458 amongst which Ethelbert was most eminent for first receiving the Christian Faith brought from Rome by Austine and for converting Sebert King of the East-Angles to Christianity and assisting him in building Paules in London and St Peters in Westminster as he himselfe built the Cathedrall of St Andrewes in Rochester 6. An. C. 488 SOUTH-SAX from Ella to Adhumus had about tenne Kings Authors agree not in the reckoning of which Adlewolf was the first Christened It quickly fell into the hands of Ina of West-Sax 7. An. C. 527 EAST-SAX from Erchwin to Swithred had thirteene Kings whereof Sigebert the third was the first Baptized by Mellitus Bishop of London 8. Amongst the fourteene Kings of the EAST-ANGLES An. C. 575 from Vffa to Edmund Kadwallus appeared the first Christian but held not so long Etheldreda King Inah's Daughter twice Marryed kept her Virginity and thence gained the Title of St Audrie Edmund the last King for his profession was shott to death by the Danes honoured from Rome with a Sainâ—-ship and at home insteed of a Tombe with the Title of the Towne of St Edmunds Bury 9. An. C. 527 Of the twenty Kings of MERCIA from Crida to Elfird Christianity was first received by Penda that Founded Peterborough as Ethelbald did the Monastery of Crowland and Offa of St Albans 10. An. C. 617 NORTHUMBERLAND had in it two Provinces Diera and Bertitia which in their severall Governments had about 24 Kings from Ida to Ethelbert five Danes thrust in amongst them Raigned successwely for a while till the Government returned to the West-Saxons in the time of Ethelstane and his brother Edmund Here Edwin was the first King Christened Speed whose deliverance from the furious Ethelfride by faithfull Redwall of the East-Angles and the glorious Victory he had over him afterwards his Marriage with Ethelburg the Kentish Princesse a great meanes of his conversion his preservation from a desperate Villaine by the interposition of his servant Lilla who undertook a fatall thrust of a poysoned weapon to save his Masters life and lastly his overthrow and death by Penda are matters of especiall note as also the Acts of Oswall that was Sainted and left the name to Oswalstere in Shropshire The humility of Oswin Beds Speed and the piety of Oswie that miraculously overthrew the Tyrant Penda of Mercia are worth the reading 11. Amongst the 19 Kings of WEST-SAXONS from Cerdicus Kingills is registred to be the first Christian Ive or Ina to have made good Lawes set forth in the Saxon and Latine Tongue by Mr William Lambard and to have granted to Rome Peter-pence Ethelburg King Bithrick's Wife that sled for attempting to poyson her Husband into France where by reason of her exceeding beauty she was put to the choyce to Marry either Charles or his Sonne she pitching on the Sonne missed both and was thrust into a Monastery From the Tyranny of this Bithrick fled 1. An. C. 800 EGBERT first to Offa of Mercia and then into France where he served in the Warres under Charles the great There he became so accomplished a Souldier that returning he vanquished the petty Kings left behind him and turned the Heptarchy into a Monarchy 2. He was Crowned at Winchester King of the whole Kingdome which then of his Angles brought with him and followers in all his Conquests He caused to be called England 3. The Danes then beginning to Invade are repelled His Daughter Editha the Nunne is Sainted his Eldest sonne 2. An. C. 837 ETHELWOLFE succeeds him He took for his first wife Osburga his Butlers daughter Hath good successe in diverse Battles against the intruding Danes 2. For placing the Lady Judith the King of France's Daughter whom he had taken for his second Wife in a Chaire by him at his right hand he was threatned to be Deposed by Adelstane Bishop of Sherburne his owne sonne by his former Wife who in those dayes was a Prelate of great power as was also Swithene Bishop of Winchester by whom the King was much advised to his advantage But this presumption was intolerable and by Royall Prudence soone hushed 3. He ordained that Tithes and Church Lands should be free from all Taxes and Regall services Of the diverse Children that he had by his first Wife his Eldest sonne 3. An. C. 857 ETHELBALD succeeds He blasted all his eminent parts of Valour and Policy by taking Iudith his Stepmother to be his Wife so that she must lye in Bed by his side who might not fit in a Chaire by his Father 2. This prodigious Incest was soone punished from heaven by his untimely death His Wife without Issue returning to the Emperour her Father was intercepted by the way and forced by Baldwin Forrester of Ardenna who at length appeasing her Father was made by him Earle of Flanders from whom this Iudith descended Maud the Wife of our William the Conquerour 3. In this Vacaency the next brother to Ethelbald 4. ETHELBERT takes his place An. C. 860 Much adoe he had to resist the Danes who swarmed continually about him he withstood them manfully for the time and Forces which he had but by his death a greater storme fell upon his Brother 5. ETHELRED that Raigned next In his time Hungar A.Ch. 866 and Hubba men of excessive strength and feirenesse entered this Land with great Forces and harrowed wheresoever they set footing especially being Pagans Levelled all Sucred places with the ground 2. To avoyd their fury and preserve their owne Chastity the Nunnes of Codingham by a rare example cut off their owne Lipps and Noses St Edmund by these Barbarians gained the Crowne of Martyrdome and to make them the more irresistable Streg and Halden two Danish Kings furnish them with fresh supplies whom the Earle of Berkshire ropelled neere Englefield and cut off one of the new-come Leaders 3. This while Ethelred is not Idle but every where so bestirres himselfe that he proves Victorious against them in nine sett Battles fought in one yeare wherein with one of their Kings nine Earles of the Danes were slaine In the end at Merton he received his deaths wound and left his torne Kingdome to the brave 6. ALFRED or Alured his Brother A.Ch. 871 Vpon him three more Danish Kings as though Hell had bin brake loose Guerthren Eskittle and Ammond are poured like haile-shott with their innumerable followers 2. To whom by Wilson Exeter and Abingdon he gave great overthrowes and no lesse then seven times in one yeare Routed and Scattered them 3. Notwithstanding by their obstinate reinforcing he was once brought to that extremity that he was forced to leave his Companies and lurke in Somersetshire Marishes where righting his bow and arrowes by the fire in a poore Cottage he was sharply blamed by the housewife for letting a Cake on the hearth burne for want of turning 4. From thence under the habit of a Fidler he ventures among the Enimies and having noted their loosenesse and many secret intentions returnes to
Miracles followe to back his Sermons Of which some have pitcht upon 34. others have reckoned 57. Simon de Cassia Salmeron A Lapide Io. 2. Math. 15. Math. 7. all may be disposed according to the places in which they were performed As 1. In Galilee The turning of water into Wine dispossessing the Woman of Canaans daughter The curing of one Deafe that had an impediment in his speech by puting his fingers into his eares and touching his tongue with his spittle 2. In Capernaum The curing of a Noble mans sonne Io. 4. Mar. 2. Math. 9. at a great distance Of the Paralitique that was brought in a bed and let downe through the roofe of the house before him Of the raising of Iairus daughter c. 3. Beyond Iordane the dispossession of a Legion of Divells Mar. 5. and sending them into the heard of Swine 4. On the Sea in commanding the wind and waters walking on the waters assembling the Fishes at his pleasure to be taken whereof one brought mony in his mouth to pay tribute 5. Math. 57. Io. 6. Math. 14. 15. Luk. 7. In the Wildernesse by feeding 5000 with five Barlie loaves and two fishes and 4000 at another time in the like miraculous manner 6. In Iudea The raising of the Widowes sonne of Naim and of Lazarus when he stunke in his grave are Wonders never elsewhere heard of 7. And lastly in Ierusalem Jo. 11. Io. 5. Io. 9. The quiting of the impotent man at Bethesda of his eight and thirty years languishing The opening of the eyes of him that was borne blind with like which to these places may be referred 9. These were intermixed with his Conferences Conferences distinguishable by the parties conferred with So we have his discourse with 1. Nicodemus of Regeneration and Salvation by his lifting up from the biting of the old Serpent Jo. 2. as the Israelites were cured by Moses Serpent in the Wildernesse 2. With the Woman of Samaria at Iacobs well Ib. 4. concerning the comming of Messias and Gods spirituall Worship 3. With the Pharisees of Traditions Sabboth math 15. and the Author of his Doctrine and Miracles 4. Ib. c. 22 Luke 10. With the Sadduces concerning the Resurrection 5. With the Lawyers about the First and Greatest Commandement and who may be tearmed our Neighbour 6. With the People Jo. 6. touching the Bread of Life and spirituall Manna and their senselesnesse in not acknowledging the Messias 7. With his Disciples and followers Math. 20. Mar. 10. affecting supremacy and being disheartned at his low condition and foretelling them of greater sufferings that should fall upon him 10. Sufferings Math. 26. Mar. 14. Luk. 22. v. 52. These sufferings he endured 1. In Gethsemane when he was in his greatest Agony exceeding sorrowfull very Heavy to the death prayed and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood 2. In his apprehending by the Chiefe Priests Captaines of the Temple Iudas and the rascall multitude Luk. 23. 3. In the Ecclesiastique Consistories of Annas and Caiphas 4. In Herods Court by Jeerings and Mockings and returning him to Pilate in a robe of Scorne 5. Vnder Pilates hands where he was tumultuously voted to be crucified against the Iudges acquitting of him and a seditious Murtherer accepted before him Io. 19. 6. In his Crowning with thornes spitting upon scourging and burthened with his own crosse by the executioners after his condemnation 7. In his torments on the Crosse by mockings revylings relieving only with Gall and Vineger piercing his side after he was dead When the Heavens put on their blacks the earth staggered the Rocks rent the graves opened the Temples vayle was torne from the top to the bottome at such transcendent Impieties for continuall remembrance of which we have the Sacrament Instituted solemnly by himselfe at his last Supper 11. Triumphs Colloss 2.15 And upon this Consummatum est or Finishing succeeded his Triumphs 1. Over Principalities and Powers of darknesse by spoyling them and shewing them openly 2. Over the Grave and Death by his Resurrection 3. Over all oppositions and Impediments Act 1. by his forty daies conversing with his Apostles in tenne infallible apparitions instructing them in those things that pertaine to the Kingdome of God Io. 20. Math. 28. 4. In giving them full Commission to teach and list all Nations by Baptisme In the name of the most Sacred Trinity Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and to remit and retaine sinnes by virtue of the Holy Ghost which he breathed upon them 5. In trampling the World under foot by his Glorious Ascension 6. Ruling in the midst of his Psal 110. and his Churches enemies by the rod of his strength as he sits at the right hand of the Father 7. And last of all by sending of the Holy Ghost to furnish his Apostles and their Successors for the propagating of the Gospell to the utter dissolving of all the depths of Saetan and his incessant Machinations The ridiculous paralell of Apollonius Tyaneus with our Saviour by Hierocles and the malitious exceptions of R. Nizachon against his doings and Miracles are fully answered by Eusebius and Munster in Math. Hebraice 12. About this fulnesse of Time Gal. 4. in our Saviours being upon earth appeared 1. The great Witts for Poetry Virgil Ovid Horace c. for Oratory Cicero for History Salust Livy Trogus Pompeius Strabo the Geographer 2. Triumphant Warriors Pompey Julius Caesar Augustus 3. Notorious Impostors Simon Magus who proclaimed himselfe to appeare as God the Father to the Samaritanes Ireneus l. 2. God the Sonne to the Jewes and God the Holy Ghost to the Gentiles Theudas a Magitian that missed a multitude to passe over Iordan which he bore them in hand should divide it selfe but himselfe and those with him were all slaine or scattered Act. 5.36 Judas of Galilee who would not indure to pay Tribute or acknowledge any Lord which some make the reason that our Saviour and his Apostles were so punctuall against this madnes least they should be thought such Galileans Euseb E. H. l. 4. c. 6. Dion Cassius in Hadriano as favoured Rebellion such a one was Barcochebas afterward a fatall Comet who with his new light was the destruction of 50000 of his followers 4. Silencing of Oracles as that of Delphos where Augustus Caesar urging the Divell for an answere was told that an Hebrew child had stop'd his mouth and sent him with a Mittimus to Hell and therefore he might spare labour or cost Peucer de Oraculis to consult with him any more The like was the Lamentation for the death of the great God Pan in Plutarch 5. The discovery of the Abomination of the Idoll Priests in Rome upon the abusing of the noble Matrone Paulina by Decius Mundus whom he could not bring to his Lure by mony but had his will of under the maske of Anubis to which Doggs head she was
got not thereby a poore Vicarage hovell to shelter himselfe from the Banishment of the Emperour Hadrian 2. S. Paul acknowledgeth him as most let it passe for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fellow Labourer Phil. 4.3 doubtlesse he busied himselfe in better imployments then the setting forth of Masses Vestures and such other Ceremonies â—olon 1569. 3. Lambertus Gruterus hath cobled together such Workes as are fathered upon him by the name of Clementines which are tenne Bookes of his Recognitions with an Epitome of them containing the Pilgrimages and Acts of S. Peter eight more of the Constitutions of the Apostles besides 90. Canons ascribed also to them and five decretall Epistles of the same stampe 4. Since which time his Epistle to the Corinthians so much talked of by the Ancients hath come to light and is newly set forth in Greeke and Lattine with very Learned observations of Mr Patrick Young Oxon. 1633. 5. Notwithstanding the worth of this man he was condemned to hew Marble in the Quarries about the Euxine Sea and at length with an Anchor about his neck therein drowned 4. EVARISTUS A.D. 110 a Bethlemite as Ciaconius would have it for all this was not terrified from taking the place whom we may think to have spent his time better then in such beggerly constitutions which are commonly put upon him he is said to have been beheaded And no better sped 5. ALEXANDER a Romane under Aurelian A.D. 118 though he be said to have brought in the Confecton and use of Holy Water for the purging of mens soules and the driving away of Divells upon which we have a merry Lecture of father Busdrakes 6. SIXTUS then comes by our account in the sixt place A.D. 130 whom the Greekes terme Xystus though he were a Romane 2. He sent they say one Peregrine a Priest to be Bishop amongst the Gaules who desired it 3. Aquila and Priscilla banished from Rome by Claudius Acts 18. are said to have continued to this mans time And that Aquila to have translated the Old Testament next after the 72 which will scarce hold This man dying also a Martyr left the chayre to 7. TELESPHORUS the sonne of an Anaâ—horite A.D. 139 't is hop'd begotten in Matrimony who instituted Lent from a former tradition of the Apostles but unwritten 8. HYGINUS the Athenian a Philosophers sonne A.D. 150 his successor brought in Gossips to Baptisme and set Iustine Martyr to make his Apologies for the Christians whiles he made Cardinalls as Ciaconius bears us in hand and leaves 9. A.D. 154 PIUS of Aquilea to settle the keeping of Easter upon the Lords day which Hermas his brother that is said to be the Author of the Booke intituled Pastor had received from an Angell that he should perswade all men to doe 10. ANICETUS the Syrian that tooke his place brought in the shaving of Priests Crownes In his time Polycarpus mett Marcion in Rome and told him to his face that he was the first begotten of the Devill 11. An. D. 175 SOTER a Campanian that followes is reported to have been a very honest man and to have ordayned that Marriages should be Celebrated in publique and solemnely with the consent of Parents 12. An. D. 182 ELâ—UTHERIUS that Succeeded was a Grecian To him were sent by our King Lucius Helvanus and Meduanus to request him to supply him with some faithfull Pastors for the further instruction of his Subjects in Christianity Fugacius and Damianus were the men that this Pope dispatched to him with his owne Letters in which he telleth the King that as Christs Vicar he might settle matters for Religion within his owne Dominions 2. To this Pope also Iraeneus is said to be sent from the Churches of France to be resolved in some doubts which Heretiques then blustering every where had cast in amongst them But 13. An. D. 195 VICTOR a hott African his Successour tooke more state upon him by reason the stormes of Persecution in his time were well blowne over and Excommunicated the Easterne Bishops for not keeping Easter upon the same day with him 2. This was resisted by Polycrates of Ephesus and Iraeneus of Lions and all the Easterne Bishops in a full Councell of Palestine who stood for the Tradition of S. Iohn and Philip the Apostles as they of the West did on that they had from S. Peter and S. Paul This brabble was after agreed at the first Councell of Nice where the West Church had the hand and those that would not celebrate Easter on Sunday were termed Quartadecimani Victor being thus Victorious leaves the Chayre to 14. An. D. 203 ZEPHERINUS a Romane This man turned wooden Chaelices into Glasses because as some fondly imagined the pretious Bloud of Christ should not soake into them as it might into the wood went bare-footed in imitation of our Saviour and Gelded himselfe for the kingdome of God 2. He Moderated in a Disputation between Proclus the chiefe of the Cataphrygians and Caius that defended the right Anathematizing Tertullian and all others that stood out against him 15. CALIXTUS of Ravenna that tooke his place An. D. 221 might not be so bold by reason of the heavy Persecution under Severus 2. yet he appointed some say the foure Fasts continued amongst us to this day but apprehended at length suffered cruell Martyrdome and made way to 16. VRBANUS a Romane An. D. 227 of whom the Pontificall saies that he turn'd the holy Vessels into Silver which might seeme a matter of great difficulty in those Savage times under the Beast Heliogabalus 2. Origines had the hard hap with this Binius Ciacon mans consent to be Excommunicated by Demetrius of Alexandria but himselfe escaped not Martyrdome nor 17. PONTIANUS his Countryman and Successour An. D. 233 who tasted of the same Cup in the Isle of Sardinia where he was banished leaving his place to 18. ANTERUS a Grecian An. D. 238 that tooke care to have the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs to be Registred by approved Notaries Hunselfe being added to their number by the Tyrany of the great Cyclops Maximinus 19. FABIAN a Romane takes the place An. D. 238 by an unexpected Election caused by the standing of a Pigeon on his head 2. He is said to have Baptised the two Philips that were Emperours and to have addmitted Origene to his Purgation He suffered under Decius Ciacon in the seaventh Persecution 20. CORNELIUS a Romane takes his place An. D. 254 but not without opposition of Novatianus a Priest of Rome who accused Cornelius of Heresie for receiving those that had fallen into Idolatry upon their repentance which the Novatians would not indure 2. This side of Novation continued long in chusing Successiveâ—y a Pope of their owne untill in Celestinus time they were broken off 3. Betweene this Cornelius and S. Cyprian passed many friendly Epistles in which Cyprian stileth him familiarly his Brother At last through the Tyrany of Decius Incidit in rigidos Praesul Cornelius enses Saith
the West was so hardly put to it by him that a quarrell arose between a Father and his Sonne who should have a dead mouse that by chance in the famine fell from a roofe betwixt them 4. He supposed that he had very politiquely married his daughter Stratonice to Celeucus of Babylon but it proved otherwise for this Sonne in Law of his soon after sides with Ptolomy of Aegypt and outs him of his Kingdome 5. More we shall find of him afterward in the line of Macedon In the mean while 4. CELEUCUS Nicanor would not leave him without an heire but annexeth all his Asian Dominions to his whose line we follow here as the most illustrious 2. From this man we have the Aera or Account used in the Books of Maccabees Applâ—â— in Gyâ—iaciâ— 3. Besides his continuall warres to inlarge his Territories he was a great builder and erected nine Citties calling them all by his name Selenciah 4. He was contented to bestow his faire wife Stratocias upon his sonne 5. A.M. 3668 ANTIOCHUS Soter who so desperately doted on her that without that salve his wound was incurable 2. It was not for any great good he did the name of Saviour was afforded him but because he did not much hurt Notwithstanding he is said to have carryed a hard hand over the Jewes 3. Not much better proved his sonne by his Mother wife Stratonica 6. ANTIOCHUS howsoever termed Theos and made as it were a god by the Milesians for freeing them from the tyranny of Timarchus 2. Great quarrells fell between him and Ptolomy Philadelphus of Aegypt which were partly skinned over by his putting away his wife Laodice by whom he had two sonnes Seleucus Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax and marrying Berenice the daughter of Ptolomy But this held not Dan. 1â— 6 as it was foretold by Daniel For upon Theo's death enraged Laodice falls on disconsolate Berenice and caused her to be put to death with her young sonne she had by Theos which was basely performed against the solemne oath of 7. SELEUCUS Callinicus A.M. 3704 who made into his succession such a bloudy entrance This Berenices Haire is continued an Asterisme in the celestiall Globes 2. Ptolomy Euergetes of Aegypt sets upon him to revenge the murther of his sister Berenice takes part of Syria from him Callinicus by the help of his brother Hierax recovers it againe makes peace with Ptolomy without his brothers consent 3. Hierax thereupon exasperated warres on him and expells him out of Syria 4. Vpon these dissentions Eumenes in Bithynia Arsaces in Parthia and the Gaulls plundering every where make more work 5. Hierax is slaine by Ptolomies Souldiers Gallinicus dies by the fall from a horse He left two sonnes behind him Seleucus and Antiochus of which 8. SELEUCUS raigned next after him A.M. 3724 by the name of Ceraunus which signifies Lightning 2. But as Lightning soon flasheth pierceth and fadeth so this sparke passing â—ver the Mountain Taurus was by his own Souldiers extinguished leaving his Dominions to his brother 9. ANTIOCHUS afterward called Magnus A.M. 3726 perchance for undertaking much and performing little 2. He set upon on Philopater of Aegypt but was faine to make his Peace with him opposed the Romanes who had taken upon them the Wardship of young Ptolomy Epiphanes of Aegypt by whom being often Beaten he was forced to retyre himselfe beyond Taurus and leave the Territories on this side of it to the Conquerours 3. To him Haenniball fled being defeated in the second Punick Warres but could not be protected by him and therefore made himselfe away to prevent his delivering to the Romanes 4. His end was by an enraged multitude in defence of their God Belus whose Temples Treasures in Syria he went about to rifle 5. Of his three sonnes surviving him Seleucus Philopater Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius 10. A.M. 3763 SELEUCUS Philopater the fourth of that name succeeds him 2. He is foretold by Daniel to be a raiser of Taxes Dan. 11.22 â— Macch. 3. v. 38. having heard of the Treasure in the Temple of Ierusalem he sends Heliodorus his Treasurer to seaze upon it for his use but Heliodorus met with such a Lashing from Heaven that he told his Master at his returne If he had any Enemy or Traytour he should send him thither upon the like imployment 3. whiles his two Brothers Epiphanes and Demetrius were Hostages at Rome this man addicts himselfs securely to all Licentiousnesse but Epiphanes breaking from thence and taking his opportunity was quickly found to ease him of his Government This 11. A.M. 3775 ANTIOCHUS Epiphanus tooke upon him 1. Of his entrance 't is said as of Boniface the eight that he entred as a Fox raigned as a Lyon and dyed like a Dogg 2. He tooke upon him at the first only to be a Guardian to Demetrius his Brothers Sonne but once setled quickly dispatched him and takes all to himselfe 3. Sets upon Aegypt but staved off by the Romanes from that enterprize 4. Returnes furiously upon the Iewes whose Temple and Religion he would needs extinguish 5. Old Eleazarus and a Widdow with her seven Sonnes are Martyred by him 6. Iupiter Olympiu's Image must be erected upon Gods Altar and Incense and Sacrifices offered unto it 7. This made the seven Asmonei or Maccabees succesfully to stand up against him for the vindication of Gods honour to the defeating of diverse of his Generals and Forces 8. Polybius termes him Epimanes a mad man and Christian Divines a Type of Anti-christ a vile man saith Daniel that had not one commendable quality to speake for him Having at last spit his Venom wasted himselfe he would needs into Persia to rifle the Treasures of the Temple of Nannea to whom he pretended to be a Suiter in Marriage and to take that wealth for a Dowry but the Priests there so Polted him that the Match was broken and the Dowry left behind whence returning with disgrace Gods vengeance ended him on the way leaving Inheritour of his Infamy and Kingdoms his Sonne 12. ANTIOCHUS Eupater A.M. 3786 who made Peace with the Jewes in regard he perceived that it was in vaine to oppresse them 2. But within two yeares his Vncle Demetrius the third sonne of Antiochus Magnus gets loose from Rome where he had bin a pledg with his Brother Epiphanes kills him and succeeds under the title of 13. DEMETRIUS Soter a preserver A.M. 3788 but neither preserved he others neither long preserved himselfe 2. Vpon a complaint of Treacherous Alcimus 1. Macch. 7. 2. Macch. 14. he sent his Generall Nicanor to subdue Judas Maccabeus but he with 3000 men defeated the Hoast of Syria and slew their Generall For which a Feast was set a part to be celebrated By an other Generall of his Bacchides Judas deserted by his own men nobly sold his Life 3. 1. Macch. 10. But Soter had small time to Triumph in it for in a set Battle he was overthrowne and slaine by 14.
Freed from this hazard Eudoxia his Wife and Gaina his Generall led him at their pleasure whereby the famous Chrysostome reproving freely their plotts for Arianisme was twice banished and from the last never returned 3. His Symbole was SVMMA CADVNT SVBITO The higher the ascent the more subject to ruine and danger in the fall After his death his sonne 10. A.C. 408 THEODOSIUS the second succeeds him He was commended by his Father to the Tuition of Isdegird King of Persia but Anthonius at home and his Sister Pulcheria were his best instructers 2. His sweet disposition and love to Learning appeared in his readinesse to pardon offences and erecting a Library little short of Ptolomeus Philadelphus in Aegypt 3. By procurement of his Sister Puleheria he tooke to Wife Eudocia the Daughter of one Leontius a Philosopher for her rare parts of behaviour Learning and Beauty of whom he became afterwards causelessly Jealous which put her upon a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem where the Priests had got a Text Domine in Eudocia tua to put her to great expences to Build for their conveniency * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps 51.18 4. Gothes and Vandalls under their Leaders Attyla and Gensevick much infested the Empire For withstanding of whom he associates unto him his Cozen passed by the name of Valentinian the third His Generall Aetius gave the great overthrow to Attila in the Feilds of Catalaunia whom his ungratefull Master requited with death for his service Better sped Ardaburius for his rooting out Iohn â—he Vsurper having his deliverance as it is conceived wrought by Miracle 4. It may not be omitted what course Pulcheria took with this Prince to make him the more wary for signing Bills which were brought unto him without reading them or considering what they contained Among a bundle brought unto him she puts in one wherein was contained that he sold his Empresse for a Slave This passed under his hand amongst the rest which when he saw he was sufficiently lessoned to consider what he granted 6. A care was taken by him to gather out of a heape of unordered Lawes such as were of speciall use for his Government and so to be sett downe that those which were to observe them might know them 7. His Motto was TEMPORI PARENDVM we must fit us as farre as it may be done with a good Conscience to the time wherein we live with Christian prudence He dyed with a fall from his Horse and left to succeed him 11. An. C. 450 MARTIANUS an ancient man and an experienced Souldier Pulcheria that had the cheife hand in her Brother Theodosius dayes for most matters of Government was content to take him for her Husband to rule as she had done in a manner before 2. He aymed at Peace above all things being superannuated for action 3. Wherefore his saying was PAX BELLO POTIOR Give me peace and let others quarrell In which he dies and 12. An. C. 456 LEO THRAX takes his place a worthy man and so propense unto mercy that his Embleme was REGIS CLEMENTIA VIRTVS No virtue sets forth a Prince more then Clemency 2. He had much adoe with Asper a potent Gothe who forced him to designe his sonne Ardabarius to be his successor but it was done with such dislike of the Senate and People that the Heads both of father and sonne paid for it 3. He professed that he rather would have Philosophers then Souldiers in his pay designes his Grand child to succeed him by the title of Leo the second but he waved it by a rare example and confer'd it upon his Father 13. An. C. 474 ZENO whom he Crownes with his owne hands and dyes soone after This man was as mishapen in bodie as untoward in manners 2. Whereupon his Wife Berrina thrust in Basiliscus her brother into his Throne who held it for a while with little content to the Subjects which made him to be soone discarded and Zeno returnes to governe againe 3. Where continuing his habituall disordinarilesse it brought him to a kind of Apoplexy In a fitt of which he was buryed alive but recovering in his Sepulcher and crying for help his Wife Ariadne was so kind to denye it him His word was MALO NODO MALVS CVNENS an ill wedge to an ill block must be fitted accordingly No sooner was he so disparched but 14. An. C. 491 ANASTATIUS Dicorus had his place and wife together so called for having the pupills of his eyes of diverse colours one black the other gray 2. He proved a great patrone of the Eutychians which procured great stirres in the Church and hard measure to the right beleevers In his time Bizantium was delivered by the burning glasses of Proclus which set the Beseigning Navy on fire and Cabades of Persia escaped out of prison by prostituting his faire Queene to the Goalor 3. His word was MELLITVM VEN ENVM BLANDA ORATIO Smooth talke proves often sweet poyson He is said to have bin warned in his sleepe to do no hurt to Justine and Justinian whom he had designed to be made away for plotting against him Himselfe was slaine with a Thunderbolt and 15. An. C. 518 IUSTINUS succeeds him who was first a Swineherd then a Herdsman then a Carpenter from thence a Souldier and so Emperour 2. He proved a great upholder of the Nicene Faith though himselfe had no Learning at all 3. It it worth the noting how so low a Swaine should come to that top of honour Vpon Anastasius death Amantius a stirring and a rich Courteour put a great summe of money into his hand to purchase the Empire for his friend Theocritianus which plott if it took would easily make both them gayners by the bargaine But Justin wisely employed the money for himselfe got the thing and soone took order with the Hucksters to have a Quietus est from restitution of the mony 4. Much adoe he had with Theodorick that perfidious Arian Gothe who put to death the worthy Symmachus and learned Boethius 5. The ruine of Antioche by an Earthquake almost brake his heart His word was QVOD PVDET HOC PIGEAT That should greive most which is shamefull in it selfe and done against Conscience He took order that his Sisters sonne 16. A.C. 527 IUSTINIAN should have his place This man is stiled the Father of the Civill Law which by the Iudgement and industry of Trebonian and other Coadjutors was digested in that forme we now have it 2. The stubborne Gothes and Vandalls were never so shattered as they were by his Valiant Leaders Of which Belisarius may be paralleld with any of former times he brought Vitiges and Gillimer their Kings Captives to his Master and cleared him from the rest of all his Enemies And yet Theodora the Empresse in favour of the Euticheans so persecuted him that in his old age his eyes were put out and at the Temple of St Sophy built newly by the Emperour forced to beg Date panem Belisario quem
the Church of Rome by bestowing on it the power of the Exarches and Romandiola to stop as some say Cerberus chapps with such bits least they should worry him as they had his predecessors Notwithstanding he had no mind to travell to Rome for his Coronation Quia me vestigia terrent faith he as the foxe observed concerning repairing to the Lions denne many paths lead thither but few tracts appeare of returners 3. He had many children and matched sixe of his daughters to so many Princes the seaventh remaining a virgin His usuall Motto was MELIVS EST BENE IMPERARE QVAM IMPERIVM AMPLIARE Better it is to governe well that a man hath then to inlarge his Dominions many Cities in Italy purchased their freedome of him before his death he endeavoured to settle the Empire upon his sonne Albert but it was carried against him especially by the Elector of Mentz and 2. A.C. 1291 ADOLPH Earle of Nassau had the place a man of too mean a fortune to uphold the Majesty of it Our Edward of England sent him a round snmme of mony to uphold his rights but he was forced to use it to supply his want 2. His saying was ANIMVS EST QVI DIVITES FACIT It is the mind not the Purse which makes man rich but he found by experience they would doe well togither 3. In a quarrell between him and Albert of Austria who had the better purse he was forsaken of his friends and slaine by his Enimies of whom 3. A.C. 1298 ALBERT the chiefe succeeds him This man was the Sonne and Heire of Radulphus the first surnamed Austriacus in regard of his wife Elizabeth he got Tyrol and Carinthia to be annexed to it 2. Victorious he is said to be in twelve severall Battles the most of which might be rather termed Skirmishes Of 21. children which he fathered eleaven came to age and were honourably disposed of 3. In this mans time seaven things happened very remarkable 1. The removing of the Papall seat from Rome to Avignion in France 2. The subversion of the Knights Templass 3. The setling of the Knights of St Iohns in Rhodes 4. The Scaligers in Verona and the 5. Estei in Ferrara 6. The firsti Iubilee at Rome in the West And 7. the beginnings of the Ottomans in the East 5ly His Motto is said to be QVOD OPTIMVM ILLVD ET IVCVNDISSIMVM That which is best should most take us as in it selfe most pleasant He was treacheroufly slaine by his Nephew and his complices in which place his sonnes afterward built a Monastery His successor was 4. A.C. 1308 HENRY the seaventh of Lutzeâ—burg a pious prudent and valarous Prince 2. Having composed matters in Germany he hastneth to doe the like in Italy where all discipline was out of frame Was Crowned in Rome in the Popes absence by three Cardinalls omitted no opportunity to give all content notwithstanding he was tumultuously droven out of Rome by the faction of the Vrcini and through hatred of the Florentines poysoned in the Eucharist by one Bernard an hired Monke 3. That passeth for his Motto which he uttered upon the first feeling of the operation of the Poyson CALâ—X VITAE CALIX MORTIS The Cup of life is made my death Which made way for the succession of 5. LEWIS of Bavaria an able and resolute man A.C. 1314 Against whom by the Popes faction and some Electors was set up Frederick of Austria Alberts soune and Lewis was twice excommunicated which he little regarded and was told by our Occam who stood up in his defence with this resolute saying Defendas me ô Imperator gladio ego defendam te verbo protect me with the sword and I will justify that thou doest by the word 2. In this siding on all sides Lewis having the better of Frederick they come to an agreement both keep the title of Emperours but Lewis hath the Power and right In his time the Countesse of Holland is said to have had as many Children at a Birth as there be daies in a yeare He deposed Pope Iohn the 22. and put Nicholas the fifth into his place Lyra then flourished whose Comment upon the whole Scripture is Worthily esteemed at this day 3 His Motto was SOLA BONA QVAE HONESTA Those things are only good which may stand with honesty others attribute to him this HVIVSMODI COMPARANDAE SVNT OPES QVAE CVM NAVFRAGIO SIMVL ENATENT Englished by our Queen Mary which we have in a Breviary of hers under her own hand to a certain Lady when she was Princesse to be seen in the Archives of our Oxford Library Get you such goods which may in a Shipwrack be carried away with you Some say he dyed of an Apoplexy others that he was poysoned by the Austrian faction of his competor at a Banquet in a Burgraves house in Norimberg This is agreed upon that 6. A.C. 1346 CHARLES the fourth the Kings sonne of Bohemia succeeded him Against him were set up our Edward the 3d of England Frederick of Misnia and Gunter of Swartzburg but Edward waved the dignity with such trouble Frederick was satisfied with money and Gunter poysoned 1. In his journy into Jtaly to be Crowned all was fish with him that came to nett so that for his capacity he was termed the Stepfather of the Church and this put upon him that he would sell the Empire if he might find a Chapman to gaine by the bargaine 3. But with these enormities he had joyned many excellencies As himself was Leâ—rned so he much favoured Scholers Founded the Vniversity of Prague set forth that Golden Bull called Lex Carolina wherein he requires that Emperours should be good Linguists to conferre themselves with Embassadours and prescribes what solemnity should be used in electing and authorizing Emperours according to the Eminency of their place 4. In this time florished Wicliffe and Richard Armacanus for Divinity Bartholus and Baldus for Law renowned ever since A Rattcatcher led forth with Taber and Pipe most of the Children of the Towne of Hamel in Germany who followed him into the side of a Mountaine opening and were never more after heard of The number also that dyed of the Plague in those dayes is incredible 5. His Motto was OPTIMVM EST ALIENA FRVI INSANIA It is a wise way to make use of other mens Madnesse which his sonne 7. A.C. 1378 WENCESLANUS for whom he purchased the Empire had scarce the witt to doe 1. He granted diverse Priviledges to the Noringbergers for a Load of Wine executed Barthold Swartz for inventing Gunpouder 2. Bajazâ—â—â— the furious Turke this time was like to have overrunne Europe but was recalled and overthrowne by the unresistable Tamberlane and carryed about within a Golden Cage to be trod upon as a foot-stoole when he mounted on Horseback 3. The Motto put upon him was MOROSOPHI MORIONES PESSIMI None are more pernicious Fooles then those that are between Hauke Buzzard sots in serious matters but wise enough to doe
indelible Character of Antichristian cruelty 3. The successe of usurpations which as most commonly they are undertaken with treacherous cruelty so ever they are attended with Repinings Insurrections Massacres and ending alwaies in shame and confusion INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the fourth for Policy Henry the fifth for Valour Henry the sixth for Sanctity exceeded most of their Predecessors 2. Those may be justly censured for Traytors that take up Armes against a manifest V. surper 3. Henry the fourth repented on his Death-bed the wrong usurping of the Crowne 4. Henry the fift's dissolutenesse in his youth experienced him the better to governe 5. King Henry the sixth were a better Christian then King 6. His Queenes violentstirring did not rather hurt then further his cause 7. Ioan of Orleance were no other but as Magdalene Blewbeard and Jack Cade amongst us a cheating Impostrix The House of Yorke DYNAST V. SECT III. THE three of the House of Lancaster having thus Acted more then their parts three other of the House of Yorke succeed upon a better Title of whom the first was 1. A.C. 1461 EDWARD the fourth 1. He by main Valour overthrew Queene Margaret and her Partizans that opposed his Title 2. But by suddain Marriage at home with the Lady Gray a Widdow when he had ingaged himselfe by the Earle of Warwick to the Lady Bona of France he exasperated Warwick against him who with much bloud-shed at length Vnâ—rownes him and restores Henry againe yet living 3. Edward by the Duke of Burgoyne recollects himselfe and with the help of his Brethren Richard of Glocester and George of Clarence who formerly had taken part with Warwick overthrowes Warwick with his Complices and kills him in Bornet Fields Imprisoneth King Henry againe in the Tower where he is Murthered most say by the Duke of Glocester as his sonne Prince Edward was afterward at Tewxbury where the House of Lancaster had the last overthrow In those catching times a Iest of one Burdet a Mercer in Cheapside telling his sonne if he would ply his book he should be heire to the Crowne meaning his owne house that had that Signe cost him his life 4. He sets on foot his Title to France enters upon it with an Army but comes to Composition represses the Scottish incursions by Glocester his Brother and brings them to such Tearmes as he liked 5. George Duke of Clarence his brother clapt into the Tower some say for Treason others from a Dreame the King had that one whose name began with Gâ—should ruine him and his posterity was shortly after found drowned in a Butt of Malmesey The King sickneth upon this and 't is thought hastned to his end by the same hand and leaving the Crowne to his sonne 2. EDWARD the fifth A.C. 1483 who of the age of thirteene comming from Ludlow to London to be Crowned was Trayterously seazed on by his perfidious Vncle the Duke of Glocester the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Hastings 2. Glocester gets himselfe to be Protector and under pretence of safe Custody mewes up the King with his younger Brother Richard in the Tower procures himselfe to be Proclaimed King by the name of 3. RICHARD the third 1. A.C. 1483 He endeavouring to make a League with the French was deservedly rejected for his Villanies 2. By meanes of Sr Iames Terrill Forrest and Dighton King Edward the fifth with his brother Richard were Smothered in the Tower between two Featherbeds 3. The Bishop of Elie Doctor Morton put the Duke of Buckingham upon the Plott of unkinging Richard and setting the Crowne on Henry of Richmond then beyond the Seas who to make good his Title should Marry with the Princesse Elizabeth King Edwards Eldest Daughter 4. Buckingham looseth his life in the pursuit Morton escapeth to animate Henry in the prosecution 5. Richard plotted by corruption to have Henry made away but to no purpose His Queene Anne dies suddainly to make way for his plotted Incestuous Marriage with Elizabeth his Neece 6. Henry of Richmond Lands at Milford Hauen the Welchmen and others flock unto him 7. Henry and Richard meet at Bosworth Field where the Tyrant after desperate Valour shewen is slaine by Henry his Corrivall How odious his Tyranny was to all appeares somewhat by these Rimes made against his Partakers The Ratt the Catt and Lovell the Dogg Rule all England under the Hogge And Lockey of Norfolke be not too bold For Dickon thy Master is bought and sold This put an end to the bloody contentions between Yorke and Lancaster In which were Fought here in England tenne set Battels five in Henry the sixt dayes The Battell first of St Albones 2. Black-heath 3. Northampton 4. Wakefield 5. Tawton and so many more in the Raigne of King Edward the fourth 1. Exham 2. Banbury 3. The Battell of Loosecoats 4. Barnetfield 5. Tewxbury bâ—sides this concluding Bettle at Bosworth which put a period to the Raigne of the Plantagenets 2. COoncurrant with this Dynasty were 1. the continued persecution of the Waldenses and Hussites which here in England had their share under the name of Lollards 2. The Deposing by the Pope of George Pogeibracius King of Hungary for Favouring them 3. The base and blasphemous Rosary of the Dominican Fryers set on foote by Alanus de Rupe who sware that the blessed Virgin was Married unto him whoÌ„ he makes a Midwife and a Gossip to one Lucia calling her sonne Marianus which being worthyly inveighed against by our Mr Fox in his Martyrology out of an old Manuscript yet hath of late been set forth againe with more trash of the same sinke expressed with artificiall Pictures and Dedicated to the Princes Isabella Clara Eugenia 4. With these notwithstanding contemporize the never to be forgotten Scourgers of the Turkes John and Mathew Huniades with the renowned Scanderbeg and nearer home 5. the French maintainers of the Pragmaticall sanction and our Fortescue a great Assertor of our Lawes with others INQVIRES 2. Whether 1. Edward the fourth be more to be commended for his Vabour then censured for his Lascivious Vanities 2. His Death were hastned by finister means 3. Burdet of Cheapside had not hard measure to be hanged for a lest concerning his Signe of the Crowne which had no relation to the Crowne of the Kingdome 4. Edward the fifth were Smothered in the Tower or dyed of greife and sicknesse 5. Perkin Warbeck were a Counterfeit or really Richard Duke of Yorke conveyed out of the Tower 6. It were likely that Richard the third had His is Arme withered by the Witchcrafts of the Queene Mother and Jane Shore 7. The horrid Crimes and deformities he is charged with were rather forged by Malevolents then proved The Tudors DYNAST VI. THe fourteene Plantagenets thus expiring with Richard the third Five Tudors take their turnes in this manner 1. A.C. 1485 HENRY the seaventh by marrying Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth unites both the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster 2. He was much vexed by