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A compendious chronicle of the kingdom of Portugal, from Alfonso, the first King, to Alfonso the Sixth, now reigning together with a cosmographical description of the dominions of Portugal / by John Dauncey.
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Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.
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though 't is to be supposed at that time he thought not to have arrived at so great height as to be King of Portugal When he was grown to the age of about three and twenty years he was by his brother made a chief Commander of his Armies in which Military imployment he behaved himself with so much courage and magnanimity as was admirable his valor soon gained the love of the soldiers and his courtesie and affability the affection of the people the very Moors his enemies would applaud him as both a perfect soldier and a Courtier His brother being dead and his Nephew Beatrice uncapable of succession by reason of her having married a forreign Prince he claimed the Crown as next of the blood but his claim was at first made void by reason of his being illegitimate when afterwards the Councel of Estates finding that if they should refuse him they might perchance choose one less deserving conferred the Crown upon him yet so as he should receive it not as his indubitable right by birth but as given him by election Yet some Writers there be that affirm that there were several legitimate sons of his father King Pedro then alive who all laid their several claims to the Crown as of right belonging to them before him but that he being at the time of his brothers death General of the Armies in Algarve and having gained so much upon the soldiers and people presuming upon their affection and his desert laid claim to the Crown which they being no way able to resist were forced to rest content and permit him to enjoy what was likewise willingly conferred upon the people so that he came to the Crown partly by force and partly by election But howsoever he came by it enjoy it he did and entred into his government about the two and thirtieth year of his age and in the beginning of the year 1388. received with great applauses by the whole kingdom as a Prince from whom they expected great and good things having already had so large experience of him Soon after his Coronation he married Philippa daughter to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster which match he the rather inclined to because Henry the bastard King of Castile in right of his wife Beatrice pretended a title to the Crown of Portugal which he hoped he might the better oppose by matching into that â—amily which had equal if not more indubitable â—ight to the kingdom of Castile For Iohn Duke of Lancaster having married Constance the eldest daughter to Peter the deposed and murthered King of Castile and Leon claimed a right to and was a great stickler for those kingdoms yet never enjoyed any other but the bare title King Iohn having setled his kingdom applied himself to the prosecuting the War against the Moors who being quite driven out of his conâ—ines he resolves to follow into their own country and be the first King of his Nation that ever past the sea to this purpose he mans out a potent fleet and having fraighted it with a sufficient Army puts to sea and lands in Mauritania where in several battels he discomfits the Barbarians wastes their Countrey burns their Villages and possesses himself of a Sea-port Town called Seplene or Ceâ—ta whereby he gained both a retiring place and an in-let into the Country when he pleased By his Queen Phillippa King Iohn had a noble and numerous Issue first Edward so named from King Edward the third of England his God-father who succeeded in the kingdom secondly Ferdinand a man of so great abstinence and so devoutly religious that the Portuguese added him to the Calender of their Saints he was in the Wars against the Moors taken prisoner and during his captivity behaved himself with such an admirable patience as worthily deserves our wonder never murmuring to be linckt together with one of his meanest servants and with him forced for his living to grinde in a Mill though such was the piety of the servant that if he could he would willingly have performed the task himself and excused his Lord from the toil if it had been possible at length he was ransomed and returning ended his days in a recluse the third son of King Iohn was named after his own name the fourth Pedro but the fifth who most worthily deserves to be recorded was the Infante Henry This Prince whether emulating the great actions of his father or out of a natural inclination in himself was the first that encouraged the Portugueses to affect forreign Voyages he first set out with a great fleet in or about the year 1425. and made discovery of the Islands in the Atlantique sea which at first were called from their being newly found out Insulae Novae or the New Islands afterwards and now vulgarly called the Azores he likewise in many other Voyages made discovery of the Islands of Maderae Holy Port and Capo Verde and sailing farther along the Coast of Africa was the first that found out the way by Sea to Guiana at length wearied with travel and overpressed with age he retired and lived upon Cape St. Vincent which place he choose because of the constant sereness of the Air being a great lover of Astrologie and the Mathematiques he died about the year 1465. and was buried in the Chappel of that Monastery built by Ferdinand the first King Iohn reigned in all forty seven years having from the King of England received the honor of being Knight of the Garter as likewise did his two sons Prince Edward and the Infante Henry He died in the year 1436. leaving the World full of his glory He was a Prince in whom all Vertues seemed naturally to flow endowed with all imaginable Ornaments both of body and minde of a tender and affable Nature yet in the field as Valiant as the fiercest though 't is by some observed that he was never perceived upon any charge given upon the enemy many of which he made in his own person to change countenance or shew any sign of discomposure from his constant temper EDWARD the I. Eleventh KING of PORTVGAL EDward the first of that Name King of Portugal was born at the City of Braga in or about the year of our Lord one thousand three hundred ninety and two he was educated during his youth in all those exercises befitting a a Prince under the tutorage of the Arch-Bishop of Lisbon in which he profited so that in his most tender years his great judgement was deservedly wondered at after he had past his minority in studies he several times accompanied his father in the Wars of Africa where he showed great proofs of his magnanimity and courage He came to the Crown at the age of forty four years or thereabouts some report that being to have the Ceremonies of his Coronation performed the same morning that the Crown was to be put upon his head a Jew one of his Physicians and a great Student inâ— Astrologie came to him and falling down
A COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE OF THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL FROM Alfonso the first King to Alfonso the Sixth now reigning Together with A Cosmographical Description Of the Dominions of PORTVGAL By JOHN DAUNCEY LONDON Printed by Tho. Iohnson for Francis Kirkman Henry Brome and Henry Marsh and are to be sold at their Shops 1661. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sr EDWARD HIDE Earl of Clarendon c. Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Right Honorable THe Glories of your Name make me ambitious to give you a testimony of my duty observance There be some whose vain-glory prompts them to think they by Dedications honor their Patrons but the whole world will judge me free from such vanity when they shall perceive I have made my addresses to a Person who besides his height of Nobility is arrived at such a sublimity of Worth Vertue and Learning that not onely the greatest Wits of the Age are bound to honor him but must confess they receive their splendor and lustre from him Yet thus my Lord I make my self guilty of an almost inexcusable presumption the wisest of men may as well present somewhat worthy a Deity as I any thing which may deserve your LORDSHIPS thoughts It is not fit a Pigmy should call down a IOVE to protect him but where there is so much worth there must needs be an insuperable goodness nor can he be justly blamed who onely aspires at the influence of a benevolent Star I want the confidence to beseech your Lordship to approve this VVork the honor will be sufficient if you accept it as a pledge of that observance which all men are bound to pay you I know your Lordship not only to be vers't in all History but to your glory be it spoken to have always studied the most worthy Authors And History is indeed a Treasure not onely enriching mens mindes with noble thoughts but enanimating them to great and Heroick Actions Your Lordships endeavors to make an Alliance between the two Renowned Crowns of England and Portugal may justly claim all that can be said of that Kingdom as a due Offering This though but a Breviate of the Story of it may perchance contain somewhat though not at all worthy your Lordship yet not wholly unworthy observation which I hope may perswade your Generosity and goodness to grantit protection England my Lord and every member of it are beholding to your Lordships great wisdom but should I undertake to praise all those noble Vertues for which you deserve their loves that Justice which ballances all your actions that Prudence which a whole Nation hath admired that Magnanimity which hath rendred you unalterable in all the frowns and smiles of Fortune that Liberality which hath made you King-like and that Temperance which shown in the height of Heavens and Heavens-Vice-gerents favours hath made you God-like I should be enforced to unite the largest Encomiums and lay them down as a due tribute at the feet of your thrice-renowned Fame But my Lord I dare onely reverence your Vertues they must rather be the subject of my admiration than description Let it suffice then that whilst all strive to offer up their labors to this Shrine it will be sufficient excuse of my ambition to present this Mite and amongst the numbers that thus sacrifice to your Worth to be thought worthy of that honorable Stile of being esteemed the meanest of Your Lordships most humble Servants JOHN DAUNCEY TO THE READER CUstom rather than my own Genius or Fancy inclines me to make this address Good things are but made worse by excuses bad things never a whit the better 't is base and dis-ingenious to court a Reader to a good opinion of ones Work and indeed a kinde of an endeavor to anticipate his judgement which to the wise proves a fruitless labor and to the fools was altogether needless I despair not but wise men may read this Book the truth is I desire all fools would let it alone if it be unworthy the subject 't is writ of the disgrace will be less to be censured by an understanding person and the faults I presume fewer for those of less judgement will be subject to attribute even the litteral errors of the ress to the Authors ignorance Though I dare say thus much in Vindication of this COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE That it is extracted out of those Authors who have been â—udged by many to have writ best concerâ—ing the Kingdom of Portugal yet I will not presume to clear it of all errors Neâ—o nostrum non peccat homines sumus â—on Dei T is impossible to be mortal and not erre yet all lapses cannot be accounted faults Though I doubt not but to meet with those spirits which will make â—hem Crimes for such is the depravity of the present age that many men led on by atheistical Tenents and blinded with self-conceit dare adventure to censure even the Actions of the Deity But I shall run into that error I promised to eschew and though I beg not the Readers good opinion endeavor to restrain or affright his clearer judgement â—et every man say or think his pleasure of the Work for therefore was it made pubâ—ique and if it be my fortune to fall under any rigid censures where they are made with reason I shall entertain them with â—espect where without cause laugh at â—hem with scorn The present Affairs were sufficient motives for me to publish it both to clear the right King Iohn the fourth had to the Crown and Dominions of Portugal and justify that Title which some mens ignorance or self-will would make deficient terming a noble Redemption of a Nations Liberty black and ignominious Rebellion and methinks the joy at the Restoration of King â—ohn to the Crown of Portugal doth so aptly quadrate with our's aâ— the blessed return of our Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charls the Second that I think it not impertinent to conclude with a wish That as our joy then corresponded with theirs so all the Subjects of England would show the same examples of Loyalty to His Majesty which Ferdinando Paceica did even to the memory of his King and Master Sancho the Second J. D. The general Heads of the ensuing HISTORY I. HEnry Duke of Lorain Earl of Portugal page 3 II. Alfonso the First first King of Portugal ibid. III. Sancho the First second King of Portugal 10 IV. Alfonso the Second third King of Portugal 15 V. Sancho the Second fourth King of Portugal 19 VI. Alfonso the Third fifth King of Portugal and Algarve 25 VII Dionisio the sixth King of Portugal c. 29 VIII Alfonso the Fourth seventh King of Portugal 29 IX Pedro eighth King of Portugal 40 X. Ferdinand ninth King of Portugal 43 XI John the first tenth King of Portugal 45 XII Edward the eleventh King of Portugal 50 XIII Alfonso the Fifth twelfth King of Portugal 52 XIV John the Second thirteenth King of Portugal 54 XV. Emanuel the First fourteenth King of Porgal 56 XVI