Graston Leland 1. in setling Archflamines in London Yorke and Carleon Built Billings gate and the Tower of London 7. and so died honourably and was buried with great pompe leaving his sonne 3. A.M. 2588 GURGUINTUS to succeed him Vpon denyall of the Tribute granted to his Father Beline by Guiltdake King of Denmarke he passed thither with an Army and by Force recovered the continuance of the Payment of it 2. In his returne he mett with Captaine Partholine with a company of vagrant Spaniards that sought a place to dwell in whom he fixed in Ireland 3. This Partholines brother Cataber is said in earnest by some to have Founded the Vniversity of Cambridge Gaius 4. A.M. 3607 GUINTHOLINUS his sonne followes him the more famous for his learned and prudent Wife Martia from whom the Saxons had their Lawes Marthehelog translated unto them by King Alfred 2. He is said to have built Warwick about the time that Alexander the Great was borne leaves to succeed his sonne 5. A.M. 3640 SICILIUS guided by his mother in his nonage In his time the Picts got footing in the Marches of England and Scotland whom his sonne 6. A.M. 3642 KIMARUS a dissolute and carelesse young Prince never endeavoured to remove he was treacherously slaine in Hunting and 7. A.M. 3644 ELANIUS his sonne or brother that took his place in only named whose Bastard 8. A.M. 3652 MORINDUS had more mettell in him and was much magnified for his comely personage and courage but rashly encountring alone a Sea-monster that devoured all before him after a furious conflict he was also devoured by it leaving five sonnes of which 9. A.M. 3660 GORBOMAN proved a good Prince He repaired Temples Grafton â—ellinsh promoted Sacrifices according to the blind devotion of those dayes Built Cambridge and Grantham which others deny and say it was Canta another Towne inclosed with walls wherein some Philosophers were placed destroyed afterwards by the Saxons He dying without Issue 10. ARCHIGALLUS his brother takes the place A.M. 3671 but Deposed by the Nobles for his oppression untill the third brother 11. ELIDURUS finding him discontented in a Wood A.M. 3676 as he rode on Hunting lovingly restored him to his Royalties and then upon his death Raigned after him which was not long before 12. A.M. 3693 VIGENIUS and Peridurus the two youngest brethren bandied against him and shared his meanes betwixt them Vigenius dies and Peridurus for his cruelty was slaine by his Nobles so that Elidurus was freed out of Prison to Raigne the third time between whom and Helie there passing about 180 yeares Monometensis and others have made bold to name 33 Kings to take up that time But herein there is no agreement in names number or whether they were before Dunwallo or succeeded Elidurus Graston Hollinsh Polltdor Virgil. whereof Hollinshed hath a digression in the History of England lib. 3. c. 8. The names therefore of these Fayrie Kings may be well omitted of whom nothing is noted but the name to pitch upon 13. HELIE From him some think A.M. 3800 the I le of Elie took his name others say noe but from a multitude of Eales into which the Married Preists with their Wives and Children were transformed that refused to obey St Dunstanes Ordidinance that Preists should live single but that derivation is more probable that is deduced from Helig LLoyd which signifies in Brittish a Willow by reason of the plenty of Willowes which there grew 2. This Holye had three sonnes Lud Cassibilane and Nennius Nennius came not to raigne but 14. LUD succeeded his Father and reformed Lawes A.M. 3801 augmented Troynovant and thereupon called it Ludstowne now London His brother Nennius was offended with it conceiving thereby that the name of Troy should be forgotten Ludgate more plainly beares his name without offence 2. Some say Baynards Castle others that the Bishop of Londons Pallace was built by him for his Court 3. He left two sonnes behind him Androgeus and Theomantius who in their Nonnage fell under the protection of their Vncle Cassibellane the foreman in the next Distance 2. VVIth those times concurre 1. The latter Kings of the Persian Monarchy and former of the Greeks 2. The beginning of the Scotish Monarchy by Ferâ—usius crowned upon the fatallstone brought by Gathelus out of Spaine that hath this Inscription Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur Ibidem Except old sawes do faine and Wissards witts be blind The Scotts in place shall raigne where they this stone shall find 3. Aspiring of the Romanes to overtop all those that had gone before them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Any of Mulmutius Dunwallo's or Marcian's lawes may be now distinctly shewen 2. Brennus that sacked Rome were a Britan or a Gaule 3. Irelands first Inhabitants were Spanish exiles under the conduct of Captaine Partheline 4. The Vniversity of Cambridge were Founded by Cantaber Captaine Parthelin's Brother 5. Morindus encountring alone the Seamonster express'd not more vanity then vaâ—lour 6. The Transforming of Marryed Preists into Eales be not as hansome a Metamorphosis as any in Ovid 7. It were not surly vnadvisednesse in a Senator of Rome to hassard his owne head and of many others for some incivility offered to the gravity of his Beard Romane Tributaries DISTANCE V. THE fifth Distance is extended to King Lucius the first Christian that Raigned among the Britaines and begins with 1. A.M. 3095 CASSIBILLANE in whose time the Britaines were first Conquered and made Tributaries to the Romanes 2. He was brother to Lud and had the Kingdome cast upon him by reason of the nonâ—age of Luds sonnes Androgeus and Theomantius 3. Iulius Caesar at that time imployed in the subduing Gallia being informed they had underhand supplies from Britaine takes vantage thereupon to invade the Ile where partly by Stormes at Sea that wracked his Navy partly by Valour of the Inhabitants under this Kings conduct Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis He Britanes sought but Force to quell did lack And like a Coward shew'd his fearefull back As Pompey in the Poet object 's to his disgrace 4. Lucan Our writers say farther that Nennius the Kings brother meeting with Caesar hand to hand got his sword from him but with it a knock on the pate Monomelens that cost him his life within fifteene dayes after 5. At length upon a quarrell between the King and his Nephew Aadrogeus concerning one Evelin who had slaine the Kings kinsman and was countenanced therein by the young Prince matters came to that height that Androgeus revolts and calls back Caesar from France and assisteth him to the overthrow of his Country This rendred him so hatefull that Cassibellane dying without Issue the younger sonne of Lud 2. A.M. 3921 THEOMANTIUS was preferr'd to the place He quietly paid the Tribute to the Romanes which his vnkle had promised to Caesar administred Iustice at home and protected his Subjects from Forreigners
handsomenesse and comely dauncing which by chance he beheld among her country companions 2. After the overthrow of Harold with little lesse then the losse of 68000 men on both sides in Battle field he quickly brought under the rest of the Kingdome The Kentish men circumvent him by a stratageme and thereby retained their ancient Customes and Liberties 2. Edgar Etheling the right heire formerly wronged by Harold with the discontented Earles Edwin and Morcar make some resistance but to no purpose Edgar flyes with his Mother and Sisters into Scotland where King Malcolme entertaining them nobly takes Margaret his Sister to Wife and by his constant and effectuall standing for him Edgar was reconciled unto the Conquerour and had Royall allowance from him 3. To those insurrections that here vexed him his eldest sonne Robert added a more unnaturall in Normandy which he hastening to appease was in Battle Vnhorsed by his own sonne whom upon submission he was content to pardon for the time 4. The Church found no friend of him whose Revenues he alienated and burthened with unusuall taxes not sparing the poore meanes of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford which must be diverted from the Students 5. Besides the imposing of the Norman Lawes he left the Doomesday Booke in the Exchequer containing a Survay in generall of all England For a groat to short in payment of some dues required he forced the Monkes of Ely to lay downe a 1000 markes notwithstanding for all this the Pope bucks him and allowes his doings and Title 6. He depopulated about thirty miles in compasse Cambden iâ— Hantshire and outed the Inhabitants to make a forrest for Wild-beasts which pleasured not himselfe so much as it proved unluckie to his Posterity The plainnesse of these times of Letting Lands is worth the comparing with the intricate prolixity of our times Then it passed for good From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine were To witnesse that this is sooth I bite the white waxe with my tooth But now we find it otherwise 7. After all these transactions abroad he is summoned by Death as he was in Normandy but had the place of his buriall compounded for before he was interred and then the Grave proved too little for him that had proved so great a Conqueror in the World His second sonne 2. A.C. 1087 WILLIAM Rufus by Arch-Bishop Lanfrankes working for him gets the place 1. He is strongly opposed by his elder brother Robert whom he calmeth with promising faire words without performance and Robert joynes in the famous expedition to the Holy Laud with Godfrey of Bullaine 2. As his Father began so he persisted to withstand Papall intrusions He sleighted the Popes Binding Loosing and held it bootlesse to invocate Saints Curbed Anselme Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and taxed the then swelling Clergy for their Pride Luxury Idlenesse and Avarice Heard a Disputation of the Iewes who bribed him to favour them against the Christians but they lost the day and their mony togither 3. A Groome of his chamber on a time bringing him a paire of Breeches of three shillings price was blamed of him and commanded to furnish him with a paire fit for a King that should cost a marke He goes and presenting him with a meaner paire which he said cost so much yea Bellamy or by St Lucies face saith the King they are well bought such was the frugality of those times and difference from ours 4. His liberality to Religious persons and places shewes that he was not voyd of Religion though he could not endure Appeales to Rome and his building the Towre in London and Westminster Hall of 270 foot in length and 74 in breadth are sufficient testimonies of his Magnificence 5. His death was casuall by the glance of an arrow from a tree Cambden in Hantshire ex G. Mapes shot by Sir Walter Tirrell at a Stagge in the New Forrest wherein foure Abbies and thirty fixe Parish Churches had been demolished with the removing of all the Inhabitants to make roome for Beasts or Doggs game as one calls it Rex cervum insequitur Regem vindicta Tyrellus Non bene provisum transfixit acumine ferri The King the Stagge vengeance the King doth chase Tyrells hard hap concludes this Tragick case Also Richard his brother and Robert his Nephew came to their untimely ends in the same place so dangerous it is to prove Abaddons especially in consecrated things A Colliars Cart that removes him thence brake in the way and left him in the dirt whence he was after taken and buried as a King in Winchester dying without issue his Scepter descended to his brother 3. A.C. 1100 HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark for his Learning He was wont to say that an unlearned King was a Crowned Asse 1. Great stirres he had with his brother Robert who returning from Ierusalem where he was made King to possesse England but missed of it and at length lost Normandy togither with his eyes by his unnaturall brother 2. He Married Maud King Malcolmes daughter of Scotland by her Mother Margaret lineally descended from Edmund Ironside to strengthen his title to the Kingdome 3. As his predecessors did so he stoutly denyes the Popes incroachings Curbs Anselme that continued Romes agent establisheth the Lawes of Edward the Confessor Holinshed and addes other convenient of his owne 4. A.C. 1114 He is said to have held the first Parliament which he ordained should consist of Three Estates of which himself was the Head Martin A great Bickering began in his time between Canterbury and Yorke for priority which continued a long time after till Canterbury carried it And Cardinall Cremensis the Popes Legate sent hither to interdict Priests Marriages was taken in the Act with a common strumpet which he excused in saying he was no Priest himselfe but a corrector of them 5. The drowning of his sonne William with diverse other Nobles was repaired in some sort by the Marriage of Maud his Daughter first with Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany and he dying without Issue next with Jeffery Plantagenet Earle of Anjoy by whom she had Henry Fitz Empresse Heire apparant to the Crowne But his Grand-father dying unexpectedly by eating of Lampresse and he not upon the place 4. STEPHEN of Blois steps in A.C. 1135 sonne to Adeliza daughter to the Conquerour and holds it which was the cause of no small stirres and blood-shed especially it being against his Oath which he had taken with the Nobles for the Empresse Mauds succession and first brake it The Bishops excused it that it was for the good of the Church but Perjury promotes not Piety 2. Lesse he could not expect then continuall oppositions from the Empresse and her sonne Henry to recover their right wherein after various successe and windings on either side At the Battle of Liucolne notwithstanding his Herculian laying about him with his slaughtering Axe the King himselfe was taken Prisoner
opposing Pope Innocent the third in Stephen Langtons preferment to the See of Caterbury sleighting the Monks and vexing them 3. Their Combinations forced him after the Interdicting of the Realme for six years three moneths and sixteene dayes to render his Crowne to Pandulphus the Popes Legate and take it againe in Fee-Farme at the Rent of a Thousand Markes yearely which exasperated his Nobles against him howsoever it warped the Pope and Clergy to be for him 4. His Bickering abroad with the French and at home with his Barons made his Raigne very Tragicall which ended at Swansted Abby by Simon the Monkes Poyson as some say and gave way to his sonne 4. A.C. 1216 HENRY the third who Crowned between nine or tenne yeares Old 1. Cleared this Realme of the French who had Invaded it by the Popes interdiction by William Martiall Earle of Pembroke his Protector 2. Hubert De Burgo Earle of Kent did him much good service for which he had small recompence 3. His immoderate and exasperating favours cast on Strangers drew on the Barons Warres in which an Insanum Parliamentum held at Oxford appointed twelve Peeres in prejudice of his Regality The Earles of Leicester and Glocester are the greatest sticklers in it who took Prisoners the King with his brother Richard King of the Romanes and his sonne Prince Edward in the Battle of Lewes in Sussex 4. He confirmes Magna Charta The Earles fall at deadly fend between themselves Prince Edward tels the King of it and joyning with Glocester Rights himselfe by the Ruine of Leicester in the Battle of Eversham in Worcestershire 5. London is threatned to be Burnt by the King for taking the Barons part 6. Glocesters service failing of expected Favours repines to no purpose and undertakes to goe to the Holy Land but shrinking that enterprise is performed by Prince Edward and his Heroick Princesse Elianor who suck'd out there the poyson of an invenomed wound given him with the hazard of her owne life whereby he recovered He did there great service untill he was called back to succeed his Father that dyed after fifty six yeares Raigne by the Title of 5. EDWARD the first commonly called Longshanks A.C. 1273 1. He brought the Welch with their Valiant Prince Lewillin under the English Subjection 2. Conquered Scotland being at Variance who should be King brought thence the Marble Chayre in which the Scottish Kings were wont to be Crowned spoken of before 3. Hesleighted the Popes Inhibition to forbeare Scotland and in the Parliament of Lincolne under the subscription of the Peeres utterly renounced Pope Boniface his Supreame Authority 4. He banished the Jewes for their Exactions and Censured the Judges and Officers for their Corruptions 5. Vpon his Death-bed charged his sonne to continue the Banishment of Pearce of Goveston and to convey his Heart to be buried in the Holy Land 6. Of his sixteene Children which he had by two Wives Elianour of Spaine and Margaret of France 6. A.C. 1307 EDWARD the second surnamed Carnarvan the first English hereditary Prince of Wales succeeds him 2. He against his Oath calls Gaveston twice out of Banishment permits him to convey beyond the Seas his Iewels with a Table and Tressels all of Beaten Gold 3. In place of Gaveston beheaded by the Nobles he takes the Spencers Father and sonne to be his Favourites worse if it might be then Gaveston 4. At Estreveline and twice afterwards he received three notable overthrowes by the Scotts to the losse of all his Interest there and the Devastation of the Northerne parts of his Kingdome 5. Vpon these preposterous events Iohn Poydrus an Exeter man would needs prove the King a Changling and said himselfe was Long-shanks sonne But his claime was quickly strangled with an Halter 6. To right these wrongs the Barons by a Parliament get the Spencers banished The King recalls them the Barons take Armes receive a great overthrow and two and twenty of them are Behoaded The Spencers the more insult 7. The Queene flyes with the Prince into France is deserted by her bribed Brother the French King and commanded to returne by the Pope finds favour with Robert of Artois Earle of Henalt and Sr Iohn his brother returnes by their help into England is assisted by the Barons takes the King and the Spencers at Bristow The Londoners behead Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter for withstanding the Queenes proceedings The Spencers are executed the King is Deposed in Parliament sent to Killingworth as Prisoner and thence to Barkly Castle where he was barbarously Spitted to Death leaving his sonne 7. A.C. 1327 EDWARD the third otherwise calied Edward of Windsor to governe better 1. He surprised Mortimer the Minion of his mother and Executed him at Tyburne who had by his pernicious plotting caused King Edward the second to be made away by an Amphibologie Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To shed King Edwards blood Refuse to feare I hold it good And the Scottish Ragman to be redelivered in the Non-age of this King whereby the English laid claime to Scotland together with their Black Crosse so that the People cried out Vae pueris terrae saepissime sunt ubi guerrae Woe to the Land where Rulers age Is not mature to stop mens rage 2. Notwithstanding the King repaired this afterward by the overthrow of the Scotts at Hallidowne Hill which wiped off their contumelious Rime made upon their Victorie over the English in his Fathers dayes being this Long Beards heartlesse Painted Hoods witlesse Gray Coates gracelesse Make England thriftlesse And also in taking their King David the valiant Bruces sonne Prisoner at Nevils Crosse in his absence in France by the Queene and placing in Edward Balioll to be King 3. Against the French by himselfe and this Valiant sonne Edward the Black Prince He obtained eminent Victories at Cressay and Poycters In the last of which their King John was taken and brought into England 4. He Founded the Order of the Garter first quartered his Armes with France In his old age was much abused by a Strumpet Alice Pears 5. After he had seene the death of his Victorious sonne Edward the Black Prince he died peaceably at Sheene in Surry leaving to succeed him his Grandchild the Black Princes sonne 8. RICHARD the second 1. A.C. 1378 He misled by his Favorite Michael De La Poole and other Syeophants incurres the hatred of his People Iohn Wall Priest Watt Tylor lack Sraw and Jack Shepherd raise a Rebellion against him which happily was quieted by the Maior of London's William Walworths mortall blow given Watt Tylor 2. Thirteene Commissioners were appointed to see matters reformed but it came to nothing 3. An Invasion of French with twelve hundred Ships under Sayle against England by Gods providence were utterly scattered Iohn of Gaunt his Vncle Warreth successively in Spaine and himselfe in Scotland 4. He continues his hatred against his Nobles executes diverse of them Banisheth his Cosen Henry of
Cincius Fregepanius who set upon the Conclave bang'd the Cardinalls unhors'd the new Pope untill the people rescued him and made Fregepane submitt 2. Then the Emperour Henry came upon him and set up one Maurice Burdine by the name of Gregory the eight against him so that he was constrayned to fly into France where he shortly dyed of a Pluresie haveing first Excommunicated the Emperour freed the Templers from the subjection to the Patriarch of Ierusalem Burdine the Emperours man could not hold the place But 23. A.D. 1119 CALIXTUS the second a Burgundian gott it 2. He continues the Excommunication against the Emperour in a Councell of Germany makes the Emperour yeeld unto him and so absolves him but abuses his Pope Gregory whom he had made by setting of him upon a Camell with his face towards the tayle and then thrusting him shauen into a Monastâ—y 3. He appointed the foure Fasts decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his Sea was much against Preists Marryages whereupon our Simon of Durham made the verses O bone calixte nunc omnis clerus odit te Quondam Presbyteri potâ—rant uxoribus uti Hoc destruxisti postquam tu Papa fuisti Ergo tuum merito nomen habent odio The Clergy the now good Calixtus hate The heretofore each one might have his Mate But since thou gotten hast the Papall throne They must keep Puncks or learn to Lig alone 24. HONORUS the second an Italian comes next A.D. 1124 but with great opposition of two others that were set up against him 2. From this man John Cremensis was sent hither into England to dash Preists Marriages But in his greatest heat of urging his Commission he was found a Bed with a Whore 3. Platina tels us that one Arnulphus Bale adds an Englishman was Martyred in Rome for Preaching against the Clergies pompe and luxury His Countryman 25. INNOCENT the second enters upon the place A.D. 1130 he was opposed by an Antipope ealled Anacletus backt by Roger King of Sicily who forced this Pope to fly into Germany and France to be righted 2. The Emperour Lotharius with an Army setled him in his seat 3. But Roger King of Sicily hath another bout with him Imprisoneth him and his Cardinalls till he had gotten of him to be pronounced King of both Scicilies which was done and then Scicily was reckoned St Peters Patrimony So easie it was then for Popes to bestow Kingdoms in which neither by Divine nor humane Law could they clayme any interest His successor a Tuscan 26. A.D. 1143 CaeLESTINUS the second put in by Conradus the Emperour sate so short a time that nothing is noted of him not much longer remained 17. LUCIUS the second a Bononian A.D. 1144 for when he went about to abrogate the Office of Patricians and with Souldiers beset the Capitoll he was so pelted with stones by the Citizens that he soone resigned his life and place to 28. EUGENIUS the third a Pisan St Barnards Scholer A.D. 1145 to whom he wrote his Books of Confideration 2. But Eugenius more considered the enlarging of his place and power and therefore would not permitt the Romanes to chuse their owne Senatours nor their Patricians to beare any sway 3. This grew to such a quarrell that the Pope was faine to leave Rome and fly into France whence after some time and matters accommodated he returned and dyed at Tyber 29. A. 1153 ANASTASIUS the fourth took his place a Romane but did nothing in it worth the noting only he gave a great Chalice to the Church of Laterane whilst William our Arch-bishop of Yorke was poysoned in the Chalice 30. A. 1154 ADRIAN the fourth an Englishman succeeds before called Nicholas Brack-speare 2. This man would not suffer the Consuls in Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretique in holding with them 3. He quarrelled with Frederick the Emperour for not holding Hostler like his stirrop and afterwards Excommunicates him for clayming his rights and writing his name before the Popes for which the Emperour defends himselfe by a Letter 4. Great stirres there were also between him and William of Scicily concerning Apulia wherein William had the better and at length gott to be stiled King of both Sciciles 5. When with his Cardinals he had conspired to ruine the Emperour and had sent a Counterfeit to stabb him and an Arabian to poyson him he was choackt with a fly that gott into his Throat which verified that he was wont to repeat often There is no kind of life upon earth more wretched then to be a Pope Yet this lessened not 31. A. 1159 ALEXANDER the third an Hetrurian but that he opposed his Soveraigne in a more treacherous manner 2. He was chosen indeed in a strong Factionâ— of Victor Paschalis Calixtim Innocentius all clayming the place 3. The Emperour comes to Papia for to appease the stirrs sends for Alexander who insteed of obeying Excommunicates the Emperour and his Oposites and by the French Kings favour and his owne Purse settles himselfe in Rome 4. The Emperour comes with an Army to correct his insolency but Hartman Bishop of Brixia by effectuall perswasions turnes him from the Pope against the Saracens 5. There being Victorious and returning he was surprised by the Popes Treason who had sent his exact Counterfeit to the Souldan that he might not misse in laying wait for the man 6. Being apprehended therefore with his Chaplaine as they went to Bath themselves in a River of Armenia brought before the Souldan the Picture discovered him The Souldan uses him nobly appoints his Ransom then guards him home as farre as Brixia 7. The Princes of the Empire unite to revenge the prodigious Treason the Pope betakes himselfe to Venice where Duke Sebastian protects him Otho the Emperours Sonne is sent with an Army to hemme him in and not to fight untill his Fathers comming This charge he neglecting is overthrowne and taken Prisoner 8. The good Father to preserve his Soune is forced to submit in St Marks Church in Venice He prostrates himselfe before the Pope who setting his foot on his Neck with that of the Psalmist in his mouth Super Aspidem Basiliscum Thou shalt walk upon the Serpent and Adder and the Emperour replying non tibi sed Petro the Beast goes on mihi Petro to me as well as to Poter 9. This end after much trouble had that remar kable businesse The Pope gratified the Venetians as he had reason made his conditions with the Emperour at his pleasure and so returnes to Rome 10. Henry the second our King was much vexed by this Pope for the death of Thomas Becket of Canterbury whom the Pope made St Thomas for withstanding his King Soveraigne And upon the Kings submission to the lash granted to Him and his Heyres the Title of the Kings of England Hinc autem observatum est saith Flatina ut omnes Anglici à Romano Pontifice Regni jura recognoscant
and Iohn de Rupe-Scissâ 5. Raymund of Pinnasort a Spaniard of Bercinona composeth the booke of Decretalls Plat. Ciacon whi◠this Pope alloweth In these courses especially against the Emperour old 40. CELESTINE the fourth a Lumbard An. 1241 would have persisted but that almost at his first entrance he tooke a potion that marred his stomack and sent him to his predecessors One Robert Sommerton or Sommerlet an English man because he was upon election to be Pope by the like means was set going the same way 21. weeks the place lies voyd till the Emperour at the request of Baldwine the Easterne Emperour and Raymund of Tholose freed the Cardinalls he had in Prison to goe to an Election Revel 13. This pack of Sorcerers by some is tearmed the Kingdome of the Dragon 2. IN the compasse of this Period are found 1. Besides a knot of Conjurers and Poysoners 2. A Crew of Divelish Rebells abusing Religion to varnish their damnable designes 3. A rable of Orders of Munks that disorder all things 4. Wrangling Sophistry set on foot by Lanfranch Lombard Albertus Magnus with otheir Sects and Factions 5. Canonists glosing and descanting upon their Master Gratian the Collector of the Decrees 6. Comestor with lying Legendaries 7 Hildegardis Katherine of Seene and some other such Shee-Prophetesses notwithstanding Anselme and Bernard and the Hugoes de Sancto Victore and de Sancte-Claro are of better account The vexations of the poore Waldenses and barbarous usage of Learned Beringarius were wonderfull and of long Continuance as their Histories set out at large doe manifest INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Necromancy may be a tollerable way to Ecclesiasticall preferment 2. Pope Sylvesters Brazen head were the same with our Roger Bacons or of any other temper 3. Iohn Gratian the Conjurer had the Popedome at an easy rate for 1500l of Benedict the 9th 4. The Sub-Deacon that poysoned Pope Victor the third in the Chalice and Hildebrand that threw the consecrated host in to the fire believed Transubstantiation 5. Hildebrand aliàs Gregory the 7. poysoned sixe or seaven Popes before he could get the place for himselfe 6. Saladine with the Saracens did lesse hurt to Christianity in the East then the Popes with their Complices in the West 7. The Waldenses in the maine held the same opinions with the Protestants of latter times SECT IX The sixth Ranke of Devouring Abaddons FRom Aegyptian Magitians we fall upon Devouring Abaddons who strengthned their side by multitudes of Monkish Ianizaries that wasted for about 250. years following all that lay before them the leader of these was 1. INNOCENT the fourth of Genua A. 1243 he denounced the fourth Excommunication against the Emperour Frederick who had been his greatest friend held a Councell at Lions and deposed him set Henry of Thuring in his place and after him William of Holland and a great company of Crusiados that the Pope had marked for his own beasts but the Emperour crossed their Crownes as he met with them and Nobly defended himselfe untill he was poysoned at length by the Popes meanes and finally smothered by his bastard Manfred 2. This Pope was the only Patron of the foure orders of begging Locusts Dominicans Franciscans Carmelites and Augustines who hatched under him those addle eggs of Summaries Sophismes Repertories Reductories Quodlibets Exorcismes Breviaries Ritualls and the like 3. He offered to sell the Kingdome of Sicily to Henry the third at a reasonable rate being none of his own and quarrelled with our Robert Grostead Bishop of Lincolne who withstood him stoutly and contemned his Excommunication 4. And after his death is said to have minded the Pope by a thumpe on his side with his Crosyers staffe and this Item Veni miser in judicium Dei come wretch to Gods judgement and so eased the world of this Tyrant He left behind him Apparatum ad decretales an Apology against Peter de Vineis with other tracts mentioned by Ciacon and his successor a Campanian 2. ALEXANDER the fourth A.D. 1254 This man is all for Apulia Excommunicated Munfred diverted the money gathered to recover the Holy Land to work his own ends at home pilled England so farre that Fulke Bishop of London exclaimed against him one Leonard told his Legate that Churches were under the Popes tuition not fruition to defend not to expend and a Clearke he sent to be Prebend of Paules against the Kings Chaplaine was slaine in a tumult 2. He made for money Richard Earle of Cornwall Henry the thirds brother King of Germany whereupon a rime was made Nummus ait pro me nubet Cornubia Romae My purse tells me a quick dispatch 'Twixt Rome and Cornwall for a match Condemnes the bookes of William de Sancto Amore leaves 3. A. 1261 VRBANE the fourth his successor being formerly a Patriarch of Ierusalem He continued his sting against Manfred of Sicily and wrought Charles the King of France his Brother to be his death 2. Withstood the Romanes as much as he could who had set up a new Magistrate amongst them called Bandenses having power of life and death 3. Vpon solicitation by Eva an Anchoresse but as Onuphrius will have it by a drop of bloud distilling from the host in a Priests hand he instituted the feast of Corpus Christi day 4. Albertus Magnus and Aquinas are referred to this mans time 4. An. 1265 CLEMENT the fourth a French man is next who had before a Wife and three children 2. He brings in the French to get Naples sent Octobonus into England to take the value of all Church Revenues But he summoned by Death to a reckoning in a great Hubbub of the Cardinalls 5. A. 1271 GREGORY the tenth a Lombard was thrust into his place whereupon came the verses Papatus munus tulit Archi diaconus unus Quem Patrem Patrum fecit discordia fratrum An Arch-deacon the Papall Incomes gathers Whom Brethrens discord Father made of Fathers 2. He held a Councell at Lions at which was present Mychael Paleologus the Greeke Emperour and acknowledged the Laterane tenent of the proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne which twelve times before they had withstood 3. Bonaveuture was by him made Cardinall and Peter de Turantesia Cardinall of Hostia Radulphus of Auspurge Crowned Emperour but would not goe to Rome to have it Quia vestigia as he said ipsum terrebant because the Foxe saw no safe returne Peter de Tarautasia succeeds him by the title of 6. INNOCENT the fifth a Burgundian An. 1276 the first Pope of the begging Fryars being the same Peter Tartaret that wrote upon the Sentences and other workes 2. He endeavoured to set Peace amongst all but dyed before he could effect any thing 7. HADRIAN the fifth a Genoway followes A. 1276 named before Octobonus the same that kept so great a stirre here in England in the Raigne of Henry the third 2. Platina Vide Pitgah Evang. p. 182 He dyes before he was consecrated some say
deminishing his House-keeping cast about to keep up money 2. It was well that he commanded Priests to be resident and to give good Example unto their Charge by their temperare lives 3. Richard Arch bishop of Armaught urged before this Pope Nine Articles against the begging Fryars that were never answered 4. And John de Rupe Scissa foretold such shrewd things of Anti-christ that proved afterward too true For which he was burnt at Avignion 5. Whilst the Lance and Nayles that tormented our Saviour were graced withan Holiday and this Elogy Ave ferrum triumphale Intrans pectus tu vitale Coeli pandis ostia Haile Iron triumphall Piercing a breast vitall That opens Heavens gate Faecundata in cruore Faelix hasta nos amore Per te fixos saucia Bles'd spear steeped in blood With love make al us wood The Heretiques to hate An Englishmans Sonne though borne in France 21 VRBAN the fifth comes next a great stickler A.D. 1362 to uphold Popish priveledges and set forth the State and Authority of the Papacy 2. John Huncash an Englishman was his Champian for Warrs Briget of Sweveland was entertained Platina and had the order of St Briget conformed by him 3. About the same time Vide Crisp Sabellinus volater Baleum an order of the Iesuits with the Scopetines appeared which differs from our moderne Pragmatists as Lydius notes 4. Determining to returne againe into Italy he was poysoned as it is thought at Marsils GREGORY the cleaventh that succeeded A.D. 1370 was Nephew to Pope Clement the sixth made Cardinall by him before he was 17 yeares old and then sent to Schoole to Baldus the greet Lawyer of Peruse 2. By the perswasion of whom and St Katherine St Dominicks Sister of Sceane most of the Cities of Italy revolted from him 3. Vpon which occasion as also by the admonition of Briget returned from Jerusalem and the reproofe of a bold Bishop who told him he could not blame him for Non-residency that had left Rome to reside in Avignion He left Avignion and with 12 Gallyes returned againe to Rome Anno 1376 after the Court had bin at Avignion 70 yeares together 4. Vpon his returne he Excommunicated the Florentines and regayned by the sword what before was lost repayred Romes Dilapidations by the absence of former Incumbents 5. A sect of Bedlam Dancers of men and women Enthusiasts to se in those dayes which the world thought not well Christned by these bawdy Priests 6. At this Popes death the Pallace of Avignion was fired by chance that unclean Birds might no more roust in that Cage for 23. An. 1378 VRBANE the sixth a poore Neopolitane that succeeded expressed himselfe against returning into France Whereupon a company of French Cardinals chose Clement the seaventh against him beginning a Schisme that lasted almost 40 yeares 2. At this mans first Election he was much graced by Iane Queene of Naples and Otto of Brunswick her Husband but the rude beast soon forgot it and afterward was the cause of both their deaths to make good that saying Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum Corde stat inflato pauper honore dato None looks to be accounted More then a Begger mounted He struts with heart full blowne when honor 's on him throwne 3. He was much in the beginning for Charles King of Naples with an eye to the Princifying of his Roguish Nephew Francis Batillus But this friendship was soone turned to spight And Batillus after his Vncles death was stript of all that he had heaped together according to the saying Cum moritur praesul cognatio tota fit exul When once the Prelate failes His Kin may pare their nayles 4. The brutish Tyranny of this Pope against some of his Cardinals whom he suspected to be underhand for Clement is described by Theodoricus à Niem who was his Secretary and present at their usage Berthold Swarts a Chymick then invented Gunpowder 5. He held a Iubilee to gather money made 54. Cardinalls to back him against his opposite 24. CLEMENT the seaventh A. 1380 a French man of a Noble house with whom sided the French and Spanish as our English Dutch Italians and others did with Vrbane 2. This quarrell grew so high that Rome it selfe was miserably plundred by Clement and his adherents 3. One Popes Bulls roared against the others Christendome was divided Iohannes de Ligniaco writes in defence of Clement and a Councell at Paris made good his title The Abbat of St Vedast apologizeth for Vrban Platina omits Clement as an Intruder and after Vrbane puts 25. BONIFACE the ninth another Naples man A. 1389 made Cardinall before by Vrban 2. He was scarce thirty years old when he was made Pope so ignorant that he could neither sing nor say nor understand the supplications put up to him or matters discussed before him 3. Yet was he the notablest Huckster for selling Church livings that ever came in that Sea Any dolt might be then preferred for mony and be sooner traded with then a more deserving man 3. His Mother and two Brethren in the Court helpe to make his markets for him He married his Sister to the Duke of Adria who quickly slew her and forfeited his own life for it 4. In this mans time Chrysolaras brought from the East the Greeke Letters which had been neglected in the West for 500. years in propagation of which learning Guarinus Victorinus Philelphus Leonard Aretine with others joyned with him 26. A.D. 1400 BENEDICT the 13. a Spaniard called Peter de Luna is not numbred by the Romanists amongst their Popes because he succeeded Clement the seaventh in the schisme 2. At his Election he took an Oath to give over the place if the Cardinalls should think it meet but being put to it he easily dispensed with that Oath complies with the King of France to hold him in whiles 27. A.D. 1404 INNOCENT the seaventh an Italian Elected in Boniface the 9th place Poped it in Italy but falling out with the Cittizens of Rome by reason that his Nephew Lewis hath treacherously butchered some of them he was faine to fly from Rome to Viterbium with great difficulty 2. But matters composed he returned at last againe made diverse Cardinalls demanded the moyty of Ecclesiasticall Revenues but was stoutly denyed both in France and England In this mans place was chosen by the Cardinalls 28. A. 1406 GREGORY the 12th a Venetian but on this condition that for the Peace of the Church he should be bound to resigne 2. Many delusions past betwixt Peter Moon and him which the Cardinalls perceiving called a Councell at Pisa and outed them both and put into the place 29. An. 1409 ALEXANDER the fifth a Cretane 2. He deposed Ladislaus King of Naples and Apulia by a Bull confirmed St Francis five wounds to be accounted an Article of Faith The Cardinall of St Eustace that poysoned him took his place rather then was chosen by the name of 30. A. 1410 IOHN
For falling off from the Emperour to France Rome came to be sacked by the Duke of Burbon and the Pope himselfe with his Cardinalls to be taken Prisoners 4. For crossing our King Henry the eight and deluding him in the Divorce from his brothers wife Queene Katharine he lost his Supremacy here in England and for his lewd life otherwise made his See infamous Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leuo aut Meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vile Rome adiew I did thee view but hence no more will see Till Pimpe or Punke or Iade or Spade I doe resolve to be 4. Palengenius that lived in his time sets out the corruptions of these daies in his Capricorne some say he died of the lowsy disease others by the poysonous smell of a Torch This Pope might passe for a Clement and mercifull man indeed in regard of his successor a Romane 5. PAUL the third A. 1534 who prostituted his sister Julia Farnesia to Alexander the sixth that he might be made Cardinall committed incest with his own daughter Constantia and poysoned her husband Bosius Sforfia to enjoy her the more freely so in a jealous humor he used his own sister upon suspition she played false with him but for pressing on his Neice Laura Farnesia in the like matter Nicholas Quercen her husband taking him in the Act gave him a marke that he carried with him to his grave 2. Being Legate at Ancona under Pope Iulius the second he cozened a Lady under pretence of marriage to yeeld to his Lust who upon discovery of the delusion fell almost distracted yet brought him that Peter Aloysius afterward Duke of Placenâ—ia where he was slaine for his horrible villanies especially that upon Cosmus Cherea not to be named 3. To this Incest and maintaining 45000. Courtezans his Necromancy comes as a Complement He conferred with Gauricus Servita and other of the damned Crew who were alwaies at his Elbow 4. Fâ—om this Popes piety we had the Councell of Trent and Order of the Jesuits and King Henry the eight Excommunicated and our England given Primo occupaturo some will say a worse there could not be But let them consider his successor and Countryman and Legate in the Councell of Trent 6. A.D. 1550 IULIUS the third Who as soone as he was chosen not without great stirres gave his Cardinalls hat to a Sodomiticall boy whom he had abused called Innocentius to the repining Cardinalls who asked a reason of it What reason had you saies he to chuse me Pope Fortune favours whom she pleaseth 2. Iohn Casa Arch-bishop of Benevent Deane of the Apostolicall Chamber in this mans time Printed a Book at Venice in defence of Sodomy By whom Francis Spira was seduced to revolt and dyed desperately 3. This Pope was the man that would have his Porke forbidden by his Physitian Al despetto de dio in despight of God and maintained that he had more cause to be angry for the keeping back of his cold Peacock Pye then God had to cast Adam out of Paradice for eating of an Apple 4. From the same man we had the Reconciliation and blessing of the Mother Church so submissively taken from the hands of Cardinall Poole in Queen Maries daies that cost the lives of so many Innocents by various Executions 5. Whereupon one Vvalterius describes the Sea of Rome under him in this Tetrastichon Roma quid est quod te docuit praeposterus ordo Quid docuit jungas versa elementa seies Roma Amor est Amor est qualis praeposterus unde haec Roma Mares noli dicere plura scio What 's Rome even that preposterousnesse doth show What 's that spel't backward then thou soon maist know Backward 't is Amor love what love nay hold It is a male loue odious to be told And Beza plaies upon three evacuating Basons which this Pope was wont to have at hand in his beastly surquedry I nunc Pontifices Germania dira negato Omnia Clausa suo jura tenere sinu And now will cursed Germany deny The Pope hath * Alluding to the word that signifies Laws and Broth. Iura that he thus let fly No sure this Pope let it fly at both ends and his life went after Another of the Tridentine Legats 7 MARCELLUS the second an Hetruscan A.D. 1555 was quickly foysted into the place The rather because he was sickly and in likely-hood could not keep it long 2. He had been Schoole Master to Peter Aloysius esteemed the Lutherane worse then Turks perswadeed Charles the fifth and Ferdinand rather to turne their forces against them then the Mahometanes 3. Paulus Vergerius must not stay in the Councell of Trent but why forsooth He believed not the Legend of St George and S. Christopher whom Paul the third before had left out of the Breviary The Bishop of Claudia Fossa Iames Nanclant must be likewise discharged for holding the Scripture to be above Traditions and William of Venice for saying the Councell was above the Pope But the short time he Poped it abridged his farther proceedings which being but 23. daies a Neopolitâ—ne 8. PAUL the fouth continues the Line A.D. 1555 who wrote a book for reforming the Church to Paul the third when he was Cardinall wherein he taxed most of the same abuses that Luther did but the case was altered when he came to have power in his own hand 2. He was a great Patron of the Jesuits and Inquisition which had made away by Vergerius reckoning in his time 150000. persons under pretext of Religion England had her share by Queen Maries Clergy It was this Popes Legate Cardinall Caraffa that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians Quandoquidem Populus decipivult decipiatur In as much as this people will be deceived let them be deceived He was so hated for his cruelty that immediatly upon his death the people burnt the Prison or rather slaughter-house of the Inquisition beheaded the Popes Statua and threw it into Tyber and razed all the Armes of the Caraffa's they could fall upon One of the house of the Medices by the Spanish faction is after foure months thrust into his place 9. A.D. 1560 PIUS the fourth who abrogates the Acts of his predecessors and persecutes his kindred makes Charles Borromeus Cardinall who after proved a Saint 2. The Nationall Councell the King of France held at Poyters he handsomely defeats by setting on foot again the Councell of Trent 3. Thither he cites the Protestant Germanes and French Hugonotes with Calvin among the rest by the Bishop of Cumane But their answer was that the Pope had no Authority to call Councells much lesse to carry things at his pleasure A free Councell they were willing for where Gods Word might take place and not be overswayed with politique Projects 4. Queen ELIZABETH took order that none of his Legats should set footing here in England which hath sped the better for it ever since 5. She was designed to be
England Denmarke Norway some adde also part of Sweden together with Scotland were wholy subject unto him 3. His Iealousies of Ironsides Children moved him to send his sonnes Edward and Edmund to Swanus King of Denmarke to be dispatched but he abhorring such Villâ—ny transfer'd them to the King of Hungary where Edmund dying Edward Married Agatha the Emperour Henry the fourths Daughter by whom he had Edgar Etheling the surviving Heire of the Crowne of England which he could never recover 4. To strengthen his Title what he might he takes Emma to wife King Etheldreds Widdow M. Lambard makes good Lawes extant in the Saxon tongue and Latine gave one hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold for St Augustince Arme which he bestowed on Coventry as a memoriall of his Zeale though not according to knowledge 5. He had Issue by Emma his second Wife the faire Gunhilda and Hardy-Canutus Gunhilda was Married to the Emperour Henry the third where falling into suspition of Incontinency she was vindicated by her English Page overthrowing in her quarrell a great Gyant Hardicanutus was designed to succeed by his Father here in England but was put by in his absence by his Brother 2. A.C. 1038 HAROLD called Harefoot by reason of his swiftnesse Earle Goodwin withstands his entrance but by secret prevailing meanes was soone made his friend 2. A Letter is forged in Queene Emma's name to bring over her sonnes Edward and Alfred which she had by Ethelred to claim their Right to the Crowne Alfred comes and by Earle Goodwin is made away with all those that came with him at Gilford 3. Emma is banished but courteously entertained by Baldwin Earle of Flanders Harold thus secured as he thought from Competitors lives loosly dyes speedily and without Issue leaves the Kingdom to 3. A.C. 1041 HARDICANUTUS who made it his first worke to disintombe his Predecessors Corps and threw it into Thamisis but some Fishermen more courteous recovered it and buryed it againe in St Clements neare Temple-Barre 2. His recalling his Mother Emma and half Brother Edward and entertaining them respectively deserves commendations As also the prosecuting Earle Goodwin and the Bishop of Worcester for Prince Alfreds death but the Earle quitted himselfe by his Oath and a rich Present and the Bishops questioning is said to be for the Murther of the Kings Taxe-Collectors in Worcester by the inraged Citizens for which their City was afterwards consumed with fire 3. His Epicurismo left an ill Custome to all posterity Foure times a day his Table must be covered to invite men to Intemperancy Through which at a Marriage he is thought to have Choaked himselfe at Lambeth most rejoycing to be rid of him in memory whereof Hock-tide a Feast of scorning was a long time continued after In this third Heire expired the Danish Line and the Saxon revived againe in 4. EDWARD the sonne of Ethelred Emma A.C. 1043 commonly called the Confessour 1. To gaine the more love of his Subjects at his first entrance he remitted the Taxe of Danegilts so greivous to the Commonds collected the Lawes of his predecessors into a body for the administrationof Iustice which some say are the ground of our Common-Law though the Pleading be altered since the Norman Conquest 2. He was threatned by the Dane See M. Lambards Archnom and vexed by Griffith the Welch Prince who was quelled by Harold especially who was imployed against them Betweene him and the potent Earle Goodwin were such debates that twice came to the hazard of dangerous Battles if wise mediation of the Nobles had not prevented them the death of which Earle is reported to be his Choaking with a bitt of Bread upon an imprecation laid on himselfe that that might be his last if he had a hand in the death of the Kings Brother Prince Alfred though some say he died of the deadpalsie 3. Grafton In this man's time Coventry purchased its Freedome from Earle Leofrie by the Riding of his Countesse Godina naked through it but such order was taken by the Townesmen that shutting up all Doores and Windowes none beheld it 4. His unnaturall dealing with his good Mother Emma and vertuous faire Wife Editha Earle Goodwins Daughter cannot be excused For upon a poore surmise of Incontinency with Alwin Bishop of Winchester his Mother in his presence was put to the Ordalium to passe Blindfolded between nine glowing Coulters which she did untouched and his spotlesse Queene Editha denied Marriageright perchance for hatred to her Father and with one Waiting-maid to live disrespected in a Nunnery 5. Such actions so opposite to Gods word should Saint no man The first curing the Kings Evill is referred to him and thence to have continued to his Successors More Laudable was his respect to Edgar Etheling Grandchild to to Ironside by his sonne Edward the Out-law that died in banishment whom he intended for his successour and he had the best right to it but he being young and wanting meanes and friends to support him 5. A.C. 1066 HAROLD sonne of Earle Goodwin makes bold to take the place a man of excellent parts and approved valour as the Welch and others which he subdued in his Predecessors time found to their cost 2. He droven by Tempest into Normandy was affianced to young Adeliza Duke William's Daughter with whom he Covenanted upon Oath to make him successour to Edward in the Kingdome of England 2. But this contract he held as a nicity or complement and constrained Oathes no way to bind wherein he soothed himselfe but God is not mocked and usurpations thrive not long 3. Three Enemies at one time assault him Tosto his owne Brother Harold Harefager or Fairelocks of Norway and William Duke of Normandy The two former he manfully quelled but fell under the hand of William in that famous Battle of Hastings in Sussex the setter up of the next Dynasty 2. IN those times whiles Princes sought the ruines one of another Popes grew up to dispose of them and their Kingdoms and those that protested against such deformities and enormities could not be heard INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Canutus had the largest Dominious of any that ever Ruled in this Kindome 2. St Augustines Arme were worth so much as he gave for it 3. Edward the sonne of Etheldred deserved the Title of Confessour 4. Our Common-Law have its grounds from his Collections 5. Ordalium by hott Coulters be fit to purge suspition of Incontinency 6. Stopping the rights of Marriages without consent for a time of both Parties be not directly against Gods word 7. Harold were bound to keep his Oath to William of Normandy for the Crowne of England in prejudice to Edgar Etheling the apparent right Heire Of the Normans DYNASTY IV. THe Fourth Dynasty is of the Normans to the Plantagenets and hath in it 1. A.C. 1067 WILLIAM the Conquerour the seaventh Duke of Normandy the sonne of Robert begotten on Arlot a poore Skinners daughter whom he affected for her
Bullingbrook for his freedome to have things reformed In his absence seâ—zeth upon his whole estate Bullingbrook returnes when the King was in Ireland The People flock to him The King resignes his Crowne to him is committed to Pomfred Castle there assaulted by eight Assassines valiantly kills foure of them and so is slaine himselfe 2. WIthin compasse of this Section are remarkable 1. The strange Vsurpation of Popes to make good or disanull the Titles of Kings and Demising of Kingdomes to Farme 2. The bringing in of Auricular Confession and Transubstantiation not for informing but infatuating Gods People 3. The persecutions of the poore Waldenses not for detestation of their Tenents which they laboured not to examine but out of a Iealousie lest these mens plaine dealing should discover their drifts and marre their Maâ—kets 4. The protestations of Wicliff and his followers against the grosse Superstition brought in by Monkes and Friers in Doctrine Discipline notably scourged by Ieffery Chaucer the Learned and Famous Poet of those times 5. Lastly upon remissnesse in Government and neglect of execution of Iustice the breaking out of such Out-Lawes as were Robin Hood and Little John with their Comrades or starting up of such Impostors and Villaines as were 1. William Longbeard under Richard the first a sharp reprover of Vice and Disorders in the Common Wealth Himselfe at last being found to be a Murderer that had fleaed a man and a Whoremaster that had used his Concubine in a Church and a Witch that worshiped at home a familiar in forme of a Catt 2. John Poydras a Tanners sonne of Exeter that stood upon it that Edward the second was a Changling substituted in his Cradle for him who was the right Heire to the Crowne 3. Iohn Wall a Preist 4. Wat Tyler 5. Jack Straw 6. Jach Shepherd with 7. William Lister their Captaine would make all Leveli without distinction of King or Subject Master or Servant INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the second consented to the Murther of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 2. The cause he suffered for were pertinent to saint him 3. Expiatory Pennance enjoyned for that murder were fit for a Preist to propose or a King to undergoe 4. King Iohn could forfeit his Kingdome to the Pope or the Pope let it to Farme 5. He were poysoned by a Monke or dyed otherwise 6. Queene Isabell were not more to blame for prosecuting her Husband Edward the second then the King was for sticking so close to Gaveston 7. King Richard the second were starved to death or barbarously Butchered by St Piers of Exton Lancastrians DYNAST V. SECT II. THus farre the Plantagenets have continued in an unquestionable right line Now followes the division of the Houses of Lancester and Yorke three of each succeeding in their order Of Lancaster we have 1. A.C. 1399 HENRY the fourth surnamed Bullinbrooke 1. This man backt his usurpation of the Crowne by Parliament Wherein John the Religious Learned and resolute Bishop of Carlile openly contradicted but could not be heard whereupon the Duke of Anmerle his Cosen Then the Percyes joyning with the Scots and French together with Owen Glendore and his Welch make a strong head against him 3. But in the Battell of Shrewsbury Henry Hotspurre is slaine outright Douglas the valiant Scot taken but released without ransome The Earle of Worcester beheaded Owen Glendore pursued by the Prince into Wales and famished there in the Woods 4. The like successe he had in discovering and suppressing the Earle of Northumberlands Rebellion with some Nobles and the Scots his Complices 5. Intending a voyage into the Holy Land he is arrested by an Apoplexie acknowledged to his sonne who had seized upon his Crowne upon supposall he was dead the little right he had to its and so by his Death leaves it to his eldest sonne 2. A.C. 1412 HENRY the fifth of Monmoth 1. At his first entrance he cashiered all his dissolute companions that followed him when he was Prince Reformes abuses in the Commonwealth growes upon the Clergy but was Politiquely diverted by Henry Chichesly Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to imploy his forces for the recovering of his Title to France 2. Vpon which he enters having cut off Richard Earle of Cambridge brother to the Duke of Yorke who by Treason would have prevented it takes Harflew gave the French with the oddes of about sixe to one an admirable overthrow at Agencourt where more Prisoners were taken then their surprisers whose throats were cut upon an after Alarum by Robinet of Bonvill 3. In a Sea-fight before Harflew the French had another extraordinary overthrow 4. He subdues all Normandy and takes Cane and Roane 5. The Dolphin of France being in disgrace by rifling his Mothers treasure and murthering John the young Duke of Burgoyne an agreement is made that Henry should marry Katharine the Kings Daughter of France and so succeed him in the Kingdome 6. This was Proclaimed and Performed accordingly He keeps his Court at Paris as Regent with incomparable Magnificence Returnes with his Queene into England who is delivered of a Sonne at Windsor upon which he is said to have spoken Prophetically I Henry of Monmoth shall remaine but a short time and gaine much but Henry of Windsor shall Raigne long and loose all 7. In his returne into France to rescue his friend Philip Duke of Burgoyne he sickneth and dyes at Bloys leaving his Sonne to succeed him but of nine Months old 3. HENRY the sixth of Winsor 1. A.C. 1422 His Protector was Humphrey Duke of Glocester Regent in France Iohn Duke of Bedford Manager of many weighty businesses at home Thomas Duke of Exeter his three Vnkles 2. All went well in Erance of which he was Crowned King in Paris untill the Seige of Orleance where Ioane the Sheapherdesse of Lorraine put in with her devices which wrought much mischiefe but at length she was taken and executed 3. Mountecute the valiant Earle of Salisbury and the Lord Talbot failing all things in France went to wrack till all was lost 4. Humphrey Duke of Glocesters murther the Kings Marriage with Margaret poore King Rayners daughter of Scicily with the Rebellion of Blewbeard and Iack Cade weaken the affaires at home 4. Richard Duke of Yorke sets on foot his Title to the Crowne got it by Parliament so farre forth as to be Heire apparent to Henry who was taken Prisoner in the Battle at St Albone but in prosecution of that businesse he lost his life with his Sonnes young Rutland 5. Notwithstanding at length Edward Richards Sonne the right Heire overthrew the King in Towton field and so recovered his Due 2. FAlling in with these times may be observed 1. That as Popes had deposed Kings now the Councells of Constance and Basill deposed Popes and set other in their places without the suffrages of Cardinalis 2. The perfidious dealing with Iohn Husse and Hierome of Prague which the Bohemians then complained of and yet sticks to Rome as an