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A05297	A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine Who succeeding his father Vther Pendragon, and right nobly gouerning this land sixe and twentie yeares, then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued in battell, together vvith victory ouer his enemies. As appeareth cap. 9. And was buried at Glastenbury. cap. 12. an. 543. Collected and written of late yeares in lattin, by the learned English antiquarie of worthy memory Iohn Leyland. Newly translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London. Anno Domini. 1582.; Assertio inclytissimi Arturii Regis Britanniae. English	Leland, John, 1506?-1552.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1582 (1582)	STC 15441; ESTC S108439	67,318	92

vsed in many battels and specially in that battell at Bathe In such tryfling matters I do not much force to write But by the way that is not a thing vnworthie to be heard of the godly which Samuel the writer of Brittaine and Disciple of Elbodus the Bishoppe who flourished about nyne hundreth yeares agoe thus maketh mention of concerning Arthures expedition or rather peregrenation Arthure went vnto Ierusalem when as he tooke with him the signe of the Crosse of wood in memory of his Sauiour whereof the fragmentes are at this day reserued in Wedale a towne of Lodoneia six miles from Mailros Finally he exceedingly estéemed of those Church men at Glastenbury as partly I haue aboue saide in Idero and as I will here more largely shewe Siluester Gyraldus in his booke De Institutione Principis thus wryteth For aboue all the Churches in his Kingedome he fauoured and beare best good will vnto the Church of our Lady S. Mary at Glastenbury and with greater deuotion aduaunced the same before other Churches Polidorus according to his equitie and iudgment and so farre as his aucthoritie serueth him declareth there was no Monasterie at Glastenbury in Arthures time So exquisite a iudge is he of Antiquitie and specially concerning Brittaine He also contendeth that euen all the whole worlde by this rule but in deeds a most vniust rule is constrayned to embrace maintaine and beleeue that which is spoken of him touching Antiquitie as that which is pronounced for an Oracle To that he saith and writeth in truth will I as Virgill saith Ense leuis nudo parmaque inglorius alba That is With naked sword and sclender bright sheelde without boasting easely defend his aucthoritie and iudgment so auncient But what he falsly or vntruly declareth which thing he doth somewhat oftener through all partes of his History I may not beare with all I can not abide it neyther will I suffer it but the truth so much as it shall stand me vpon will I restore to her comelynesse fame and glory as one cheerefull and nothing fearefull in so doing though the enemies of truth burst them selues with inwarde mallice For vnto this most honest opinion that I should couragiously clea●e in this behalfe the thing done by those two Apostles of the Brittaines namely Fugatius and Damianus and the Epistle of Patritius the great which I haue in my custody confirming the same to omit for breuitie sake the testimonies of many others do will me or rather commaund me Henry Plātagenet the Nephew of Henry Beauclarcke King of England by the daughter of Mathilda affirmeth by prescript and manifest wordes in a certaine deede of gift that he saw and that it should not want vpright credit that hee read the couenants and articles concerning a certaine beneuolence of Arthures extended towardes the religiouse persons inhabiting Aualonia But I will hereunto annexe the very wordes of King Henries gift out of the originall deede Moreouer what thinges so euer haue beene giuen me from my Predecessors William the first William the second and Henry my Vnckle Yea of their Ancestors namely of Eadgar the father of Sir Edwarde of Edmond and of his father Edward and of Ealfred the Grandsire of the same of Brinwalchius Kenwinus Baldredus Ina Cuthredus and of Arthure and many other Christian Kinges And also of Kenwalchius the Pagan King whose priuileges and writings I haue diligently caused to be searched and to be presēted read in my presence Thus far the deed of gift If these witnesses of sure credit make not sufficiēt for most apparant knowledge of the truth surely there can nothing at any time auaylably serue For not to be satisfied with these being receyued and knowen at full is neyther the parte of a wise head no nor yet of a good iudgment CAP. VIII King Atthures Seale ANd because I haue againe entred into the Misteries of sacred Antiquitie and am descended a curious searcher into the bowels thereof it liketh me to bring forth to light an other matter namely Arthures Seale a monumēt most cunningly engrauen auncient and reuerent Concerninge which Caxodunus maketh mention yet breefly and sclenderly in his preface to the history of Arthure which the common people readeth printed in the English tongue Being moued with the testimony of Caxodunus whatsoeuer it were I went vnto Westminster to the end that what so as an eare witnesse I had heard I might at length also as an eye witnesse beholde the same Pondering well that sayinge of Plautus in my minde Pluris valet oculatus testis vnus quam Auriti decem Of more force standes eye witnesse one Then ten eare witnesses among The keeper of those secretes being requested of mee to shew me this monument by and by delyuered it both to bee seene and handled The sight of the Antiquitie pleased me at full and for a long time the Maiestie thereof not onely drewe away but also detayned myne eyes from me to the beholding thereof Of such force it is for a man aptly to chaunce vpon a thing with greate care desired The substance which tooke the most lyuelyest figure of Arthure imprinted vpon the Seale and which as yet doth firmely keepe the same still is ware of redde coloure which by some mishape or iniury of long time perished is crazed here there into peeces But so yet notwithstanding as no part of it is altogether lacking For the fragmentes or litle peeces thereof being before time by some mischaunce crazed are so closed vp together with siluer plates which is of rounde forme such as is the vtter side of the Seale that no parte of them may fall off For vpon the vtterside of this seale it is thus engraued with these breefe but in very deede most excellent most hauty and most magnificent tytles That is to say PATRICIVS ARTVRIVS BRITTANNIAE GALLIAE GERMANIAE DACIAE IMPERATOR And of trueth this inscription circleth the outermost compasse of the Seale The former parte thereof is most bright shining by a circle of christall which being taken off streightway may any man touch the war which by reason of the Antiquitie is most harde But the Portracture of Arthure printed thereupon resembleth I wotte neare what Heroyicall Maiestie For the Prince as it were inuested with purple royally sitteth vpon a halfe circle such one as we see the raine boe is Hauing a crowne vpon his heade he shineth like the sunne In his right hand riseth vp a scepter wrought with a Flowerdeluce at the toppe And his left hand holdeth a globe adorned with a crosse His bearde also groweth comely large and at length and euen that is a maiestie The other side of the Seale is altogether couered ouer with a thinne plate of Siluer By meanes wherof also it is vncertaine of what fashion it is There hangeth downe at the same a string chainefashionlike twisted of Siluer Certes Reader I pray God I

vnto credite beeing taken away to reade scanne vpon and preserue in memorie those thinges which are consonant by Authorytie For that which nowe a long time is embraced of Learned men with greate consent ought not in what soeuer moment of time barcking against it together with faith or credite thereof to be quite taken away Otherwise the History had not hetherto remained in so greate reputation Therefore because it is a worke of greater importaunce then wee presentlie are in hande with exquisitely curiously and perfectlie to displaye all the deedes of Arthure let vs for this season omitte the Romaines and let vs aduaunce with penne his famylier friendes Hoelus Gouernour of Armorica or the lesse Brittaine in this famous company of Nobles by a certaine right of his requyreth the next place from the first Concerning whose comming into Brittaine and warlike prowesse we haue formerly written in the chapter of the warres accomplished by Arthure Hetherunto ensewe Mordred and Gallouinus Brethren Germaynes vnto Arthure by bloodde and familiarity alyed Of which two this first at length like a periured persō and the same a Reuoulter neuer enough discommendable that I speake nothing of the crime of his adultery was slayne in battle One Hector Abrinus beeing thereof scarce a true witnesse and as I gather with iudgement more rightly sirnamed Alaunicus But the second being alwaies a man constant perfourmed most faithfull diligence both in all forraine warres and also specially in that conflict at Dorcester aboute the returne of Arthure out of Fraunce into Brittaine who was chiefe next vnto him against Mordred Melchinus the Brittish Poet blazseth the fame of Gallouinus The same doth Iohannes Anneuillanus in his booke intituled Architrenio a worke not vnelegant namely by these verses Et Walganus ego qui nil reminiscor auara Illoculasse manu non haec mea fulgurat auro Sed gladio dextra recipit quo spargat enses Non loculos stringit nec opes in carcere miles Degener cupide tumulato rusticus aere Et me bella vocant Et tua forsitan vrget Solicitudo vale And Walgan I with couetous hand nought distribute which haue This my right hād shines not with gold but with the sword so braue It takes that it may distribute euen swordes not bagges it bendes Nor wealth though I a Knight distrest yet not vntrue to friendes Ne yet in countrie liued I like a couetouse muck●scrape But now the warres away call me vnto my wonted state And thine affaires also Perhappes vrge the thereto Farewell ALso that History of Arthure in deede Fabulus which commonly is carried about written in the mother tongue affirmeth that Gallouinus was buried in a certaine Chappell at Dorcester In which poynt what manner booke soeuer it be it misseth not the marke altogether as the booke entituled Scalaecronicon makes manifest relation and y e inhabitantes of y e Castle do now repute his bones almost Gyanllike in stead of a miracle And that long since in the time of Lucius Magnus there was a Chappell founded in the Castle of Dorcester and dedicated vnto our Lord and Sauiour Christ what time Fugatius and Damianus Brittaines preached the Gospell as by the Annales or yearly recordes of the same Cittie hearing a reuerēt figure resemblance of Antiquitie it doth plainely appeare That it may be most acceptable and besides that most true which I haue aboue inferred touching both the death and buriall of Galouinus it shall not through me stand that the iudgement of William de Medulphi Curia as touching the death and buriall of this Gallouinus by reason of his fortitude neuer enough commended should eyther weare out of memory or vtterly perish Wherefore I esteeme it worthie the labour here to sette downe his wordes out of the third booke of the Kinges of England that herehence the discreete Reader might euen fully try as it were at a tutchstone the sincere brightnesse of true gold from that which is counterfeite Then in the Prouince of Wales which is called Rossia was founde the Sepulchre or Tombe of Gallouinus or Walwine which was the Nephewe not degenerate of Arthure by his sister He gouerned in that Coast of Brittaine which to this day is called Waluuthia as a Knight most famous in prowesse but being of his brother and the Nephew to Hengistus concerning whom I haue spoken in the first booke driuen out of his Kingdome did first to their great detriment recompēce his banishment iustly pertaking praise with his Unckle for that he put off or auoyded the downefall from his Country then ruinouse But Arthures Tombe was at no time seene whereupon Antiquitie of foolish dreames and fables did vainely surmise that he would yet come againe But the burying place of the other as before I set down in the time of William the first King of Englād was found fourtéene foote long vpon the Sea coast where as some men affirme he was wounded of his enemies and cast out of shipwrake certaine persones haue saide hee was slaine by the Citizens at publique banquet So saith the Authour Gulielmus Meildunensis as concerning Gallouinus But I if it might bee lawfull for me as a puny would make tryall of my strength w t these weapons against this authour Meildunensis so olde and most beaten Souldier to bestow beare of the blowes viz. It is not like to be true that men of Gyantlike height as I gather by y ● graue 14. foote long were then liuing in the dayes of Gallouinus Wherefore vndoubtedly in mine opinion it is more credible that it was the graue of some Gyant inhabitinge the countrie For that first such did inhabit Albion it appeareth both by auctoritie of forraine and of our owns writers The one of which two his credit I folowing namely Iosephus of Deuonshire a Brittish Poet most absolutly elegante by all meanes hauing taken out of his Antiocheides a work immortall these few verses I will vse them as testimony for breuitie sake His Brutus auito Sanguine Troianus Latijs egressus ab oris Post varios casus consedit finibus orbem Fatalem nactus debellatorque Gigantum Et terrae Victor nomen dedit A Troian Brute by auncient bloude ariued frō Romane roade After sundry hazardes and here in these coastes aboade And hauing got his destned land subdued the Gyants fell As Conquerour he left his fame vpon the earth to dwell Architrenius in his sixt booke of Gyantes inhabiting Albion recyteth these Hos auidum belli Corinei robor auerno Praecipites misit cubitis ter quatuor altum Gogmagog Herculea suspendit in aere lucta Antheumque suum scopulo detrusit in aequor These Corineus his puysant strength of eager moode to fight To hell sent headlong Gogmagog of twelue cubites height By him like Hercules wrastling into the aire was throwne His Antheus eke and from the rocke in seaes was cast adowne NEyther am I ignorant that in

doinges Let them ouercome with powre if they can so the trueth be ours I will imitate the Noble Palme Tree which beeing pressed downe with heauie burdens yet falleth not to the ground at any time And neither at this instant doe I seeke for any reward so you vouchsafe me your courtesy good will fauour truly I may persuade my selfe I haue al thinges that I rightlie looke for And for amendes on my part also shall hereunto ensue most requisite promptitude expedite alacrity enflamed also by vertue of enment vnto like enterprises not onely but also to imparte you greater matters which shall stirre vp your learned eares and being stirred vp may long detaine them and so de●eyned as it were by a certaine land floude of pleasant delight therewith bring them vnto fragrant fieldes And all these thinges do I easily promise my selfe trusting in your honestie and helpe as one doubtlesse fully bent vpon hope thereof Surely my muse such as it is altogether is youres neyther tendeth ●he to any other purpose at any time but vnto your behoofe and the cōmoditie of all men I count it a base seruice to satisfie the common peoples humor but to performe you my continuall industrie differeth not far from a kingdome such a one as by a iust cause I may prefer euen before the kingdome of Alexander For what more reserued hee vnto him selfe wholy when he dyed of so greate Riches possessions and dominions sauing fame onely This though by many accomptes in example inferior obteyned by your meane shall I yet so earnestly aduance that nightes and dayes shall she watch for your welfare emolument And at lengthe those same most thicke mistie cloudes in deede of ignorance beeing shaken off vtterly dashed aside the light of Brittish Antiquitie with displayed beames farre and wide shall shine forth God giue you long life and wellfare most sincere fauorers of vertue and good learning FINIS LONDON Imprinted by Iohn wolfe dwelling in Distaffe Lane ouer against the signe of the Castell 1582. Gen. 9. Arist met●● liber 3. Cap. 1. Trac 2. ● Reg. 7 Deut 32. Reg. 3● 2. Reg. ● ● Reg. 23. 2 Reg. 1. A●●o ●30 Hest. Cap. 〈◊〉 2. Esd. 4 Reuel ● Deut. 31. Psal. 121. Psal. 132. William Paruus Polidorus Virgilius two aduersaries of K. Arthures fame The Authours good purpose in this worke Vther Pendragon king Art father Ouid. Epist. ● Vther Pendragon begat Arthur of Igerna the wife of Gorloys Gouernour of Cornwale and also a Virgin named Anna. Originall of Arth. name Ouid. 13. lib. Metam Fibis Iohn Stowe Then an ancient Cittie which was neere saint Albones the foūdations where of are yet apparant Iohn Stow. What time Arthur was crowned A. D. 316. Graius a writer his testimony Iohn Stow. Two Rulers of the Pictes aspire vnto Arthures kingdome Battle and victory ouer Arthur his enemies by Hoel his friend Arthure married Guenhera the daughter of Cadorus Duke of Cornwaile Iohn Stow Some iudge this to be Bathe Iohn the writer of the golden history Henry of Huntington King Art●ure Xij times General and Xij. times Cōquerour Iohn Rhes●s a louer of Antiquitie Iohn Stow. Iohn Stow. What time Arthure succeded Vther his Father Arthure could not cleane roote all the Saxones out of Brittaine H●el King of Brittaine aides him with a powe of 15000. men Lincolne beseeged by the Saxones Their slaughter fight Bath beseeged by the Saxons K. Arthure seekes to be aduēged of the Saxones His wordes His victorie ouer them Boccace mentioneth of Arthure M. Camden Cerdicius the Saxon helde warre with Arthure Arth. friendly to his foo William of Malmsbury Arthure sore distressed had it not bene for Ambrose a Romaine Gildas Aduersaries quarrel against Arthure William of Malmesbune a friendly writer Nennius another Mordred Arthure his Nephewe put in great trust His vertues mixt with vices Hoels neece viz. Helen stolne out of Armorica Arthure reuengeth that iniury Diuionensis Arth. subduing Fraunce his Nephewe Mordred in meane time betrayeth him cōfederating with Cerdicius Anno. 516. Mordred crowned Arth returned into England Valerius reporting that K. Arthure vanquished 30. kingdomes K. Arthures knights of his round Table Hoel the first knight Gallouinus the second knight 〈…〉 Gallouinus buried at Dorcester His bones Gian●like According● to the record of Glastenbury the name are Fugatius and D●mianus This Lucius being created the first Christian King in England liued about the yere after Christ 182 William of Malmesbury his iudgment of Gallouinus H●s wordes of reporte The manner of Galouinu● his death after the reporte of W. Malm●b Wi●liam of Malmsbury Iohn Leylands opinion to the contrarie His proofe out of a brittish Poet named Ioseph●● William of Malmsbury a most curious and painful searcher of Antiquitie William of Malmsbury The interpretation of Gallouinus his name Augusellus the th●●d knight Iohn Stow. An auncient Cittie in Kent nere Sandwich the ruins of it yet remaine The Prowesse and valiant aduenture of him one Graius a wri●er witnesseth Iohn Stowe Wryters Geoffrey of Mūmouth Iohn of ●orow Rossus of Warwicke Anonimus a writer Iderus the 4. knight neare of blood vnto Arthure His benefice●● towardes the Church at Glastenbury Lancelot th● fifth knight A faithfull friend and valiant aduenger of iniury done by Mordred vnto Arthure Syluester Giraldus his testim●nie of his buriall at Glastenburie Carodocus ● sixte knight Whose fame the Cronicles at Dorcester ●●toll Cadorus the 7. Knight of the most noble proge●ie of the kinges of England A stoute defēder preferrer of his princes dignitie Constantine his sonne succeeded Arth. ●ldas his testimony of Constantine a degenerate child a murtherer of Innocentes Iohn Stow. Vsuall places where K. Art● kept his 〈◊〉 table On this side Somertō neare vnto Glastenbury is the village Surton Camelet an old forte K. Arthure inhabited a castle at Somertō Iohannes Anneuillanus a writer extolleth K. Arth. round table K. Arthures round table where it standeth K. Edward the first made much of that round order of Knightes in his time Roger Mortimer solemnished the same order at Kenelworth Two Bishops religiouse fauourers of K. Arthures welfare Of S. Dauid Iltutus a Godly and learned father an other religiouse fauourer of Ar. K. Arthure his iourney to Ierusalem His zeale speciall good will towardes the Church men of Glastenbury Iohn Layland a bearer with Polidorus So farre as he bringes forth the truth and other wise his enemy Alias ●●ganus and Damianus This was king Henry the 2. Sonne of Geoffrey plantagenet brother to king Henry the first succeding him An. 1154. raigned 3. yeares 9. monethes 12. dayes and was buried of Founteuerard in Fraunce Wordes contayned in king Henry the 2. his deede of gift proceding from king Arthures beneuolence towardes the Church men at Aualonia He meaneth Robert Caxtō who translated the history of K. Arthure K. Arthures Seale kept at Westminster in Iohn Leylandes dayes His reporte in praise thereof describing the properties The Insculpture