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A91424	The famous history of that most renowned Christian worthy Arthur King of the Britaines, and his famous Knights of the Round Table.	M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?	1660 (1660)	Wing P437aA; Thomason E1022_2; ESTC R208466	18,180	24

his Royall Fathers horrible murder And to this intent he with all possible celerity musters op all the bold Britains of this Kingdome Christains and Barrons assembling at London the metropolitant city of the realm he made an oration unto them to this or the like effect Noble natives on whom next to divine help my honour wealth and safty depends now is the time that we must arme our selves with Christian confidence against these misbeseeming miscreants who for so long a time have gur●●ndized and glutted themselves in ours and our worthy amatours blood the execrable massacce at Salop begun in the poison of our Royall Father being yet in fresh bleeding memory néeds no other incentive it being of it selfe a motive forcible enough to conglutinat your hearts and put edge to your valour against these blasphemors of Christ and his Law and captivators of us and what should be most dear to us even our consciences to the heathenish Idolatry and merciless tyranny much néeds not be said to excise when the cause it selfe is so urgent and pressive Be ye true to me your Soveraign as I by Gods assistance whose substitute I am will be faithfull and just to defend and protect you my Christian British Subjects from the vasalage of these infidels and I doubt not but we shall bring these our godly resolutions to a happy and a glorious period This speech was received with a generall plauditie the acclamations of the people were so loud and great that it is almost beyond credit to tell how far they were heard of arme arme arme now is all the cry and there was no need of pressing of souldiers as we use now adayes for souldiers pressed forward to this War without command or pay So that within a fortnight space and less there appeared in sundry places of the Land above 200000. able fighting men all compleatly armed all crying for God King Arthur the British Liberty and Christian Religion Well but what do the Saxons all this while are they idle no great preparations are made new forces arm dayly at the several ports and havens of the Land Some at South-hampton others at Sandwich and a third at Famouth now is Britaine become an Acceldama nothing but blood ruine and slaughter is to be expected but the best of it it is King Arthur and his noble Britains are alwaies victorious the Pagan Idolaters fall under the Christian sword insomuch that within 18. months 12. mighty hosts of Saxons are overthrown in 12. severall set battels fought in sundry places of the Kingdome the first and greatest was in Shropshire near Salop upon New-Years day A. D. 517 where 46000 Pagan Saxons were sent to the devil for a New years gift 3000. chiefe Commanders and Pymen as they call them taken prisoners this memorable battell in a manner made ship wrack of all the Saxon greatness in this Land yet in March following by the aide that came from them from beyond the Sea and their scattered forces which they had rallied together they openly opposed K. Arthur and his British Army near to Oundly in Norhampton shire where with the slaughter of above 18000 Saxons and 150 prisoners King Arthur abtainted a glorious victory To make short what would bed verlong if I should tell you all in the space of time above mentioned tbis noble Christian worthy became conqueror of these bloody and amhious Saxon conquerors 12. severall times insomuch that they not being able any longer to withstand his never changing Fortune were at the last so many as were left alive ensorced quite to abandon the Land to which they never returned during the raigne of Arthur and his next successor which was his Nephew Constantine Son to the late mentioned Cador the valiant and magnanimous Duke of Cornwall Thus much for his first war with and extirpation of the Saxons wherein he shewed himselfe to be a true Son to his poisoned Father and a just Father to his his oppressed distressed and captived Nation great Britain CHAP. VI. How King Arthur crost the Seas and subdued Denmark and Norway and Gothland unto him in which voyage many notable occurrances passed well worth observation HAving thus victoriously triumphed over his enemies at home our not idle Arthur caused a Navy of 400. ships to be presently well rigged and manned and an Army consisting of 60000. foot and 20000. horse to be ready to attend his Majesty upon what designe he would be pleased to imploy them which done himselfe in his Royall person his kinsman Cador Duke of Cornwall whom he made Captain Generall of the horse the Earle of Ludlow named Sr Marston Lieutenantgenerall under him the Earle of Leicester Lincolne Salop and Flintshire all imployed in places of great charge in the Army Morgan King of Norhwales and Theoder of whom the moderne name Tender originally sprung King of Southwales each of them voluntarily offering unto King Arthur to whom they did fealty their aide and assistance in this gallant intended voyage So that having all things fitting and nothing wanting that might promise property our famous and renowned Navy with our bold British Christian Army put from Dover in the Ides of March Anno 519. for the Conquest of those thres then Pagan Nations Denmark Norway and Gothland and with such happy gales they were befriended and waited on by such auspitious stars that as they were not long under saile so upon the shore their wishes were answered with successe accordingly insomuch that it was no more then hope and have wish and win for our Arthur might alwaies say with Caesar veni vidi vinci I came I saw I overcame so the divine power was so immediately assistant with this valiant Christian Champion our worthy British Arthur that what enterprise soever he took in hand though never so much difficulty appeared in it he was certain to come off victor at his arrivall in Denmark mighty opposition was made to prevent farther entrance into the Land but all in vaine our Noble Brittains had been by former experience taught to account that ground whereon their feet stood to be their own inheritance and that they would never part withall alive this resolution caused King Arthur to conquer where he came whatever opposion was made The King of Denmark whose name was Eschilleus was at a strong hold of his called Bull Castle which King Arthur ●aving overcome the Danish Army laid siege to and in four dayes took it by maine assault the King to save his life humbly upon his knees did homage to K. Arthur for his Kingdom which he would hold of him as his leige Lord paying to him and his heirs Kings of Britain an anval tribute of 40000 Ducass which when Dolleivius King of Gothland heard who was comming to assist Eschilleus fearing the event he began to retire but our horsemen so plyed the opportunity that overtaking the reare of the army they gave fierce onset to them holding them in play till the maine body of the British foot

came up and indeed little ado their was to-gaine this victory which fear had halfe done already the King was taken with 12. men in his company near to a wood side by a party of our horse who were imployed in pursuit of the dispierced army who being brought before King Arthur submitted resigning himselfe his Crown and Kingdome to hold in Fee of the British Monarchy yearly allowing a tribunary stipend of 700. Franks of Gold delivering his own brother Harpus Prince of Finia in hostage till security was made for the true payment of it With this prosperous successe our worthy Arthur set forward to Norway the King whereof Lotho by name a man of marvelous strength and valour having had intelligence of all that had passed in Denmark and thereby conjecturing what would come to pass gathering all the premission that might be of men and armes to check the caréere of this unresistable army which he indeed had accomplished but that a power more then humane prevented it at the first arrivall of the Britaine 's which they permitted as trusting upon their lands strength which was 300000 horse and foot in a minute all that the Land could make King Arthur sent a messen●er to King Lotho requiring of him his Kingdome and people to yeeld obedience to the Christian Crown of Britain as his neighbor Kings had done which if he refused to do without effusion of blood he doubted not to gain by force what he sought to win by favor the proud Pagan Prince presuming upon his own more then common ability of body and the magnitude of his army sent back this despicable answer by way of defiance and challenge to King Arthur and his chevalry Know daring Arthur that thou and all thy crafty Christians whom contemptuously thou hast brought against the decree of the gods into this Northeen part of Europe shall be the laughing stock of Lotho and his matchless Norveigians and although fortune have smited thee to triumph over the cowardise of Eschillius and Dollavius wits assure thy selfe all this will conduce to the greater glory of me who am by the gods designed to be the Conqueror of thee who hath conquered so many of their devout supplicaters thou art come upon my land without my leave but shalt never depart thence with thy life but because I intend to win a particular praise in thy ruine and the chiefe men with thee I challenge thy self to méet my self in personal combat and if thou they think well of it 10. of the most approved Knights in thy army against 10. of mine this if accepted by thee and thine shall be performed by me and mine to morrow morning by 9. of the clock upon Armond plain two leagues from either Army bring you courage along with you and let your horses bring you to the place of destruction at the time place appointed if you fayle our expectation we will not fayle to be with you to the ruine of your hoste in the afternoon of the same day in the in●rim take leave to pause upon the words of thy mortall enemy Lotho Rex Norvegia This Letter comming into King Arthurs view it is unexpressible with what joy he read it and calling his Princes Barrons and illustrate Knights before him unto them he communicated the premises when presently a vertuous emulation and strife arose among them who should be the combators in this glorious hazard to be briefe the business could no otherwise be decided then by casting lots so hungry were their Christian appetites after this honourable breakfast the lots fell upon Duke Cador of Cornwall Morgan and Theodore King of North South Wales the Earle of Lecester Lincoln Flint Ludloe and Salop the Barron of Aberqueny and the Barron of Bark these 10. gallant Knights to the spirituall envy of many others rode along with King Arthur at the time to the place appointed where they met there resolute opponents so punctual to promise that I may well say they met indeed neither party staying for the other but just comming to the place together as though the 22. horses had been privy to catch others secrets or known their riders intentions Thus being mutually met after a few course complements such as the present occasion dictated they fell to the business which they came about with such impartiall hardines that you might well guess that the one party fought to win a Kingdome and the other fought to save one it would be both troublesome and tedious to recite the particulars of this happy bickering therefore I will content my selfe with the rehearfall of the two Kings encounter combat success onely generally telling how the rest behaved themselves and to whom the victory hapned King Arthur charged his enemy so furiously at their first encoun●er that Lotho being a man of admirable strength not able to unhorse him he himselfe was so near dismounting that he recoyled into thecrouper of his Saddle at which his very eyes revealed the anger of his heart so that recovering his seat and at a second pass●ge both their Lances though marvelous strong flew into the ayre but with the vehemency of the stroke King Lothos left shoulder joint was dissocated which he chafing like a bore sought his best advantage by sudden dismounting but King Arthur the activist man alive was on ground with sword in hand before him and at the first veny struck him on the head so vigorously that he cleft his helme and head to the eyes so down fell Lotho like a mighty Oake yeelding his body and Kingdome to the mercy of King Arthur how he would bury the one and dispose of the other in the intrim our hardy British Knights had slain 6. of their 10. Antagonists and mortally wounded the other four either of them having received any notable hurt the Earle of Flint had his horse slain under him the like had the King of Northwales Duke Cador was cut in the arme the Earle of Leicester in the leg and the Earle or Salop in the shoulder no other hurt was done unto the British Party the dejected Norveigians bearing these tydings so full of horror to them threw down their weapons and fled whom our Britains overtaking King Arthur caused a proclamation to be made that whosoever would forsake the worship of their false gods and adore the true God Iesus Christ and be baptized into the Christian Faith should be received to mercy the obstinate to expect none upon this many thousands promised and in four dayes performed the same by baptisme and confession of the Christian Faith among the rest the Duke of Erikine next heire to the Crown of Norway was baptized and Crowned both in one day by the Bishop of Menevia since called Saint Davids who was alwaies attendant on King Arthur who receiving homage of this new Christian King the first of that name and condition for so he was named at his imitation to his Kingdome and Christianity for the Kingdome of Norway our illustrions King Arthur