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A37608	Mēno-Ezeologia, or, A treatise of moneths and years comprehending a survey of the solar and lunar moneths and years, a description of the moneths and years heretofore in use among the Hebrews, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Grecians, Arabians, and ancient Latines : an accommodation of all the said moneths and years to the present Julian and Gregorian : together with a new and easie directory for the finding out of the golden number, cycle of the sun ... : to which is also adjoyned, an abridgement of the history of the world from the creation unto Christ, and a continuation of the British history from Christ to this present : with a reduction of the era's of Nabonaffer, of the Olympiads, of Rome ab urbe condita, and of Seleucus, unto Scriptural accounts, and an adjustment of them vvith one another, very necessary for the understanding of the writings of the ancients : with many other chronological and mathematical observations, no less useful than delightful / composed by Nathaniel Eaton.	Eaton, Nathaniel, 1609?-1674.	1657 (1657)	Wing E117; ESTC R872	44,898	112

it to Alured King of the West Saxons Anno 876. After that it was seized by the Danes but again recovered from them by Edward the Elder Anno 917 West Saxons 9. The Kingdom of the West Saxons began by Cerdicus Anno 522. This Kingdom so far prevailed over the rest that Egbert the 17th King thereof having subdued the principal Kingdoms of the Saxon heptarchy stiled himself the first Monarch and commanded South Britain to be called England from the English Saxons from whose blood he was extracted After him Alured totally united all the Kingdoms into one Monarchy leaving the Danes possession but not Soveraignty in Northumberland yet in the year 1017. the Danes recovered the Dominion which they held for three sucessions Canutus Harald and Hardicanutus but having reigned 26 years and tyrannized 255 years they were utterly expelled by the English Anno 1041. and the Crown again returned to the West Saxons line in Edward the Confessor after whom Harald the second usurped the Kingdom in the nonage of Edgar Athelinge the true heir but he lost it to the Normans upon the coming in of Duke William Anno 1066. There were of the West Saxon line thirty two Kings sixteen whereof were Monarchs of England besides the three Danish Kings which intervened North Wales 10. The Principality of North Wales was begun by Meruin the eldest son of Roderick about the year 873. and ended in Leolin the second who lost it to Edward the first of that name of the Norman Race Anno 1282. South Wales 11. The Principality of South Wales was begun by Amorand the second son of Roderick at the same time with the former and ended in Rhese who lost his estate to the English in the Reigne of the abovesaid Edward Powisland 12. The Principality of Powisland was begun by Cadell the youngest son of Roderick at the same time that his Brothers entred upon theirs but was incorporated into England long before th' others by Avis the last of Cadels posterity who married to Joh. Carleton an Englishman whose issue with this title is now extinct The Shires of England ENgland was divided into Shires by the West Saxon Alured whose names and bounds are little altered to this day Of late years Henry the 8th did the same with VVales making it one Nation with the English The distance of the Shires from London viz. the heart of every Shire the points of the Compass how they bear from thence with the number of their Market Towns and Parishes the Cities and Parishes in them not included   Shires Dist Compass Mar. Par. 1 Barkshire 040 West 11 140 2 Bedfordshire 040 N. N. West 10 116 3 Buckingham 035 N. W. by West 11 185 4 Cambridge 050 North 06 163 5 Cheshire 135 Nor. Westerly 09 068 6 Cornewall 200 West by South 13 161 7 Cumberland 205 Nor. Westerly 08 058 8 Darbyshire 105 N. West by Nore 08 106 9 Devonshire 155 West by South 40 394 10 Doisetshire 095 W. S. West 15 248 11 Durham 180 Northerly 05 062 12 Essex 025 North East 21 415 13 Glocestershire 080 West by Nore 2● 180 14 Hamshire 050 W. S. West 18 248 15 Hartfordshire 025 N. by West 18 120 16 Herefordshire 100 W. N. West 08 176 17 Huntington 050 N. by West 05 078 18 Kent 026 South-East 17 98 19 Lancashire 153 N. W. by Nore 08 036 20 Leicestershire 072 N. W. by Nore 11 200 21 Lincolnshire 090 N. by West 26 6●0 22 Middlesex 008 W. by Nore 03 073 23 Nottingham 095 N. N. West 11 168 24 Northampton 052 N. W. by Nore 11 320 25 Northumberland 210 Northerly 11 168 26 Norfolk 072 N. N. East 26 160 27 Oxfordshire 045 West N. West 10 208 28 Rutlandshire 070 N. N. West 02 047 29 Shropshire 120 N. West by West 13 170 30 Somersetshire 102 West by South 29 385 31 Staffordshire 110 Norwest 12 130 32 Suffolk 045 N. E. by Nore 28 464 33 Sussex 025 South 18 140 34 Surrey 02● S. S. West 07 140 35 Warwickshire 075 Norwest 12 158 36 Westmorland 185 North Westerly 04 020 37 Wiltshire 072 West 21 304 38 Worcestershire 092 N. W. by West 07 152 39 Yorkshire 145 North by West 46 459 40 Anglesey 185 Westerly 03 087 41 Brecknock 130 W. by Nor. 03 070 42 Cardiganshire 1●5 W. N. West 04 077 43 Carmarthen 154 W. by Nor 06 81 44 Carnarvon 175 N. W. by West 05 073 45 Denbigh shire 160 North Westerly 03 053 46 Flintshire 150 North West 03 024 47 Glamorgan 130 Westerly 07 151 48 Mongomery 135 N. W. by West 05 ●42 49 Monmouth 100 W. by Nor. 06 142 50 Merionidth 160 N. W. by West ●3 034 51 Pembrockshire 180 W. by Nore 06 142 52 Radnorshire 130 W. N. West 04 043 How the Seats of the Ancients the Kingdoms of the Saxons and Britans and the present Shires agree with one another Ancients Shires Kingdoms Cantium Kent Kent Regni Sussex South Saxons Surrey Iceni Norfolk East Angles Suffolk Cambridgesh Huntington Mercia Catejuclani Buckingham Bedfordshire Hartfordshire Coritani Rutlandshire Northampton Leicestersh Lincolnshire Nottingham Darbyshire Cornarii Oxfordshire Worcestersh Warwickshir Staffordshire Cheshire Shropsh part Glocestersh Trinobantes Essex East-Saxons Middlesex   Yorkshire     Lancashire Deira Brigantines Durham     Cumberland Northumberland Ottadini Westmorland     Northumberl Bernitia   so to Edinbur   Damnonii Cornwal West Saxons Devonshire Belgae Somersetshire Wiltshire Hamshire Durotriges Dorsetshire Attrebatii Barkshire Seleures Radnorshire South Wales Brecknocksh Monmouth Glamorgansh Dimetae Carmarthen Pembrokesh Cardiganshir Ordovices Mongomery North Wales Merionidthsh Denbighshire Flintshire Carnarvon Cornarii Anglesey Powisland Herefordshire Shropsh part The Circuits of England and Wales 1. HEnry the second towards the end of his Reigne divided his whole Kingdom into six several circuits and for the administration of Justice and tryal of causes betwixt men and men for the better ease and comfort of his Subjects he appointed certain Judges twice in every year to ride and to travel through those circuits Which course and order is carefully continued unto this day 2. Henry the eighth did the same in the Principality of Wales which he divided into three circuits and appointed itenerary Judges to ride through them twice a year and to administer Justice as in England The Bishopricks of England and Wales 1. THere is also an Ecclesiastical Division of England and Wales into 26 Episcopal Diocesses under the Archiepiscopal Provintes of Canterbury and York 2. Under the Province of Canterbury are Bath and Wells Bristol Chichester Ely Exeter Glocester Hereford Litchfield Coventry Lincoln London Norwich Oxford Peterborough Rochester Salisbury Winchester Worcester St Asaph Bangor St Davids Landaff 3. Under the Province of York are Carlile Chester Durham England hath also two Universities Cambridge and Oxford besides many Colledges in the City of London for the Study both of the Laws Physick and Divinity The Chronologie of the Kings of England from the Conquest with the day

of the moneth and Year when they began their Reigne 1 Will. Conq. 1 October 14 1066 2 Will. Rufus 2 September 9 1087 3 Henry 1 August 1 1100 4 Stephen   December 2 1135 5 Henry 2 October 25 1154 6 Richard 1 July 6 1189 7 John   April 6 1199 8 Henry 3 October 19 1216 9 Edward 1 November 16 1272 10 Edward 2 July 7 1307 11 Edward 3 January 25 1326 12 Richard 2 June 21 1377 13 Henry 4 September 29 1399 14 Henry 5 March 20 1412 15 Henry 6 August 31 1422 16 Edward 4 March 4 1460 17 Edward 5 April 9 1483 18 Richard 3 June 22 1483 19 Henry 7 August 22 1485 20 Henry 8 April 22 1509 21 Edward 6 January 28 1546 22 Mary   July 6 1553 23 Elizabeth   November 17 1558 24 James   March 24 1602 25 Charles   March 27 1625   Nullus   January 30 1648 The Nobility of England as they were in the Year 1638. Dukes 1 Richmond 2 Buckingham Marquess 1 Winchester Earls 1 Arundel and Surry 2 Oxford 3 Northumberland 4 Shrewsbury 5 Kent 6 Darby 7 Worcester 8 Rutland 9 Cumberland 10 Sussex 11 Huntington 12 Bath 13 Southampton 14 Bedford 15 Pembroke Mont. 16 Hartford 17 Essex 18 Lincoln 19 Nottingham 20 Suffolk 21 Dorset 22 Salisbury 23 Exeter 24 Somerset 25 Bridgewater 26 Leicester 27 Northampton 28 Warwick 29 Devonshire 30 Cambridge 31 March 32 Carlile 33 Denbigh 34 Bristol 35 Middlesex 36 Anglesey 37 Holland 38 Clare 39 Bullingbrook 40 Westmorland 41 Manchester 42 Barkshire 43 Cleveland 44 Mulgrave 45 Danby 46 Monmouth 47 Marleborough 48 Rivers 49 Lindsey 50 Newcastle 51 Dover 52 Peterborough 53 Stanford 54 Winchelsea 55 Kingston 56 Carnarvon 57 Newport 58 Chesterfield 59 Thanet 60 St Albans 61 Portland Viscounts 1 Mountague 2 Purbeck 3 Say and Seal 4 Wimbleton 5 Savage 6 Conway 7 Banning 8 Cambden 9 Wentworth Barons 1 Aburgavenny 2 Audley 3 Delaware 4 Barkley 5 Morley 6 Dacres 7 Dudley 8 Sturton 9 Vaux 10 Windsor 11 Cromwell 12 Eure 13 Wharton 14 Willoughby of Parh. 15 Paget 16 North 17 Shandos 18 Peter 19 Gerard 20 Spencer 21 Stanhope 22 Arundel of Warder 23 Tenham 24 Brook 25 Mountague 26 Grey of Wark 27 Deinscourt 28 Roberts 29 Craven 30 Faulconbridge 31 Lovelace 32 Paulet 33 Harvey 34 Brudenel 35 Maynard 36 Coventry 37 Howard Eser 38 Goring 39 Mohun 40 Savil 41 Dunsmore 42 Powis 43 Herbert Cherb 44 Cottington Baronets VVEre first created by King James and continued by King Charls they are dignities betwixt a Baron and a Knight they have vulgarly the compellation of the latter given unto them but they are hereditary as the former Orders of Knighthood 1. OF the Garter instituted by King Edward the third There are of this Order 26. Knights whereof the Kings of England were Soveraigns and it hath been so much desired for its excellency that 8 Emperors 22 Forraign Kings and Dukes and divers Noblemen of other Countries have been Followers of it The Ensigne is a blew Garter buckled on the left Leg on which these words are embroydered Honi soit qui mal y pense About their Necks they wear a blew Ribband at the end of which hangeth the Image of St George on whose day they are installed 2. Of the Bath brought in England by Henry the fourth Anno 1399. they are created only at the coronation of Kings and Queens and the installations of the Princes of Wales They wear about their Necks a Carnation Ribband Memorable Chronologies SInce the Norman conquest 591 Since the expulsion of the Danes 616 Since the entrance of the Danes 871 Since Hengist and the first erection of the Saxon Kingdoms 1182 Since the departure of Proconsul Aetius and the Roman Legions 1257 Since Christ 1657 Scotland 1. SCotland is reputed to be 146 miles longer then England but it is of no great bredth there being no place distant from the Seas above sixty miles 2. The Ancients of this Nation are thus paralleld with the seats of the now Inhabitants Gadeni Tividale Twedale Merch Lothian Selgovae Liddisdale Eusdale Eskdale Anansdale Nidisdale Novantes Galloway Carect Kile Cunningham Damnii Cluidedale Striveling Menteth Fife Vernines Mernis Marr Caledonii Stratherns Argile Cantire Albany Lorn Perth Anguis Tanzali Buquan Vacomagi Loquabre Murray Cantae Ross Sutherland Catini Cathness Cornubii Stratnaverne 3. These Provinces are divided into divers Sherifdoms which are not annually elective as they are in England but hereditary 4. Malcome the third divided Scotland into thirteen Episcopal Diocesses Anno 1070. before that the Bishops exercised their Functions in what place soever they came 5. Archbishopricks they had none till the year 1478. the Bishops of York being before the Metropolitans of Scotland now they have two Glasco and St Andrews The Kingdoms of Scotland Picts 1. THe more ancient is that of the Picts who indeed were no other then very Britans who when the Roman Eagle had with her black Wings darkned the South part of the Island fled into the Northern parts preferring penurious liberty before fetters of Gold These men using the ancient custom of painting their bodies after their countrymen had conformed themselves to more civil courses were by the Romans called Picti Scots The other but more prevailing Kingdom was that of the Scots who out of Ireland entred into the West part of this Country Anno 424. For the space of 400 years the Picts and they though with many quarrels victories and overthrows on either side held their several Territories till at last Kenneth King of the Scots having vanquished Dunsken King of the Picts Anno 839. extinguished both their Kingdom and their name causing the whole Country to be called Scotland The Chronologie of the Kings of Scotland from Kenneth with the year of our Lord when they began their Reigns how many years they reigned and how long it is since their Reigns expired 1 Keneth 1 0839 17 801 2 Danald 1 0856 6 795 3 Constantine 1 0862 13 782 4 Ethus   0875 15 767 5 Danald 2 0890 13 754 6 Constantine 2 0903 30 724 7 Malcome 1 0933 16 708 8 Ingulfe   0949 12 696 9 Duffe   0961   696 10 Kenneth 2 0961 33 663 11 Constantine 3 0994 10 653 12 Malcome 2 1004 30 623 13 Duncan   1034 6 617 14 Mackbeth   1040 17 600 15 Malcome 3 1057 39 561 16 Donald Bale 3 1096 2 559 17 Edgar   1098 9 550 18 Alex. Feirce 1 1107 20 530 19 David 1 1127 26 504 20 Malcome 4 1153 7 497 21 William   1160 53 444 22 Alexander 2 1213 37 407 23 Alexander 3 1250 37 370   Intrregnum     13   24 John Baliol   1300 6 351 25 Robert Bruse 1 1306 26 325 26 Edwar. Baliol   1332 10 315 27 David Bruse 2 1342 29 286 28 Robert Stuart 2 1371 19 267 29 Robert 3 1390 16 251 30 James 1 1406 42 209 31 James 2 1448 14 195 32 James 3 1462 29 166 33 James 4 1491 23 143 34 James 5 1514 28 115 35 Mary   1542 25 090 36 James 6 1567 58 032 37 Charles 1 1625 23 009 38 Charles ● 1648     The Union of the Scottish Families AFter the death of Alexander the third there was fierce contention for the Kingdom of Scotland betwixt the Families of the Baliols and the Bruses By our Edward the first as supreme Lord of Scotland after 13 years Inter regnum the right was adjudged to the Baliols but was by them lost again and again recovered and variously held till at the last after 84 years difference their several Titles were united in the person of Robert Stuart who married the eldest Sister of David Bruse and the Heir of that Family himself being heir unto the Baliols An. 1371. The Union of the English Families 2. THe like difference there was in England for the Diadem betwixt the Families of York and Lancaster wherein were fought 17 pitched fields and in which there perished 8 Kings and Princes 40 Dukes Marquisses and Earls 200000 of the common people besides Barons and Gentlemen but it was composed by Henry the 7th heir of the house of Lancaster who married Elizabeth daughter and heir unto King Edward the 4th of the House of York Anno 1485. The Union of the Kingdom 3. BUt the greatest Union was that which was made betwixt the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland in the person of James the 6th King of Scotland who as heir unto Margaret eldest daughter unto Henry the 7th was admitted to the English Throne after the death of Queen Elizabeth Anno 1602. and made of the two Kingdoms but one Monarchy Ireland 1. IReland containeth in length 400 miles in bredth 200 and next unto Britain is the greatest Island in Europe 2. It was once divided into five several Kingdoms viz. Mounster Connaght Vlster Meth and Leinster 3. But Dermot Mach Morock King of Lemster being driven out of his Kingdom by Maurice ● Rocke King of Meth Anno 1172. applied himself to Henry 2. King of England for relief who upon this occasion made himself master of the whole 4. Henry the 8th was the first of the English race who stiled himself King of Ireland Before that the English Princes contented themselves to be called Lords thereof FINIS AT Bun-hill near Chiswel-street over against the New Artillery-ground at the third Brick-house with a Balcony and a Globe at the Door liveth an Astrological Chimical Physician who hath Medicines prepared of Herbs so gathered with the Planetary Influence whose dexterous operation far exceeds any other in the cure of Diseases He hath also a singular approved Medicine for the preventing of Abortion or Miscarriage in Women and also maketh them that are Barren to become Fruitful He formerly lived in Moor-fields

for example if she were in Aries at the beginning of any work she is then said to be in a diametral station thereunto when she entreth into Libra and here faith he she raiseth a vehement tumult and commotion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galen calls it by reason that her beams and the opposite Signs do now fully and totally oppugne and fight as it were against one another and disagree generally besides in passive qualities 3. By her tetragonal position he understands her being in a Signe which looks upon the former with a quadrite aspect as when she is in Cancer or in Capricorn and here also she causeth saith he great perturbations and commotions because the Signs though they oppose not one another so fully as the former yet they disagree either in both or at least in active qualities 4. Yet this influence of the Moon in her diametral or tetragonal stations is much changed to the detriment or advantage of the work or person according to her conjunction with the other Planets concerning which it is not amiss to let you know that Galen divides them into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bonas fortunas the vulgar Astrologians call them which are Jupiter and Venus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they call them malas fortunas which are Mars and Saturn betwixt which he placeth Sol and Mercury in the middle neither ranking them with the one nor with the other Now put the case saith Galen that a man at the time of his birth have the Moon in Aries conjoyned with temperate and propitious planets but that when she entreth into Taurus she hath malign and noxious Planets conjoyned with her then certainly saith he whensoever during the whole series of that mans life the Moon cometh into Aries or is in a diametral or tetragonal station to it as in Cancer Libra or Capricorn it will be well and prosperous with that man but when she cometh into Taurus or into any Signe diametrically or tetragonally posited thereunto as Leo Scorpio or Aquarius it will be troublesome and grievous with him and all Diseases that take their beginnings in the one shall be passed safely without danger but those that arise or happen in the other shall be very dangerous if not mortal And the like he affirms of all other businesses and affairs which if they be attempted or begun saith he under good aspects they produce good changes and alterations at the diametral and retragonal positions of the Moon but if they be begun under evil aspects the changes and alterations which will be produced at those positions will be also evil Predictions of Weather by the Moon THe presagements of weather that are to be gathered by the Moon such as are more certain and wherein you may confide take in these verses of Virgil lib. Georg. 1. with whom Aratus quoted by Galen and Pliny also lib. 18. cap. 35. do agree Luna revertentes cum primum colligit ignes Si nigrum obscuro comprenderit aera cornu Maximus agricolis pelagoque parabitur imber At si Virgineum suffuderitore ruborem Ventus erit vento semper rubet aurea Phoebe Sin ortu in quarto namque is certissimus auctor Pura nec obtusis per coelum cornibus ibit Totus ille dies qui nascentur ab illo Exactum ad mensem pluvia ventisque carebunt All which you have abbreviated in this Monastick Palida Luna pluit rubicunda flat alba serenat 1. Eclipses in general COncerning the Eclipses of the Luminaries and when and how they happen it shall suffice to give you the description of Macrobius lib. 1. Somnii as being more compendious and dilucid then any other which I have met withal his words are these Natura coelestium circulorum incorporalis est linea quae ita mente concipitur ut sola longitudine censeatur latum habere non possit sed in Zodiaco latitudinem signorum capacitas exigebat quantum igitur spatii lati dimensis porrectis syderibus occupabat duabus lineis limitatum est terna ducta per medium Ecliptica vocatur quia cum cursum suum in eadem linea pari ut Sol Luna conficiunt alterius horum necesse est venire defectum Solis si ei tunc Luna succedat Lunae si tunc adversa sit soli Ideo nec unquam sol deficit nisi cum tricessimus Lunae dies est nisi quintadecim cursus sui die nescit Luna defectum Sic enim evenit ut aut Lunae contra Solem positae ad mutuandum ab eo solitum lumen sub eadem inventus linea terrae conas obsistat aut soli ipsa succedens objectu suo ab humana aspectu lumen ejus repellat Duodecem Signa Sunt Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libraque Scorpio Arcitenens Caper Amphora Pisces Quatuor Anni Tempora SOlstitium Cancer faciunt Cornua Caprae Libra dies Vernusque Aries cum noctibus aequant England with the Chorography and Chronologies thereof   Miles THe length of England from the Lizard point to Berwick is 334 The bredth of England from Dover to Holy-head is 250 The ancient inhabitants of South Britain now England and Wales in the time of the Romans were the Attrebatii Belgae Brigantes Cantii Cassiuclani Coritani Cornarii Damnonii Dimetae Durotriges Iceni Ordovices Ottodini Regni Silures Trinobantes The Kingdom of the Saxons and Principality of the Britans were Kent 1. The Kingdom of Kent began under Hengist the Saxon Anno 475. and ended after the succession of 18 Kings in B●ldred who resigned Regality to Egbert King of the West-Saxons about the year 832 South-Saxons 2. The Kingdom of the South Saxons began under Hella in the year 536. and ended after the succession of 7 Kings in Aldine who lost it to Kenewald King of the West Saxons An. 684. East-Angles 3. The Kingdom of the East Angles began under the Saxon Vffa Ann. 546. and ended after the succession of 17. Kings Anno 964. in which year Edward the elder took it from the Danes who had formerly taken it from St Edmond the last King of the Saxan blood Anno 869. Deira 4. The Kingdom of Deira begun under the Saxon Ella Anno 547. Bernitia 5. The Kingdom of Bernitia begun under the Saxon Ida Anno 550. Northumberland 6. These two Kingdoms were both united under the name of Northumberland by Ethelfride and continued under the succession of 23 Kings till the year 878. at which time it was subdued by the Danes who afterward yeilded it to Eldred King of the West Saxons Anno 954. East Saxons 7. The Kingdom of the East Saxons began Anno 614 and ended after the succession of 17 Kings in Suthred whose time Egbert King of the West-Saxons united it to his Kingdom 832. Mercia 8. The Kingdom of Mercia began under Penda a Saxon Anno 626. and ended after the succession of 18 Kings in Cenolph who lost

out of the considerations aforesaid and the like 134 years for ever 7. The names of the days of the Roman moneths as they were in Julius his time and notwithstanding the Gregorian alteration are still familiarly used in all Latine writings both in the one computation and the other take in these verses following Th' old Ethnick Roman month it self divides Into three portions Calends Nones and Ides Calends the first in March October May And July Nones they call the seventh day In all months else the fift these past before Their Ides ensue eight days they number more In all the rest such dates th●y do express As they precede these periods more or less Sex Nonas Octobris habet Mars Maius Iulus Quatuor at reliqui Sunt Idus cuilibet octo Chronologies THe aera or age of the world from the Creation to this present year is 5688 Which is gathered thus   1. From the Creation to the Flood are years Gen. 5. 7. 11. 1656 2. From thence to the promise Gen. 11. 32. 12. 4. Acts 7. 4. 0428 3. From thence to Israels delivery Ex. 12. 40 41 04●0 4. From thence to Solomons temple 1 King 6. 1. 0480 5. From thence to Salmanasser or Nabonasser in whose eighth year Samaria was taken as appears by the adjustment of the Reigns of the Kings of Judah and Israel 0291 6. From Salmanaster or Nabonasser unto Chrict 0746 7. From Christ to this present year 1657   5688 Tem. The adjustment of the reigns of the Kings of Judah and Kings of Israel 1 Solomon 40. 4       37   40       38 Rehoboam 17. 1 1   Jeroboam 22. 54   17 17     55 Abiam 3. 1 18     57   3 20     58 Asa 41. 1 21     59   2 22   Nadab ● 60   3 2   B●asha 24. 61   4 2     83   26 24   Ela 2. 84   27 2   Z. T. Omri 12. 85   28 2     95   38 12   Ahab 22. 96   39 2     98   41 4     99 Jehoshaphat 25. 1 5     115   17 21   Ahazia 2. 116   18 22   Jehoram 12 117   19 2     120   22 5     123 Jehoram solus 4. 25 8     124   2 9     126   4 11     127 Ahazia 1. 1 12     128 Athalia 7. 1 1   Jehu 28. 134 Joash 40. 7 7     135   2 8     144 Carthage built 11 17     155   22 28     156   23 1   Jehoahaz 17. 172   39 17   Joas 16. 173 Amaziah 29 40 2     174   2 3     187   15 16   Jeroboam 41. 188   16 2     201   29 15       Inter regn 11.       2 Kin. 14. 1. c. 213 Uzzias 52. 1 27     227   15 41       2 King 15 1. 8.       Inter regn 23. 250   38     Zach. 6. months 251   39 1   Shall Menah 10 260   42 10       2 King 15. 17. 23.       Inter regn 1. 262   50 1   Pekahia 2. 263 Olympiads 51 2     264   52 1   Peka 20. 265 Jotham 16. 1 2     280 Ahaz 6. 16 17     281   2 18     288 17. 1 4 20       2 King 16. 1.       Inter regn 7. 287 Rome built 8       291   12 1   Ho●hea 9.     Nabonass●r 13 2 1 Salmanasser   Hezekia 29. 14 3 ●       16 5 4       4 7 6 Samaria besieg     6 9 8 Samaria taken     25   1 Merodach Bal.     29   5     Manasses 55. 1   6       15   20       27   32       40   5 Nabulasser   Amon 2.           Jofia 31.           Jehoahaz 0●           Jehoiakim 11. 4   1 Nabopolasser   Jeconias 00.     8     Zedekias 11. 1   9       9   17 Jerusalem besi     11   19 Jerusal taken Things necessary to be observ'd for the clearing of the former Adjustment 1. THe last year of the former Kings are oftentimes the first of the succeeding and many times again the years of the precedent Kings are compleat before those of their Successors do begin in which difference of account we either follow the express words of the Text or necessary consequence deducted from it 2. Whereas the Scriptures place the first year of Asa in the 20th year of Jeroboam and we have set it in his 21. yet we depart not from the truth herein nor offer any blemish to the Text for nothing is so certain as that it was concurrent with them both but we are forced to parallel it with the latter because otherwise we could not make the Reigne of Nadab so perspicuous 3. The like course we are compelled to take with the first year of Jehosaphat placing it in the 5th year of Ahab whereas the Scripture adjoyns it to his fourth because otherwise it would have appeared to the Reader that Jehoram King of Israel betwixt whom and Ahab there interceded Ahazia had begun his reigne before the death of Ahab which is not likely 4. But as concerning the time which the Text assigns to Ahazia King of Israel we cannot make things clear any other way but only by affirming that he spent his two years for the most part joyntly with his Father and though the sum of affairs had been perhaps for some time committed to his hands yet he reigned not many weeks or at least not many moneths after him alone for the latter part of Jehosaphats 18th year being concurrent with Ahabs 22th which it is clear enough it was his first year being concurrent with Ahabs 4th and 5th and Jehoram succeeding before Jehosaphats 18 was expired it is sufficiently apparent that Ahazia could not reigne many moneths after Ahab was deceased 5. It is to be noted of Jehoram King of Judah that he was made King twice in the life time of his Father first in the 17th year of his Fathers reigne for Jehoram the son of Ahab is said to have succeeded his brother Ahazia in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehosaphat 2 King 1. 17. but his entring into his kingdom was in the 18th year of Jehosaphat 2 King 3. 1. 2. He seems after this to have been a private man again for divers years and at length to have been admitted a new into the Kingdom about the 22 of his Father and then to have begun those 8 years which the Scripture assigns unto his reigne

four whereof he reigned only by himself and the other joyntly with his Father 2 Kings 8. 16. The account from Nabonasser to Christ Proved 1. FRom Nabonasser to Alexanders death are years 424 From Alexanders death to Augustus Ptol. alm 3. cap 8. 294   718 2. The distances above mentioned are made appear by Mathematical calculations and Eclipses then which no account in the world can be more certain viz.   Anno Nab. 1. Of the Moon 2. Of the Moon 27 3. Of the Moon anno 1 2. Merdoc 28 4. Of the Sun Xerxes at Sardis 276 5 Of the Moon Battel of Syracuse 335 6. Of the Moon Battel of Arbela 417 7. Sun Battel Thrasymene Liv. l. 22. 530 8. Of the Moon 549 9. Of the Moon 549 10. Of the Moon ante Cynoceph 550 11. Of the Moon anno 7. Phi●omet 575 12. Of the Moon Battel of Perseus 580 3. Christ being 30 years old in the 15th of Tiberius Luke 3. 1. cum 23. and allowing 44 years to the reign of Augustus it followeth that he was born in Augustus his 29th which makes the account as before from Nabonasser to his birth 746 4. The same account may be also thus proved From Nabonasser to the destruction of Samaria 8 Thence to the destruction of Jerusalem 133 Thence to Cyrus 70 Thence to the 6th of Darius when the Temple was finished John 2. 20. 46 Thence to the 7th of Artaxerxes when Daniels weeks began 32 Daniels weeks deducting the life of Christ 457   746 5. Now that Daniels weeks cannot commence neither with the Decree of Cyrus nor yet with the Decree of Darius which was 46 years after sufficiently appears from hence that the birth of Christ is by S. Luke expresly affirmed to have been in the reigne of Augustus Caesar Luke 2. 1. but this could not have been so if Daniels weeks had taken their beginning at either of the Decrees before mentioned for from Narbonassen unto Cyrus his Decree are but 211 years to which if you add Daniels 457 years it will want 50 years of the time that by undeniable demonstrations Ptolomy proves to have interceded betwixt Nabonasser and Augustus Again from Nabonasser to the sixth year of Darius are but 257 years to which when you have added Daniels weeks you will yet be 4 years short of the beginning of Augustus But if you begin Daniels weeks at the Decree of Artaxerxes Ezra 7. 7. 13. which was 87. years after the Decree of Cyrus it will not only bring you to Augustus his reign but to that numerical year of his reigne that Christ shall be 30 years old at the 15th of Tiberius Caesar which is agreeable to the Scriptures That Salmanasser and Nabonasser are the same and that Nabonasser took Samaria in the eighth year of his Reign IN all this Chronologie above-mentioned there is not a particular left unproved but only this that Salmanasser and Nabonasser are the same and that Nabonasser took Samaria in the 8th year of his Reigne which may be evinced by these arguments 1. From the 1st of Nab●nasser to the 1st of Nabopolass●r according to Ptolomy are 122 years and the same difference the Scriptures make betwixt Salmanasser and Nebuchadnezzar for it is clear in Scripture that the difference between the destruction of Samaria and the destruction of Jerusalem was 133 years but the former was taken in the 8th year of Salmanasser and the other in the 18th or 19th of Nebuchadnezzar which comes to the same account Concerning the beginning of Nebuchadnezzars reigne and consequently the time that he took Jerusalem the Scripture is plain enough Jor. 25. 1. 32. 1. although he may seem to have reigned one year before that together with his Father Dan. 1. 1. And concerning Salmanasser we have light enough to believe that he began his reigne in the second year of Hoshea and about the 13th or 14th year of Ahaz and consequently that the destruction of Samaria which was in the 9th and last year of Hoshea was in the 8th of his for besides that plain connexion which is in the Text 2 Kings 17. 1. 3. Hoshea began to reigne in the 12th year of Ahaz c. and against him came up Salmanasser that is Salmanasser came up against him in Ahaz his time and not long after Hoshea's admittance to his Kingdom for so much the connexion doth import besides this connexion I say it is considerable that Hoshea had been subdued by Salmanasser had made his peace again and brought him presents year by year was again revolted and fallen off had entred into conspiracy with So King of Egypt and that Samaria thereupon had been besieged and all this before the 4th year of Hezekia which was the 7th of Hoshea was expired which could not have been if Salmanasser had not begun his reign presently after Hoshea in the 13th or 14th year of Ahaz To which we may add what Raleigh observes out of 2 Chron 28. 16. that it is probable that those Kings of Assyria to whom Ahaz sent in his necessity were Tiglath Peleser and Salmanasser his Son for whereas the Geneva Notes would have it to be Tiglath and the Kings that were his Vassals it is neither likely that Ahaz would address himself to those who themselves were Vassals to another Neither do we find that Tiglath at that time had made any such conquests as to give him a Lordship over other Kings More verisimilous it is that as Ahaz had formerly in his need applyed himself to Tigl●th the Father 2 Kings 16. 7. so Tiglath being now deceased he put himself under the protection of Salmanasser his Son and so the Text may seem to speak of a successive sending of Ahaz unto several Kings of Assyria and not of his sending at the same time to one King of Assyria who was the Soveraign and supreme and unto others who under him were but subservient Unless you will imagine that Tiglath at this time being yet alive had invested Salmanasser his Son with all his power as Ahaz not long after this did Hezekia and Nabulasser in after times did Nabopol●sser and so Ahaz that he might cast a disrespect on neither sent unto them both But if this were so it is all one with that which we affirm for still Salmanasser was King and the date of his reigne as Hezekia's did ran on from the time of his association in the Empire 2. The three first Eclipses calculated by Ptolomy in the first and second year of Mardocempadus or Merodach Baladan which I lately mentioned were in the 27th and 28th of Nabonasser Ptol. lib. 4. cap. 8. But allowing the first and second year of Merodach to be concurring with the 25th and 26th of Hezekia as I shall show they were the account will fall right with the time that the Scriptures assign to Salmanasser Now concerning Merodach Baladan though it be true that he was King of Babylon in the 15th year of Hezekia and upon the miracle at his

recovery sent Ambassadours to congratulate with him Isa 39. 1. yet in regard he was then possessed of a little portion of the Assyrian Monarchy the years of his Empire are not reckoned till after the death of Asar-haddon when he was invested with it all which was in the 25th year of Hezechia For a further confirmation whereof it is not amiss to take notice that the 20th of Merodach is paralleld by Chronologers with the last year of Sethon the 32 of Merodach with the 10th of the 12 Princes and the 5th of Nabulass●r the son of Ben-Merodach with the 23th of Psammiticus But certain it is that all these Princes in Egypt were contemporary with Manasses the son of Hezekias and that the last year of Sethon was Ma●asses his 15th year the 10th of the 12 Princes his 27th and the 23th of Psammiticus the 40th of his reigne Which being granted the first year of Merodach's Empire which Ptolomy referreth to in his Ecliples falls right with the 25th of Hezekia and consequently the first of Nabonasser whose 27th as hath been said answers to the first of Merodach's falls right with the 2d year of Hoshea King of Israel Only before I leave this argument because it will conduce to the understanding of what hath been before premised I think it not amiss to subjoyn somthing of the Kings of Egypt From Cham to Chencres who was drowned in the Red Sea and from him to Thuoris we have a long Catalogue of Kings and of the Dynastyes in which they reigned but the Authors are so dubious from whom we have them that we have but little certainty whereon to build After that we read of Solomons father in Law Vaphre's Eusebius call him and of Sisac in the time of Rehoboam but how long either of them reigned or who succeeded them we are yet to seek In Salmanasser or Nabonassers time indeed we find a bottom there we meet with Sabacus so the Scripture calls him King of Egypt next unto him was Sechon the last year of whose reigne was concurrent with the 15th of Manasses after Sechon there was a Vacancy or Inter regnum 2 years then the 12 Princes held the Kingdom 15 years which expired it was invested in Psammiticus Concernign which Psammiticus also Chronologers do not well agree Herodotus accounts his reigne to be 54 years Eusebius gives him but 44. Mercator to reconcile these gives 44 to his single reigne and 10 years to his Ruling joyntly with the 12 Princes in the 5th year of whose Aristocracy he was taken in Now it is according to this last computation that you must understand what was said before of Manasses his 40th year being concurrent with Psammiticus his 23d that is it was the 23th year from the time that Psammiticus had to do with the Government of Egypt 10 years of which 23 he spent in a joynt rule with the other Princes and 13 only he had ruled solely by himself And thus much might suffice for the proving of the age of the world before the Birth of Christ as far as we could from Scripture and where that speaks not from the undeniable account of other Authors But because amongst the Ancients there were other Aeras in request besides that of Nabonasser the knowledge whereof will give a great light to the understanding of their Writings I will speak a little of them and so proceed Olympiads 1. AN Olympiad containeth the Revolution of 4 years the aera thereof was begun by Iphitus at the Summer Solstice the 51 year of Vzzias after the destruction of Troy 407 years and before the aera of Nabonasser 29 years 2. That the first Olympiad began the 51th of Vzzias appeareth thus Cyrus as King began his Reign in the first year of the 54th Olympiad 30 years before he was Monarch Tull de Divin lib. 1. Justin lib. 1. which allowing 70 years for the captivity and the reigns of the intervening Kings of Judah brings us back to the 51th of Vzzias 3. That the first Olympiad was 407 years after the destruction of Troy is gathered thus by Eratosthenes From the taking of Troy to the descent of Hercules his Posterity into Peloponnesus are 80 From thence to the Ionian expedition 60 From thence to Lycurgus in Sparta 159 From thence to the first Olympiad 108   407 4. That the first Olympiad was 29 years before the first of Nab●nasser appeareth thus The distance betwixt the first Olympiad and the death of Alexander is reckoned by Erat●sthenes to be 453 years which he gathereth thus   years From the first Olympiad to the passage of Xerxes into Greece are 297 Thence to the Pelopennesian war 048 Thence to the Victory of Lysander 027 Thence to the Battel of Leuctra 034 Thence to the death of Philip Maced 035 Thence to the death of Alexander 012   453 But the death of Alexander as hath been said is by Ptolomy placed in the 424th year of Nabonasser which proves the difference betwixt the two accounts to be 29 years 5. The same difference betwixt the first Olympiad and the first of Nabonasser may be also proved by the Eclipse of Xerxes which by Ptolomy is placed as before in the 267th year of Nabonasser but by all Greek Writers is reckoned to be the last year of the 74th Olympiad which comes to the same account The Aera of Rome ab Urbe condita 1. Cicero Eutropius Orosius place it in the third year of the 6th Olympiad 2. Halicarnassaeus Solinus Antiochenus Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius place it in the first year of the 7th Olympiad 3. With the latter agrees Bucholzer placing it in the 8th year of Ahaz though Codoman would have it in the 11th 4. According to Bucholzers account to whom Raleigh with the best Chronologers do adhere the aera of Rome is after the first Olympiad 24 years and 5 years before the first of Nabonasser The Building of Carthage 1. Carthage was built by Dido in the 7th year of Pigmalion King of Tyre which from the 12th of Hiram at which time Solomons Temple was built was 144 years current Joseph cont App. lib. 1. 2 The 144th year of Solomon's Temple being the 11th year of Joas was but 143 years before the birth of Rome and was after the destruction of Troy 289 years and therefore long after the death of Aeneas which proves Virgils story to be a Fable Seleucus his Aera 1. Seleucus his aera took its beginning the 438th year current after Nabonasser which is proved thus 2. The 519th year of Nabonasser was the 82 of Seleucus Ptol. alm l. 11. c. 7. 8. Gauric in loc citat 3. Bunting in his observations finds the Saturn recorded by Ptolomy to agree as it ought with this account being placed in the Sign of Virgo as the Chaldaeans had observed it in the same year which was from Nabonasser 519. From Seleucus 82 and the last year of the 137 Olympiad The Cycles 1. THere be two Cardinal Cycles