of his Gouernors For he called Moses a Heard-man from Madian vnto Egipt saying Mittam te ad Pharaonem Gedeon he elected from the barne a Thresher saing Tu liberabis Israel de manu Madian In like manner he called Ieptha from the land of Tob. But as before is sayd howsoeuer kings are elected the honor dignitie and reuerence of kings were such that after Iehu was annointed king sitting among other captaines his fellow captaines did put off their mantels cloakes and gownes to make him a seat like a throne for a king to sit with sounding of trumpets and saying God saue King Iehu such is the Maiestie of the name of a King that God called them Dij terrae As soone as Darius horse neighed the other sixe Princes which were in election with him lighted on foote prostrating themselues vpon the ground after the Persian manner hauing the sacred fire and the Image of the sunne carried before him What wonder is it for the Persians Armenians to whom it is peculiar to worship their kings as Gods sithence king Dauid so honored his sonne Salomon being a king annointed and sitting on his Fathers seat in such humble sort that being sicke and old in his bed bowed his head downe in token of his submission to the King his sonne and as Iosephus saith Tanquam Deum coluit We read that the Kings of Aethyopia being elected by their priests are lifted vp with such triumphes vpon their shoulders and carried so to be seen among the people Bacchantium more flexis genubus vt Deum honorant The late Emperours of Rome being elected were hoysed vpon mens shoulders and carried with ioyes and triumphes the people crying out Viuat Imperator They vsed no other ceremony in ancient time with the Kings of Fraunce but to lift the new elected King vpon a shield to bee carried about the campe saging Viuele Roy. So was Clodoneus the first christian French King The souldiors of Pharnaces vpon a tumult made in the campe sodenly they put a Reed into Pharnaces hand for a scepter and proclaimed him King of Pontus So the Iewes put a Reed into our Sauiours hand for a scepter in most contemptuous and ridiculous manner and kneeling sayd Aue Rex Iudaeorum hayle King of the Iewes The souldiers of Amasis vpon a sodaine shift to make him King of Egipt they clapt vppon his head in stead of a crowne a Helmet and so proclaimed him King of Egipt So the Iewes clapped a crowne of thornes vpon christs head a more precious Crowne than the Amphictions of Greece sent to Alexander or the Arabians and Armenians sent to the Romanes In diuers other countreys they make choice of their Kings diuersly In some place of shepheards supposing them that haue such care of their sheepe should haue more care ouer men In Homer Kings are called Pastores populi as you heard of the Kings of Israel and others In other places they made choyse of them that were most rich thinking that a rich King was best able to helpe his subiects and defend them from their enemies These kinds of elections of Kings and of priests which gouerned cheefely amonge the Ethyopians and Egiptians In Libia he onely should bee elected king qui citissimo cursu valeret He that was most swift in running In other Prouinces and countreys towards Arabia he that excelled in strength and courage of his bodie supposing him to be most fit and able to gouerne them These Nations knew not God in their elections yet they seemed to imitate the Israelites in outward fourme The people called Cathaei in India made choice of him to be their King that was most tall of stature and of goodly personage like Xerxes King of Persia who among so many hundred thousands was the only goodliest and tallest man Or like Saul King of Israell who was higher by the shoulders vpward than any one man within the whole Kingdome of Israell for God would please the people with such a King In Mero the King should be of sound limmes for the Law was that if the King should be lame or halt all his friends and houshold seruants should also halt and be lame And with good iudgement should they looke of such a King which should not limpe or be lame The custome was also in Meroe that the priests of greatest authority among the people should come and tell the King he must needs die so the Gods commaunded all the Kings obaied this Law per responsa Deorum Among the Sidomites they did elect no King ouer them vnlesse he were of the Kings stocke or haue his birth from the Kings familie quite contrarie to the people called Taprobani in India which suffered none to bee King among them that were of the Kings stocke especially if they had any children least they should claime to be the King by heritage Sabaei a Nation in Arabia after they had made choyse of their King they had a Law that it was not lawfull for the King to goe out of the Metropolitan Citie Saba according to the Law which if hee were so found he should bee stonied to death or should be deposed from his kingdome Such was the supersticiousnes of the heathens towards their Preists that Sabbachus King of Egipt though hee was warned in his dreame by the God of Heliopolis saying Nec faelix nec diuturnum Aegipti regnum fore vnlesse all the Priests of Egipt were slaine and that the King withall his army should marche ouer their dead bodies Thus being often troubled with this dreame the King called all the Priests of Egipt before him and told them how hee was warned either to kill them or else ouerthrow himselfe and his kingdome This supersticious King yeilded the kingdome vnto the Priests of Egipts hands and went to Ethiop by such meanes Priests grew in as much credit in Egipt as then the prophets were in Israell Many such Kings were either so cursed and banned in their kingdome or else driuen out of their kingdome and others put in by the Preist of Rome Such supersticious Lawes and customes in Ethiop continued vntill one Ergamenes was elected King in the time of Pto. Philadelphus the second of that name in Egipt this King expected the like end by the preists of Ethiop as his predecessors had and therefore Ergamenes did that which Sabbachus should haue done And as Iehu Daniel at Babilon and Elias did at the brooke Kison with the slaughter of all the Prophets and priests of Baal Now hauing somthing spoken of the Election of Kings so likewise of the Election of the Iudges how they were chosen and elected God elected Moses after he had fled from Pharo in Egipt to lethro in Madian from a shepheard to bee such a Prince and gouernor of such an army as neither Cyrus led vnto Scythia or Xerxes vnto Greece or Tamberlaine vnto Asia and that in a
of Vulcan and the King at his first entrance into his kingdome after the reading of the laws and ceremonies of Isis. The priests brought the King a standing cuppe full of liquor Rosen or gumme gathered frō the barke of a firre tree a bole of milke with a few dry figgs not much differing from the ceremonies of Persia after the King had tasted a little of euery one he was brought by the Priests vnto the doore of Isis temple where the priests did giue to the King the kaye to open the doore frō thence the King was brought by the priests vnto the secret chauncell of Isis and after sacrifice the King did wash himselfe with the same water which is kept in Sacrario Isidis to wash the goddesse Isis. After this to the Kings are brought by the priests of Vulcan some regall garments which the King tooke from the priests and so vnto the last robe which is the sacred robe of the Idoll Isis according to the Law Induendarum exeundarum sacrarum vestium The seauen Princes and gouernors of the 127. prouinces of Persia assembled together in Persepolis the chiefest City in Persia to elect them a King after Cyrus and his son Cambises for Cyrus had no son but Cambises and Cambises had no son at all to succeed him in the kingdome The ceremonies of the Kings of Persia shall serue for the inauguration of the Kings of Armenia of the Kings of Pontus and for the most part of the Kings of Asia for that the Diadem which was called in Persia Cydaris in Armenia called Tiara and in Pontus called Candis differed only in manner and therefore all inauguration of the Kings of Asia shal be contained in the solemnities and ceremonies of Persia for both their ceremonies and fourme of their Diadems were alike for that all these Kings held vnder the Persians while the monarchy was there In Persia the ceremony was that they should sit in Cyrus chayre they put on these twelue garments that Cyrus first ware which were kept as monuments and reliques for the Kings of Persia in Persepolis The new King sitting so in Cyrus chayre three of the greatest Peeres in Persia brought vnto him three dishes in the one were fine dryed figs in the second a little turpentyne and in the third mylke After that the new King had eaten of the drye figs and had tasted of the turpentyne and drunke of the mylke hee rose from Cyrus chayre and thence was brought vnto the next hill For the Persians had no temple nor altars in their countryes The Funerals of the Thracians THE Thracians Funerals are full of mirth and melody with their Thracian wounds gotten in warres painted in order round about the Hearse which was the greatest glorie of the Thracians For when they bring their friends to the graue they vse to singe Thracian songes with all sweete Musicke Onely this ceremonie they reserued that when any man of great calling died his wife is brought on the same day to the graue of her husband in her richest Ornaments and best apparell accompanied with her parents and next in blood with great solemnitie which after sacrifice vpon her husbands graue she must make sacrifice of her selfe So was Polixena sacrificed and slaine vpon the graue of Achilles in Troy So was Iphiginea Agamemnons daughter slaine and sacrificed at Aulis in Greece the one to satisfie Neptune the other to pacifie Diana In great funerall feasts called Lemuria after the annointing of their crownes and trimming of their tombes with sweet hearbs and funerall flowers after sacrifice done and diuers ceremonies they fitte round about a long flint stone the parents the kinsmen the brethren of the dead soulesome with beanes some with waffers some with dry figs and euerie guest bring some thinges to this feast where they drinke to their Gods first and after to the soule of the dead with great myrth sundry ceremonies they rise vp frō the Tombe all crowned with crownes Garlands made of sweete flowers and funerall hearbes in great solemnitie daunce about the Tombe being braue garnished as is before said So did Alexander the great with diuers Macedonian Peeres and Nobles crowned with garlands daunced about Achilles graue So did Traiane the emperour solemnize the funerall feast of Alexander at Alexandria in Egipt So did Cleopatra solemnize the funerall of Marcus Antonius Ceramicus in Athens was a buriall place appointed for Generals Captaines and for marshall Magistrates slaine in the field as Martius field in Rome was both a burial place for some Consuls and Dictators so it was a place of exercise for the Romane gallants vpon the graues of these Noble Captaines in memorie of Chiualrie So did Achilles solemnize the funerall of his friend Patroclus cutting the fore-lockes of his haire to set it amonge many other of Patroclus friends vpon his Hearse or Tombe in Troy The manner of the funerall Feasts and Ceremonies of the Macedonians IN Macedonia they vsed more solemne and mournefull ceremonies at the funerall of their Kinges and Princes for they tooke downe their Bulwarkes and Fortresses of warres they vntiled their temples they subuerted their altars they reiected and deposed their Idols they put out their fire and the men shaued both their heads and beards and they clipped their horses and left nothing vndone that belonged to mourning So Alexander the great solemnized the funerall of Hephestion So King Archelaus did at the funerall of Euripides shaue his beard and his head So did Achilles c. Lawes decreed for triumphes are written in the fift Booke of Alexander Cap. 9. called Leges funerales Lawes funerall for the dead written in the sixt Booke Cap. 13. Of the funerall Feasts of the Romane Emperours THe Romanes vsed to haue their commendations recited in the pulpit of which Val. Pub. made the first funerall Oration in Rome at the death of Brutus his fellow Consull The Romanes vsed to carrie before the dead Emperour his statues and Images and after that the Statues and Images of his predecessors to set forth the dignitie of his stocke as Ca Caesar did at the funerall of his Aunt mother vnto Marius whose Statues Caesar caused to be carried with all the ensignes crownes rich spoyles and trophees which Marius had gotten in his victorie In such manner Tiberius Caesar the third Emperour of Rome caused at the Funerall of his Father Drusus that the Statue of Aeneas and all statues of the Kings of Alba vntill Romulus time the 17. King after Aeneas and the statue of Romulus and the whole familie of Gens Iulia from Romulus time vnto Iulius Caesar lineally Of the funerals of the Egiptians THe Kings of Egipt were most sumptuously reserued in this order their bodies were opened and were in such sort vsed as the Egiptians vse with Myrrhe Aloes Honie Salt Waxe and many other sweet odors being seared vp and annoynted with all precious oyles So the Kings of Egipt reserued the bodies
THE IVBILE OF BRITANE By Lodowik Lloid Esquier LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot 1607. To the most Noble Prince Henrie by the grace of God Prince of Great Britaine ROscius the Romane Tragedian most noble Prince contending with Cicero the Orator which of them both should perswade most people either Roscius with his motions and gestures of his body or Cicero with varietie and copy of his tongue This hath been in exercise in Greece much vsed and now in Rome more but of such motions and gestures of men that can speake with their hands with their eies with their shoulders and with their feet Salomon bids vs to take heed that will speake like Aristippus to Dionisius heeles Such were they that held their heads on the left side like King Philip of Macedon while Philip liued such were they after Philip that like Alexander his Sonne with their bushes and standing haires would be called Opisthocomae because Alexander was so now too many such like the Courtiers of Meroe in Ethiope where if their King halt they will also halt in such sort that Cirses and Calipso could not make such a Metamorphosis of Vlisses men as men make of themselues There was then in Rome but one bird that was taught to say Aue Caesar Imperator one bird in Carthage to say Deus est hanno and one bird in all Greece that was taught to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not onely these flattering fowles fledde from Rome from Carthage and from Greece to Great Britane of whom we may now say as Cicero said then of the like Quibus credamus nescimus But also of late such Rauens and Vultures that salute vs with their tongues and say Aue and with their hearts Caue which if their bodies were opened as the Athenians did Aristomenes or as the Lacedemonians did Hermogenes their hearts should bee found as their hearts were pilosa hispida full of haires and thornes In the time of Torquine the proud there was in Rome but one Serpent that could bark like a dogge and one dogge that could speake like a man but now so many barking Serpents in Rome so many speaking dogs out of Rome that Quos fugiamus ignoramus But such are the fruits of some religion that as then in Egypt they had their Sphinxes in their temples to expound their darke and obscure Diuinitie full of Oracles so now they haue in Rome not onely Egyptian Sphinxes in their temples but also Corinthian Sphinxes in their studies such as Cicero charged Hortensius to haue in his house to plead his causes But as then many Philosophers went from Greece to India and to Ethiope to see Sacerdotes solis and the most famous table of the Son in Sabulo and to heare Hiarchas lectures of the nature and motions of the starres and of Tantalus well So also many now goe from Great Britane to Rome not as Appollonius the Philosopher went from Greece to India to heare the Gymnosophists but as Saul went from Hierusalem to Damasco for commission and authoritie to kill and murther Christians and to persecute Kingdomes and Countreys One of your Maiesties most humble Britanes LODOVVIK LLOID The Iubile of Brittane Coelum coeli domino c. The Heauens is the Lord and the Earth he gaue to the children of men to the land of Chanaan was giuen to Abraham and to his seed from the Iebusites Heathites Amalekites and others the land of the Gyaunts to the children of Lot to Moab and to Ammon and the Lord gaue Mount Seir to the children of Esau with a strict commaundement to Moses and Ioshua not to trouble or vexe them Gyauntes dwelt in Mount Seir before the Edomites time whome the Edomites called Horims whom the children of Esau destroyed and dwelt after them in Mount Seir and so the land of Moab was inhabited first by Gyaunts named Emims engendred of the monstrous brood of Enachims as it seemed by Og King of Basan whose bed was nyne Cubites long And againe Gyaunts whome the Ammonites called Zomines dewlt in the land of Ammon before the Ammonites and all the land of Basan was called terra Gygantum vntill Lots time to whome and to his children the land of Gyaunts was giuen Domini est terra the earth is the Lord and he gaue it as in the tenth of Genesis by Moses is set downe to the children of Noah for from Adam to Nimrod 1800. yeares was but one Nation and one language which was at the building of the Tower of Babilon confounded and deuided at that time vnto 72. languages so many were the builders of the Tower hence comes the antiquities of all Nations and people Notwithstanding the Scithians bragge that they are as auncient as the Scithian oakes and therefore the old Scithians doe were Akornes in their caps for a iust remembrance of the same The Athenians saye that they bee Terriginae borne ex attica terra and therefore weare Grashoppers in the haires of their heads in token of the same The Argiues as old as the Moone and weare the likenes of the Moone vpon their shooes in memorie of that and so the Egiptians with the old Phrigians contend about their antiquity But this little treatise is not to entreate of antiquitie which is full of errours but of the Iubile Brittane which ought to bee full of ioyes with thanksgiuing A yeare of Iubile with the Iewes was a yeare of liberty free from all bondage and seruice a yeare full of ioyes and myrth and to make feasts in remembrance of God his goodnes and loue towards his people which was euery fifty yeare Our great Iubile in England was iust vpon the fifty yeare which was between Edward the sixt and Iames the sixt now our King at his first arriuall vnto England No greater Iubile could be in Iudah than in the time of young Iosias who purified Hierusalem and all his Kingdomes from jmages and jdols from groues and supersticious alters in Mount Olyuet burned brake them and threw their ashes into the riuer Cedron Neither can there be a greater Iubile now in great Brittane thē to haue such a godly religious King after so good and so religious a Queene whose fame shall neuer die in Europe let the wicked speake what they list whose lust is alwaies to speake euill of good and godly Princes They haue also their Iubile like the Egiptians whose Iubile was in drowning the children of Israel in Nilus like the Romanes whose Iubileis were to persecute the Christians with fire for as God reuenged the Hebrewes vpon the Egiptians with ten such plagues that were neuer heard nor read the like so the Romans reuenged the Egiptians vpon the Christians with tenne such terrible persecutions of tenne Tyrants as could be most horribly inuented Great controuersie was euer betweene the Egiptians and the Romanes about fire and water in Egipt they are most merrie when the whole Land of