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
his successour A.M. 3355 This man brought the first Monarchy to its highest pitch 1. Rawleigh Hist l. 3. Ezech. 26.2 By his victories over the Iewes and all the bordering Nations 2. Tyre rejoyced at the tuine of jerusalem but her turne came speedily after her situation in the Sea and the strength of her Navie could not save her This was the great secvice sooken of by the Prophet Ezechiel 29.18 Herodâ—tus Dioder Siculus wherein every head was made bald and every shoulder made bare in filling up that straight of the Sea which separated it from the Continent before it could be taken 3. For this the Conquest of Aegypt was allotted him by God for wages which he victoriously atchieved Isay 19. Ezech. 29. cap. 3. as it was fore-prophesyed 4. Then Nineveh for Rebellion was ruinated by him as Nahum foretold it should 5. Puffed up with this successe He sets up a monstrous Statua of his own fancying to be under paine of burning adored 6. Was not Schooled sufficiently by the miraculous deliverance of Sydrach Mesach and Abednego and the divine Informations of Daniel to acknowledge the true God's supremacy untill at length in the midst of his vaunting humors he was strooken stark mad and doomed for seaven years to converse with Wild-beasts but then was 7. restored acknowledged Gods Infinitenesse and mans Impotency Theodoret. Lyra. Carthusian repented and according to S. Augustines charitable censure whom some others follow was saved leaving his large Dominions to 16. A.M. 3387 EVILMERODACH his sonne who had managed the Kingdome as some think in the time of his Fathers Madnesse Rawleigh 2. Afterward having it in his own right he dealt kindly with Jehojachin his Captive 2. Kings 25.27 whom he advanced from Prison to feed at his own table perchance the rather because his father Nabuchodonoser had not kept the conditions agreed upon when he surrendred himselfe unto him and Ierusalem 3. Nitocris some say his sister some his wife was a notable stirring virago in those dases that passed Semiramis 4. But all this could not hold up Babylon which was destinated to fall Rawleigh 5. The Medes and Persians prove victorious against him thereupon Aegypt takes occasion to Rebell where he lost all that his father had gotten 6. Hee was slain in a Battle wherein his multitude of deboshe Souldiers were defeated by the well armed sturdy Medes and leaves his vast dishartered Empire to his degenerate Sonne 17. A.M. 3393 BALTASAR a slave to his Lust and a fit object for a Conquerour to work upon which was well known to his enemies and drew them the sooner upon him 2. Diverse presages there were of thiâ— mans mischievous disposition tending to ruine For in his fathers time he slew a young Noble man that should have married his sister only for that he saw him gore two wild beasts with his Iaveling that he himselfe had missed to doe And an other Lord he gelded because a Lady said in his commendation that that woman should be happy who should have him for her Husband Cap. 27.7 3. In this man was fulfilled the Prophesy of Ieremy All Nations shall serve Nebuchadnezzar and his Sonne and his Sonnes sonne untill the very time of his land come and then many Nations and great Kings shaell serve themselves of him 4. The unparalleld upshot of which C. 5 is described by Daniell in the midst of his surquedry and prostituting of the consecrated vessells to his Wives and Concubines which had been taken out of the Temple of Ierusalem by his Grandfather and till that time laid up untouched with addition of the magnifying of his Idoll Gods and sleighting the God of Israel A hand writing for his execution from Heaven Dan. 5.30 was signed on a wall over against him which as soone as it was denounced was dispatched For in that night saith the Text was Belshazzar King of the Chaldeans slaine the neglected Besiegers dividing Euphrates and surprizing the Citty and Court and Darius the Median took the Kingdome Xenophon Cyroped l. 7. together with Cyrus the Perfian as it is gathered by conferring of Dan. 5.31 with 2. Chron. 36.20 2. COncurrents in this Period to be taken notice of may be 1. The Originalls of Monarchicall Government amongst all the dispersed Nations 2. The building of Citties and Fortresses for their Honour Safety and civilizing their subjects 3. The Seminaries for learning and spreaders of it whence we meet with Cockmah Misraim Sixtus Senensis the wisdome of the Priests of Aegypt derived from Abraham Joseph and the Trismegisti wherein Moses was perfectly instructed The Magick of Balaam Acts 7. Mat. 2. Numb 24 17. Sixtus Senems which took with the Easterne nations and directed the Magi to Christ by the starre foretold by him Cockmah Chasdim the wisdome of the Chaldeans which Daniel was versed in and surmounted Besides Kiriah Sepher of the Cananites Najoth and Ramah and Jericho Schooles and as it were Vniversities of Students and Prophets amongst the Iewes 4. The calamities and deliverances of the Church Pezelius in Mellificio Alsted in Historiâ—is in hir oppressions captivites and wonderfull preservations 5. The clashing of Nations for supremacy in the Assyrian Aegyptian Theban Trojane warres 6. The depopulations ruines or translations of States and People too vast to be piled up in a Compendium 7. Yet the concurrence of the line of Arbaces sharer with Beloch in the mentioned division of Sardanapalus Empire must not be omitted Apud PhotiuÌ„ in Biblioth Iustin Herodot Ctesias Gnidius here gives us the names of nine successors some of which others touch upon but Iustine passing them as nominall insisteth only on Astiages whose daughter Mandana married to a meane Persian Gentleman Cambyses brought forth Cyrus whom Astiages plotted in vaine to make away but drew him on rather to out him of his Kingdome and with Darius Medus his Vokle to extinguish the first and set up the second Monarchy INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Any certainty may be had of story besides that of Scripture concerning the Assyrian Monarchy 2. Ier. 29.22 Bel destroyed by Daniel were Belus statua the first Idoll and Zedekiah and Ahas the two Elders that assaulted Susanna 3. Semiramis were slaine in the Indian Warre or at home by her sonne Ninias 4. Hos 5.13 10.6 Isajah 20. Iareb and Sargon mentioned in Scripture were distinct Kings of Assyria 5. Nebuchadnezzar were really transformed into a Beast 6. Vpon his recovery he acknowledged the true God repented and was saved 7. The Handwriting against Baltasar were in strang Characters or a known Alphahet SECOND MONARCHY of the Persians PERIOD II. 1. THE second Period includeth the Persian Monarchy continued for about 200. years and hath in it these Kings 1. CYRUS A.M. 2423 named about 200 years before he was borne as Josias was 300. to destroy the Idolatry of Bethel before it was performed He was Grand-child to Astiages the great King of
which made a faire way for his sonne 3. A.M. 3944 KIMBELLINE to succeed him In the 23. yeare of whose Raigne our Saviour Christ was borne 2. Some say that upon deniall of the Romane Tribute Augustus Caesar was thrice upon the way to invade Britaine but was by other businesses diverted The contrary relation is more likely that Kimbelline being bred in Rome and graced much by Augustus never gave afterward occasion of distast whose good example his sonne and successor 4. An. Ch. 17 GUIDERIUS had not the wisdome to follow He therefore being valorous and of a haughty spirit held it a disparagement for a King to be Tributary unto any No Tribute therefore may be had from him 2. Caligula the Romane Emperour stormes at it goes in Person against him brings his company as farre as the Belgique shore causes his Army thence to gather Coccle shels and so ridiculously returnes triumphantly to Rome with the spoyles as he accounted it of the Ocean 3. Claudius as 't was thought a simpler man took a better grounded course for by his Leaders Plautius and Vespasian he brought the Britaine 's to more submissive termes Grafton Hollinsh and conquered Guiderius our stories relate it in this manner One Hamo siding with the Romanes put on British formalities by that means came neare to the King and slew him to repaire which losse 5. An. Ch. 45 ARVIRAGUS the Kings brother shifteth himselfe into the Kings Ornaments to prevent discouragement of the Souldiers who knew not what was done and so continues the fight in which they were and had the better pursues Hamo to the Sea side where he slew himselfe whence the place took the name of Hamo's Haven now with a little change is called South-Hampton 2. Arviragus holds up stoutly after diverse conflicts keepeth his owne and is at length reconciled to the Emperour by marrying his daughter Genissa 3. Hence swelling and esteeming it an indignity to be perpetually jaded with taxes withstands the payment is invaded by Vespasian who lands at Totnesse the King encounters him in a doubtfull Battle nere Exceter The Queene interposes and makes them friends for quietnesse sake the Tribute is continued 4. How redoubted this King seemed to be to the Romanes may be gathered from that peece of the Satyrist Regem aliquem capies aut de Temone Britanno Invenal â—at 4. Excidet Arviragus It boads great honour to thy selfe some King thou shalt restraine Or shake the fierce Arviragus out of his British wayne Saies the Parasite to the Emperour making it no small triumph to unhorse Arviragus who by some is stiled the Hector of Britaine 5. After such brave atchievements he dies peaceably and leaves his virtues and Kingdome to his sonne 6. MARIUS The Picts invading this Countrey An. Ch. 73 had a notable overthrow by him with their leader Roderick at Stanes More in the North so called from a stone crected in that place as a memoriall of that Victory 2. Some call this man Westmer to deduce from thence with more probability the name of Westmerland others make him the same with Arviragus whose heroick wife Voadicia for an unsufferable abuse offered unto her and her two daughters gave notable overthrowes to the Romanes untill at length she was defeated by Paâ—linus Suetonius which she took so indignely that she made her selfe away In these heavy and desperate times 7. An. C. 126 COILUS the sonne of Marius undertakes the government which he might mannage with lesse danger in regard he was brought up amongst the Romanes and could humour them best for his own quiet 2. He constantly payed the tribute unto them which prevented the greatest quarrell 3. Colchester is thought to beare his name and commend him to posterity but that was more really done by his sonne Lucius the chiefe in the neâ— Distance 2. WIthin compasse of this Distance especially notice may be taken of 1. The eminent Invaders and oppreâ—â—ors of this Iland which are storied to be 1. Iulius Caesar Holinsh 2. Vespasian under Claudius who gave thirty overthrowes to the Inhabitants 3. Aulus Plautius a Romane Senator called out of France and preferred before Narcissus the Emperours minion by the Souldiers crying out O Saturnalia 4. Osterius Scapula 5. Paulinus Suâ—tonius 6. Julius Frontinus 7. Julius Agricola Father in Law to Cornelius Tacitus who with advantage sets forth his History 2ly Those that worthily resisted them deservedly should be remembred who were 1. Cassibellane that confronted Caesar 2. Nennius his brother who got his sword from him 3. Guiderius who manfully stood up for the liberty of his Countrey untill he was treacherously slaine by Hamo 4. Arviragus the Hector of Britaine who stroke a terror to the Romanes 5. Voadicia that resolute Queene that made them smart for the abusing her and her two daughters 6. Caratack that incomparable Welch man that was so basely betrayed by that strumpet Catismandua of North Wales who had turn'd off her Husband to marry with her ignoble Paramour but Caratacks refolution and behaviour so took the Emperour Claudius and the Romanes that her betraying and carrying to Rome with his Wife and Children heightned him to a greater esteeme 7. Lastly the two Noble Scots Corbrid and Galgalus supporters in these extremities leave them in fames Register never to be forgotten INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. In relating these former passages the Romanes or our own Records are rather to be credited 2. Caesar conquered Britaine by valour rather then domestique dissentions and Treason 3. It be likely that Kimbaline were Knighteâ— by Augustus 4. Arviragus marriage with Genissa the Emperour Claudius daughter were not worthy mentioning in Roman Histories if it were true Bale Ponticus Viramnus 5. There were ever such a virago as Brunduca that terrified Rome more then Hanniball and dyed in going to subdue it 6. She were not the same with Voadicia 7. South-Hampton had its name from Hamâ— slaine thereby Arviragus British Christians DISTANCE VI. 1. THe sixt Classiâ— or Distance amongst the Britaines is bounded with Vortiger and begins with 1. An. C. 180 LUCIUS the sonne of Coilus forementioned This is the first King we read of that imbraced Christianity 2. He sent to Elutherius then Bishop of Rome Elvanus and Medvinus learned men of his owne to receive farther instructions from him an answere is returned him from thence by Faganus and Danianus in these words You have received in the Kingdome of Britaine by Godâ— mercy both the Law and faith of Christ Ye have both the New and Old Testament out of the same through Gods grace by the advice of your Realme take a Law and by the same through Gods sufferance rule you your Kingdome of Britaine for in that Kingdome you are Gods Vicar What could be more solid and punctuall but how the stile was altered afterward in that Sea the World felt and lamented 3. Vpon this the King altered the three Pagan Arch-Flamins and twenty eight Flamins into so many
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
man to dethrone him 3. He repaires to the misunderstood Cordeilla who had married Aganippus a Prince of France she dutifully receives him and her Husband with the help of confederates restores him to his former dignity in which he dying leaves the place to his thankfull daughter 11. CORDEILLA A.M. 3158 But shee being invaded by her two Nephews Morgan and Cunedag sonnes to her mentioned sisters and by them subdued and imprisoned pittifully made her selfe away and leaves to them the Kingdome 12. Morgan and Cunedag A.M. 3162 who peaceably ruled for a while in their severall divisions But Morgan of the elder sister contending that the whole belonged unto him ventured upon his Cosens part and so lost all with his life leaving his name to the place in which he was vanquished of Glan-Morgan continued ever since and the whole Kingdome to Cunedag who had it not long before his death transferr'd it to his sonne 13. RIVALLO In whose time it raigned blood A.M. 3197 for three daies together that bred flies which a contagion follewed that consumed multitudes This Perdix the Wisard of those daies might foretell but not withstand This calamity wrought not his sonne that succeeded 14. GURGUSTUS to forsake his beastly surquedry A.M. 3242 but left it to his brother 15. SYSILLIUS his successour to augment it A.M. 3279 rather then reforme it and his kinsman 16. A.M. 3327 IAGO for ought is said of him runnes onward in the same straine and dyes without Issue 17. A.M. 3352 KINNIMACUS or Kinmartu some say his brother is named only to bring in 18. A.M. 3404 GORBODUG his sonne and he to fill up a roome and then transferre it to his sonnes 19. A.M. 3467 FERREX and Porrex They quarrelling with one the other as the manner is in such cases met in Battle wherein whether Ferrex slew Porrex or he his brother it is uncertaine all agree that the Mother with her own hands flew the snrviver in his bed when he least thought of it and so put a Brutish Period to the line of Brute after it had continued about 700 years Then upon much bickering for about 50 years space the Monarchy degenerated into a Pentarchy wherein first Staterus became King of Albania 2. Yevan of Northumberland 3. Pinnor of Loegria 4. Rudac of Wales and Cloten of Cornwall whose sonne Mulmucius Dunwallo brought it back to a Monarchy as before the leader in the next Distance or Ranke 2. VVIth these fall in the times of David and his successors untill the returne from the Captivity of Babylon Grafton 2. The building of Rome and diverse other Citties here amongst us 3. The originalls of the names of some Places and Rivers which carry small credit with them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. The story of Brute and his Line be as uncertaine as that of Samothes and Albion 2. Britaine had its name from Brit painted and Tania a Region and Cornewall from Kern a horne which it resembleth and Wallia to which it relateth and not from Brutus and Coroneus 3. Greeke Oracles ever used to give answers in Lattaine Hexameter and Fentameter 4. Coroneus worsting Gogmagog in wrestling left a patterne to the Cornish to prove such skilfull Wrestlers 5. Stamford were made an Vniversity by King Bladud 6. The hot Baths in the Citty of Bath were ever so naturally before King Bladud built there a Temple and committed them to Minerva's trust 7. Aquila's and Perdix ' Prophecies be meere forged delusions Brittish Monarchs DISTANCE IV. 1. THe fourth Distance of Brittish free Monarchs ends at Cassibellane and takes his rise from Mulmuciâ—â— 1. A.M. 3522 DUNWALLO Duke Clotons sonne of Cornewall he subdued the other Rulers in the Pentarchy and was the first Crowned King of Britany whereas others before were but termed Rulers Dukes or Governours 2. He constituted good Lawes translated out of British into Latine by Gildas Priscus and afterward by King Alfred into English and mingled amongst his Statutes Notable was the priviledge he granted to Heathen Temples that those that fled unto them should be there protected and thence passe untouched to shift for themselves 3. Blackwell Hall Malmsbury and the Vies are said to be built by him and the foure crosse waies began which were finished by his sonne Beline 3. Most affirme that he brought in Weights and Measures and ordained strict Lawes for the punishment of theft being a great favourer of Learning and Chivalry dyes honourably and leaves his two sonnes to Raigne after him joyntly 2. A.M. 3562 BELINUS and Brennus Brennus by north Humber and Beline in the Southerne parts remaining with Cornewall 2. Brennus not contented with his dividend for strengthning of himselfe to get more sayles into Norway there marries King Elsings daughter but lost her in the carriage homeward to Guiltdake her former sweetheart King of Denmarke This King by storme is driven with her upon the coast of Northumberland and entertained by Beline Brennus followes and requires of his Brother his Wife and Patrimony both are denied him they joyne Battle Brennus with his Norwaies is routed flyes into Gallia marries Seginus daughter Duke of Allabrog returnes with his Father in Lawe's forces upon his brother Beline Being upon an unnaturall encounter the Mother steps between and fully accords them 3. Brennus returnes some say accompanied with his brother Beline 't is well he had his best furtherance and conquereth a great part of Gallia whence furnished with forces he passes into Italy and after a great overthrow given surprizeth Rome Livius The chiefe leaders in which finding their weaknesse fortify themselves in the Capitoll to which the Galls having found a secret passage and thinking to have taken them napping were discovered by some geese and so disappoynted whence afterward the Romanes had a Goose feast in the honour of Iuno 4. In the mean whiles the ancient Senaters sitting with great gravity in Chaires at their Doores and thereby at first awing the pillaging Souldiers into reverence upon a boxe given by Marcus Papirius to one that plaid with his beard he inraged thereby cut his throat and emboldned his fellowes to doe the like to the rest 4. A composition is made for surrendring the Capitoll the mony to be paid from the Romans is weighing the Galls throw in their swords to the ballance to augment the summe agreed upon A quarrell thence ariseth in the heat of which Furius Camillus recalled from Banishment and made Dictator by the Senate comes with forces expells the Galls out of Rome and Italy 5. Thence falling upon Greece they are said to have subdued Sosteme Duke of Macedon where plundering all Temples they met with and attempting to doe the like at Delphos Apollo as it should seem in anger so pelted them with haile-stones and with an Earth-quake and a fall of a peece of Pernassus that he slew most of them and so wounded our Brennus that in despaire he fell upon his own Sword 6. All this while Beline at home spent his time
Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks The Arch-Bishops were of London Yorke and Gloster the Bishops of other places Idoll Temples were destroyed Westminster built in the Isle of Thorny the place where it now stands being then so called 4. Priviledges and meanes were granted for the honouring such sacred places 5. The King dies without Issue wherefore to continue the line of Government wee are forced to take in the Emperour 2. An. C. 208 SEVERUS for he comes hither in Person to appease the tumults amongst the headlesse and heedlesse multitude orders that the Country should have no more Kings of her own 2. Built a Wall between England and Scotland of 112 miles in length to stop the suddaine incursions of the Scots and Picts at least repaired that wall which Adrian had erected before 3. He dyes here in Yorke and left his sonne the Monster 3. BASSIANUS to succeed him An. C. 213 of whose killing his brother Geta and other villanies mention is made before in his life Of him 4. An. C. 219 CARAUSIUS an obscure Britaine purchaseth the Government of the shattered State Eutropius wherein when he presumed to King it 5. An. C. 226 ALECTUS is sent from Rome by the Senate to out him which he quickly did And was as soon dealt with in the like kind by 6. ASCLEPIODOTUS Duke of Cornewall An. C. 232 This man resolutely bestirres himselfe for the freedome of his Country disgarrisons the Romane holds besieges London carries it kills the Romane Governour thereof Livius and throwes him into a Rivellet thence called Wall-brook But differences falling out between him and Coill Earle of Colchester it grew to a set Battle wherein Asclepiodotus was slaine and 7. COILL takes his place An. C. 2623 Constantius Clhorus is sent by the Romane Senate to subdue the tumultuous but matters were so politiquely contrived between them that in steed of outing Coill Clhorus takes his faire and peerclesse Daughter Helena to wife and with her the Kingdome after her Father He is highly commended for his morall virtues valour moderation and in those sad times for favouring the Christians After an excellent exhortation on his death-bed to those that were about him he quietly breathed his last and lyes buried at Yorke leaving 8. An. C. 310 CONSTANTINE the Heire and Augmenter of his worth whom he had by the British Helen As Lucius had the honour before to be Registred for the first Christian King so this Great Constantine is famous to all ages for the first Christian Emperour of whom more is said in his life amongst the Emperours After him expired the Romane vassalage which had endured 483 years by the intrusion of 9. An. C. 329 OCTAVIUS Duke of Cornewall Against him Constantine sends Traherne his Vnkle by the Mothers side but he was quickly encounterd by Octavius that had great means and friends and overthrowne neere Winchester but Traherne recruting his forces at an other Battle in the North had the better of Octavius who thereupon fled into Norway 2. Thence understanding that Traherne was slaine by an Earle that was his friend he returnes againe to his Estate and governs peaceably 3. And for the strengthning of his Title to make it good to posterity he sends for from Rome 10. An. C. 383 MAXIMIANUS or Maximus a kinsman of the Great Constantines For this mans harsh dealing with the Ghristians he is set forth by most writers as a Tyrant 2. Quarrells fell out between him and Conan Meridoc Duke of Cornewall and some conflicts with various successe but they agreed at last Maximianus bestowing Armorica which he had conquered upon Conan who called it Little Britaine and having made away the ancient Inhabitants sent into Cornewall for Wives to people it with Brittish blood 11000 Virgins were shipped thither by Diothen then Duke whereof Vrsnla his faire daughter was one but they were barbarously slaine in the passage by Guanus Captain of the Hunnes and Melga King of Ficts who afterward were forced into Ireland by Gracian a Leader sent from our Maximinian 3. Who puffed up with wealth and successe Rebelled against his Master Gratian the Emperour whom he slew in France and proclaimed himselfe Emperour but quickly lost that dignity with his life by Theodosius the great In Orat. funeb de exitu Theodofii neere Aquilea concerning whom St Ambrose hath this passage Maximus occisus est nunc in inferno docenâ— exemplo miserabili quam durum sit Arma suis Principibus irrogare Maximus is slaine and now in Hell by his miserable example teacheth what a hard matter it is for Subjects to take up Armes against their Princes 11. A.Ch. 391 GRACIAN then his Generall makes bold to supply the vacant place he was a Britaine by birth and education yet so Tyrannized over his Countrymen that in a short space he was slaine amongst them 2. Whereupon Guanus and Melga finding them destitute of a Leader come upon them out of Ireland The Scots and Picts breake in upon them from the North and Civill dissentions plague them as much in the middest so that nothing but Famine Bloud and desolation was before their eyes 3. In this extremity they repayre to Aetius the Romane Leiftenant in Gallia with this pittyfull complaint The Barbarous people drive us to the Sea and the Sea driveth us back unto them againe Hereof arise two kinds of death for either we are slaine or drowned and against such evils have we no remedy or help at all Therefore in respect of your Clemency succour your owne we most instantly desire you 4. But finding cold comfort either for that the Romane regarded them not or had his hands full otherwise they dispatch Embassadours to Aldroenus then King of little Britaine who consented to ayd them if they would accept his brother to be their King 5. Necessity enforceth them to imbrace the Condition and so 12. CONSTANTINE is made their King A.Ch. 443 He Lands with Forces at Totnesse slayes Guanus the Hunnish King in the Feild and defeateth the rest of the oppressours but soone after was treacherously slaine himselfe by a perfidious Pict 2. He left three sonnes surviving Constantius Aurclius Ambrose and Vter Pendragon Constantius that for his blockishnesse was Cloystered in a Monastery was thence taken to Raigne after him but was wholy guided as a Ward by Vortiger Duke of Cornewall who caused him to be made away that he might enjoy the Place and appeares the foreman of the next and last Classis or Distance in the Brittish Dynasty 3. WIth this Distance falleth in 1. The great Question concerning the first Planter of Christianity in Britany Whether it were 1. St James the sonne of Zebedee or 2 Simon Zelotes or 3 St Peter or 4 St Paul or 5 Joseph of Aramathea or 6 Aristobulus or 7 Timothy or all these or any other at diverse times and on diverse occasions may be said to have put their hand to the worke 2 The damnable Heresie of Pelagius first hence taking his rise with
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