forgoe at so cheape a Market that which had cost them so deare The Emperour displeased with this their refusall brought a great Armie against them and foyling them in the fight expelled them from their dwelling So that they were enforced to assemble themselues vnder the conduct of a chiefe Captaine amongest them named Marcomir or Marcmeier which in the olde Franc Language signifieth a Gouernour of they Country Thus they withdrewe them-selues into a Prouince of Germanie at this present called Allemaigne where they inhabited and after their own name called the Prouince of their abiding Franconia There are some Authors who will not auouch that the Emperour Valentinian did vanquishe them because in verie trueth there is no such matter founde in any verye auncient Writer Contrary-wiâ—e Amianus Marcellinus an olde and true Historiographer sayeth That when as Valentinian was in Italie he receyued tydings that great Brittaine now named England was then ouer-runne and spoyled by the Pictes and Scottes And likewise that a great number of the Francs as also of the Saxons did ouerspreade Gaule But common Opinion houldeth that the Francs woulde not pay the Tribute after tenne yeares were expyred and that beeing thereuppon ouercome by the Emperour Valentinian they were as alreadye hath béene sayde expulsed from theyr abiding and compelled to saue them-selues in the sayde Prouince Being there seated they grewe desirous to choose and establishe a manner of Gouerning
euen in his Baptisme and all his successours at their Coronations haue in like manner béene sacred Clouis changed his former Coate of Armes taking thrée Golden Floure-de-luces in a fielde Azure where-with hée first warred vppon Gondebant King of Burgundy who was Vnckle to his Wife and discomfited the Vuisegothes before Poictiers hauing slaine with his owne hand Alaric theyr King and wonne from them the Countrey of Aquitaine so farre as the Pyrenean Mountaines and almost all Gaule and Allemaigne Héereuppon the Emperour Anastasius sent him a Crowne of Golde with th◠Title and vesture of Patritius and Consull He made a choyse of Paris for his ordinarie abyding and commaunded it to bée the chéefe Cittie of his Kingdome where he dyed in Anno 514. béeing aged eyghty yeares And was buryed in the Church of S. Geneuiefue du mont de Paris which himselfe had founded in memory of Saint Peter and Saint Paul leauing four Sons and two daughters 6 Childebert succéeded his Father Clouis in the yeare fiue hundred fiftéene but not in the whole kingdome For he leauing foure Sonnes liuing it was deuided into foure partes among them and each one was King of his seuerall portion Childebert hadde for his part Paris where hée held his Seate royall with other dependaunces as Poictu Maine Touraine Champaigne Aniou Guienne and Auuergne Clothaire was King of Soissons Clodomire King of Orleaunce and Theodorick the Bastard béeing the eldest was King of Metz. They made Warre by the procurement of Clotilda their Mother on Sigismond King of Burgundy who was slaine with his Wife Child by Clodomire king of Orleaunce who likewise in another battaile was kild himselfe by Gondemar vnder a feigned pretence of friendshippe but for this in the end Burgundy was taken and destroied Clothaire assisted by Childebert possessed himselfe of the Kingdom of Orleaunce and slew his Nephewes Clothaire and Childebert had great wars together which in the ende was accorded and they passed with their armies into Spaine against Almarick who vsed their Sister very hardly because she would not bee an Arrian And killing him in the battaile they brought her backe with them into France Hée raigned 45. yeares and dyed without any Children hee lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez which he founded by the name of S. Vincent 7 Clothaire the Sonne of Clouis succéeded his Brother Childebert in the yeare 559. or as some say 560. hee had before béene King of Soyssons fortie fiue yeares and suruiued all his Brethren and their Children so that at length he remained sole-king of France He was luxurious and cruell in the death of his two Nephews Children to Clodomire King of Orleaunce He likewise with much disgrace vpon a Good-Friday slewe Gauliter d'Yuetot in a Church For reparation of which wrong he aduanced or erected the Land of Yuetot which is in Normandy into a kingdome to the heires of the said Gaultier Clothaire séeing himselfe Sole-Monarch of the Gaules would néedes leuy the third part of the Churches reuennewes Against which the Arch-bishop of Tours made resistance telling the King boldly that the reuennewes of the Church were the goods of the poore He lost a battaile against the Saxons and Thuringians because hee would not take them to mercie and suffer them to depart with their liues saued Hee ouercame in warre Cran his Bastard Sonne who rose in armes against him causing him his wife and Children to be burned hauing also formerly slaine the Duke of Bretaigne whom he had caused to reuoult Hee raigned 51. yeares dyed at Compeigne and lieth buryed at S. Medard de Soyssons Anno 567. 8 Cherebert or Aribert succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 567. Paris fell to him by partage He was very vnchast of life repudiated his Wife to entertaine two of her waighting women for which Germaine Byshoppe of Paris excommunicated him Hee raigned nine yeares died without any heires And lieth buried at Saynt Romaine néere Blaye in Gascoigne 9 Chilperick succéeded his Brother Cherebert in the year 577. hauing before raigned nine yeares King of Soissons He had thrée wiues the first whereof he diuorced from him compelling her to enter into Religion The second beeing named Audoüera he banished And the thyrde called Athanagilde he caused to be strangled in her bedde All which was done by the procurement of Fredegonde his Concubine whom hée then married and had a Sonne by her named Clothaire His Brethren warred againste him for his inhumanities and woulde haue deposed him but in the ende they were pacifyed Chilperick perceiuing his Brother Sigibert king of Metz to be much molested by the Allemaigns tooke many Citties from him whereat Sigibert being iustly offended neuer ceased till by the helpe of Gontran hee recouered all that was taken from him pursuing him still in such sort that Theodebert his Son was slaine and hee glad to saue himselse in Iournay where Sigibert besieged him Sigibert was slaine in his Tent by two Traitors hyred thereto by Fredegonde In short while after Fredegonde knowing that the king had noted ouermuch familiarity betwéene her and Landry Maire of the Pallace her adulterer she caused the king to be murdered by the said Landry at Chelles néere Paris as hee returned somewhat late one night from hunting hauing raigned in all 23. years and lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez 10 In the year 587. Clothaire second of that name the son of Chilperick Fredegonde being but foure months old was acknowledged for Legitimate and made king vnder the gouernement of Gontran King of Orleans his Vnckle who made Landry Maire of the Pallace Tutor to the young King and because he should bee norished with his Mother Fredegonde Childebert King of Metz endeuoured by Armes to get the gouernment of the kingdome and as much as in him lay to haue Fredegonde punished for the death of his Father Sigibert and of his Vnckle Chilperik whom she had caused to be both murdered Gontran appeased him by making hym his heire yet notwithstanding in short while after he began war againe against which Landry with Fredegonde who was a woman of admired courage opposed themselues And she to imbolden the French carried the young king hir son in her armes walking so with him thorough the thickest of the battell and shewing him vnto the soldiors she would say Fight for your younge King and defend his kingdom by which means Sigibert was foiled and driuen to flight Brunehault hauing put to death many children of the bloud Royall was deliuered to Clothaire who caused her to be torne with four horses He reuenged himselfe on the Saxons leauing no male child aliue that was taller then his sword He raigned 44. yeares and lyeth buried at S. Germaine des Pres. 11 Dagobert first of that name succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 631. he gaue to his brother Aribert the kingdom of Aquitaine in partage which
kings treasury was hanged at Mont-faucon which hee himselfe first caused to be made Lewes tooke first to wife Margaret Daughter to Robert Duke of Burgundy by whom he had a Daughter Next he married Constance whom he left with child of a Sonne named Iohn that liued but eyght daies This King raigned but xviij months died at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at S. Denis 48 Phillip the fift Surnamed the Long succéeded after his Brother Lewes Hutin in the kingdome being called Long in regard of his tal stature and slendernesse The Duke of Burgundie would haue troubled his possession of the crown in regarde of his Daughters Daughter but the Salique Law did not fauour him therein This King Phillip married Iane Daughter to Otholine Earle of Burgundy by whom hee had three daughters The first married with the Sonne to the Duke of Burgundy the second the Sonne to the Earle of Flaunders and the thirde to the Daulphine of Viennois by which marriages all Warres were asswaged in Fraunce During his raigne diuers Leapers and Lazers procured thereunto by the Iewes poysoned all the welles which caused a great Pestilence thorough the Kingdom but both the one and other were grieuously punnished therefore Neuer coulde this King obtaine of his people any impost or Taxation by him leuied He made a Law that there shold be in his kingdom but one kind of weight one measure and one money commanding that it should be duely kept But while this was in execution he died without any heires male hauing raigned fiue yeares in peace and lieth buried at S. Denis In these times certaine Troopes of Countrey people that were called Pastors and Shepherds arose againe in Fraunce as formerly some had done in the time of King Lewes the ninth These men made their vaunt that they would crosse the Seas and go warre against the Infidels They had two chiefe men of marke among them and wel beseeming such an assembly to wit a Priest that for his mis-behauiour was expulsed his Church and an Apostata Monke of the Order of S. Bennet These two fellowes so abused the hearts and beléefe of the poore popularity that silly Shepheards left their Flocks and Laborers their Manuall trades to follow these two impostures who made them verily beleeue that the Holy Land could be recouered by none but them In conclusion this heape of Rascality was quailed in Languedoc because in stead of preparing their fury against the Infidels and passing the Seas they fell vpon the Iewes whom the king had repealed into France 49 Charles le Bell Son to Phillip the fourth succéeded after his Brother in the year 1321. and likewise was King of Nauarre as his thrée predecessors had bin He had thrée wiues Blaunch whom he diuorced for her adultery Marie and Margaret Iourdain de l'Isle albeit hee was Nephew to Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was hanged and strangled at Paris for his strange offences This King fel to concord with the English appeased the Earle of Flaunders and drewe his people to a mutuall Reconciliation He was a great Iusticer raigned seauen yeares dyed at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at Saint Denis By his death the second branch of the Capets called De Valois came to the Royalty and began in 50 PHillip de Valois Coozin Germaine to the thrée precedent Kings dying without heire male his succession was in the yeare 1328. His right to the Crowne was dearely disputed betweene him and King Edward the third of England Son to the Sister of the thrée forenamed Kings who preferring his Mothers Title would néeds be King of France contrary to the Decrée of the Law Salique and consent of al the States He did king Phillip homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu but being not well pleased therewith cut him off quite from Flanders Bretaigne Germany Crecy where Phillip lost the day with the very flower of al the French Nobility taking Calais also by their flight Truce being taken betwéene both the Kings Edward of England had both the Title of king and Armes of France or conquest which euer after was attributed to him his Phillip raigned 22. yeares died at Nogent and lieth buried at S. Denis 51 Iohn Sonne to Phillip de Valois succee-his Father in the yeare 1350. proouing as vnfortunate in those tempestuous times as his father had done before him He married Ioane Countesse of Bolongne by whom he had foure sonnes and one Daughter Raoull the Constable of France was beheaded in prison In the day at Poictiers King Iohn was taken by the English and carried into England which imprisonment of his caused many pittifull Tragedies the most furious whereof were acted in the chiefe Citties of France Foure yeares after King Iohn passed into England for the fréedome of his Ostages but there he died at London hauing raigned 13. yeares His sonne caused his body to be brought to S. Denis 52 Charles the fift Sonne to King Iohn succéeded his Father in the yeare 1364. Hee sustained very great troubles during the captiuitie of his father by a commotion which the k. of Nauar raised at Paris who was aided by the merchants of the saide Citty and woulde haue had the Regency but that Charles being then Daulphine made opposition against him He dealte for the ransome and deliueraunce of his Father after whose decease he was crowned King Hee tooke to Wife Ioane Daughter to Charles Duke of Burbon by whom he had three Sonnes and one daughter He maintained great warres against the English hauing at one instant fiue seueral Armies in field against them because they were such potent enemies And to supply so mightie a charge he was faine to lay a heauie taxation vpon wine and Salt Bertrand de Guesclin a most worthy Knight was then his high Constable And the Bastille at Paris was then builded A sedition happened at Montpellier and six hundred of the seditious were executed This King was surnamed the Wise for his deep discretion goodnesse and gouernment He so loued Learning that he caused the Holy Bible to be translated into the French Language which remaineth yet in the Royal Cabinet of the Louure with many other good Bookes beside Hee had stil an eye to Iustice sitting daily to hear causes and ordering all his affayres by Counsel With much adoo he regained some Townes from the English in Poictu and Xaintonge Hee raigned sixteene yeares yeelded his soule to God at Chasteau de Beaute and lieth buried at S. Denis The Sect of the Turlupins was then abolished See Emil. Lib. 9. 52 Charles the sixt sonne of Charles the fift was crowned King at the age of fouretéen years being vnder the gouernment of his Vnckles the Dukes of Berry Burgundy and the Duke of Aniou who got into their custody many millions of Gold left by the King deceast And then no Money being to bee found the people were charged with heauy
impositions whereby great seditions happened at Paris Rouen and Orleaunce The King tooke into the Armes of France againe the thrée Floure-de-Luces onely and fell sicke of a Phrenzy by reason of two factions in his Court the Dukes of Berry and Burgundy against the Dukes of Orleaunce and Bourbon whereby many lamentable mishaps ensued The Princes tooke the gouernment into their hands and diuision happening concerning the treasure the Duke of Burgundy caused the Duke of Orleaunce to bee slaine at Paris and the Duke of Burgundy was slaine at Montereau Phillip his Sonne craued ayde of the English who presently tooke well neere all Normandy beside the vnhappy day to the French of Agincourt or Azincourt where many woâ—ull Tragedies were acted on the Theater of France by the English Burgundians and the Kings Mother who was imprisoned at Paris The King of England maried Madame Katherine of France The Duke of Burgundy deliuered him the King the Quéene and the Citty of Paris where he caused him to be crowned King and many other Citties and Towns were deliuered him beside King Charls hauing raigned forty two yeares died at Paris and lieth buried at Saint Denis His raigne was long but full of calamity 54 Charles the seauenth Sonne to Charles the sixt was made King in the yeare 142. Hée found his Kingdome possessed in all partes by the English Paris and the greater part of the Realme beeing then commaunded by the Duke of Bedford Regent for young Henry King of England who called himselfe King of Fraunce held his Parliament at Paris was there crowned king and made the Seale and Monies also in his own name King Charles hauing nothing else but the Countries of Poictu Berry and Orleaunce whereon the English in a mockery called him the king of Bourges They went to besiedge the Cittie of Orleaunce but they were thence repulsed by the French Captaines For they had a Maide in their Company who was called Ioan the Pucelle and they verily beléeued that she was sent of God for the succour of King Charles and to chase the English out of France The King after the discomfiture of the English néere to Partenay was conducted to Rheimes and there crowned But the English got the Pucelle and burned her at Rouen The King made peace with the Duke of Burgundy who foorthwith left the English and afterward recouered Paris and Normandy from them King Charles raigned 38. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 55 Lewes the eleuenth succéeded his Father in the yeare 1461. beeing then in Burgundy whence the Duke conuayed him to Rheimes where he was crowned Hée found a number of notable Enemies both Domesticall and Forraigne For his Lords made warre against him which they tearmed The Weale-publike warre he lost the day to them at Montle-hery Gransson Nancy and Guinegaste The order of S. Michaell was then instituted and Iacques d'Armaguac beheaded His raigne was full of feare suspition and treachery which so pierced his hart that in a long time of dismay after 33. yeares gouernment he died and lieth buried at Nostre Dame de Clery 56 Charles the eight succéeded his Father Lewes in the yeare 1484. being crowned at the age of 14. yeares yet the States méeting at Tours appointed that hee should not haue any Regent Hee sustained a long warre in Bretayne which termined by his marriage with Anne eldest Daughter to Fraunces Duke of Bretayne by whom he had three Sons but could not long enioy any one of them At the request of his Confessour hee rendered to the King of Spaine the Earledomes of Roussillon and Parpignan which his Father had won Being in peace he aduentured to recouer the kingdom of Naples which he did without striking one stroke in full conquest K. Alphonsus and his son Ferdinand being thence retired left Glibert de Montpensier Vice-Roy there Returning home into France he was assailed on the way by the Romans Venitians and them of Milleyne at Fornouë where his person was in great danger the enemies being tenne to one Neuerthelesse hee charged them with such courage that he bare thence the victory He deliuered the Duke of Orleaunce béeing besiedged in Nouarre and made peace with the Duke of Millaine He returned home into France where hee dyed within a yeare after at Amboise as hée stood and beheld the Princes playing at Tennis He raigned fouretéene yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis Thus ended in him the direct ligne of Valois he dying without any heires Masle and then followed the collaterall Issue which began in 57 LEwes the twelft néerest of Kinne to Charles the eight in the yeare 1499. Hée beeing Duke of Orleaunce and also of Valois He repudiated Ioane Daughter to King Lewes the eleauenth whom hee had married perforce and espoused Anne of Bretaigne Widdow to the King his Predecessour He established a Parliament at Rouen gaue orders to the Uniuersitie of Paris sent his Army into Italy tooke Genes and Millayne and Lewes Sforza Duke of Milleyne who dyed a Prisoner in France The Kingdome of Naples was re-taken vnder the conduct of Monsieur d' Aubigny And the King vanquished the Venetians Army at Agnadell where hée tooke Bartholmew their Leader albeit the Pope banded with the Venetians against him Gaston de Foix tooke Boulongne and wonne the battaile néere to Rauenna where he was slaine by chasing the enemies ouer-far and yet notwithstanding the victory remained to the French with surprizall of the Cittie and many Captaines and great persons taken Prisoners Hereupon the Pope raised many heauy enemies against him whom in the ende hee woorthily vanquished He raigned 17. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 58 Frances de Valois as néerest of Kin succéeded King Lewes in the yeare 1515. This King bare such affection to learning that he was sir-named The Father and Restorer of the Sciences At his beginning he ouercame the Switzers took Millaine and Fontarabie Afterward being desirous to winne the Townes belonging to the Dutchy of Millaine and to bring his siedge before Pauia hee was taken Prisoner in the yeare 1524. and carried Captiue into Spaine Fraunce was then very greatly afflicted not only by this disaster but by a great Famine because the Corne was frozen vppe in the Earth The King was deliuered by a treaty holden at Madrill and married Elianor Sister to Charles the fift Emperour peace beeing then concluded in the yeare 1535. The King possessed himselfe of Sauoy Piedmont repulsing the Emperour out of Prouence But peace beeing made for tenne yeares the Emperour passed thorough Fraunce with very great entertainement War began in the Low-Countries which after many alarmes was accorded in the yeare 1544. euen then when the English won Bullen The King deceased at Rambouillet hauing raigned 32. yeares an lieth buried at S. Denis 59 Henry the second succéeded his father Frances de Valois in the yeare 1547. No way degenerating from the laudable
vertues of his father Hee renewed and confirmed the alliance made by his Father with the Switzers and tooke the Fortes about Bullen on the Sea by such furious assaultes and ouer-much neglect in the English that they forsooke them and made a peace In the yeare 1552. he made his voyage for Germanie to maintaine the liberty of certaine Princes who had in the case required his help He brought Metz in Lorraine vnder his obedience and at his returne tooke Danuilliers Yuoy Monmedy and other places with-drawne by his Enemies He made agréement with Pope Iulius the third deliuering Mirandola Parma reducing also Siennato her ancient liberty wherof the Spaniards had bereaued her During this time the Emperor came and besiedged Metz where without doing any thing he lost a great number of his men The K. marching into the Low-Countryes took Mariembourg Bouoines and Diuant driuing his Enemie vndauntedly before him In the yeare 1555. truce beeing taken with the Empeperour Phillip King of Spayne and the King of England which lasted but a while the French forces being in Italy vnder conduct of Seigneur de Guyse the King assailed S. Quintines and won the day which was called S. Laurance day In the yeare 1557. the K. hauing assembled the same power and vnder the same Leader tooke Callice Guines Hames and the County of Oy with the Cittie of Thionuille the yeare following Peace beeing finally concluded betwéene them by meanes of marriage of Phillip King of Spaine with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter of France and the Prince of Piedmont with Margaret onely Sister to King Henry In toy of the saide marriages and peace a Turney was celebrated in Paris in the streete of Saint Anthony where King Henry running in the Lists was smitten with the Counter-cuffe of a Launce into the head whereof he died the tenth day of Iuly 1559. and in the 13. yeare of his raigne being interred at Saint Denis 60 Frances second of that name aged about 15. or 16. yeares olde succéeded his Father in Anno. 1559. In the life time of his Father hee marryed Madame Mary Stuart Daughter to the King of Scots And the 15. day of September he was sacred at Rheimes by the Cardinall of Lorraine Arch-Bishop of the said place Thence hee accompanied Madame the Dutchesse of Lorrain his Sister so far as Barleduc and with-drawing thence to Amboise thither came diuers men in armes whereon it was called the tumult of Amboise who saide that they would present requests to the King concerning the gouernment and matter of Religion But because they came in Armes some of them were executed and the rest appeased by the Kings Edict The King after a Councell holden at Fontainebleau appointing an assembly of the States to heare the gréeuances of his people and distrusting some intended mutiny he went to the Citty of Orleance in Armes where being desirous to procéede in his purpose hee fell sicke of a Catarrhe which happened in one of his eares whereof hee dyed the fift day of December 1560. and lieth buried at S. Denis 61 Charles ninth of that name succéeded his Brother Fraunces in the yeare 1560. And béecause he was but eleauen yeares olde the Kingdomes affayres were gouerned by the Quéen his Mother Anthonie of Bourbon and king of Nauarre being made Lieutenant generall which was to the great contentment of all the States then assembled at Orleaunce The raigne of this King was trauerssed with many ciuill dissentions about the matter of Religion whereon ensued the assembly of Poissi the Edict of Ianuary the death of the Duke de Guyse slaine at the siege of Orleaunce by Poltrot Then followed the Voyage of Bayonne the battels of Dreux S. Denis Iaâ—nac and Montcontour with other Edicts of pacification And the marriage of Henrie of Bourbon with Margaret de Valois whereat happened that most bloody and lamentable massacre Then the siedge of Sancerre and that of Rochelle with the retraite of the Prince of Conde in Germany And lastly the death of the King without any children being euen ouer-wearied with such numberlesse disturbances The King died the 30. day of May 1574. at Chasteau de Vinciennes lez Paris But before his death hee left the Quéene his Mother Regent vntill hys Brother who was then King of Poland were returned to France and he lieth buried at Saint Denis 62 Henry third of that name being returned from Poland to the no little griefe of that Nation so to part with their King vppon the thyrde day of February 1575. it being the verye same day in Lent whereon he had bin formerly crowned King of Poland in the Citty of Cracouia was likewise Sacred and Crowned at Rheimes by the reuerent Cardinall of Guyse The 15. day following of the same month was he married to Madame Loyse Daughter to my Lord the Earle of Vaudemont of the ancient and noble house of Lorraine His raigne was diuersly agitated with partialities in Religion which passed vnder pretext in faction formed against the State and couered with the name of an holy league or Vnion against which he combatted with difficulties enow and diuersity of exploits on either side Vnder his gouernement was the ouerthrowe of the Rutters Army the battel of Coutras the Estates of Blois and almost the whole reuolt of France The Reconciliation of two Kings which so pressed the factious and rebellious that they had no other recourse but to a most execrable parracide which was committed on the Kings person at S. Clou by Iacques Clement a Iacobine Monke the first day of August 1589. And so ended in him the race of that Royall branch of Valois 63 HEnry the fourth being formerly King of Nauar by right of succession came to be K. of France also being issued in direct ligne from Robert Earl of Clermont in Beaunoisis and the last Son of S. Lewes The beginning of his raigne was very Thorny marked with very signale actions in his progresse the most memorable whereof for breuities sake by a person of great honor and repute were noted in these foure liues Arques Yuri Dijon still shall beare the markes Of honor right and courage in that king To whom the strangers pride stands trembling To heare the fights of Dijon Yuri Arques Héere the life fame and due merit of that great King would giue mee way into a large fielde of ample discourse did not my purposed breuitie make imbarment Wherefore with the verie wordes of a woorthy and learned Gentleman I will conclude and summe vp this Man of men this Prince-like Souldiour and Souldiour-like Prince whose Royall face was white with Time watchinges and experience and the Lawrelles which did beguirt his venerable head and tooke their roote in his Caske were gathered in the grounds of thrée pitched fieldes thirtie fiue encounters of Armies one hundered and forty Combats and thrée hundred seuerall siedges of places in all which his person stroue if it were possible
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
constancy in promise that he sildome spake the word which hee not performed Such an obseruer of Iustice was he also that he would not remoue from any place but Proclamation was first made that if any of his men or officers did take any thing vnpaid for the partie to whome the debt was due should come in and imediatelie satisfied he willinglie heard the complaints of the poore and was as diligent in seeing their wrongs redressed Iohn Stuart Earle of Carrike and sonne to King Robert before named was crowned king but because Iohn was iudged to bee an vnfortunate name for Kings they changed it and called him Robert after his Fathers name and so hee was King Robert the third Then was the first creation of Dukes in Scotland for the king made his eldest Sonne Dauid Duke of Rothsay and his Brother Robert Duke of Albanie yet neyther of these sonnes succéeded their father but another son who was named Iames. This King Robert raigned 16. yeares Iames Sonne to King Robert succéeded his Father in the kingdome of Scotland his Quéen was deliuered of two Sonnes at a birth named Alexander and Iames Alexander dyed in his infancy but Iames liued and succéeded hys Father This King Iames the first raigned thirtéene yeares Of whom it is written that he was a very seuere and vpright Iusticer yet so milde and swéete of Nature that not any of their Princes did more reuerently embrace peace at home among his subiects or more willingly conclude it abroad with strangers then he His Wisedome appeared so manifestly in many very great and especiall affaires that Kinges of other Nations did louingly ioyne in league and friendship with him He had bin so wel educated in all Sciences and Gentlemanly actiuity by the carefull dilligence of the best Schoole-maisters that it coulde not be easily iudged in which hee was most perfect For hee was an excellent Musitian a rare Poet a most elequent Orator so exactly both in minde and memory he comprehended the depth of Diuinity and Lawe that for all these in his time he gaue not place to any one Lastly he was not onely a beauty to his Countrey in prouiding his peoples quiet at home but fought also for their defence against their enemies abroad The inuention of Gunnes happened in his time and he caused diuers pieces of Artillery to be made in Flanders one of which being a great and goodly Piece he called the Lyon whereon these verses he caused to be engranen Illustri Iacobo Scotorum Principi digno Regs magnifico dum fulmin◠castra a reduce Factus sum subito nuncuper ergo Leo. Iames the second son to King Iames the first being but sixe yeares olde succéeded his Father in the Crown and was the 103. King of Scotland from Fergusius the first In this Kings time was the famous Art of Printing inuented in the Citty of Mentz in Germany This King raygned 24. yeares among his Subiects in the Camp hee carried himselfe so gently towards all men that they seemed not to feare him as their King but reuerenced and loued him like a father Hee would ride vp and downe amongst them and eat and drinke with them euen as if hee had bin fellow-like with the meanest Iames the third Sonne to King Iames the second being but seauen years of age succéeded his father in the kingdome and raigned 29. yeares Iames the fourth son to King Iames the third was crowned King of Scotland the 24. day of Iune 1488. he being then aged xvi yeares This King Iames the fourth married the Princesse Margaret eldest Daughter vnto Henry the seauenth King of England and raigned fiue and twenty yeares deseruing to be ranked and numbred amongst the best princes that euer there gouerned for his polliticke rule and administration of Iustice Iames the fift being a Childe aged one yeare fiue moneths and ten daies and sonne to king Iames the fourth was Crowned King of Scotland the one and twentieth day of September 1513. his Mother the Quéene being appoynted Regent of the Realme This King raigned 32. yeares being an obseruice of Iustice a defender of the Law and a sound shielde for the poore and innocent in which regard of his Nobility hee was called King of the Commoners He would set at libertie the poore oppressed with the tyranny of the rich and represse the rich from spoyling the poore All which he did with a kinde of seueritie but yet in such sort as therein appeared a woonderfull gentlenesse in his naturall disposition because he seldom did put any of them to death but did eyther by inprisonment or mulct punish the offence For it was his vsuall saying That he would neuer take life from any but onelie to keepe the Lawe sound for example to others and to keepe downe their boldnesse that dwelt about the borders His death was great lamented of his subiects to whom he was a perfect Patron and a louing Father Mary Daughter and heire to King Iames the fift began her raigne ouer Scotland the 18. of December 1542. She was but seauen daies old when the King her Father died and left her his kingdome hir mother then lying in child-bed in the Castle of Lithquo of which place the Lorde Leuingston being then Captaine had the charge both of mother and daughter committed to him with the mothers good liking frée consent This Q. Mary maried Frances the Dolphin of France who after his fathers death was king of France but King Frances dying Mary Qu. of Scotland and Dowager of France returned home againe into Scotland where hir Mother had bin Regent al the time of hir absence I meane vntill the x. of Iune 1560. on which day the Queen Mother of Scotland died Afterward Mary Q. of Scots maried Henry Stuart Lord Darnley Earl of Rosse Duke of Albanie son to the Earle of Lennox who was proclaimed king at the Market Crosse in Edenburgh the 28. of Iuly 1564. and on the tenth of February 1566. he was made Knight of the Order of S. Michael in the Chappel of Holirood house with great reuerence and solemnitie In the month of Iune next folowing the 19. day and betwéen the houres of x. and xi before noone Quéene Mary was deliuered of a goodlie young Prince who afterwarde was crowned King of Scotland by the name of Iames the sixt Iames the sixt Sonne to King Henry and Q. Mary being about a yeare old began his raigne ouer Scotland and was crowned King thereof the 19. of July 1567. Hee succéeded also in his rightfull inheritance of the Crowne of England after the decease of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory the 24. day of March 1602. gloriously vniting those kingdomes in one which formerly by Brute had bin long time deuided ¶ Of the Island of Albion before Brutes arriuall there and tearming it Brittaine after his owne name Also what Kinges raigned there before he came thither ¶ To
and all our famous Riuers of Britain with the Deucalion Sea and Islandes of Brittaine especially Archadia Aemonia Arachne are glorious records of Brute and the Troyans the founders of Britaine Diuers our most ancient Citties and Townes of Britaine as Oxford vpon Isis and Themis Troia-noua vppon Isis Themis and Rhea Albanorum Yorke Brigantium ciuitas Antandros turned to S. Andros Parthaon Perthe turned to Saynt Iohns Town Albanum ciuitas turned to S. Albanes Chester and Doriscestria with the auncient Townes of Derby and Leicester and Tyanton vpon Tamares Riuer of Britaine with diuers other Townes and Citties of Britaine are Records of Brute and the Troyans Founders of Britaine The diuers Nations and people of Britaine as the Troy-nouants Brigantes Scotobrigantes the people of Albania Calydonia and Aetolia the Iberi the Albani and Georgij the people of Derbie and Leycester the people of Chester that came from Cestria Epiri with the Dores loues and Cares and the Tamarites of Tyanton commonly called Tanton All these are Records of the Noble people of Greece and Asia the remaines of the Troyans that came into to Britaine with Brute To these adde a Catalogue or Register of the ancient Princes Noblemen and Gentlemen of Britaine whereof there are some remaining to this verie day beginne wee then thus Brute Corineus Locrine Camber Albanacte Madan Mempricius Ebranke and hys twentie Sonnes Brute Greensheild Assaracus and Cecilius c. Belinus and Brennus Cambra or Cambria Antenors Wife Cambra Belinus Daughter Conidagus King of Albania slewe Morgan at Glammorgan Conidagus builded the Temple of Minerua at Bangor in Wales the temple of Mars at Parthaon now S. Iohns town of Aetolia in Scotland Aruiragus in whose dayes a Ioseph of Aramithia preached in Brittaine Leile Androgeus Brother to Cassibelanus this Androgeus let Iulius Caesar into Brittaine Pirrhus Alexander Arcadius Alexander Audax Achaius Etolus Helena Coile Constantine Graye Persie Dercie Carie Busir or Bousir Cicell Cydne Dennis Bridgis Andros Carowe Caros Tracie Rhese ap Rhesus Oen or Owen King of Calydon Brent the son of Hercules Thinn Euance Bryce Hil Drake Calais Nele Gryne Dorill Hodie Crane c. These and infinite more beside whiche Brute brought with him from the Countries of Isis and Themis and from Albania Calydonia Sylua and Etolia in Greece to Albania Calydonia Sylua and Etolia in Britaine are vndoubted records of him and the Troyans Founders of Britaine Thus much out of Maister Lytes Light of Brittaine which worthy Gentleman being deceased his Son Maister Thomas Lyte of Lytescarie Esquire a true immitator and heyre to his Fathers Vertues hath not long since presented the Maiesty of King Iames with an excellent Mappe or Genealogicall Table contayning the bredth and circumference of twenty large shéets of Paper which he entitleth Brittaines Monarchy approouing Brutes History and the whole succession of this our Nation from the very Original with the iust obseruation of al times changes and occasions therein happening This worthy worke hauing cost aboue seauen yeares labour beside great charges and expence his highnesse hath made very gracious acceptance of and to witnesse the same in Court it hangeth in an especiall place of eminence Pitty it is that this Phoenix as yet affoordeth not a fellowe or that from priuacie it might not bee made more generall but as his Maiesty hath graunted him priuiledge so that the world might be woorthie to enioy it whereto if friendship may preuaile as he hath bin already so shall he be still as earnestly sollicited Brute the sonne of Siluius hauing vnfortunately slaine his father in hunting as he shot his Arrow at a Deare was therefore bannished his Countrey whereupon he went into Grece where a great number of the Troyans liuing before in seruitude resorted to him and by his valour hee gaue them liberty by conquerring Pandrasus King of that Country who was descended of the Noble Achilles Hee compelled him also to let him haue his faire Daughter Innogen in marriage with furniture money victuals and Shipping wherewith after many hard aduentures passing along the straits of Gibralterra and coasting along the shore on the right hand hee met with Corineus and another company that came with him from Troy likewise with Antenor Ioyning then their powers together they sayled on til arriuing within the riuers mouth of Loire which deuideth Aquitaine from Celtike Gallia supposed to bee Gascoigne they landed in the Dominions of a King called Goffarius and Surnamed Pictus by reason hee was descended of the people of Agathyisi who were other-wise termed Picts King Goffarius with his men dyd sharply resist those new commers but sustayned the worst twice in the last conflict Brutes Nephew named Turnus was slaine in whose memory Brute builded there a City which to this day is called Tours in Touraigne Departing thence he and his traine came to the Isle of Britaine and landed at the hauen now called Totnesse Anno. 2855. and after the destruction of Troy 66. before the building of Rome 368. years which was before our Sauiours natiuity 1116. almost ended He found this land desolate sauing a few Giants who in short time were vanquished for Corineus wrastled with the strongest of them named Goemagot or Gogmagog at a place beside Doner where hee cast him headlong downe from one of the rockes in regard whereof the place is called Gogmagogs Leap or fal Brute builded London calling it Troy-newydh or Troia-noua He begate on his wife Innogen 3. sons among whom he deuided his kingdome before his death To Locrine who was the eldest hee gaue the middle part calling it Loegria or Loegiers To Camber his second sonne he gaue the west part of the Island calling it Cambria or Cymbry deuided from Loegria by the riuer Seuerne To his third son Albanact he gaue al the North part entitling it Alban or Albania according also to his name To Corineus his deare estéemed friende and companion hee gaue that part of the Land which after him to this day is called Corinwall Lastly when he had gouerned this land 24. yeares Hee died and was buried at that new Citty which he had builded Anno ante incarnat Christi 1132. Locrine after his Father Brutes death was king of Loegria and Lorde Paramount of the whol Island of Britain In his time Humber or Humyr King of the Hunnes entered into Albania and slew Albanact But Locrine and Camber to reuenge their brothers death met in Arms with Humber neere to an arme of the Sea that parted Loegria and Albania where killing him in the fight they threw his body into the water which in memory of his name is yet called Humber Locrine married Guendolen Daughter to Corineus but falling in loue with Estrilde a strange Lady in King Humbers Campe hee reiected his wife which caused her to raise an army againste him In triall of that fight Locrine was slaine and Guendolen drowned Estrilde with her Daughter Sabrine
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
hundered shippes alwayes in readinesse and sayled therewith once a yeare about all great Britaine Hee had the whole Isle and all the Kinges thereof in subiection to him and was rowed vp and downe the Riuer of Dee by seauen Kings his vassailes Luduall one of those Kings did pay him a yearly tribute of Wolues He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Glastenburie Edward eldest Sonne to King Edgar succeeded his Father being crowned at Kingston but by Counsell of Elfrith his Step-mother he was treacherously murdered when hee had raygned three yeares and was buried at Shaftesbury Ethelred or Egelred second Sonne to King Edgar was crowned at Kingstone but because his comming to the Crown was by his brothers murder he could neuer obtaine his peoples affection Al the Danes in England by the command of King Ethelred were murdered in one night He raigned 38. yeares and was buried in Saint Paules Church in London Edmund Son to King Ethelred and Surnamed Ironside was immediately proclaimed K. after his Fathers death as the Cleargy and Nobility did the like to Canutus because they hadde sworne fealty to his Father Swaine or Sweno whereon three great battailes were fought betwixt King Edmund and Canutus the Danes ouerthrowne at Otford in Kent beside the great battell at Ashdone in Essex neere Saffron walden where the Englishmen were foyled by the Danes and the Land once againe deuided betweene Canutus and King Edmund who was treacherously slaine at Oxford hauing raigned but one yeare and some few months and was buried at Glastenbury Canutus the Dane challenging all England to himselfe was crowned King in Saint Paules Church in London and maried Quéen Emma the widdow of king Etheldred hee raigned xx yeares and was buried at Winchester Harold surnamed Harefoot vsing the power of the Danes in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardi-kenutus Gouerned in Denmarke Hee raigned foure yeares dyed at Oxford and was buried at Westminster Hardikenutus or Hardy-Canutus Sonne of King Canutus and his Quéene Emma obtayning his Fathers Kingdome sent for his mother from exile He died with the cup in his hand as he sat merrily disposed at his Table in the third yeare of his raigne and was buried at Winchester With this Hardy-Canutus ended the dominion of the Danes in England who had grieuously oppressed this nation for the space of 250. yeares Edward the sonne of Ethelred and Emma was next crowned King at Winchester all the Danes being then quite expulsed the land This Edward was Surnamed the Confessor for hys vertuous life and worthy Lawes also he is saide to be the first that cured the Disease called The Kinges Euill Hee raigned three and twentie yeares and was buried at Westminster which in his life time hee had most sumptuouslye repayred Harold sonne of Earle Goodwin tooke vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome but William Duke of Normandy came into England with a powerfull Army and in battell Harold was shot through the braines with an Arrowe hauing raigned but nine months and was buried in the Monastery of Waltham in Essex by whose death Duke William obtained his Conquest of England William Duke of Normandy base Sonne of Robert Duke of Normandie and Nephew to King Edward the Confessor whom he perceiued more addicted to vertue then policy and through debility of body not like to liue long contryued his owne attaining to the crowne of this land after the decease of the aged King For hee placed diuers Normans in the cheefest roomes about him while he liued and when he was dead leuied an Army of diuers Nations and there-with pretending the Patronage of England agaynst Harold Earle Godwins Sonne who vsurped the Kingdome first fought with him and flewe him at a place now called Battell in Sussex and then tooke the Crowne on him by election of the Estates Seeking next to barre Titles he imprisoned Edgar Etheling the onely true heire of the Saxons bloud and by means of Ethelbert Arch-bishop of Hamborow procured Sweno King of Denmark for money to cease the Danes claime Hee builded foure strong Castles one at Nottingham another at Lincoln the third at York and the fourth neere to Haftings where he landed at his first arriuall in England Hee deuised the Couer le feu Bell to bee Rung nightly at eight of the clocke in all Citties Townes and Villages for preuention of mighty tumults He ordained the Tearmes and that they shoulde be kept foure times in the yeare and Iudges to sit in seuerall Courtes for desciding controuersiall matters betwixt party and party as is vsed vnto this day He appointed Sheriffes in euery shyre and Iustices of the peace to see offenders punnished and the Countries kept in quiet He ordained the Court of Exchequer with the Barons Clarkes and Officers thereto belonging as also the high Court of Chancery with the Booke then called The Rowle of Winchester nowe The Doomesday Booke whereby the whole Land was taxed and euery mans estate and wealth thoroughly knowne He raigned twenty yeares ten months and 26. dayes and was buried in the Abbey of Saint Stephen at Caâ—n in Normandy which he had founded And this is well worthy memory that hee being so great a Conqueror yet after his death coulde not haue so much ground to bury his dead body without wronging some other vntill that by his Executors it was bought for him William Rufus second sonne to the Conqueror by his Fathers appointment succeeded him in the Kingdom and was crowned at Westminster Robert elder Brother to King William Duke of Normandy went with Godfrey Duke of Bullen and other Christian Princes to the Holy-land to recouer it from the Saraziâ—s This King William Rufus caused new Walles to be builded about the Tower of London and layed the foundation of Westminster Hall Hee raigned thirteene yeares and was slain with an Arrow by one Sir Walter Tyrel a French knight in the New Forrest in Hampshire his body being buried at VVinchester In which Forrest not many yeares before had stoode 36. Parish Churches diuers faire Townes Villages and Hamlets containing thirty miles in circuite all which was laide wast by the Conqueror the poor inhabitants expelled thence and it was made a place for wilde beastes to liue in It was somewhat strange that in that very place the King should bee so vnfortunately slaine Richard his Brother blasted to death and Henry the Conquerors Nephew by his eldest Sonne Robert as hee ouer-earnestly pursued the game in the the bushes like to another Absolon straungely strangled to death vengeaunce from God as was thought punnishing the fathers offence in his posterity Henry sur-named Beauclerke for his Learning and youngest sonne to the Conqueror succeeded his Brother King William was crowned at VVestminster Robert Duke of Normandy being returned from the Holie-Lande warred with his Brother Henry for his right in the
of Elie. 10. Gundeuill and Caius Colledge by Edmund Gundeuil Parson of Tertington and Iohn Caius Doctour of Phisicke 11. Trinity Hall by VVilliam Bateman bishop of Norwich 12. Clare Hall by Rich. Badow Chanceller of Cambridg 13. Katherine Hall by Robert Woodlark Doctor of diuinity 14. Magdalen Colle by Edward D. of Buck and Tho. L. Audley 15. Emanuell Colle by Sir VValter Mildmay c. In Oxford 1. Christes Church by King Henry the eight 2. Magdalen colledge by Wil. Wainfleet first fellow of Merton Colledge then scholler of Winchester and afterward Bishop there 3. New Colledge by Wil. Wickham Byshop of Winchester 4. Merton colledge by Walter Merton Byshop of Rochester 5. All Soules Colledge by Hen. Chichelie Arch bishop of Canterbury 6. Corpus Christi Colledge by Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester 7. Lincoln colledge by Richard Fleming bishop of Lincolne 8. Auriell Colledge by Abraham Browne Almoner to K. Ed. 2. 9. Quéens colledge by R. Eglesfield Chaplaine to Phillip Queene and Wife to King Edward the third 10. Balioll Colledge by Iohn Baliol king of Scotland 11. Saint Iohns colledge by Sir Thomas White Lord Mayor of London 12. Trinity Colledge by Sir Thomas Pope Knight 13. Excester colledge by Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester 14. Brazen-nose by William Smith Bishop of Lincolne 15. Vniuersity Col. by William Archdeacon of Duâ—esme 16. Glocester Colledge by Iohn Gifford who made it a Cell for 13 Monkes 17. Iesus Colledge by Hugh ap Rice Doctor of the Ciuill-law Hostels or Hals in Oxford Broade-gates Hart Hall Magdalen Hall Alburne Hall Postminster Hall Saint Mary Hall White Hall New Inne Edmund Hall ¶ The Names of the Shires in England and Wales THE first tenne Shires do lye betwéene the Brittish Sea and the Thames according to Polydore Kent Sussex Surrey Hampshire Barkshire Wiltshire Dorsetshire Sommersetshire Deuonshire Cornewall On the North-side of the Thames betwéene it and Trent which passeth thorough the midst of England are 16. other Shires sixe toward the East and the other toward the west Essex sometime all Forrest saue one hundred Middlesex Hertfordshire Suffolke Norffolke Cambridgeshire wherein are twelu hundreds Bedfordshire Huntingdon wherein are foure hundreds Buckingham Oxford Northampton Rutland Leicestershire Nottinghamshire Warwickshire Lincolnshire There are six also westward toward Wales Glocester Hereford Worcester Shropshire Stafford Chestershire These are the 32. Shires which lye by South of the Riuer Trent beyond which Riuer there are other eight Darby Yorke Lancaster Cumberland Westmerland Richmond wherein are fiue Wapentakes And when it is accounted as a parcell of Yorkshire out of which it is taken then is it reputed for the whole Riding Durham Northumberland So that in the portion somtime called Lhoegria there are now forty Shires In Wales also there be thirtéen whereof seauen are in South Wales Cardigan or Cereticon Penmoroke or Penbroke Caermardin wherein are nine hundreds or Commots Glamorgan Monmouth Brecknocke Radnor In North-wales likewise are sixe Anglescie Caernaruon Merioneth Denbigh Flint Montgomerie Which beeing added to those of England doe make vp 53. Shieres or Counties ¶ A Briefe Collection of the Originall Antiquity Increase and Moderne estate of the honourable Citty of London To the Worshipfull M. Cornelius Fish Esquire and Chamberlaine of the saide most famous Cittie COncerning the name of this auncient and worthy Citty by diuers Authors it hath bin as diuersly descanted on Tacitus Ptolomeus and Antoninus called it Londinium and Longidinium Amianus Marcellinus tearmed it Lundinum and Augusta Stephen in his Citties calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Britaines Lundayn the old Saxons Londonceaster or Londonbeig Strangers Londra and Londres and the Inhabitants London By other writers whom some iudge fabulous it hath bin called Troia-noua or Troynouant New Troy according to the Name that Brute first founder thereof gaue it Dinas Belin Belins Citty Caer-Lud or Luds-Towne of King Lud who not onely re-edified but also gaue it that name Erasmus deriued it from Lindum a Cittye in the Isle of Rhodes and so by variety of iudgements it hath run into the like variety of names In which straunge streame of opinion howe a man may best carry himselfe without impeach to any is freely to leaue each man maister of his owne coniecture whether Londons true name took originall from any of these fore-mentioned or whether Woodes and Groues being named in the British toong L'lhwn London should receiue her title by way of excellency and be called The Citty or A City thicke of Trees because the Britains called those woods and Groues by the names of Citties Townes which they had fenced with trees cast downe and plashed to stop vp all passage But leauing the name we finde that London was burnt and destroyed howe faire soeuer it was built before by the Danes and other Pagan enemies about the yeare of Christ 839. but afterward in the yeare 886. Alfred King of the west-Saxons both restored repayred and made it honourably habitable giuing the charge and keeping thereof to his Sonne in Law Ethelred Earle of the Mercians with whom hee had formerly married his Daughter Ethelfleda That it was strongly defenced with wals I read that the Londoners did shut vp their gates and manfully withstood the Danes preseruing their king Ethelred within their wals this was in Anno Christi 994. Also in Anno 1016. when Edmund Ironside gouerned the VVest-Saxons Canutus the Dane brought hys Fleete to the West part of the bridge and threw a trench about the Citty as hoping by assault to win it but the Citizens repulsed him and droue him from theyr walles Those walles were from time to time wel maintained repayred with stones from the Iewes broken houses in King Iohns iime 1215. when the Barons entring by Ealdgate or Aldgate brake their houses downe And in K. Henries time the thirde when the walles and gates were repayred in more séemely wise then before at the common charge of the Citty The circuite of London wall on the landes side is measured thus From the Tower of London in the East to Ealdgate commonly called Aldgate 82. perches From Algate to Byshopsgate 86. perches From Byshopsgate in the North to the Postern of Criplesgate 162. perches From Criplesgate to Ealdersgate or Eldrich gate 75. perches From Ealdersgate to Newgate 66. perches From Newgate in the West to Ludgate 42. perches amounting in all to 513. perches of Assize From Ludgate to the Fleete Dike 60. perches From Fleet-bridge South to the Riuer of Thames about 70. perches Which perches in compleat number rise to 643. each perch contayning fiue yards and an halfe which in yards doe amount to 3536. an halfe containing 10608. foote that make vp two English miles more by 608. foote There were but foure Gates at first made in the wall of this Citty viz Aldgate Eastward Aldersgate North-ward
Ludgate Westward and the Bridge-gate ouer Thames South-ward But other Gates and Posterns for ease and conueniency of passage were afterwarde made as mens affayres required to other quarters of the Citty A Posterne gate was somtime neere to the Tower of London which decaying by length of time and a deepe Ditch made without the wall it fell downe in the year 1440. the eighteenth of King Henry the sixt and was neuer after builte againe but a plaine Cottage of Timber Lath and Loame with a narrow passage being erected instead thereof it so continueth Aldgate was next in the East so named by the antiquity thereof for it was so called in king Edgars time and the Soke or Franchise wyth the Port of Aldgate and all customs thereto appertaining were likewise giuen by Matilda Q. to Henry the first to the Priour of the B. Trinitie within Aldgate and by her founded in as ample and free maner as she enioyed them The third was Bishopsgate toward the North built by some Bishop of London as is imagined for other certainty is not as yet found which Gate did much ease to such as trauailed East and by North as to Norffolke Suffolke Cambridgeshire c. because before the erection thereof such as iournied out at Aldgate of necessity helde on to the miles end and turning them on the lefte hand to Blethon-hall now Bednal-Greene râ—de directly to Cambridge Heath and so tooke their iournies North or East and by North or occasion required Otherwise refusing Aldgate way they had no other helpe then out at Aldersgate through Aldersgate streete and Goswell street now tearmed Pickt-hatch towards Iseldon and by a Crosse of stone on their right hand set vp for a marke by the North end of Golding-lane passed throgh a long street yet called Ald-streete or Old-street to another Crosse by Sewers ditch Church where now stands a smiths Fordge and there they turned againe North-wards to Totenham Enfield waltham ware c. This Bishopsgate the Dutch Marchants of the Haunce Stiliard or Guildhalla Tentonicorum were bound by couenant both to repayre and defend at all times of daunger and extremity The fourth was a Posterne now called Mooregate which one Thomas Faulconer Maior of London An. 1413. and third of Henry the fift caused to be made there on the Moores side where neuer Gate was before that people might passe vpon cause-wayes into the fielde for recreation because the fielde was then a marish The fift Gate was the Posterne of Criplesgate so called long before the Conquest in regarde of Criples begging there and the body of S. Edmond the Martyre was brought into London thereat when it was conuayed from Bedrisworth now called Bury S. Edmunds thorough the East Saxons Kingdome to the parish church of S. Gregory neere to the Cathedrall church of S. Paul where it rested 3. daies This posterne of Cripplesgate was a prison of commitment for Cittizens and others being arrested for debte or common trespasses as now the Compters are it was new builded by the Brewers of London An. 1244. But in An. 1483. Edmund Shaa or Shaw Goldsmith and Maior of London gaue 400. Markes by his will and stuffe of the Olde gate to builde it againe new as now it is which his executors performed in the yeare 1491. The sixt was Aldresgate or Aldersgate not Aldrich Elders or Elderngate as deriued from ancient men that builded it or trées there sometime growing but from antiquity of the gate it selfe being one of the foure that were first builded and to serue the North-parts as Aldgate did for the East both bearing the name of Aldgate and Alder or Aldersgate to differ their seniority in building The 7. was a Posterne gate made in the 6. yeare of Edw. the 6. in the Wall of the dissolued cloyster of Gray Fâ—iers now cald Christs Church and Hospitall seruing for passage to S. Bartholmewes in Smithfield The 8. west and by North was called Newgate because it was later buylded then the rest by reason that S. Pauls Church being burned in the Conquerors time about the yeare 1086. Mauritius then bish of London not repayring the old church but seeking to begin another extended the work in such largenes of ground that al passage from Aldgate in the East to Ludgate in the west was almost stopt vp Whereupon this gate was first deuised and made and so named seruing aptly for passage cariages from Aldgate along Cornhil through West-cheap S. Nicholas Shambles and the Market taking name of Newgate to any Westward part ouer Oldborne bridge or turning without the gate into Smithfield to Iseldon or any part North by west It hath bin a Gaole or prison for sellons other offenders long time as the records in K. Iohns time testifieth And in an 1422. the first of Henry 6. the executors to Richard Whittington had license to reedify the said gate which they did with his goods The 8. gate was Ludgate in the west builded by k. Lud before Christs natiuitie 66. years seruing for the west as Aldgate for the East was repaired with the stones of the Iewes defaced houses when the Barons were in armes in k. Iohns time as Aldgate the other gates theÌ„ were A notable testimony to confirm this assertion apeared in the year 158â— when the gate was taken downe to be new builded for a stone was then found in the wal which had bin taken from one of those Iewes houses with this Inscription thereon but in Hebrew Caracters Haec est statio Rabbi Moses filij insignis Rabbi Isaac This is the station or ward of Rabbi Moses son of the honorable Rabbi Isaac And it seemed to haue bin fixed in the front of some one of the Iewes houses as a note or signe that such a one dwelled there It was made a frée prison in the 1. yeare of K. Richard 2. Nicholas Brembar being then maior after confirmed in the time of Iohn Northampton Maior 1382 by a common Counsel in the Guild-hal the fréemen of the City for debt trepasses accounts contempts shold be imprisoned in Ludgate for treasons fellonies murders and other criminall offences Newgate should be the prison Lastly there is also a breach in the Citty Wall and a Bridge made of Timber ouer the Fleete Dike betwixte Fleete-bridge and Thames directlie ouer against the House of Bride-Well but it is not as as I thinke called any Gate Now concerning the South-side of the Citty and that it was sometime walled too the Citty being then round engirt with a Wal the Testimony of William Fitz-Stephen who wrote in the raigne of King Henry the second may serue to approue it for these are his very wordes The Wall is high and great well towred on the North-side with due distances betweene the Towers On the South-side also the Citty was walled and towred but the Fishfull Riuer of Thames with his
ebbing and flowing hath long since subuerted them If then wee shall speake of Water-Gates as already wee haue done of Land-gates and being now in the west returne towards the East the first then was called Ripa Reginae the Queens-banck or Queens Hith deseruing well to bee estéemed a Water-Gate and the very chiefe of the Citty beeing a common Strand or landing place equall with and in olde time farre excelling Belines-Gate For beside the antiquity thereof and to whom in those daies it seuerally appertained I finde that King Henry the third in the ninth of his raigne commaunded the Constables of the Tower of London to arrest the Shippes of the Cinque-Portes on the Riuer of Thames and compell them to bring their Corne and Fish to no other place but to the Queenes-Hith only And when corn arriued betwéen the Gate of Guilde-Hall of the Merchantes of Colleyne and the Soke of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury for hee had then a House néere to the Blacke-Fryers it was not to bee measured by any other quarter then that of the Quéenes Soke or Hith on paine of forty shillinges amercement Afterward Queenes-Hith and the Farme thereof granted by Richard Earle of Cornewall was by the said King Henry the third confirmed to Iohn Gisors then Maior the Comminaltie of London and their Successours for euer as appeareth by his royall Charter for the sum of fifty poundes It was also ordained by King Edward the fourth that all Shippes Vessels or Boates bringing prouision of Victuall to the Cittie of what quality soeuer if but one Vessell only it came to the Queenes-Hith if two the one to Quéenes-Hithe the other to Belins-gate if thrée two to Quéenes-Hithe the third to Belins-gate c. so that alwaies the more part came to Quéenes-Hithe But if the Vessel were so great comming with Salt or otherwise from the Bay and could not conueniently come to these Gates or Keyes it was then to bee conuaied to them as afore-said by Lighters Downe-gate is the next and was so named as is supposed by reason of the waies suddaine descent or stooping from Saint Iohns Church in Walbroke to the Riuer of Thames It was some-time a large Water-gate frequented with Shippes and vessels like to the Queenes-Hithe and appeared by an Inquisition in the twentie eight yeare of Henry the third to be a part thereof being ordered by the customes thereto belonging Wolfes-gate now out of vse one part being builded on by the Earle of Shrewsbury the other by the Chamberlain of London and now called Cold-Harbor Ebgate so called of olde time but now it is a narrow passage to the Thames called Ebgate-lane or old Swan Oyster-gate so called of Oysters vsually there sold as chiefest market for them and other shell-fish There now stands the water-engine that serues the Citty with water made in the yeare 1582. by Peter Moris Dutchman Bridge-gate so called of London Bridge whereon it standeth béeing one of the Citties first foure and principall Gates and long before the Conquest when there then stood a bridge of Timber Buttolphs-gate so called of the Parish-church of S. Buttolph néer adioyning which Gate was some-time giuen and confirmed by William the Conqueror to the Monkes of Westminster by vertue of a former guift which Almundus of the Port of S. Buttolph gaue them when hée was there made Monke Belins-gate or Belingsgate the largest water-gate now on the Thames and most frequented Belin a King of the Brittons according to Geffrey of Monmouth first built it and gaue it his owne name about 400. years before Christs Natiuity There are two Water-gates more one on the west-side of Wooll-wharffe or Customers Key beautifully enlarged and built of late This gate is commonly called the Water-Gate at South end of Water-lane The other by the Tower Bulwarke and is the last and turthest Water-gate East-ward Beside these common Water-gates there were then diuers priuate wharffes Keies all along from East to West of the Cittie on the banck of the Riuer of Thames Before we part further frō this famous riuer let vs here remēber Londonbridge ouer it which before there was any bridge at al or it a bridge of timber there was a Ferry kept in the same place no other passage was there then to Southwark but by the Ferry onely The Ferry-man and his Wife dying left this Ferry to their only daughter named Mary who with her Parents goods left her the profits arising from the Ferry built a house of Sisters where the East part of S. Mary Oueries Church aboue the Quier now standeth and where she her selfe was buried giuing them also the ouer sight benefits of the ferry Afterward this house of Sisters being conuerted to a Colledge of Priestes the Priestes builded the Bridge of timber and kept it in good reparations till the continuall charges growing ouer-burthenous about the yeare 1176. the course of the Riuer being then turned another way for a time by a trench purposely deuised beginning about Rodriffe or Redriffe in the East and ending aboue Patrickseie or Batersey in the west the Bridge of stone began to be founded and continued 33. yeares in building The Bridge of timber in the yeare 1136. was burnt down by fire but in An. 1163. it was not only repaired but new made of Timber againe by one Peter of Cole-Church Priest and Chaplaine who also began the foundation of the Stone-bridge som-what néer to the Timber-bridge and liued till within foure years of the works ending being buried in a Chappell erected on the Bridge But the whole bridge of stone was finished by the worthy Merchants of London Setle Mercer Wil. Almaine Benedict Botewrite principal Maisters of that work Other bridges of stone also belonging to the City as Fleetbridge without Ludgate made at the charges of Iohn Wels Maior Anno. 1431. Oldborne-bridge so called of a Bourne which sometime ran down Old-borne Cowbridge by Cow-bridge-street or Cow-lane which beeing decaied another of timber was made by Chick-lane Beside there were other Bridges ouer the Town-ditch as without Aldgate Bishopsgate Mooregate Cripples-gate Aldersgate the Posterne of Christs Hospitall Newgate and Ludgate al paued ouer with stone and leuelled with the stréets beside diuers bridges in elder times ouer the course of Walbrooke While wee are thus speaking of Water and Bridges belonging to the Citty heere I thinke it most conuenient also to say somewhat concerning the Conduits and swéete-waters conuaied to them by Pipes of Lead The first Cesterne whereof castellated with Stone in the Citty of London was called the great Conduit in West-cheap which was begun to be builded in the year 1285. Henry Wales then being Maior The Tonne vpon Cornehill was cesterned in Anno. 1401. Iohn Chadworth then being Maior Bosses of water at Belins-gate by Paules-wharffe and by S. Gyles Church without Cripples-gate were
made about the yeare 1423. Water was brought to the Standard in west Cheape about the yeare 1431. And King Henry the sixt in An. 1442. granted to Iohn Hatharley Mayor licence to take vppe 200. Fodar of Lead for the building of Conduites a common Granery and of a new Crosse in West-Cheape for Honor of the Citty The Conduit in Aldermanbury and the Standard in Fleet-street were made and finished by the executors of Sir Wil. Eastfield in An. 147â— A Cesterne was also added to the Standard in Fleet-street a second made at Fléet-bridge and another without Cripples-gate in An. 1478. The Conduit in Grasse-street in An. 1491. The Conduit at Old-bourne Crosse about 1498. and made new againe by Master William Lambe 1577. with an help also at Old-bournebridge The little Conduite commonly tearmed the Pissing-Conduit by the Stocks-Market about 1500. The Conduit at Bishops-gate 1513. The Conduit at London-wall 1528. The Conduit without Aldgate 1535. The Conduite in Lothbury and Colman-street 1546. The Conduit of Thames-water at Downe-gate 1568. Nor may I hear forget the standard of Thames water by Leaden-hall which being deriued from the forcier of water made by Peter Moris forenamed ascending vp ouer the stéeple of S. Magnus Church at the north end of London bridge conuaieth water into many mens houses in Thames streete New-Fish-streete Grasse-streete And so mounteth vp stil in Pipes to the North-west corner of Leaden-Hall the highest ground in al the Citty where the wast of the maine Pipe rising into this standard prouided at the cities charge at euery tide was prouided to run forth 4. waies at foure seuerall spouts for plentiful seruice of the néere adioyning Inhabitants and cleansing the Channels passing those foure seuerall waies The Conduits of Thames-water by the Parish-Churches of S. Mary Magdalen and Saint Nicholas Cold-Abbey neere to old Fish-stréete were made in An. 1583. Beside the water Forcier by London Bridge before remembred and another made since néere to Broken-wharffe for conueiance of Thames-water into mens Houses by an English gentleman named M. Beuis Bulmar in An. 1594. Nor will wee forget the new Conduit lately built by Aldersgate Thames-water also thither conuaied by an English Gentleman named Thomas Hayes in An. 1610. Come we now to the ancient deuision of this worthy Citty which as Fitz-Stephen sayeth foure hundred yeares agoe This Citty euen as Rome is deuided into Wards It hath yearelie Sheriffes instead of Consuls and hath the dignitie of Senators in Aldermen Those wards both before and in the raigne of Henry the third were â—4 in number 13 lying on the East-side of Walbrooke and 11. on the West but those Wards in the west growing in greatnes to exâ—e the other in the East in Anno 1393. and 2. of Richard the second Faringdon Ward being then one entire ward was by Parliament deuided into two also tearmed Faringdon within Faringdon without and allowed to haue two Aldermen So the twelue wards were then on the west side of Waâ—brooke and the whole number made 25. wards The Liberties of the Borough of South-warke were afterwarde purchased by the Maior Câ—mminalty and Cittizens and added to London as the 26. warde in An. 1150. whereby the number of Alder-men grewe to bee 26. But because my purposed breuity kéeps within the Cities bounds only and not at this time till publication of my generall Chronicle of London and Middlesex euen so farre as the Lorde Maior and Sheriffes power extendeth permits mee to exceede that compasse I shall nowe say nothing eyther of South-warke or Londons Subburbs Portsoken ward so named of the Franchise of Aldgate was somtime a Guild and beganne in King Edgars time aboue 600. yeares since being called Knighten Guilde of 13. poore knights or Souldiors that being fauoured by the King and Land for seruice done them had a parcel of Land granted them on the Citties East side and liberty of a Guild for euer Prouided that each of them should victoriously accomplishe 3. combates one aboue ground one vnder ground the third in the water Also at a certaine day appointed they shoulde run with Speares in East Smithfield against all commers all which they worthily performed and therefore the King called it Knighten Guilde I read but of one parish church in this ward which is called S. Buttolph without Algate and a small parish Church for the Inhabitants of the Close sometime called S. Trinity afterward the Minories This Portsoken Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy sire common Counsellors foure Constables four Scauengers eighteen wardmote Enquestmen and a Beadle It is sessed at foure pounde ten shillings for the fifteene Tower-street ward is the first warde within London-wall East-ward In which ward are thrée parish churches viz. Alhallowes Barking S. Olaue in Hart-street and S. Dunstane in the East beside S. Peter in the Tower for the inhabitants there Also two Halles of Companies viz. Cloth-workers Hall in Mincheon Lane and Bakers Hall in Haâ—t or Harpe Lane This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy common Counsell eight Constables thirteen Scauengers twelue Wardemote Enquest thirteene a Beadle It is also seized at 26. pounds to the fifteene Aldgate Ward taketh name of the Gate In which ward are three parish churches viz. S. Katherine Christ-Church Saint Andrew Vndershaft and S. Katherine Coleman Likewise thrée Hals of Societies or companies Iremongers Hall in Fen-Church-streete Bricklayers Hall in Sprinckle Alley now called Sugerloafe Alley of the like signe and Fletchers Hal in S. Marystreet It hath an Alderman and his Deputy sixe common Counsellors nine Scauengers eightéene Wardemote Enquestmen and a Beadle It is also taxed at fiue pound to the fifteene Limestreet ward so named of vsuall making and selling of Lime there in formertimes as is supposed In this ward standeth Leaden-Hall which before it was built of stone appertained to Sir Hugh Neuill Knight in Anno 1309. Afterward the famous and mighty man Syr Simon Eyre sometime and Vpholster and next a Draper builded it square of stone as now it standeth with a fayre and large chappell in the East-side of the Quadrant on the Porch wherof was engrauen Dextra Domini exaltauit me The right hand of the Lord hath exalted mee And on the North-wall in the Church these wordes Honorandus famosus Mercator Simon Eyre huius operis c. The honorable and famous Marchant Simon Eyre founder of this worke once Maior of this Citty and Cittizen and Draper of the same He builded there also a goodly Granary for corne and made there an open and free market It was once intended for a Bursse for assembly of Merchants but tooke not effect the Merchants meeting still in Lombard-streete â—s before they had done In this ward is not anie Parish church but smal portions of two parishes and no hall of any company It hath an Alderman and his Deputy four common Counsellors foure Constables two Scauengers sixteene wardemote
Companies the Grocers Hall in Conyhope lane which Companie being first called Pepperers were incorporated by the name of Grocers in Anno 1345. The Mercers Hall sometime an Hospitall entitled of Saint Thomas of Acon or Acars wherein is said a Free-Schoole to haue béene long kept This Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy 11. common Councellers 9. Scauengers 12. Wardmote Enquest and a Beadle In London it is sessed at 72 li. 16 s. to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 72. li. 11. s. Colemanstreete-ward taking name of a stréet so called by one Coleman the first builder and owner thereof wherein are three Parish Churches viz. Saint Olaue Vpwell in the old Iewry called Colechurch-streete sometimes Saint Margaret in Lothbury and Saint Stephen in Colemanstreere It was named the Old Iewry because the Iewes had a Sinagogue where now standeth the Tauerne knowne by the name of the Windmill and their dwelling was all there-about The Founders Hall in Lothbury Lathbery or Loadberie so named of a Bery or Court in elder time there kept whereof some vse hath bin and is also made by the Merchants Aduentures and in Coleman street is the Armorers Hall who were made a Fraternitie or Guild of S. George in the first yeare of King Henry the sixt This Ward hath an Alder-man and his Deputie common Counsellors foure Constables foure Scauengers foure wardmote Enquest thirteene and a Beadle It is taxed at fiftéene pounds sixetéen shillings nine pence to the fiftéene Bassings Hall Ward and said to be so named of Bassinges Hall the very principall House of the Ward which appertained to the Familie of the Bassings a name of great renowne and antiquity in this Realme who builded the goodlie building afterward called Bakewell Hall of one Thomas Bakewel dwelling there corruptly tearmed Blackwell Hall and gaue it the Name of Bassings Haugh or Hall as by theyr Armes before the old worke was taken downe in very many places appeared In this Ward is but one Parish Church called Saint Michaell at Bassings Haugh and diuers Halles of Companies as Masons Hall of what antiquity appeareth not Weauers Hall being then Weauers of Woollen-cloath whose Fraternity or Guilde is of great antiquity and power confirmed by Charter from King Henrie the second as they held it in time of his Grandfather King Henrie the first or rather as the very wordes are fréeer better worshipfullier and wholier then in his said Grand-fathers time Other ordinaunces were there then beside that Woollen-cloathes shoulde bee in breadth two yardes within the Listes and as good in the midst as in the sides c. But if any Man made Cloath of Spanish Wooll mixed with English Wooll the Port-graue or principall Magistrate of London ought to burne it c. There is also Girdlers Hall and Coopers haue their Hall néer to the Parish Church of Saint Michaell This Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy foure Common Councellers two Constables two Scauengers 17. Wardmote Enquest and a a Beadle In London it is taxed at 7. li. and so in the Exchequer likewise to the fifteene Cripples-gate ward so named of the gate called Cripples-gate wherin are 6. parish churthes viz. S. Mary Aldermanbury of a Bery or courthal there kept now cald the Guildhal s Alphage sometime Elfing Hospital or spittle by London wâ—l s Mary Magdalen in Milkstreet s Albons in woodstreet s Michael in Huggenlane and s Giles without Cripplesgate Halles of companies are Habberdashers Hall in Mayden lane and Waxchandlers Hall there also Pinners hal sometime but nowe Plaisterers Hall in Adle street and Pinners Hal is now in Siluerstreet Brewers Hall likewise in Adlestreete and Bowyers Hall not farre from Monkswel-street This warde hath an Alderman and his Deputy within the Gate eight common counsellers nine constables twelue scauengers fifteen wardmote Enquest and a beadle Without the Gate also it hath a Deputy two common counsellors foure constables foure Scauengers seauenteen wardmote Enquest and a Beadle It is taxed in London at forty pound to the Fif-teene Aldersgate warde taking name likewise of Aldersgate hath six Parish churches in it viz. saint Marie Staining in Stayning lane s Iohn Zachary in Engaine or Maidenlane s Leonard in Fauster-lane saint Olaue in Siluerstreet saint Anne by Aldersgate and saint Buttolph without Aldersgate Hals of companies first Goldsmiths Hall at Maydenlane end they beeing an ancient and very worshipfull society for the first Maior that euer was in London was a brother of that society named Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liesstane who continued Maior more then 24. yeares together The Cookes or Pastelers haue a Hall also in Aldersgatestreet and they were admitted to be a company and to haue a Mayster and wardens in the 22. yeare of Edward the fourth This ward hath an Alderman and his two Deputies one within the other without common counsellers fiue Constables 8. Scauengers 9. wardmote Enquest fourteene and a Beadle In London it is taxed at seauen pound to the fifteene and in Exchequer at six pounde nineteene shillings Faringdon ward within or Infra distinguished by that word of difference from the other warde of the same name which is without the citty wals and thereon fearmed Faringdon extra or without Yet in elder times these two wardes were but one and vnder the care of one alderman vntill the 17. yeare of king Richard the second when the greatnesse thereof caused it to be deuided into two wardes being then ordered by parliament to haue two aldermen also as to this day it continueth This whole great ward of Faringdon both within and without deriued her name of W. Faringdon or Farendon Goldsmith alderman of that warde and one of the sheriffes of London in anno 1281. the ninth yeare of King Edward the first when he purchased the aldermanry of this ward as is euident to be seene by an abstract of deedes from Thomas de Ardene or Arderna to Ankerinê° de Auern Ralphe le Feure and so to William Farringdon or Farendon cittizen and Goldsmith and to his heires so comming to Nicholas Faringdon son to the said William which Nicholas was a goldsmith also and 4. times Maior liuing 53. years after his first being Maior and hee buylded the Arch or gate by S. Augustines Church whych giueth passage into the South Churchyard of S. Pauls In this ward of Faringdon within is the goodly Cathedrall Church of S. Paule and 9. other parish Churches beside viz. s Peter at the crosse in West cheape Saint Fauster in Fauster-lane Christ Church made a Parish churche of the Gray-Friers Church and of two Parish churches S. Nicholas and saint Ewin and also an Hospitall for poore children saint Mathew in Friday street S. Augustine by Paules gate Saint Faith vnder Paules Church S. Martins at Ludgate Saint Anne at the Black-fryers S. Michael ad Bladum or at Corne corruptly called the Querne by Pauls gate where somtime was a
dignity of Senators in Aldermen It hath vnder Officers and according to the qualitie of Lawes so hath it seueral Courts and generall assemblies vpon appointed daies At parting with the name of Portgraues and Prouosts in the first yeare of K. Richard 1. the cittizens obtained to be gouerned by 2. Baliffes who in auncient déedes were called Sheriffes as the Lawe tearmeth the Shire Balliua vsing the same office of Shriuewick as the Portgraues before did The names of the first Bayliffes or Officers entring into their dignity at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell Anno 1189 were Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere King Richard also at that very time appointed a supreame Officer aboue the rest by the name of Maior which worde was borrowed from the Haebrew word Mar and signifieth Dominus Lord a word vsed by the Franconians and old Saxons their Neighbours of whom English-men haue their Originall but called Maire as the French did their Maires of the Pallace Thus was the chiefe Gouernor called Lord Maire or Maior because they vnderstood not that the epethite Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions yet thus was it thē giuen for a larger augmentation of Honor. Now as the Goldsmiths yéelded London a Prouost before named Leofstanus euen so the same Company albeit not as yet rancked into a List of Brother-hood gaue London likewise the first Lord Maire or Maior in Dignity whose name was Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane and being so appointed by the King he continued in that supreame Office from the first yeare of King Richard the first vntill the fiftéenth of K. Iohn which was more then twenty foure years Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere béeing first chosen Bayliffes serued then as Sheriffes by all likelihood to the said Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Leifstane Maire whereby very well may bee obserued the progresse and continuaunce of those seuerall elections and choyces euen to this day the Sheriffes beeing first appointed and then the Lorde Maire after chosen at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-aungell at the first by King Richard it was ordained King Iohn in like manner after this high Dignity begun by his Brother graunted them frée liberty by Charter to chuse by voyces and handes yearely out of the twelue chiefest and principall Companies their Praetor or Maire Also two Sheriffes whereof the one should be called the Kings Sheriffe and the other the Citties Sheriffe which in that forme hath continued euen to this instant Nay more he graunted them full power and authority not onely to chuse theyr Sheriffes at their owne pleasure but also vppon iust occasion either of contempt mutiny disobedience or other offences to degrade and depriue them The Forrest of Middlesex and the Warren of Stanes being laid open in An. 1218. the King afterward in the yeare 1226. confirmed to the Citizens of London frée warrant and liberty to hunt a limited circuite about the Citty and in the Warren of Stanes Also that the Cittizens of London shoulde passe Toule-frée thorough al England and the Kedeles or weres in the Riuer of Thames or Midway to be pluckt vp and destroyed for euer When the Franchises and liberties were thus confirmed by King Iohn he granted moreouer that either Sheriffe should haue two Clarks and two Sergeants also that the Citty should haue a common Seale and that the Maior should bee presented to the Barons of the Exchequer and they then to admit him as lawful Lieutenant and Deputy vnder the king to gouerne the Citty Hauing thus briefly discoursed how the dignity of honor began in this famous Citty both in the stile of Lord Maior and Sheriffes as briefly wil we also part their progresse and succession from that first woorthy man Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Gold-Smith to the as worthy Man Sir William Crauon now gouerning this present yeare 1611. Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Goldesmith beginning to take that high office on him in the first yeare of King Richard the first who was also for his valour and courage Surnamed Cueur de Lion continued still in the same Dignity for more then twenty foure years and then deceassing in the 15. yeare of King Iohn he was buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity néer vnto Aldgate In the said 15. yeare of King Iohn either to serue out the remainder of that yeare or to go on in a new election Roger Fitz-Alwain was chosen Lord Maire but I neyther find his freedom or his death albeit he continued as it séemeth in Office but one yeare the like did Serle Mercer and William Hardell in the yeares 1214. and 1215. And then began the raigne of King Henry the third Son to King Iohn the 19. of October 1216. Iames Alderman and Salomon Blasing Lord Maiors serued out this yeare by seuerall parts each after other Serle Mercer was againe chosen Lord Maior and continued in the Dignity sixe yeares together Richard Renger beeing chosen Lord Maior continued so the space of foure yeares Roger Duke or Duck was Lord Maior of London foure yeares Andrew Bokerell Pepperer was Lord Maior of London seauen yeares together Richard Renger Lorde Maior againe one yeare William Ioyner Lord Maior one yeare who builded the Quier of the Gray-Fryers Church in London and afterward became a lay brother of that house Gerard Bat Lord Maior one yeare and béeing elected againe for the ensuing yeare the King would not suffer it because he had béene charged in the former yeare with taking Money of the Victuallers and could shew no reason for it Reginald Bongey was Lorde Maior two yeares Raphe Ashwy Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tony Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lorde Mayor two yeares Peter Fitz-Alwin Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tonny Lord Maior againe one yeare Roger Fitz-Roger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Lord Maior one yeare Adam Basing Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tolason Draper Lord Maior one yeare Richard Hardell Draper was Lorde Maior sixe yeares together Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare William Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior two yeares Thomas Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior foure yeares together Will Richards againe Lord Maior one yeare Allen le Zouch Lorde Maior one yeare and beeing a Baron of the Land and chiefe Iustice also he was slaine in Westminster Hall by Iohn Warren Earle of Surry in An. 1270. Sir Stephen Edwards Lord Maior one year Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon was made Custos of London and Constable of the Tower by reason of a great quarrell happening betwéene the Gold-smiths and the Taylors so that the King gaue the kéeping of the Cittie to his Son Prince Edward who made the saide Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon Custos of the Citty and Constable of the Tower as his Deputie But Prince Edward quickly obtained of the King his Father to haue the
Citties ancient liberties confirmed by Charter againe and so they proceeded on to their wonted election of a lord Maior and Sheriffes as before and Sir Hugh Fitz Othon was discharged of his office Iohn Adrian Vintoner was Lorde Maior of London two yeares Sir Walter Haruey Lord Maior and H. Frowike Pepperer likewise for part of that yeare wherein began the raigne of King Edward the first the 16. of Nouember 1272. Sir Walter Haruey Lorde Maior againe for one yeare Henry Walleis Lord Maior for one yeare Gregory Roksley Golde-Smith chiefe Say Maister of all the Kinges Mints thorough England and kéeper of the Kings Exchange at London was Lord Maior seâ—uen yeares together Henry Walleis who builded the Tonne vpon Cornhill to be a Prison and the Stockes to be a Market-house was Lorde Maior againe three yeares together Gregory Roksley being chosen Lord Maior againe King Edward was informed that the said Gregory Roksley tooke bribes of the Bakers and suffered them to sell bread that wanted sixe or seauen ounces of weight in a Pennie-loafe yet Wheat was then sold at London for 12. 16 pence the quarter VpoÌ„ which information the K. seized the Franchises and liberties into his own handes appointing first one Iohn Sandwich to be Custos thereof for one part of the yeare and Sir Iohn Breton Knight for the other part Thus did the Cittie of London continue vnder the gouernment of seuerall Men bearing the names of Custos till King Edward the second began his raigne which was the seauenth day of Iuly 1307. Sir Iohn Blunt Knight hauing béene Custos of the Cittie for the space of sixe yeares before was now in the first yeare of King Edward the second Lord Maior for one yeare Nicholas Faringdon or Farendon Golde-smith of whom the Ward of Faringdon both within and without tooke name was L. Maior for one yeare Thomas Romaine Lord Maior one yeare Richard Reffam Mercer Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lord Maior two yeares Nicholas Faringdon Gold-Smith againe Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe L. Maior one yeare Stephen Abendon Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Wingraue Lorde Maior thrée yeares In his time happened such cheapnesse of Corne that a Bushell of Wheate which had béene sold formerly for ten shillings was then solde for ten pence Hamond Chickwell Pepperer Lorde Mayor one yeare Nicholas Faringdon again Lord Maior one years Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeare Nicholas Faringdon Gold-smith againe L. Maior one yeare Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeares Richard Britaine Gold-smith Lorde Mayor one yeare In whose time King Edward the third began his raigne the 25 day of Ianuary 1326. who graunted the Lord Maior to bee Iustice for the Gaole deliuery at New-gate and the Cittizens of London not to goe by any constraint to any Warre out of the Citty of London Beside that the Franchises and liberties of the Citty should not thence-forward for any cause bée seized into the Kinges handes Nor â—ny Eschetor to bee in the Citty but the Lorde Maior for the time being Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Grantham Lord Maior one yeare Richard Swandland Lord Maior one yeare In whose time the King kept a great Iusting in Cheape betwéene Sopaâ—s-lane and the great Crosse Sir Iohn Poultney Draper Lord Maior two yeares Iohn Preston Draper Lord Maior one year Sir Iohn Poultney Draper againe L. Maior one yeare Reginald at the Conduit Vintoner L. Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotten Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Poultney Draper again Lord Maior one yeare He founded a Colledge in the parish Church of Saint Laurance Poultney by Candlewick-streete Henry Darcy Lord Maior two yeares In whose time the Sergeants to the Lorde Mayor and Sheriffes of London were graunted by the King to beate Maces of Siluer and Guilt with the Kings armes on them Andrew Aubery Grocer L. Maior two years Iohn of Oxenford Vintoner Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer L. Maior one yeare Iohn Hamond Lorde Mayor two yeares Richard Leget Lord Maior one yeare Geffrey Witchingham L. Maior one yeare Tho. Leggy Skinner Lord Maior one year Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Walter Turk Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Richard Killingbury Lord Maior one yeare Andrew Aubery Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer who with Henry Frowike founded the Colledge in Guild-hall Chappell and was againe Lord Maior two yeares Thomas Leggy Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare Henry Prichard or Piccard Vintoner who in one day feasted the kings of England France Scots and Cypres at his own house and was L. Maior one yeare Iohn Stody Vintoner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior one yeare Simon Dolesby Grocer Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Wroth Fish-Monger Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Peche Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Gondish Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Not Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam of Burie Skinner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior and Adam of Bury one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Mayor one yeare This Iohn Louekin builded Saint Michaels Church in crooked-lane Iames Andrew Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Simon Mordon Fish-monger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Chichester Gold-smith Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Barnes Mercer Lorde Mayor two yeares Iohn Piell Mercer Lord Mayor one yeare Adam of Bury Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare William Walworth Fish-Monger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn VVarde Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Adam Staple Mercer Lord Maior one yeare His time no sooner expired but therewith ended the life of King Edward the third and on the 21. of Iune 1377. began the raign of King Richard the second Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Philpot Grocer Lord Maior one year Iohn Hadley Grocer Lord Maior one year Wil. Walworth Fish-Monger againe Lord Maior In this yeare of his Mairalty happened the tumultuous rebellion of Iack Straw Wat Tiler Iack Carter Iack Truman c. with the commons of Kent Essex and other places But William Walworth being then Lord Maior arrested the Traytor Iack Straw so stoutly with his Weapon on the head euen as he saucily took the Kings Horse by the bridle in Smithfielde that thrusting him afterward through the throat the whole crewe were dishartened and séeing theyr Captaine slaine betooke themselues to flight For which worthy act the King immediatly knighted the Lorde Maior William Walworth and with him Ralphe Standish Iohn Philpot Nicholas Brember Iohn Launde and Nicholas Twifield
Burgesses of the Citty adding the Dagger into the Citties Armes which till that day was a red Crosse in a Siluer field onely Iohn Northampton Draper Lord Maior two yeares Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer knighted with Syr William Walworth Lorde Maior three yeares together Nicholas Exton fishmon lord maior 1. yeare Nicholas Tâ—â—ifield or Tâ—ylorde knighted with Syr William Walworth Lord Maior one yeare William Vâ—naâ—r Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam Bâ—mme Goldsmith who prouided the Cittie of such plenty of corne from beyonde the seas that the Citty was able to furnish the countrey Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Hend Draper in whose time happened a great tumult in London because one of the bishop of Salisburies men had taken a Horse-loafe from a Bakers man in Fleete-streete and on the Byshops complaint to the King the Lord Maior being sent for to Windsore and other of hys Brethren the Maior Sheriffes and other substantiall Cittizens were there arrested the Maior committed to the castle of Windsore and the rest to other Castles and Holdes The King seized the citty into his hands appointing a Warden to gouerne it named Sir Edward Darlingâ—â—g knight c. But in short while the Kinges displeasure was pacified and the liberties of London restored and ratifyed William Sâ—ondon Grocer lord maior 1. year Iohn Hadley Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Iohn Froshe Mercer Lorde maior one yeare William More Vintner L. Maior one yeare Adam Bamme Gold-Smith againe Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith Lord Maior 1. yeare At his expiration of Office beganne the raigne of King Henry the fourth the 29. of September 1399. Thomas Knolles Grocer lord maior 1. yeare Iohn Francis Goldsmith lord maior one year Iohn Shadworth mercer lord maior one yeare Iohn Walcote Draper lorde maior one yeare William Ascham Fishmonger lord maior one yeare Iohn Hend draper again lord maior one year he builded new againe the parish Church of saint Swithen at London stone Iohn woodcock mercer lord maior one yeare Richard VVhittington mercer agayne lorde maior one yeare In which year died of the plague more then 30000. people William Stondon Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith againe lorde maior one yeare Hee builded part of the Goldesmiths Hall and gaue them lands Richard Marlow Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Knoles Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare he began anew to builde the Guild-Hall in London c. Robert Chichley Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare William Waldren mercer Lord Maior one yeare In his time died king Henry the fourth his sonne King Henry the fift began his raigne the 20. day of march 1412. William Cromar Draper lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Faulconer mercer who builded the Postern at Moorgate and lent the king 10000. markes vpon Iewels Lord Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotton Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner who first ordayned Lanthorn and Candle-light in the winter Euenings from Hallontide to Candlemasse Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Marlow Iremonger againe Lorde Maior one yeare William Seuenoke Grocer who founded a free Schoole and Almes houses at Seuenoke in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer of whose worthy déeds we haue else where spoken Lord Maior again one yeare William Cambridge Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Chicheley Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare He gaue the plot of ground to builde the parish church of S. Stephens in Walbrooke thereon In his time died king Henry the fifte and King Henry the sixt began his raigne the 31 of August 1422. William walderne mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Newgate was then builded by Richard Whittingtons executors William Cromar Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Couentrie mercer Lord Maior one year Iohn Reinwell Fishm lord maior one yeare Iohn Gidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner againe Lorde Maior one yeare William East-field mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Nicholas wotton Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Welles Grocer a liberall benefactor for newe building the chappell by Guild-Hald beside of his goodes was builte the Standarde in west-Cheape Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Parneis Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Brokle Draper Lord Maior one yeare Roger Oteley Grocer Lord Maior one year Henry Frowicke Mercer Lâ—de Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger againe L. Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam East-field mercer who was made a Knight of the Bathe and gaue great bounty to rhe Water conduits Lorde Maior againe one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Large mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Paddesley Gold-smith mint-maister Lord Maior one yeare Robert Cloptoâ— Draper Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Hatherley Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Catworth Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Frowicke mercer in whose time Pauls Steeple was fiered with lightning and hardlye quenched Lord Maior againe one yeare Sir Simon Eyre Draper who builded Leaden Hal for a common Granary to the city c. Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Olney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Sidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Chalton mercer in whose time happened the Rebellion of Iack Cade of Kent Lord Maior one yearâ— Nicholas VVilford Grocer lorde Maior one yeare William Gregory Skinner lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Filding mercer who was made one of the counsell to King Henry the sixt and King Edward the fourth lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Draper who was the firste maior that was rowed by water to westminster for till that time they rode thither on horseback lord Maior one yeare Stephen Foster Fishmonger who enlarged Ludgate Lord Maior one yeare William Marrow Grocer lorde Maior one yeare Tâ—omas Canning Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Boloine mercer who gaue a 1000. li. to poore housholders in London c. lord Maior one yeare Thomas Scot Draper lord Maior one yeare William Hulin Fishmonger lord Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer lord Maior one yeare In his time began King Henry the sixt his troubles and King Edward the fourth entered hys raigne the fourth of March 1460. Hugh witch mercer lord Maior one yeare Thomas Cooke Draper made knight of the Bath in the fifte yeare of King Edward the 4. Lord maior one yeare Mathew Phillip Gold-smith made Knight of the Bath the fift yeare of Edward the fourth and afterward knighted in field the tenth of Edward the fourth Lord
maior one yeare Raphe Ioceline Draper Knight of the Bath and knighted also in field Lord maior one yeare Raph Verney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Henry weauer one of the Sheriffes of London was then made knight of the Bath Iohn Yong Grocer knighted in the field L. Maior one yeare Tho. Oâ—dgraue Skinner L. Mayor 1. year William Tayler Grocer L. Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer againe lord Maior one yeare In whose time the Tower of London being deliuered to him and his brethren they released King Henry the sixt thence Iohn Stockton mercer who worthily withstanding the Bastard Fauconbridge hee with eleuen Aldermen Thomas Vrswick then Recorder were all knighted in the fielde by K. Edward the fourth Lord Maior one yeare William Edwards Grocer L. Maior 1. year Sir william Hampton Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Tate mercer lord maior one yeare In his time the Sheriffes of London were appointed to haue seuerally 16. Sergeants each Sergeant his Yeoman Then also was ordained sixe Clearkes viz. a Secondary a Clarke of the Papers and foure other Clarkes beside the vnder-Sheriffes Clarkes Robert Drope Draper L. Maior one yeare Robert Basset Salter L. Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ioceline Draper knight of the Bath lord maior one yeare Humfrey Hayford Gold-smith lord maior one yeare Richard Gardener mercer lord maior one year Sir Bartholmew Iames Draper Knighted in field and who newly builded the great Conduit in West-Cheape lord maior one yeare Iohn Browne mercer lorde maior one yeare William Hariot Draper lord maior one year Edmund Shaa Goldsmith who builded Cripplesgate lord maior one yeare Then beganne the raigne of King Edward the fift son to King Edward the fourth but preuented by the cruell vsurpation of his Vncle Richard Duke of Glocester who began his raign the 22. day of Iune 1483. And because many haue often desired to know the country and parentage of our Lord Maiors of London in regard that diuers worthy houses haue descended of them my purpose was to haue examined our ancient Recordes from the verye beginning of that honourable dignity and so to haue pursued the tract thereof by reporting each mans Fathers name and Country euen to this instant Wherein I haue had the most laborious and painfull helpe of my especiall kind friende maister W. Williams And shaping our course from the present gouernment of sir William Crauon hoping to haue reached the maine height of our purpose euen to Henry Fitz-Alwin c. We could procéed no further backward then the raign of king Richard the third where I will now begin with their country and parents and so heereafter go on with the rest if this great labor may be but fauourably accepted ¶ The raigne of King Richard the third RObert Billisdon Haberdasher Sonne to Alexander BillisdoÌ„ of Queeningborough in the Countie of Leicester Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Hill Grocer Sonne to William Hil of Hilston in the Countie of Kent Sir William Stocker Draper sonne to Thomas Stocker of Eton in the Countie of Bedford And Iohn Ward Grocer son to Richard Ward of Howdon in the Countie of Yorke These thrée Maiors were all in this one yeare by reason a sweating sicknesse And King Richard being slaine at Bosworth-field Henry the seauenth began his raigne the 22. of August 1485. Hugh Brice Gold-smith Sonne to Richard Brice of Dubline in Ireland Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Collet Mercer son to Robert Collet of Windouer in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Horne Salter made Knight in the field by King Henry the seauenth was son to Thomas Horne of Snaylewell in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Robert Tate Mercer Sonne to Thomas Tate of the Cittie of Couentry Lord Maior one yeare William White Draper son to Wil. White of Tickhill in the Countie of York Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Mathew Linnen-Draper and translated to the Mercers Sonne to Thomas Mathew of Sherington in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Hugh Clopton Mercer son to Iohn Clopton of Stratford vppon Auon in the Countie of Warwicke where the saide Hugh builded the goodlie Stone-Bridge Lord Mayor one yeare William Martine Skinner sonne to Walter Martin of the Countie of Hertford Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ostrich Fish-Monger knighted by Henry the seauenth sonne to Henry Ostrich of Hitchin in the Countie of Hertford lord Maior one yeare Richard Chawry Salter Son to William Chawry of Westram in Kent Lord Mayor one yeare Henry Collet Mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tate Mercer sonne to Thomas Tate of Couentry and Brother to Robert Tate Maior forenamed Lord Mayor one yeare This Iohn Tate Robert Sheffielde Recorder and both the Sheriffes were knighted in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth for theyr good seruice against the Rebelles at Black-Heath Fielde William Purchas Mercer son to Iohn Purchas of Gamelinghey in the County of Cambridge Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Perciuall Merchant-Taylor knighted in field by King Henry the seuenth sonne to Roger Perciuall of London L. Maior one year Nicholas Aldwine Mercer Son to Richard Aldwine of Spalding in Lincolnshire lord Maior one yeare Hee gaue twelue pence a péece to 3000. poore people in London and the like to as many in Spalding William Remington Fish-Monger son to Robert Remington of Boston in Lincolneshire Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Shaa Gold-smith son to Iohn Shaa of Rochford in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Hee was made Knight in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth and hee caused the Aldermen his Bretheren to ride from the Guilde-Hall to the Thames side when he took Bardge to Westminster where he was sworne by the Kinges Councell He first kept Court alone in the afternoon for redresse of matters called before him Bartholmew Reade Gold-smith son of Roger Reade of Crowmer in Norffolke L. Maior one yeare William Capell Draper son of Iohn Capell of Stokeneyland in Suffolke Lorde Maior one yeare He was knighted by King Henry the seauenth And he first caused Cadges to be set vp in euery Ward for punishment of Rogues and vagabonds Iohn Winger Grocer son to William Winger of Leicester Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Knesworth Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Knesworth of Knesworth in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Haddon Mercer son of VVilliam Haddon Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare VVilliam Browne Mercer Sonne of Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior for one part of the yeare and Laurance Ailmer Draper Sonne of Thomas Ailmer of Ellesnam in Essex Lorde Maior for the other part Stephen Iennings Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Iennings of VVolnerhampton in Staffordshire where hee builded a frée Schoole worthily
yet maintained by the Merchant-Taylors and the greater part of S. Andrews Vnder-shaft Parish Church in London Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Bradbury Mercer sonne to VVilliam Bradbury of Branghing in Hertfordshire Lord Maior part of the yeare and Sir VVilliam Capell the rest wherein dyed King Henry the seauenth and Henry the eight his sonne began his raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. Henry Keble Grocer son to George Keble of London Cittizen and Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Roger Acheley Draper sonne to Thomas Acheley of Stanwardine in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam Coppinger Fish-Monger son to VValter Coppinger of Buckseill in Suffolk And Sir Richard Haddon Mercer were Lord Maiors this yeare by seuerall partes each after other William Browne Mercer sonne to Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare George Monox Draper borne in London Lord Mayor one yeare Sir William Butler Grocer son to Richard Butler of Bindenham in Bedfordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Reest Grocer sonne to William Reest of Peterborow in Northamptonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Exmew Golde-smith sonne to Richard Exmew of Ruthin in Cheshire Lorde Maior one yeare he made the Water-Conduite in London wall by Moore-gate c. Thomas Mirfin Skinner sonne to George Mirfin of Elie in Cambridgeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Yardford Mercer sonne to William Yardford of Kidwelley in Wales L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Brugge Draper sonne to Thomas Brugge of Dymmocke in Glocestershire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Milborne Draper son to Iohn Milborne of Long-Melford in Suffolke L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Mundy Gold-Smith son to William Mundy of Wycomb in Buckinghamshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Baldry Mercer son to Richard Baldry of Stow-market in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Baylie Draper son to Iohn Baylie of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer son to Richard Allen of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor two yeares Sir Thomas Seymor Mercer sonne to Iohn Seymor of London Fish-Monger who was Sonne to Robert Seymor of Walden in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Spencer Vintoner son to Robert Spencer of Congleton in Cheshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Rudstone Draper son to Robert Rudstone of Hatton in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Dodmer Mercer son to Henrie Dodmer of Pickering-Leigh in Yorkshire béeing frée of the Brewers he was from them translated to the Mercers and Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Thomas Pargitor Salter sonne to Iohn Pargitor of Chipping-norton in Oxfordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Nicholas Lambert Grocer son to Edmond Lambert of Wilton in Wiltshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Peacock Haberdasher sonne to Stephen Peacock of the Citty of Dublin Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Christopher Askew Draper son to Iohn Askew of Edmonton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Champneis Skinner sonne to R. Campneis of Chew in Somersetshire Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare and made a priuy Counceller to the King for his great wisedome Sir Raphe Warren Mercer son to Thomas Warren of London Fuller who was sonne to William Warren of Fering in Essex L. Maior one yeare Sir Richard Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Forman Haberdasher sonne to Willi◠Forman of Gainsburgh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Hollis of London Mercer L. Maior one yeare Sir William Roche Draper sonne to Iohn Roche of Wixley in Yorkshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Michaell Dormer Mercer son to Geffrey Dormer of Tame in Orfordshire L. Maior one yeare Iohn Cootes Salter son to Thomas Coots of Bearton in Buckinghamshire Lorde Maire one yeare Sir William Bowyer Draper son to William Bowyer of Harston in Cambridgshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Laxton Grocer sonne to Iohn Laxton of Yongdel in Northamptonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martin Bowes Golde-Smith sonne to Thomas Bowes of Yorke Citty Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Henry Hubberthorne Merchant-Taylor son to Christopher Hubberthorne of VVadingworth in Lincolnshire L. Maior one year In whose time died King Henry the 8. and King Edward the sixt began his raigne the 28. of Ianuary 1546. Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Henry Amcotes Fish-Monger son to William Amcotes of Astrap in Lincolnshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Rowland Hill Mercer sonne to Thomas Hill of Hodnet in Shropshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Andrew Iudde Skinner son to Iohn Iud of Tonebridge in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Dobbes Skinner son to Robert Dobbes of Baitby in Yorkeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher sonne to George Barne Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas White Merchant-Taylor son to Thomas White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire Lord maior one yeare Then died king Edward and Queene Mary began her raign the 6. day of Iuly 1553. This sir Thomas White founded S. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxenford and gaue 2000. li. to the Citty of Bristoll to purchase 100. and 20. li. land yearely c. Sir Thomas Lyon Grocer son to Iohn Lyon of Peryfare in Middlesex Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Gerard Haberdasher sonne to Iohn Gerard Cittizen and Grocer of London who was son to William Gerard of Seddingbourne in Kent Lord Maior one year Sir Thomas Offley Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Offley of the Citty of Chester lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Curteis Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Curteis of Enfield in Middlesex he was frée of the Pewterers and from them translated to the Fish-Mongers Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Leigh Mercer sonne to Roger Leigh of VVillington in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare In which yeare died Quéene Mary and Quéene Elizabeth began her princely raigne the seauentéenth day of Nouember 1558. Sir William Huet Cloth-worker son to Edmond Huet of Wales in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Chester Draper sonne to Iohn Chester Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Harper Merchant-Taylor son to William Harper of the Towne of Bedford lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Lodge Grocer son to William Lodge of Cresset in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn White Grocer Sonne to Robert White of Farnam in Surry Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Richard Malory Mercer son to Anthony Malory of Papworthamus in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Champion Draper son to Richard Champion of Godilming in Surrey Lord maior one yeare Sir Chtistopher Draper Iron-monger son to Iohn Draper of Melton Mowbrey Lord Maior one yeare
Sir Roger Martin Mercer son to Laurance Martine of Melford in Suffolke Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Roe Merchant-Taylor son to Robert Roe Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London who was son to Reiginald Roe of Lee in Kent lord maior one yeare Sir Alexander Auenand Iron-monger son to Robert Auenand of Kings-Norton in Worcestershire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Rowland Heyward Cloth-worker sonne to George Heiward of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord Maior one year Sir William Allen Mercer son to William Allen Cittizen and Pasteller of London who was son to Richard Allen of Stondon in Hertfordshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Lionell Ducket Mercer son to William Ducket of Flynton in Nottinghamshire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Iohn Riuers Grocer son to Richard Riuers of Penseherst in Kent L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Hawes Cloth-worker son to Thomas Hawes Cittizen and Merchant of London who was son to Iohn Hawes of Stokenwenton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Ambrose Nicholas Salter sonne to Iohn Nicholas of Nedingworth in Huntingdonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Langley Gold-Smith son to Robert Langley of Althrop in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer sonne to Iohn Ramsey of Elenbridge in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Pipe Draper sonne to Richard Pipe of Wolnerhampton in Staffordshire hée was frée of the Leather-sellers and from them translated to the Drapers Lord Maior one year Sir Nicholas Woodroue Haberdasher son to Dauid Woodroue Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was son to Iohn Woodroue of the Parish of Vscombe in Deuonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Branche Draper sonne to Iohn Branche Cittizen and Draper of London who was son to Iohn Branch of Laynham in Suffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Haruey Iron-monger son to William Haruey of Cotwalton in Staffordshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Blanke Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Blanke Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Thomas Blancke of Guildford in Surry Lord Maior one yeare Sir Edward Osborne Cloth-worker sonne to Richard Osborne of Ashford in Kent Lorde Maior one year Sir Thomas Pulloccill Draper son to William Pulloccill of Fotescray in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Wolstane Dixie Skinner son to Thomas Dixie of Catworth in Huntingdonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher son to Sir George Barne Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Bond Haberdasher sonne of R. Bond of Trull in Somersetshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martine Calthrop Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior for part of the yeare and Richard Martine Gold-smith for the rest Sir Iohn Hart Grocer son of Raphe Hart of Sproston Court in Yorkshire L. Maior one year Sir Iohn Allot Fish-Monger son to Richard Allot of Lymbergh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one part of the yeare and Sir Rowland Heywerd the rest Sir William Webbe Salter Sonne to Iohn Webbe of Reading in Barkshire lord Maior one yeare Sir William Roe Iron-monger Sonne to Thomas Roe of Penseherst in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Cutbbert Buckle Vintoner son to Christopher Buckle of Bourgh in Westmerland L. Maior for part of the yeare and sir Richard Martine Goldsmith the rest This sir Richard Martine was sonne to Thomas Martine of Saffron VValden in Essex Sir Iohn Spenser Cloth-worker son to Rich. Spenser of Waldinfield in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Slaney Skinner sonne to Iohn Slaney of Mitton in Staffordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Skinner Cloth-worker son to Iohn Skinner of Walden in Essex Lorde Maior for part of the yeare and sir Henry Billingsley Haberdasher the rest This sir Henrie Billingsley was sonne to William Billingsley Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Roger Billingsley of the Citty of Canterbury in Kent Sir Richard Saltonstall Skinner son to Gilbert Saltonstal of Hallyfax in Yorkeshire Lord Mayor one year Sir Stephen Soame Grocer son to Thomas Soame of Bradley in Suffolke Lord Maior one year He was frée of the Girdlers and from them translated to the Grocers Sir Nicholas Mosley Cloth-worker sonne to Edward Mosley of Hough in Lancashire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Ryder Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Ryder of Muckleston in Staffordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gerard Haberdasher son to sir William Gerard Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde maior one yeare Sir Robert Lee Merchant-Taylor sonne to Humphrey Lee of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Benet Mercer sonne to Thomas Benet of Wallingford in Barkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Low Haberdasher son to Simon Low Cittizen and Merchant-Tailor of London who was sonne to Raphe Low of London Gentleman Lord Maior one yeare Sir Leonard Holyday Merchant-Taylor son to William Holyday of Redborow in Glocestershire Lord maior one yeare Sir Iohn Wats Cloth-worker sonne to Thomas Wats of Buntingford in Hertfordshire Lord maior one year Sir Henry Roe Mercer sonne to sir Thomas Roe Knight Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Humphrey Welde Grocer son to Iohn Welde of Eaton in Cheshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Cambell Iron-Monger son to Robert Cambell of Fulsam in Norffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Crauon Merchant-Taylor son to William Crauon of Appletreewick in Yorkshire Lord Maior now gouerning to whom with the rest of his worthy Brethren I wish all health and happinesse Since the time also of King Richard the third these Gentlemen haue born office in this Citty according to their names and places ¶ Recorders of this Citty M. HVmphrey Statkey Esquire M. Thomas Fitz-Williams Esquire Sir Robert Sheffield Knight M. Iohn Chaloner Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Shelley Esquire M. Baker Esquire M. Roger Cholmeley Esquire M. Richard Onslow Esquire M. Thomas Bromeley Esquire M. VVilliam Fleetwood Esquire M. Edward Coke Esquire M. Edward Drew Esquire M. Thomas Fleming Esquire M. Iohn Crooke Esquire Sir Henry Montague Knight Common Sergeants of this Citty M. Robert Moloneux Esquire M. Iohn Haugh Esquier Thomas Higham M. Thomas Frowick Esquire M. Thomas Marow Esquire M. Iohn Greene Esquire M. VVhite Esquire M. VValsingham Esquire M. VVonley Esquire M. Robert Sothwell Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Atkins Esquire M. Marsh Esquire M. Randall Esquire M. Thomas Kirton Esquire M. Thomas Wilbraham Esquire M. Richard Wheeler Esquire ¶ Chamberlaines of this Citty M. WIlliam Phillip Esquire M. Miles Adys M. VVilliam Purhas M. William Milborne M. Nicholas Mattock M. George Medley M. Thomas Haies M. Iohn Sturgeon M. George Heaton M. Iohn Mabbe M. Robert Brandon M. Thomas Wilford M. Cornelius Fish ¶ Common-Clearkes or Towne-Clearkes M. WIlliam Dunthorne M. Nicholas Pakenham M. Walter Stub M. William Pauior M. Thomas Rushton M.
besieged also the Isle of Malta in the yeare 1565. whether the Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem had retired themselues after the surprisall of Rhodes But the Isle was manfully defended by their great maister being a Frenchman named Peter Parisot called also le Valette and Soliman was compelled to raise his siege In the yeare 1566. He died in Hungary at his siedge before the Castle of Sighet hauing raigned 47. yeares Selim second of that name Emperour of the Turks succéeded in the Empire by the meanes of Basha Mehemet after the death of Soliman his Father in Hungary which for a time was concealed and hee entred into possession of the Empire before the death of his Father was discouered He subdued Ainan in Arabia and took the Isle of Cyprus in the yeare 1571. In the end he lost his Nauall Army in the battell of Lepanto which he had against the Christians in the very same yeare 1571. But soone after he came vpon them againe and then renewed peace with the Venetians and their Common-wealth Afterward he recouered Thunis the Goulette which the king of Spaine had made vse of in Affrica And he died in the yeare 1574. hauing reigned eight yeares But all the forenamed memorable actions were performed by his Bashaes and not by himselfe for hee all the while tooke his pleasure being greatly giuen to women and wine Amurath third of that name and son to Selim was created Emperour of the Turkes and enioyed the Empire after his fathers death within eight daies in the yeare 1574. By a cruel and barbarous custome of the Contrey he caused fiue Brethren of his owne to be slaine and two Concubines of his Fathers whoe were great with Child to the end that he might solely reigne alone without feare or suspition and so be auoyded of all impeachments which he wel vnderstood might ensue by parity and such as shoulde laye claime to the like Fortune He began his gouernment somewhat yong being aged but 28. years being a woonderfull louer of his paternall Maâ—ometane Religion a great Iusticer and imitator of his Graundfather Soliman He tooke som citties in Hungarie and Sclauonie which afterward were regained from him Some say that he was dull and lumpish of spirit and fell oftentimes with the falling sicknesse which made his face to look blemished and of a leaden coulour He gaue himselfe to women and great feeding for he was the Father of 102. children and yet became very grosse and corpulent Hee died in Ianuary 1595. the 21. yeare of his raigne not hauing attained to fifty yeares of age Mahometh the third succéeded his Father Amurath the third in the yeare 1595. And to shew himselfe the sonne of his father and no whit to degenerate from his Auncestors he caused 19. of his brethren to be barbarously murdered and many of his Fathers Concubines to be drowned that were found to be great with childe after his decease so that no child should remaine to trouble him in his gouernment But as cruelty and barbarousnesse doth commonly dwell in a negligent spâ—rit addicted to sloth and pusillanimity euen so did not he any thing deseruing memory he being wholy giuen to his bodies voluptuousnesse He did put to death his eldest sonne and the mother of that sonne because they had inquired of Astrologers how long time hee shoulde raigne In the yeare 1603. the Sophi of Persya regained Tauris and Bages and those great countries which the predecessors of this Mahometh had invaded as hath bin already declared in our report of Selim the first and Soliman the second He died of the Plague at Constantinople in Ianuary 1604. hauing raigned nine yeares Achmet succéeded his father in the Empyre being but seauentéen years old in the year 1604. In the yeare 1605. he tooke Strigonia and some other places in the Kingdome of Hungaria It is said that in his Army he causeth his Fathers dead body to be carried embalmed and enclosed in a Coffin of Lead holding opinion that his military deseigns and exployts shall therby proue the more fortunat He hath made peace with the Emperour Rodulphus and those of the house of Austria for fifteen yeares which makes it therefore the more beléeued that hee will conuert his forces against the Sophi He now reigneth this yeare 1611. and by outward appearance couets to be feared A briefe Discourse concerning the Sarrazins the Originall of their name and what People they haue been euen to this day HAuing deliuered a shorte Suruey of the Turkish Ottomans from their first King or Emperor to the man that now gouerneth I thought it not impertinent to my purpose to say somwhat also of the Sarazins who are held to be before them and much more auncient then they Nor list I here to call in question those errors committed by Sabellicus Blondus the Tyrian Bishop Volatteranus many other graue Authors who in their writings doe tearme the Mahumetists or Turks to be Sarazins for they neuer knewe any such name neither were at any time so called but only Mulsulmans which is as much to say as people faithfull in the Law Some others who haue thought their iudgements to be much more pregnant sticke not to say that this name of Sarazin did come of Sarra the wife of Abraham of whose race the great Prophet Mahomet inuenter and deuiser of the Law or Religion helde at this present by the Sarazins and Turkes they say was discended But this opinion likewise is not receineable for they desired rather to be called Agarians in reguard of Agar handmayde to Sarra and mother of Ismaeli or else Ismaelites because they iudged themselues to be yssued of the said Ismaell bastard son to the forenamed Abraham But let vs leaue these false etymologies which neither carry or yeeld any true likelihood come to the very Originall of the name Sarazin The error grew from hence that some short while before Mahomet or Muhamet as others tearms him arose and began to extend himselfe as well towards Suria as Persya there liued then in the Rocky Arabia and Idumea certain Arabes who made their abode or dwelling and yet doe to this day vnder small Tents or enclosures and hadde not any other trade or maintenance for their liuing but by thefts and robberies which they daily exercised vpon all passengers were they Turks Christians Pagans or whatsoeuer Of which Robbers and Théeues the Countrey coulde neuer be fréeed nor can be at this day as such doe faithfully affirme who haue trauailed on pilgrymage to Mount Sinai in Ierusalem And the Turkes themselues doe confesse that when Deuotion drew them forth on Pilgrimage to the city of Medinat al Nabi that is to say the Citty of the Prophet scituate in Arabia foelix where the Sepulcher of Mahomet is and when likwise they doe yet passe thorow the very greatest solitudes and desarts as many times the Christians doe They finde them to bee peopled with these wicked
applause Hee dealt in such sort with Pope Iohn the 12. that the Churches of Grada was made Patriarchall and Metropolitane of all the Venitians State and of Istria Otho the Emperour granted him many honourable priuiledges Hée ruined Vderzo and was slaine with his Sonne in a sedition of the people hauing gouerned 20. yeares 23 Pietro Orseolo was a man altogether deuout and was elected by the people against his will He would very often walke in an vnknown habite to visite the Houses of poore people and Hospitalles Hee appeased the dissentions betwéen the Venitians and them of Capo d'Istria who yéelding themselues tributarie Hée went with Beato Romualdo of Rauenna to liue religiouslie Hée gouerned two yeares and two moneths dooing many woorthy and charitable déedes 24 Vitale Candiano Sonne of Peitro the third made the confederacy with the Emperour Otho He fell sicke so soone as hee entred vppon his charge wherfore he became a Monk hauing gouerned about a yeare 25 Tribuno Memo was very rich but no man of State In his time happened great dissentions betwéene the Families of Moresina and Caloprina by reason wherof many notorious murders were committed He took part with the Moresini which caused the other faction to withdraw themselues to Verona to the Emperour Otho He gaue the Isle of Saint Giorgio Maggiore to the Abbat of Moresini And renounced the Principality in his twelfth yeare entering into Religion 26 Pietro Orseolo the second being a verie discréete man ordered the matter so well with the Emperours Basilius and Alexius that the Venitians were exempted from Toules and taxations Otho the Emperour lying at Verona did highly fauour him and among other graces to hold one of his Sonnes at Baptisme He was the first that extended their Confines on the sea winning many places in Istria and Dalmatia Hauing caused the Church and Pallace to be finished in his time hee died the â—8 yeare of his Principality 27 Ottone Orseolo hauing gouerned some space with his Father Pietro was confirmed in the dignity at the age of eighteen years He won such reputation that Geta King of Hungaria gaue him one of his Sisters in marriage In person he conquered them of Istria who were become Rebels And went into Dalmatia in the enterprise against Cresmura At length the malicious enuiers of his glories deuised a conspiracy against him and hee was confined into Greece in the 17. yeare of his rule 28 Pietro Centranico or Barbolano succéeded next to Otho But hauing not well qualified all dissentions as well concerning the Cittizens remouing as the other neighbours he was compelled to forsake the dignitie and make himselfe a Monke Orso Brother of Otho returned from Constantinople being Patriarch of Grada and he was constituted in expectation of Othos comming He continued about a yeare in the pallace and forsooke the Principality newes béeing brought of Othos death Dominico Orseolo would then perforce vsurpe the Dignity but hée was expelled by the people the next morning and dyed at Rauenna 29 Dominico Flabanico was elected during his exile by the faction of them that had excluded Dominico Orsolo In his time and in the yeare 1040. the national Councel was held for gouernment of the Ecclesiasticks He made the Familie of Orseolo suspitious to the State by his owne meanes and laboured for their vtter supplantation He gouerned ten yeares foure months and twelue daies 30 Dominico Contarini was very pleasing to the people He brought Dalmatia to peace béeing heauily burdened with the rebellion of Zara. Hée fauored the Normans against Robert K. of Apulia And the discord which happened betwéene the Common-wealth and Pepo Patriarch of Aquileia was by him qualified Hee builded the Monastery on the Lido and died in his 28. yeare 31 Dominico Silino won himselfe such reputation that Nicephorus Emperor of Constantinople gaue him his sister in marriage by whose perswasion he made war vpon the forenamed K. Robert of Apulia and at the first attempt returned with a very honorable victory possesing himselfe of Duras But at his second aduenture he fought with small aduantage whereby ensued the diminution of his credit He pergetted the Church of S. Marke with Marble first and before any other causing it also to bee beautified with an artificiall Checquer-worke Hee died in the 13. yeare of his gouernment 32 Vitale Faliero beeing made Duke he immediatly obtained of Alexius then Emperor to haue the Soueraignety of Dalmatia and Croatia Henry successour in the Empire did him many great fauours and comming in deuotion to Venice hée held on of his Daughters at Baptisme The Office of Proprieties was constituted in his time and the workemanship of Saint Markes Church continued He died in his sixtéen yeare 33 Vitale Michele by his woorthy aduenturing on the Sea did very farre extend the Common-wealths limits Hée made the Easterne warre by perswasion of Pope Vrban the second for conquest of the holy Land with the Princes of Christendome The Isle of Smyrna Suria and Ierusalem were then recouered from the Infidels He died in his sixt yeare 34 Ordelafo Faliero Sonne of Vitale assisted King Baldwine against the Infidels in conquest of the Holy Land and made such progression as they deuided the Empire betwéene them thoroughout all the Kingdome of Iudea In the eight yeare of his Principality Malamocco was almost all burned and submerged by reason whereof the Episcopall Sée was transferred to Chioggia He went in person to the war against Zara which was become rebellious and winning the victory hee would néedes returne thither againe a second time and on the like occasion where he died in Armes in the 15. yeare of his principality 35 Dominico Michele being made Duke for his high repute and merit went to giue ayde to the Christians in the holy Land With 200. wel appointed ships and Gallies hee made the Infidels to raise their siedge from before Ioppa Hée took Tyre which he gaue to Vaumond Patriarch of Ierusalem Emanuell the Emperor made war against him from whom he won Chio Rhodes Samos Mitylline and Ister Hée renounced his Principality in the 13. yeare of his rule 36 Pietro Polani Kinsman to Michele was a very wise Man insomuch as hee was made Arbitratour of the difference betwéene Conrade and Emanuell the Emperour Hée made Warre against them of Pisa and Padua whom hée conquered He armed himselfe against the Duke of Apulia in behalfe of the said Emanuell to whose Empire he added many worthy possessions Some say it was his Sonne that won all the battailes and that himselfe being fallen sick returned thence and died in his eightéene yeare of rule 37 Dominico Moresini hée swept the Gulfe of certaine Pyrats of Ancona the chéefe whereof béeing called Guiscardo was taken and hanged He laide siedge to Pola which hée tooke with Parenzo which Citties were become rebellious in Istria Hee held confederacy with William King of Sicilie of whom hee obtained many exemptions for the Traffique of his Merchants Zara made the Metropolitane Cittie at his
Corne market kept and the chappel of s Iames by Cripplesgate Hals of Societies Imbroiderers Hall in Guthurus Barbar Chirurgions hal in Monkes-well-street Sadlers hall in Cheap Butchers Hall in Chick-lane in the Shambles which serueth also for the Feltmakers This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputie twelue Common Counsellors seauenteene Constables eighteene Scauengers eyghteen wardmote Enquest and a Beadle It is taxed at 50. pound to the Fifteene Bread-streete Ward so called of bread there solde in elder time in that streete which giueth name to the whole Warde and hath foure Parish Churches in it viz. Alhallowes in Bread-streete saint Mildreds in Bread-streete saynt Iohn Euangelist in Friday-streete and s Margaret Moyses in Friday-streete Hals of companies are the Salters Hall in Bread-streete and Corwainers or Shoo-makers Hall in Maiden-lane or Distar lane This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy tenne common Counsellors tenne Constables eight Scauengers thirteene Wardemote Enquest and a Beadle In London it is taxed at thirty seauen pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 36. pounde 18. shillings two pence Queene-Hith Ward so called of the Queens Hith or water Gate whereof wee haue alreadye spoken In which warde are seauen Parish churches Viz. saint Trinity in Trinity lane saint Nicholas Cold-abbey at Knight-riders streete saint Nicholas Olaue on Bredstreet hill saint Mary de Monte Alto or Mounthaunt by Old Fishstreet hill or Fiue foot lane saint Machael at the Queens Hith saint Mary Summerset neere Broken wharfe and saint Peter called Parua by Paules wharfe Hals of companies are these Painter Stayners Hall in Trinitie Lane Blacksmiths Hall on Lambert hill This warde hath an Alderman and his Deputy sixe common Counsellors nine constables eight Scauengers thirtéene Warde-mote Enquest and a beadle In London it is taxed at twenty pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 19. pound 16. shillings two pence Castel Baynard ward so named of an auncient castle there standing belonging sometime to one Baynard a Nobleman that came into this Lande with the conquerour and first builded it In this ward are foure parish churches viz. saint Benet Hude or Hithe by Paules Wharfe saint Andrew by the Wardrobe saint Mary Magdalen in Old-fishstreete and saynt Gregory by Paules church Halles of companies are these Wood-mongers Hall on the East-side of Paules wharfe Hill and the Stationers Hall neere the west end of Paules but conuerted to a Tauerne since then and the Hall was also in Milkestreet for a while but afterwarde translated agayne into Amen lane at the end of Pater noster row to a goodly auncient house in oldetime belonging to Iohn Duke of Britaine and Earle of Richmond Afterward called Pembrokes Inne as appertaining to the Earles of Pembroke in the time of Richard the second the eighteenth yeare and Henry the sixt the fourteenth yeare But it lately belonged to Henry Lord of Aburgaueny and was called Aburgauenie house This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputie common counsellers 9. constables 10. Scauengers 7. wardmote Enquest 14. and a Beadle In London it is taxed at twelue pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 11. li. 13. s. There remayne yet two more Faringdon ward without and Bridgeward without or the Borough of the South-warke the round inuironing Suburbs without the wals the Dutchy of Lancaster and Cittie of Westminster All which beeing not comprized within this instant determination craue fauour for reference to our Chronicle of London wherein whatsoeuer is wanting heere and this slender pile woulde not permit stretching alreadye beyond expectation shall by Gods assistance be more fully effectually and largely performed then as yet Mayster Iohn Stow his Suruey or any other worke that I haue seene hath so amply deliuered especially concerning this honorable Citty and the Countie of Middlesex so far as the cities bounds and priuiledges do grant admittance Let me not be rashly censured in these gayseeming words to cast any disgrace or il aspersion on the painful labors of that worthy and industrious man Mayster Iohn Stow whom liuing I loued as a dear and intimate friend and dead I honor with all kinde remembrance for such as haue had knowledge of our inward respect of each other what hath past betwéene vs concerning this businesse for the Citty I know will no way mis-conceite of me they are too wise and vertuous to swerue in a knowne truth and more sounde and solide then malice can haue any power to seduce whatsoeuer then is referred to our further intention as it hath bin a labour willingly vnder-taken by me albeit both beséeming and requiring a much better Iudgement So by his helpe who is both the hope and helpe of all Vertuous endeauours it shall bee effected with all possible dilligence Of the Temporall Gouernment of this Honorable Citty since the Conquest To the worshipfull M. Rowland Smart Esquire Sword-Bearer of London PAssing ouer those Tempestuous times of the old Britons Romans Saxons and Danes till Ethelred or Alfred Earle of Mercia who had the custody of this citty in his power he no sooner dyed but both it and all other possessions belonging to the saide Earle returned to King Edward surnamed the Elder c. Remaining thus in obedience to him he then ordaining Portgraues to haue the gouernement thereof vnder him which name Portgraue or Portreue is compounded of two Saxon wordes Porte and Gerefe or Reue Porte signifyeng a Towne or City Gerefe or Reue a Guardian or Ruler of the said town or city Before the conquest in the daies of k. Edw. the Confessor one Wolfegare was Portgraue as appeareth by the kings charter to him thus Edward K. greeteth Alfward byshop Wolfegare my Portgraue al the Burgesses in London c. These Portgraues continued in William the conquerors time William Rufus and Henry the first when Hugh Buche was Portgraue and Leofstanus Gold-smith Prouost which name of Prouost then beganne for Aubery de Vere was afterward Portgraue and Robert Bar-Querel Prouost Then by the same King was the sheriuewick of London and Middlesex granted to the Cittizens of London In the raigne of King Stephen Gilbert Becket was Portgraue and Andrew Bucheuet Prouost and Godfrey Magnauilla or Mandeuil by guift of Maude the Empresse was Portgraue or sheriffe of London and Middlesex for the yearely farme of three hundred pound as appeareth by the Charter In the time of k. Henry the second those Portgraues were likewise in diuers records called Vicecomites Vicounties or sheriffes as being vnder an Earle and then as since vsed that Office as the sheriffes of London now doo Albeit some Authors tearme them Domesmen Elder-men or Iudges of the Kings court Heere then it shall not seeme impertinent once more to remember the wordes of William Fitz-stephen saying Euen as Rome is deuided into Wards so is this Citty It hath yearely Sheriffes insted of Consuls It hath the