After this the Jews had some rest But Alcimus the High Priest intending to beat down the old Wall of the Sanctuary was suddenly strucken by God became speechless and fell to the ground and having suffered grievous torments many days he died miserably Whereupon the People by general consent chose Judas Maccabeus High Priest who hearing of the great power and Victorys of the Romans sent two Persons to Rome to make them his Allies and Confederates and to write to Demetrius to give over his Wars against the Jews These Ambassadors coming to Rome were entertained by the Senate and an Alliance was concluded upon these conditions That none under the Romans should War against the Jews nor furnish their Enemies with Victuals Ships nor Silver That if any made War on the Romans the Jews should assist them That the Jews should neither add nor diminiâ—â— from this Association without the general consent of 〈◊〉 Romans and that what was thus concluded should contitâ— forever The death of Nicanor and the loss of his Army being reported to Demetrius he sent another undeâ— Bacchides who coming into Judea and hearing thaâ— Judas was incamped at Bethzeth he marched againâ—â— him with twenty thousand Foot and two thousanâ— Horse Judas had not in all above two thousand meâ—â— who seeing the vast number of their Foes were mucâ— afraid so that many forsaking the Camp fled away anâ— there remained with Judas only eight hundred meâ— and his Enemies pressed so hard on him that he lâ—â— no time to re-assemble his Forces yet he resolved 〈◊〉 fight with that small handful exhorting them to behavâ— themselves valiantly Who answering That they we not able to make head against so great an Army adviseâ— him to retire and stand on his guard till he had reâ—â— inforced himself Judas replied God forbid that the 〈◊〉 should see me turn my back upon mine Enemies though die and spend my last Bloud in this Battel yet will I neveâ— blemish my former Worthy actions by an ignominious flight And having again encouraged his Souldiers he commanded them to use their utmost courage againâ— the Enemy without any apprehension of danger Bacchides marshalled his Army in Battalia and caâ—â—sing the Trumpets to sound and his Souldiers to make 〈◊〉 great Shout he charged his enemies Judas did the like and encountred Bacchides upon which there ensued a most bloudy Fight which continued till Sun-set Judaâ—â— perceiving that Bacchides and the flower of his Army fought in the right wing drew his most resolute Souldierâ— thither who brake in upon them and forcing them to fly pursued them to Mount Aza But the left wing followed Judas and inclosed him on the back part so that finding himself in much danger he with his Followers resolved to sell their lives dearly and fight it out to the last He slew a great number of his Enemies â—ill at length he was so wearied with killing that he â—ell to the ground and was there slain upon which his â—ew remaining companions betook themselves to flight Simeon and Jonathan his Brothers recovered his Body and buried it at Modin all the people weeping and making great lamentation for the death of so valiant 〈◊〉 Commander for whatsoever Virtue hath of great whatsoever valour hath of generous met in the person of Judas Maccabeus to make a Marvel of his life and give â—mmortal memory to his Name In the space of six years be sustained the great and prodigious Forces of three Kings of Asia as you have heard opposing himself with a little flying Camp against Armies of forty sixty an hundred thousand men which he put into disorder and confusion He defeated nine Generals of the Infidels in ranged battles and combates killing some with his own hands and carrying away their Spoils so that of all his great Qualities Valour always held the upper rank and worthily entitled him to the name of a Worthy The History of Arthur King of Brittain The Seventh Worthy of the World. Arthur the Great and Worthy Brittish King Glory and Victory to his Realm did bring He th' Heathen Saxons often overcame Inducing them to own the Christian Name He while he lived upheld the Sinking State And Conquest seem'd upon him still to wait His Subjects Love he thereby doth attain And he must chuse one after him to Reign The Pictish King this Choice doth much resent As if to wrong him of his Rights they meant Both Kings ingage in Fight where both Kings dy'd With Thousands of their Subjects on each side THe Brittish Writers have related such Strange and Miraculous Actions and Adventures of this Worâ—hy Prince that many Intelligent Men have been apt to think that all which hath been written of his Heroicks deeds is meer Fiction and Invention yea some are of opinion that there never was any such Person but though Historians disagree about times and places some writing carelesly and others superstitiously yet they all agree upon the Predecessors and Successors of this Noble King but as it is most execrable Infidelity to doubt that there was a Joshua Wicked Atheism to question if there were a David and unreasonable to deny the being of Judas Maccabcus As it may be judged folly to affirm there was never any Alexander Julius Caesar Godfrey of Bullen or Charlemagne so we may be thought guilty of incredulity and ingratitude to deny or doubt the honourable Acts of our Victorious Arthur This is premised in vindication of our Hero and his immortal name and fame whereby he justly gained the Title of the Seventh Worthy of the World. Now to his History After this Kingdom had for above four hundred and eighty years been subject to the Romans which began by the Conquest that Julius Caesar made here in the Reign of Cassibelan King of the Brittains seventeen years before the birth of our Blessed Saviour and ended in the time of the Emperor Gratianus three hundred seventy six years after Christ Vortigern of the bloud Royal of the Brittish Kings by usurpation and the Murther of Constance the Son of Constantius seized upon the Crown who growing odious and hateful to his Subjects both for his wicked life and ill got Soveraignty he was forced to send to Germany for the Saxons to aid and support him The Saxons at this time possest the third part of Germany holding all the Countreys between the River Rhine and Elbe bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea and the Ocean and governed by twelve Princes who elected a Soveraign Leader and General in time of War This being so sparious populous and near a Countrey well furnisht with Shipping which the Brittains wanted yielded always plentiful supplies to the undertakers of this action who were first Two brothers Hengist and Horsa After they had continued here a while as hired Souldiers and observed the weakness both of Prince and People their number dayly increased At first they had only the Isle of Thanet allowed them to inhabit but soon after the whole County of Kent
hand of God his mortal Enemy was now delivered into his power by whose death he might put an end tâ— all his Calamities But David by a strong inspiration from God resolved in his heart never to lay his hands upon Gods Anointed and contenting himself with only cutting off the Skirts of his Garment he went out of the Cave after Saul and cryed after him with a loud voice saying Behold my Lord my Father and my King the innocence of my hands and be no more filled with vain and false suspitions of poor David you cannot be ignorant that God at this time had put me into your power and that I could have taken away your life to have saved my own but God by his grace hath preserved me from such ill thoughts and hath secured you from all danger I had never yet any intent to hurt you though you cease not to persecute and torment my life with a thousand afflictions Alas my Lord what is it you desire Against whom are you come forth with so great a strength of Arms and Horses against a poor dead Dog a miserable little Beast I beseech the living God to be Judge between us and to make you sensible of the goodness of my cause Saul was so amazed with this action that he ran to him and imbracing him weeping said This O David is a sure sign whereby I know for certain thou shall reign after me so great a goodness not being able to be rewarded but by an Empire I only beseech and intreat you to have pity on my poor Children after my death and not to revenge upon them the injuries I have offered you Hereupon he swore to deal peaceably with him for the future But the Spirit of Saul was unequal and oft departed from reason for a long season Whereupon David resolved to go out of the Kingdom to Achish King of the Philistines a Sworn Enemy to Israel since he could not besecure any where else yet did he never bear arms against the people of God At last the fatal day of Saul drew near and he saw the Philistines came upon him with their utmost strength and being troubled in mind in the confusions of a disturbed Spirit he sought to the Divine Oracles to learn his destiny in this pressing necessity but this unhappy Prince sought after the dead in vain having trod under feet the admonitions of the Living and therefore he applies himself to the Witch of Endor who by Samuels appearance foretold the routing of his Army his own death and likewise his Childrens sad Fate at which he was so affrighted that he fell into a Swound Being recovered he went to his Army and the next morning perceived the Philistines wonderfully increased and resolv'd to fight And his own people exceedingly weakened and seeming to carry misfortune in their faces The Enemies gave the onset with very great violence and overthrew the foremost of the Israelites wherein Jonathan with his two Brethren sealed the last proofs of their valour with their bloud and death in the sight of their miserable Father who seeing he could not dye so soon as he desired suffered himself to fail upon his own Sword vomiting forth his Soul and bloud with ragings and griefs unspeakable While this unhappy Battel was fought David was pursuing the Amalakites who in his absence had sackt the Town of Ziglag the place of his retiring whom he overtook loaden with their prey and regained his two Wives Ahinoam and Abigail whom they had taken away As he came from this Battle a young Amalekite presents himself and brings him the news of the death of Saul and Jonathan and his other Sons affirming that he himself had stood by at the death of the King and had helped him to die by his own command Whereat David moved with extream grief tore his garments wept fasted and made a funeral Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan Causing likewise the Amalekite to die who by his own confession was accessary to the death of the King And though David at this time might have taken possessesion of the Kingdom yet upon prudent deliberation he thought it not convenient to be too hasty Whereupon Abner a chief Captain without losing time seeing there yet remained a Son of Saul alive named Ishbosheth aged forty years though of little courage and less understanding he made him presently come into the Camp and caused him to be proclaimed the true and lawful Successor of Saul not so much for the love he bore him or the esteem of his sufficiency as intending to reign by him and over him All the People swore Allegiance to Ishbosheth except the Tribe of Judah from whom David sprung which joyning together in favour of him crowned him King in Hebron where he reigned seven years before he possest the whole Kingdom of Israel Afterward Abner laying aside his war-like humor fell in love with a Concubine of Sauls named Rispah whereat Ishbosheth being offended Abner for one poor word spoken in a very mild manner entred into a rage against the King and said It was to use him as a Dog to quarrel with him for a woman after so great Services as he had done for the Crown and from whom he held both his Life and Kingdom The poor Prince held his peace and durst not answer a word to this bold Fellow and was pitifully devoured by his own Servant Abner grew so hot with anger that he dispatcht Messengers to David to desire his friendship and promiseth to bring the whole Kingdom of Ishbosheth into his hands David answered That he was willing to make peace with him if he would cause his Wife Michol to be restored to him whom they had married to another after his departure which was readily agreed to and performed Mean time Abner powerfully sollicites the people of Israel to betake themselves to David since God had committed their safety and rest into his hands who would unite all the Tribes under one Monarchy which would make him a happiness to his people helpful to his friends and terrible to his Enemies This Discourse prevail'd very much on the Principal ones of the Nation who saw small hopes of Ishbosheth he being disparaged both by Nature and Fortune Soon after Abner meets David at Hebron who made him a Feast hearkned to his Propositions and conducted him back with honour Joab who was at that time absent soon understood the coming of Abner and being jealous that the Friendship of a man who seem'd to draw a whole Kingdom after him might much prejudice his interest he enters roughly into the Kings Chamber telling him that Abner was but a deceiver who came to spy out his secrets and that he ought to have secured him when under his power And since David seeing him in such a rage answered nothing Joab without Authority sends a message to Abner to return to Hebron under colour of treating more fully with David He lightly believed it and came back the same way when
continually crawling out so that he rotted above ground with such an intollerable stink that none could come near him neither could himself indure it And thus this vile Person who had insolently boasted he would make Jerusalem a common Burying place and the streets thereof run with the Bloud of Gods People by his just Judgment ended his life in extream misery Before his death he made Philip his Cheif Captain Governor of his Kingdom requiring him to be very careful of his Son Antiochus Then was Antiochus proclaimed King and Sirnamed Eupator About which time the Apostate Jews in garrison at Jerusalem did much mischief slaying those unawares who came to Worship and offer Sacrifices in the Temple Judas hereupon resolved to cut them off and accordingly besieged the Fort with his Army when some of the beseiged escaping by night went and desired Antiochus not to suffer those to perish who for his Fathers sake had forsaken their God and their Religion who thereupon sent a mighty Army of an hundred thousand foot twenty thousand Horse and thirty two Elephants under Lysias their Captain to relieve them who sate down before Bethsura a strong City but were valiantly resisted by the inhabitants who fallied out and burnt the Engines prepared for battery Whereupon Judas raising his seige before the Castle of Jerusalem marched toward the Enemy who preparing to meet him Antiochus then present caused his Elephants to march first through the narrow passage where Judas was incamped each Elephant having a thousand Foot and an hundred Horse for his guard with a Tower on his back furniâ—â—â— with Archers The rest of his Forces were ordereâ—â—â— march by the Mountains and with great shouts to aâ—â—â—l their Enemies and by uncovering their brazen and golden Bucklers to dazel the eyes of the Jews Yet was Judas no way disturbed but incouraging his Army slew six hundred of the Forlorn Hope Eleazer the Brother of Judas seeing a huge Elephant with Royal trappings and judging the King was on him having with a noble courage slain those about him thrust his Sword into the belly of the Beast who suddenly falling slew him with his weight Judas observing the great strength of the Enemy matcht back to Jerusâ—lem Antiochus following him and taking Bethsura by Treaty for want of provisions and dispairing of relief they having the Kings Oath that no violence should be offered them yet he thrust them out of the City and put a Garrison therein He lay long before the Temple of Jerusalem the besieged defending it gallantly only they wanted Victuals the Land not having been tilled for seven years before whereupon divers secretly fled and few remain'd to defend the Temple when by Gods providence Antiochus had news that Philip his Fathers Governor was coming out of Persia to make himself Lord of his Countrey Whereupon Antiochus sent an Herald to Judas promising the Jews peace and the liberty of their Religion Which Judas accepting and taking the Kings Oath for the true performance thereof he surrendred up the Temple to Antiochus who entring the same and finding it so impregnable a place he contrary to his Oath commanded the Wall that incompassed it to be levell'd and so returned to Antioch with Onias the High Priest whom by the counsel of Lysias be put to death because he had advised his Father to inforce the Jews to forsake their Religion A just reward for so wicked a Fact. Philip having Conquered much of his Countrey Antiochus marcht against him fought with him and slew him Soon after Demetrius Son of Seleucus took Tripolis in Syria and declaring himself King invaded the Kingdom of Antiochus to whom the people generally submitting seized on Antiochus and Lysias and bringing them to Demetrius he caused them to be slain To this new King divers Jews banished for their impiety together with Alcimus the High Priest resorted accusing Judas Maccabeus his brethren and the rest of the Nation for killing their Friends and banishing such as were for Demetrius Who much moved with these reports sent a great Army under Bacchides a Valiant and Experienced General to destroy Judas and his Confederates He marching into Judea sent to Judas pretending to make peace with him who observing him to have such strong Forces would not trust to his false promises though some of the people did having his Oath for their protection but paid dear for their credulity for he slew threescore of them at one time Then going from Jerusalem he seized and put to death many Jews commanding the rest to obey Aleimus the High-Priest who by his feigned and familiar deportment drew many wicked Jews to join with him and then marched through the Countrey slaying all who were for Judas who seeing many upright men thus causlesly killed he with his Army went through the Land and flew all the Apostates that were of Alcimus his Faction He thereupon going to Demetrius made grievous complaints against Judas and shewing how dangerous it would be to the State if he went thus on Demetrius thereupon sent an Army against Judas under Nicanor commanding him not to spare any one of the Nation of the Jews Nicanor coming to Jerusalem offered no act of hostility but endeavouring to intrap Judas by subtilty sent him a peaceable Message protesting he deâ—gned no injury but came only to express the good affections of Demetrius to the Jewish Nation Judas and his Brethren deceived with these fair pretences entertained him and his Army and Nicanor saluting Judas whilst they were in discourse he gave a sign to his Souldiers to seize him but Judas discovering the Treason escaped from him and got to his Army Upon which Nicanor proclaimed open War against him and fought him near Caper-Salama where â—e obtained the Victory and constrained Judas to reâ—etreat into the Fortress of Jerusalem where Nicanor â—esieged him a while and then retired At which time certain of the Priests and Elders met him and having given him reverence they showed him the Sacrifices they intended to offer to God for the Kings prosperity But Demetrius blaspheming threatned them if they did not deliver Judas into his hands at his return he would destroy the Temple Hereupon the Priests wept abundantly beseeching God to defend the Temple and his True Worshipers from the outrage of their Enemies Nicanor coming near Bethhoron received a great supply of Souldiers out of Syria Judas likewise was not far off with about a thousand men yet exhorting his Souldiers to trust in God and not fear the multitude of their Enemies he couragiously encountred Nicanor where the Conflict was doubtful yet at last Judas had the advantage killing a great number of his Enemies Nicanor himself fighting valiantly was slain whereupon his Army fled and Judas speedily pursuing made a great slaughter and by sounding a Trumpet giving notice to the Neighbouring places the Inhabitants armed themselves and killed those that fled so that not one escaped from this Battle though they were at least Nine thousand men
Shinbone reached above the knee of a very tall man his skull was so large that the place between his eyes was a span broad in which there appeared some signs of wounds and bruises The Body of his wife Gynever was likewise buried with him the Hair of her head was curiously plaited and shin'd like burnisht Gold but being toucht instantly fell to dust The Abbot who by the Kings command searched for the Grave removed both their Bones to the great Church and there buried them in a sair double Tomb of Marble laying the Body of the King at the head thereof and the Queen 's at the feet above six hundred years after they were first buried and in the year of our Lord. 1191. I shall conclude the life of this Worthy Prince with an Ephitaph written in me â—â—ry of him by John Leland a Monk in Latin and translated into English many years since by Nicholas Roscock which you shall have in the Poetry of those times Saxonicas toties qui fudit Marte cruento Turmas peperit spoliis sibi nomen opimis c. Who vanquished the Saxon Troops With Battles bloudy broils And purchas 't to himself a name With Warlike Wealthy Spoils Who with his shivering shining Sword The Picts so oft dismayed And an unweildy servile Yoke On Necks of Scots hath laid Who Frenchmen puft with pride and who The Germans fierce in fight Discomfited and beat the Danes With strong and martial might Who of that murdering Mordred did The Vital breath expel That horrid cruel Monster great That bloudy Tyrant fell Here liveless Arthur lies intomb'd Within this stately Hearse Famous for Strength and Chivalry And ' gainst his Enemies fierce Whose glorious Acts and Victories Through all the World do fly And whose most worthy Fame and Name Doth reach the very Sky Therefore you Noble Progeny Of Brittish Line and Race Never forget your Emperor Great Of thrice renowned Grace But place upon his sacred Tomb Your Rosie Garlands gay Whose fragrant smell may witness well Your duties you display Grass and He◠〈…〉 Near Camelon 〈…〉 The Hist of Charles the Great K. of France and Emp. of Germany The Eight Worthy of the World. HE well deserv'd the name of Charlemagne That to such mighty Glory did attain Who all his Enemies having overcome Was own'd and Crown'd Great Emperor of Rome Virtue and Valour he still mixt so well 'T was hard to say in which he did excell The Christian Faith he always did defend And against Saracens did oft contend The Huns and Pagans too he conquered His name alone fill'd them with fear and dread Yet all his fury he layd by if they Would Idols leave and the True God obey THE Ancient French Historians relate that the original Habitation of this now Potent Nation was in that part of Germany which lay nearest Gaul now called France and having together with the Romans obtained a great victory against the Alans Enemies to the Empire in the Reign oâ— Valentinian they got possâ—ssion of a great part of Gaul as a fruit of their Conquest which they held by their Sword not doing any homage for it but to their own valour Pharamond laid the first Stone in the Building of this great Monarchy Clodion prosecuted this design Merovee made it appear above ground Clovis adding the profession of Christ to his own and Predecessors valour so won the Hearts of the Gauls the Natives of this Countrey who were generally Christians that he procured voluntary obedience from them and an assured possession of his new Conquests uniting both Nations into one and giving Law to the Conquered with such wisdom and discretion that the name of France was generally received in Gaul The race of Pharamond continued successively in France during the Reign of one and Twenty Kings for about one hundred and twenty years At which time nine or ten Idle Kings as the French History calls them succeeding each other the Kingdom was thereby reduced to a multitude of dangers and inconveniences which gave occasion to Charles Martel to lay the Foundation of a new race of Kings from his own Posterity who being first Mayor or Governor of the Pallace was chosen Prince of the French and upon this account is reckoned the 22 King of France He was a man of great wisdom and courage and managed all Aâ—â—â—rs of War and State during the Reigns of the three last Kings In the time of Thierry the Second the Saracens or Turks issuing out of Asia into Africa and Spain possest themselves of many mighty Kingdoms and Provinces under the command of Abderamen their King and afterward invaded France with an Army of four hundred thousand men but by the admirable conduct and valour of Martel this vast multitude was utterly vanquished three hundred seventy five thousand Barbarians being slain in the Field and their King found dead in a heap of Carcasses not wounded but smothered by the multitude that fled the French lost fifteen hundred and among them many of their Nobility and Gentry The Care and Toil of great Affairs together with his Age having much broken Martel and the weakness of Childerick the last King of the first Race giving him incouragement he resolves so to dispose of things as to leave the Kingdom to his Children and therefore observing that Childerick loved no man neither any man him and that Pepin Ins own Son was beloved of all both for his own and Martels sake as the Protector of their Liberty whereas Childerick did not regard the common good but spent his time in folly and voluptuousness Martel therefore at his death left France to the Government of Pepin whom he knew to be stout and of a great Spirit After his death the Friends of Pepin proclaimed his merits in all places but Religion and the Reverence and Devotion the French Nation naturally bear to Kings seemed to be insuperable difficulties to his advancement to the Crown Childerick had already Reigned nine years only in appearance under Martel and four more under Pepin who to remove the last scruple represented to the People that their Allegiance was vowed to true Kings and not to Kings in imagination and disguise that they were sworn to maintain a Religious Just Merciful Diligent and Active King able to withstand their Enemies to punish the wicked to defend the good and to protect the Christian Law according to the express words thâ— French Kings are Sworn to in their Coronation-Oath Why then should they think themselves bound to a vicious King who was negligent and careless of himself and his Subjects since the Conâ—â—ct between them was limited and the French were only obliged to obey him who being endued with many Royal Virtues persorms the Office of a true King. These reasons were plain and easily received by all men as absolutely necessary for the common good though most of thera who seemed thus convinced had an Eye to their particular advantage by the favour of Pepin As to the
Royal Crown richly adorned with Pearls and precious Stones which he absolutely refused with this Zealous answer Why should I bear the name of a King in a place where my Saviour hath been crowned with reproaches should I take the Scepter in my hand where he hath taken the Cross upon his Shouldiers Should I suffer a Crown of Gold upon my head where he hath received a Crown of Thornes Sure I should then hold my self for vanquished if such a vanity should be victorious over my heart It is God that hath inspired us with these designs It is he that hath conducted and crowned us with success I pretend therefore to no other honours than to lay all honours at the seet of the Cross of Christ But though he would not take upon himself the name of King yet it was constantly given him as all Historians of that time and Posterity have ever since done to this very day and certainly never any King better deserved to wear that glorious Title which he adorned with so many Royal Actions The Sultan of Egypt coming too late to relieve Jerusalem advanced now with a formidable Army to besiege it against whom Godfrey and his Souldiers marched with much courage and resolution over whom they obtained an intire Victory with richer pillage than any time before in the whole War the Enemy losing thirty thousand upon the place and as many more in the pursuit After this Battle the Princes and great Lords who followed them believing they had fully accomplished their vow of recovering the Holy Land took their leaves of King Godfrey to return to their respective Countries leaving him only three hundred Horse and about two thousand Foot with which few Troops the King to inlarge the Frontiers of his new Kingdom conquered the places which were yet untaken round about Jerusalem And now after so many Toils being fallen sick he caused himself to be removed to the City where July 8. 1100. In the fortieth year of his age and the first of his Reign he rendred his glorious Soul into the hands of his Almighty Redeemer by a most Religious death his brother Baldwin succeeding K. of Jerusalem in his stead He was a Prince in whom all Virtues Christian Civil and Military met in the highest point of humane perfection without mixture of any default so that it will remain difficult to find another like him to whom without Flattery the same praises may be given and which induced future Ages to bestow on him the honourable Title of one of the Worthies of the World. FINIS There are newly Published seventeen very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside I. A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies With an Account of the Religion Government Wars strange Customs Beasts Serpents Monsters and other observables in those Countries And among others the Life and Death of Mahomet the Grand Impostor with the Principal Doctrines of the Turkish Religion as they are displayed in the Alcoran Two Letters one written by the Great Mogol and the other by the King of Sumatra in the East-Indies to our King James the First of an unusual and extravagant stile The cruel Executions in those parts with the manner of the Womens burning themselves with their dead Husbands Together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Souldania where the English usually refresh in their Voyages to the Indies Intermixt with pleasant Relations and Enlivened with Picture Price One Shilling II. THE English Empire in America or a Prospect of his Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies namely New-sound-land New-England New-York New-Jersey Pensylvania Mary-land Virginia Carotina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent â—ntego Mevis or Neâ—â—is St. Christophers Barbadoes and Jamaica With their Discovery Scituation and Product The Religion and Manners of the Indians and other excellencies of these Countreys With the first Discovery of this New World and of the Remarkable Voyages and Adventures of Sir F. Drake Sir T. Cavendish the E. of Cumberland Sir W. Rawleigh and other English Worthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures Price One Shilling III. THE Second Edition of Englands Monarchs very much enlarged Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from Julius Caesar to this present Adorned with Poems and Pictures of every Monarch from William the Conqueror to our gracious Soveraign King James 2. with the Names of his now Privy Council The Great Officers of the Crown A List of the Nobility The Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Windsor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military in England The number of the Lords and Commons in both Houses of Parliament and many other very useful particulars Price One Shilling IV. THe History of the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland Containing 1. The most Remarkable Transactions and Revolutions in Scotland for above Twelve hundred years past during the Reigns of Sixty eight Kings from 424 to the Happy Union of both Kingdoms under King James the First in 1602. 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by Henry the Second to this time With the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Countrey Intermixt with Variety of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents and Prodigious Appearances With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures Price One Shilling V. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates with Fifty Delightful Poems and Lots for the more Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed An Incomparable Poem Intituled Majesty in Misery or an Imploration to the King of Kings written by his late Majesty King Charles the First with his own Hand during his Captivity in Caisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight 1648. With a cuious Emblem Collected by R. B. Price half a Crown VI. SUrprizing Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing I. The Miracles of Nature or the wonderful signs and Prodigious Aspects and Appearances in the Heavens Earth and Sea with an Account of the most famous Comets and other Prodigies from the Birth of Christ to this time II. The Miracles of Art describing the most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Inventions in all Ages as the Seven Wonders of the World and many other excellent Structures and Rarities throughout the Earth Beautified with Sculptures Price One Shilling VII THE Second Edition of Two Journies to Jerusalem Inlarged containing first an Account of the Travels of Two English Pilgrims some years since and what admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand
concerned that the Lot should fall upon his Daughter but Hercules travelling that way came to Laomedon and offered to deliver her by destroying the Monster if the King would give him for a reward some Noble Horses called for their excellency The Horses of the Sun then in his Stables in Troy. The promise was made but perfidious Lâ—omedon stood not to it after Hesione was set at liberty which so much incensed Hercules that he besieged the City of Troy took and plundred it kill'd Laomedon and carryed his Son into Captivity who was afterward redeemed by the Trojans and for that cause was named Priamus which in Greek signifies Redeemed To effect this Hercules had the assistance of his Friends and Allies especially of Telamon the King of Salames and Father of Ajax He carryed away all Laomedons wealth with Hesione his Daughter who was married to King Telamon Priamus being redeemed by his Subjects and established in the Kingdom began to inlarge his Dominions and to render the City of Trey far more famous than ever it was before for he rebuilt all the Walls adorning them with Forts and Bastions which were then called Pergama His Wives name was Hecuba Daughter of the King of Thracia She had by him many Sons as Hector Polites Deiphobus Helenus the Southsayer Troilus Paris and Polydorus and three Daughters named Polyxena Cassandra and Creusa His Court and Pallace were full of pomp and glory and he lived in this prosperous Estate many years but when he espoused the quarrels of the Asian People against Greece thereby ingaging himself in the publick enmity of his Country and suffered Paris to affront the Grecians he brought up on himself and his subjects utter Ruin and Destruction and was at last so unhappy to behold with his own Eyes the total desolation of the City of Troy which had lasted only three hundred years as Herodotus a faithful Historian hath related When Hecuba was with Child of Paris she dreamed she was bringing into the World a Firebrand that should kindle the flames of War in that Countrey and cause a general Destruction therein It was the custom of the Heathens when any strange accident happen'd to consult the Oracles and enquire from them what they ought to do When Priamus therefore understood his Wives Dream he sent to take advice with the Oracle who informed him that this Child would be the cause of the Ruin of his Countrey To prevent this as soon as he was born the King delivered him into the hands of a Souldier named Archelaus that he might cast him into the woods to be devoured of the Wilde Beasts and thereby avoid the mischief which threatned his Kingdom But the Mother seeing the Child so beautiful and well shaped was moved with compassion sent him to Mount Ida to the Kings Shepherd where he was brought up as his Son this mean education did not take from him the generous qualities and inclinations which he had received from his illustrious birth for on every occasion he made appear to all the World a great Courage Prudence and Justice and all other virtues worthy of a Prince so that he proved as Valiant as he was handsome Insomuch that the Poets feigned Juno Pallas and Venus agreed to chuse him sole Arbitrator and Judge of their Concerns in a difference between them which was this At the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis whilst these Goddesses were merry at the Feast the Goddess of Discord cast into the middle of the Company a Golden Apple with this Inscription For the Fairest and most Beautiful Each of these Ladies claimed it as their own and because they could not agree they resolved to leave it to the judgment of Paris who was corrupted with the Charms and Promises of Venus For she had ingaged to procure him the handsomest Lady in the World whereupon he despised the Riches of Juno and the Wisdom of Pallas and pronounced his sentence in favour of Venus whereby he provoked the Wrath of these Goddesses against himself and all his Nation This is the Fable After in a Publick Assembly he declared who he was for the Nobles and Gentry of the Countrey being met near the City to see the sport of Wrastling when every one strove to express his Strength and Courage he likewise went forth and threw to the ground many who undertook to ingage with him Hector the Son of Priamus among the rest did try his strength and was also overcome But this disgrace so inraged him against Paris that he resolv'd to kill him esteeming him no better than a Countrey Clown In his Anger he had taken away his Life had not Paris to prevent it shewn him certain small Jewels which Queen Hecuba his Mother had delivered to the Shepherd his Tutor and thereby declared himself to be his Brother King Priamus who had already admired his Address and Courage in the Combats was ravished with joy to understand the strange preservation of such an Excellent Son He therefore imbraced him brought him to his Pallace and gave him a Train of Attendants suitable to his Quality having forgot the Oracle foretold he was to be ruin of his Kingdom and Country He was at first renowned for his Justice and Civil behaviour but vice overcame his Generous Disposition and the Pleasures of the Court and sudden change of his condition altered his Temper and Carriage so that he had two natural Sons by Oenone Daphnis and Ideus who were as obscure as their Father was Famous King Priamus thinking himself now strong enough to encounter his old Enemies the Graecians assembled his Nobility to Court to whom he spake to this purpose My Lords You cannot forget the cruel injuries we have undeservedly received from the Greeks who lately invaded our Countrey and barbarously murdered your Parents and Friends as well as mine Having likewise carried away Captive Hesione my most Fair and Beloved Sister whom they still retain among them as a common Strumpet You must needs remember how they battered down this Famous City overthrowing and ruining the Walls Houses and Pallaces thereof even to the very ground and robbed us of all our Riches and Wealth wherewith Troy did then abound I therefore think it very just and reasonable that by the assistance of the Gods who resist the Proud and Insolent we ought to join together and endeavonr to take vengeance of them for those many wrongs we have received since our City is now so well peopled with valiant Soldiers and that we have Arms and Riches enough to furnish a compleat Army You know likewise we have made Alliances with divers great Princes our Neighbours who no doubt will assist us if we should have occasion for their help So that my opinion is we ought now to seek Redress for all our wrongs But since the fortune of War is uncertain and none call tell the Event thereof and though the dishonour of my Noble Sister be a very great Affront to me yet before I begin the
better should enjoy it Neither were the resolutions of his Army less prosaging good fortune than his own who forgetting their Wives and Children and the War which was so far from their own Countrey assured to themselves the Persian Gold and all the riches of the East as if already in their possession When they drew near the Asian Shoar Alexander first threw a dart as into an Enemies Countrey and leaping ashoar in his Armour vaulted twice or thrice into the Air He there again sacrificed praying That those Countreys might willingly receive him as King He did the same at Ilium upon the Tombs of those who fell in the Trojan War Advancing afterward towards the Enemy he made Proclamation That none of his Souldiers should plunder since they ought to spare their own goods and not destroy what they came to possess In his Army were thirty Two thousand Foot and Four Thousand five Hundred Horse and a Fleet of one hundred eighty two Ships With which inconsiderable Force it may seem wonderful he durst undertake to overcome all the Western World especially since his Army did not consist of stout young men in the Flower of their Youth but chiefly of Old Souldiers some of whom by the Laws of War ought for their age to have been discharged from further Service being such as served both his Father and Grand-Father whereby they now seem'd Select Masters of War rather than private Souldiers there being no File-leader who was not sixty years old the Order of the Camp being so excellent as it appeared like the Senate of some ancient Commonwealth therefore in the Battle no man thought of flight but of Victory having no hope in the nimbleness of their Feet but in the strength of their Arms. On the other side Darius King of Persia confident of his strength affirmed he would have nothing done by Policy or Circumvention since it was not suitable to his Grandeur to steal a Victory and therefore thought it more honourable to admit the Enemy to enter his Countrey than to fall upon him on the Borders The first Battle was in the Plain of Adrastum where an Army of six hundred thousand Persians were overcome as much by the Policy of Alexander as the courage of the Macedons great was the slaughter of the Enemy whereas he lost only nine Footmen and one Hundred and Twenty Horse whom to incourage the rest he caused to be honourably buried and Statues were erected for them as for some memorable Commanders bestowing great Priviledges on their Relations and kindred After this Victory the greatest part of Asia submitted to him He also made many Wars with the Lieutenants of Darius whom he overcame not so much by Arms as the Terror of his name While he was thus Victorious he understood by a Captive that a Treason was contrived against him by Alexander Son in law to Antipater then the Kings Lieutenant in Macedonia but fearing if he should put him to death it might occasion some Tumult in Macedon he only confined him to Prison in Bonds After this he advanced to Gordium scituate between both the Phrygias which City he desired to be Master of not so much for the plunder as because he heard that in the Temple of Jupiter which was within it there was consecrated the Plough of Gordius the knots of whose cords if any could unlose the Oracle of Old had presaged he should reign over all Asia The Original of the Story was this When Gordius was ploughing in this Countrey with his Oxen great flights of Birds of all sorts flew round about him who going to the Southsayers and Astrologers of the next City to know the meaning he met at the Gate a Virgin of admirable Beauty and asking her whether he should go to be resolved of his doubt she having some knowledge her self in the Art by the instructions of her Parents told him That the Kingdom and Government of that Countrey was presaged to him thereby and offered him to be a companion of his good fortune by giving her self in Marriage to him He was unwilling to refuse so fair a condition which seemed the first felicity of his Kingdom After this Marriage a Sedition arose among the Phrygians and counsel being asked what would put an end to these mischiefs the Oracle replied That there was a necessity of a King And being again demanded who he should be answer was made That they should make him King whom they should find with a Plough entring into Jupiters Temple Gordeus was the man whom they presently saluted as their King who consecrated to Regal Majesty in that Temple the Plough by which the Kingdom was conferred upon him After him reigned his Son Midas who being instructed by Orpheus in the Solemnities of Worshipping their Gods he filled all Phrygia with Religion and Ceremonies by which during his life he was thought safer than by Arms. Alexander soon took the City and entring the Temple inquired for the Plough which being shewn him when he could not discover the ends of the Cords lying hid amongst the multiplicity of the foldings he gave a violent interpretation to the sense of the Oracle and cutting the cords asunder with his sword the knots were undone and he found the ends lying undiscovered in the Mystery of the Twists Mean while he heard of Darius approach with a formidable Army and fearing the danger of the Streights of Taurus he marcht speedily over that Mountain his Foot going five hundred Furlongs without Respite Coming to Tarsus and being taken with the pleasant River Cydnus running through that City he disarmed and covered with dust and sweat threw himself into it which was so very cold that it caused a Chilness and benuming in every joint which rendred him Speechless and made his condition very dangerous and the more because he had received letters that day from Cappadocia that Philip his chief Physician in whom he put most confidence was corrupted by Darius to destroy him However the case being desperate he ordered him to prepare a potion and having received the Cup he delivered these Letters to him and stedfastly beheld him as he drank the Physick and observing no alteration in his countenance in reading them he became more cheerful and in four days was perfectly recovered And now Darius advanced toward him with Three hundred thousand Foot and One hundred thousand Horse and though the multitude of his enemies did somewhat disturb him yet when he reflected what mighty Actions and what notable Conquests over many Nations he had performed with as few men he resumed his former courage but thought it necessary by no means to delay fighting least some discouragement might happen to his Soldiers and therefore riding through the midst of his Troops he by several Speeches and Orations endeavoured to confirm their valour teling them The World had no Souldiers comparable to them and that this one Battle would put an end to their labours but their glory and renown would remain for
ever Darius on the other side was no less industrious admonishing his men not to forgot the ancient Glory of the Persian Empire and of their everlasting possession of it which was granted them by the Immortal Gods. After this the Battle was fought with great resolution in which both Kings were wounded and the Victory was doubtful till Darius fled thereupon there followed a great slaughter of the Persians threescore and ten thousand Foot and ten thousand Horse being slain and forty thousand taken Prisoners Of the Macedons were slain one Hundred and Thirty Foot and one hundred and fifty Horse Much Gold and other rich moveables were found in the Persian Camp and among the Captives there were the Mother and Wife of Darius and his two Daughters to comfort whom when Alexander came in person with some Souldiers they imbracing one onother expecting present death made a Screaking lamentation then humbling themselves to the knees of Alexander they desired not life but only a reprieve till they had buried Darius Alexander moved at their Piety assured them he was alive and to remove from them the fear of death commanded they should be honoured as Queens and that the daughters should chuse them Husbands according to their Quality After which observing the riches and precious furniture of Darius he was possest with admiration and then first began to delight in luxurious Banquets and Feasts and to be tempted by the Beauties of Barsinoe his Captive on whom he begot a Son named Hercules But considering Darius was yet alive he commanded Parmenio to seize upon the Persian Fleet and sent other Commanders to take possession of some Citys in Asia who soon delivered themselves up with vast Sums of Gold upon the same of this great Victory He then advanced into Syria where many Kings of the East with Fillets and Miters met him some of whom he received as Friends others he deprived of their Kingdoms preferring new Kings and among others Abdolominus was by him chosen King of Sidonia who before lived miserably his only imployment being to scour Ditches and water Gardens Alexander rejecting the Nobility least they should impute their Royalty to their birth and not his generosity The Citizens of Tyre sending him a weighty Crown of Gold on pretence of gratifying him the gift was gratefully accepted and the Ambassadors were told He would come thither himself and pay his vows to Hercules Who alleging he might perform that better in the Old Town of Tyre in the ancient Church he was so incensed that he threatned utterly to destroy their City and immediately drawing his Army to the Island was resolutely received by the Tyrians who depended on assistance from Carthage but that failing they were not long after surprized by Treachery and destroyed He then took Rhodes Egypt and Cilicia upon composition and resolved to visit the Temple of Jupiter Hamon to inquire of future events and of his own Original since his Mother Olympias had confessed to his Father Philip that Alexander was not begot by him but by a vast great Serpent and Philip a little before his death openly declared That Alexander was not his Son and divorced Olympias as guilty of incontinence Alexander therefore being ambitious of being a God and to free his Mother from disgrace sent some before hand with presents to the Priests ordering them what answers they should return so that entring the Temple they instantly saluted him as the Son of Hamon who being joyful of this adoption by this Deity commanded that Jupiter Hamon should be esteemed his Father He then demanded Whether full Revenge had been taken of his Fathers Murtherers It was answered That his Father could neither be killed nor dye but the Revenge for King Philip was fully perform'd In Answer to a third demand it was said That both Victory in all Wars and the possession of all Lands was granted to him His Commanders and Intimates were likewise enjoyn'd by the Priest to worship him as a God and not as a King. From hence he was possessed with wonderful insolence and pride altogether estranging himself from his former familiarity learnt of the Graecians and Macedonians He then built Alexandria and setled a Colony of Macedons there commanding it should be the Chief City of Egypt Darius flying to Babylon sent Letters to Alexander offering him a vast sum of money for redeeming the Captive Ladies who returned answer That to redeem them he must not only give his money but his Empire Darius soon after writ again proposing his Daughter in Marriage and a great part of the Empire but Alexander writ back That he gave him only what was his own before and commanded him to come as a Suppliant to him and to permit the Conqueror to dispose of the Kingdom at his own pleasure Darius hereby dispairing of Peace prepared again for War and advanced against Alexander with four hundred thousand Foot and one hundred thousand Horse In his march he was informed his Wife was dead and that Alexander had been extreamly kind to her and the rest lamenting her death and assisting at her Funeral and that he often went to comfort his Mother and Daughters whereat he confessed He was truly Conquered since after so many Battles his Enemy had likewise overcome him in kindness and that it was some comfort to him in his Misery to be subdued by so gallant an Adversary He thereupon writ the third time to him giving him many thanks for his Civil Respects to his Family offering his other Daughter and the greater part of his Kingdom even to the River Euphrates and thirty thousand Talents for the other Captives Alexander answered That giving thanks to an Enemy was superfluous neither had he done any thing either for Flattery fear of future events or in hope of peace but out of the greatness of his mind whereby he had learnt to contend against the Forces but not the calamities of his Enemies He promised to allow the same grants to Darius if he would be his second not his equal but as the World could not be governed by two Suns no more could it endure the Government of two such great Empires in a safe condition therefore said he Come if you will and this very day surrender your self to me or else prepare for Battle the next wherein you have no reason to promise your self any beter success than you have already found Next day both Armies stood ready to fight at which instant Alexander possest with too much care fell into a deep sleep and was hardly waked by Parmenio and all admiring that he who slept little should now be overcome therewith in so great danger he replied That his being delivered from a great fear was the occasion of it since now he was to fight with all the Forces of Darius at once being before afraid the War would be delayed should the Persians have divided their Army Before the Battle both Armies viewed each other the Macedons admired the multitude greatness
of Body and Beautiful Armor of their Enemies The Persians were amazed to think how often so many thousands of them had been overcome with so few Soldiers Alexander bid his Soldiers Not be troubled at the multitude or strength of their Enemies but to consider this was the third time they had fought with them and that they were never the more valiant for flying away so often that they ought to despise an Army shining with Gold and Silver since their Iron would soon purchase it to themselves Then both Armies ingaging the Macedonians in contempt of the Enemy so often conquered threw themselves upon the Swords of their Adversaries and the Persians desired rather manfully to dye than be again defeated seldom more bloud was shed in any Fight Darius seeing his Forces routed would willingly have died himself but those next him compelled him to fly some perswaded him to break down the Bridge of Cydnus and stop the Enemies progress who answered That he would not provide for his safety so dishonourably by expesing so many thousands of his own Soldiers to the fury of the Enemy who ought to be allowed the same way to escape which lay open to himself Alexander was still personally present in the greatest difficulties and where the Enemy stood firmest he clapt in amongst them and made the most pressing dangers more his own than his Soldiers In this Battle he gained to himself the whole Empire of Asia in the fifth year of his reign so happily that none after durst Rebel the Persians whose Empire had continued so many years now patiently enduring the Yoke of Servitude His Soldiers refresht and rewarded the Booty being so great that they were thirty days in dividing it he found hid eleven thousand Talents and then took Persepolis the Chief Seat of the Kingdom renowned for many years and full of the spoils of the World which were now discovered in the destruction thereof At this place eight hundred Greeks who had been formerly taken Captive by the Persians came to Alexander with their dismembred Bodies desiring him as he had delivered Greece so he would likewise them from the Cruelty of their Enemies The King granted them to return home but they rather chose to be seated in some Plantation there least instead of joy they should present to their Parents the lamentable and loathed spectacle of themselves Mean time Darius was seized on by his own Kinsmen and Fettered in Golden Chains in a Parthian Town called Taneas thinking thereby to purchase savour of the Conqueror Alexander pursuing him full speed came to the same Town next day and was inform'd that Darius was by night carried away in a close Waggon Therefore ordering his Army to follow he pursued him with only seven thousand Horse encountring several dangers by the way and having run many miles without gaining any Intelligence of him he staid to refresh his Troops when one of his Soldiers going to the next Spring found Darius there bleeding through many wounds but yet alive who observing the Soldier to be a Persian Captive he said It was some comfort to him in his deplorable Misfortunes that he should speak to one who understood him and should not breath forth his last words in vain He desired him to represent to Alexander his real sense of the many obligations received from him which he was sorry he had not the happiness to return since he had demeaned himself toward his Mother and Children not as an Enemy but a King and that he was more happy in an Adversary than in his own kindred since Alexander had spared the Lives of his near Relations whereas his own Life was taken away by his Kinsmen to whom he had given both Life and Kingdoms for which he should receive that recompence which was due to a Conqueror All the return he could make him for his repeated savours was as a dying man to beseech the Powers above and the Powers below and the Gods that dispose of Scepters to bestow upon him the Empire of the whole World. For himself he desired to have rather a solemn than a sumptuous Funeral As to his death the revenge ought to be exemplary it being not only Alexanders but the common cause of all Kings and would be as dishonourable as dangerous to be passed over since hereby he might both declare his Justice and procure his future safety and in hope of his performing it He gave the Soldier his right hand the only pledge of the Faith of a King and soon after gave up the Ghost Alexander coming thither and hearing this Relation having beheld the miserable condition wherein he was with tears lamented his death so unworthy his former grandeur and commanded his Body to be Buried like a King among the Tombs of his Predecessors Alexander after this honoured the Souldiers he lost in pursuit of Darius with great suneral expences dividing fifteen thousand Talents among their surviving Companions He now received Intelligence that after his departure almost all Greece combined to recover their liberty in his absence the Lacedemonians leading the Van who despising the Peace with Philip and Alexander Agis their King became General of this War which insurrection Antipater supprest in the beginning though with great blood shed on both sides Agis making terrible slaughter of his Enemeis and sometimes driving whole Troops before him After the death of Darius Alexanders Souldiers did not doubt but the War was quite finished expecting nothing but a speedy return to their own Countrey and in their imagination already imbraced their Wives and Children when Alexander calling a General Council declared unto them That they had gained nothing by so many famous victories if their more Eastern Enemies were yet untouched neither did he make War to conquer the Person but the Empire of Darius and that those were to be pursued who fled away and revolted from him Having by this speech revived the courage of his men he subdued the Mardians and Hircanians In this place Thalestris or Minothea Queen of the Amazons addressed her self to him attended with three hundred Thousand Women having travelled twenty five days through many terrible Nations only as she sayd To have a son by so great a Conqueror Her countenance and the cause of her coming were the subject of much wonder both for the strangeness of her habit and request To satisfie which the King took thirty day leasure and when she thought she was with Child she took her leave and departed Alexander now assumed the habit and Diadem of the King of Persia as if tranformed into the fashions and Customs of the Conquered and to prevent envy commanded his friends likewise to wear long Robes of gold and purple and to imitate their Riot also he divided the night by turns among troops of Concubines admired both for birth and beauty adding thereto Feasts and Plays to compleat his Luxury which caused great indignation among his Commanders to see him so far degenerate from his Father
Joab trecherously surprizing him killed him at the Gate of the City David was much perplexed hereat and uttered grievous Curses against Joab and his whole race and to deface the blemish of this Murder be assisted at the Funerals of Abner protesting against the cruelty of those who had taken away his Life and highly setting forth the praises of the dead yet he caused not process to be made against Joab conceiving that he was not able to destroy him in such a time when it was dangerous to provoke him After this Ishbosheth King of Israel was slain by two Murtherers Rechab and Baanah as he slept on his Bed at Noonday who cut off his Head and brought it to David at which this great King was so highly incensed abhorring this barbarous Fact that he instantly condemn'd them to death and their Heads and Feet being cut off they were hang'd up at the Fishâ—ood of Hebron The death of Ishbosheth the Son of Saul ended the difference between the two 〈◊〉 Houses and all the Tribes yielded universally to David So that now he began to Reign absolutely and to disscover the Admirable Qualities and Royal Virtues wherewith he was adorned And it is certain that of all the Kings of Judah none equall'd him in all kind of perfections He was one who feared God without Superstition was Religious without Hypocrisie Valiant without Sternness Liberal without reproaching any a good Husband without Covetousness Valiant without Insolence Vigilant without Unquietness Wise without Subtilty Courteous without Loosness Humble without Cowardliness Cheerful without too much Familiarity Grave without Fierceness and Kind without any Complement Above all he was all his Life very Zealous for Religion and wonderfully affected toward Divine things setling the Worship of God and composing Hymns for the people which have continued to all Ages and serve for perpetual Springs of Devotion even to this very day Yet did these Exercises no way diminish his Actions of Valour He overthrew the Philistines in two great Battels and made War on every side in the East against the Moabites and Amonites in the West against the Phoenicians on the South against the Amalekites Arabians and Idumeans and in the North against the Syrians Sabeans and Mesopotamians and was happy in all his Enterprizes Besides which he made Leagues with the Kings his Neighbours which he gained either by Friendship or Force He rendred Justice exactly to his Subjects favoured Arts Inricht and Fortified Towns Erected Stately Pallaces and brought the Kingdom of Judah out of Servility who had not yet known what Magnificence was He was honoured by the great Ones beloved by the Priests admired by the Wisest and almost adored by the People But as all light in mortal things hath a shaddow God suffered him to fall into a great offence which served to humble him and caused very much trouble in his House His mind being freed from the cares of War and Business he descried from the top of his Pallace a Woman that bathed her self in her Garden he inquired her name her Kindred and her Quality and becoming in Love thereby sends for her to his house and had Company with her How dear did this unhappy cast of his Eye cost him When a man once exceeds in this blind Passion he goes further than ever he designed She soon after sends word to David that she had Conceived and that her Husband having not seen her of a long time might have very ill apprehensions of her The honour of this lost Creature must now be covered the King sends for her Husband under some other pretence he comes from the Army is kindly entertained and David is earnest with him to go home and take his ease with his Wife but the good man refuses it saying That it was not fit for him to lye in a Bed when the Ark of God and his Captain Joab were under Tents He lies on the ground before the door of the Kings Chamber and so passeth the night having no desire but to return speedily to the Army Alas poor Vriah thou art made a harmless Sacrifice and wast but too faithful and therefore must water with thy bloud the guilt of thy Master David dictates a bloudy Letter to Joab to place Vriah in the Forlorn hope that he might be fairly rid of him and Vriah carries this deadly Letter Joab without inquiring obeys the Innocent Vriah is massacred and these false Lovers now think themselves secure David remains nine Months covered with this Filth and Bloud without coming to the knowledge of himself until Nathan the Prophet removes the Vail that blinded him who though he knew how dangerous it was to reprove a King and especially in such a case yet resolved to shew David his sin by uttering a Parable of a Rich Man that had great Store of Sheep who yet had violently taken away one only Ewe from a Poor Man which David finding very strange judged him worthy of death whereat the Prophet hits him home telling him He was the Man who had caused poor Uriah to be slain after he had taken Bathsheba from him David awaking as it were out of a dead sleep acknowledged his sin with a true humility and submitted himself to all the Chastisements it should please the great Judge to inflict upon him He was presently changed into another man and was exceeding Penitent his Heart bleeding and his Eyes weeping continually for his grievous offence and God beginning the punishments of his sin which yet he had pardoned as to his own person caused the Child Conceived in Adultery to dye A year after those pitiful Tragadies of his House which the Lord had threatned him with came upon him and filled his heart with terrors Amnon the eldest Son of David fell in love with his sister Thamar a very fair Princess and being in dispair of obtaining his desire falls sick The King his Father goes to see him to take order for his health who tells him There is but one medicine that will cure him which is that his sister Thamar should come and make him broth with her own hand wherein she had much skill This is easily granted and the innocent Maid goes to him who soon discovers his passion to her which she as violently opposed by reasons and tears Whereupon this barbarous Man proceeds to force and ravishes her which being past he entred into as furious a repentance and not enduring to behold her drives her out of his House with reproach and scoâ—â— she puts on morning attire and covers her head with ashes and at last discovers all to Absolom her brother by the same Mother who comforts her and promises revenge David hears of it but remembring his own offence durst not censure that of his Son especially since he loved him tenderly and feared to offend him Absolom seeing David did nothing in it resolved to do himself Justice with his own hands and having kepâ— his design secret two years to prevent suspition he makes
a Royal Feast to which he invites his Father and all his brethren David excuses himself and the other earnestly intreats that his eldest brother Amnon might supply his place to which his Father consents The brethren enter joyfully into the Hall where the Banquet was where Absolom had prepared a Bloudy Spectacle and horrible Sacifice he gives the word to his Servants that when his brother Amnon had drank plentifully they should take their opportunity to kill him without inquiring the cause since his Command was sufficient authority and security The Wine and good cheer having made them merry on a sudden drawn Swords glittered before their eyes Fear came upon all but the danger was only to Amnon who was suddenly Murthered his bloud leaping on his Brothers Table for a just revenge of his shameful lust The Brethren affrighted instantly fly and report brings the sad news to David that Absolon had slain all his Brethren The poor King casts himself on his face upon the ground weeping and all the Court tear their cloaths and put on Mourning when Jonadas certifies that none but Amnon was killed in revenge of the offence committed against Thamar David returns a little to himself and his other Children present themselves before him affrighted and weeping for that which had passed Absolon saves himself in the House of his Grand-Father by the Mother the King of Geshur where he remains three years without daring to see the King his Father who would no ways pardon this great Crime Joab labours to reconcile the Son to the Father by the mediation of a discreet Woman of Tekoah and at length prevails Absolon returns the King imbraces him gives him the kiss of peace and re-establishes him in the Court The Spirit of this Prince was high and tempestuous and being well made courteous liberal couragious and capable of great undertakings he entertained ambitious thoughts He saw his Father declining Adonijah his elder Brother too much a fondling and Solomon yet a Child unable to oppose him and therefore conceived the Kingdom could not slip out of his hands And the better to secure it he provided himself a guard of Souldiers and ceased not secretly to gain the hearts and good will of all his Fathers Subjects Never was any Prince more prodigal of his Courtesies whoever had any business with the King he called them to him imbraced them kissed them and enquired of their condition and suit and said There was no other mishop but that the King was old and tired with business and had not appointed any one to hear the Complaints of his Subjects and do them Justice but if one day he should have that charge due to him by his cirth he would give full satisfaction to every one By this means he made himself Conqueror of hearts and by the advice of Achitophel a great Politicion gets leave of David to perform a Vow in Hebron whither he goes accompanied with many of his Followers giving order to the rest of his Confederates that at the first sound of a Trumpet they should march to him which being done he caused himself to be crowned King in Hebron The news came quickly to David that his Son had revolted and got possession of Hebron and that all the Forces of the Kingdom ran to him This poor Prince at the tydings of this Rebellion thinks of nothing but flying and leaves his chief City to save himself in the by paths of the Wilderness He is the first that goes forth without a Horse to ride on upon his â—are feet with his head uncovered and tears in his Eyes marching thus like a true Penitent and adoring the Judgments of God which made him bear the enraged Tongue of Shimei with a deep patience and would not suffer him to be chastized for his horrid insolence Mean while Absolon entred Jerusalem without resistance where Achitophel to make the difference irreconcileable gave him the detestable Counsel to abuse his Fathers Concubines that were left in the Pallace After he had perform'd this Villany he contrives to surprize his Father at unawares which by Achitophels subtilty might have probably succeeded had not Hushai a secret Friend of Davids who joyn'd himself to Absolon on purpose to discover his designs prevented the Plot by this cunning speech That they should do nothing hastily since his Father was an old Captain and politick in War who had still in his Army men of Valour and Counsel and that it stood not with his honour to give Battle unless he were assured of the Victory for if at the first Encounter he should be repulsed it would be of dangerous consequence and might so discourage his men that his whole Army might be routed but if he would stay a while the People would gather to him as the Sand on the Sea shore and being in the midst of such a mighty Army nothing would be able to stand before him This Counsel being preferr'd before Achitophels he was so inraged that he goes instantly home and hangs himself by the most manifest Justice of God. After which Absolon thinking himself sufficiently strong passes over Jordan makes Amasa his chief Captain and designs to give Battle to his Earler David having had a little leisure to recollect and fortifie himself takes Courage again and dividing his Army into three parts appoints Joab Abishai and Ittai to command it He would have been present himself had not his Council disswaded him therefore encouraging his people and charging them strictly if they should gain the Victory to secure his Son Absolon without any hurt he retired out of the Camp. The Trumpets sound and the Armies approach Davids men having a good Cause ingage like Lions But the Rebels affrighted with their own guilt were soon disordered and put to flight so that one Party seemed to come only to kill and the other to be slain Twenty thousand falling dead on the place Absolon astonisht at this sudden change of Fortune gets on his Mule and flies through a Forrest where his head being caught within the branches of a Tree his Mule left him hanging between Heaven and Earth as a spectacle of the Vengeance of God for his ingratitude to so good a Father Of which Joab having notice struck him through with three Darts though forbidden by David and ten young Souldiers made an end of him the body was interred in a Pit under a great heap of Stones though he had built a stately Monument for himself which he called Absolons Place Behold the horrible end of an Evil Son and a Rebellious Subject sufficient to deter Posterity from such wicked practices to the end of the World. While this was doing David inclosed himself in a little Town expecting the Event and continually inquiring of the health of Absolon but when certain news came of his death he was pierced with so violent a grief that he could not be comforted losing all Courage and crying every moment O Absolon my Son Absolon Oh that this
was made over to them upon condition they should defend the Land against the Picts and Scots And in short time greater priviledges were granted them upon Vortigerns marrying the daughter of Hengist an exceeding beautiful Lady who was brought over on purpose to steal away the heart of a dissolute Prince so that by thaâ— alliance and the fruitfulness of the Countrey so many 〈◊〉 this populous and Military Nation came in that Kent iâ— a little while grew too narrow for them and Hengist 〈◊〉 extend their power into all parts of the Kingdom perswaded Vortigern to plant a Colony of them in the Nortâ— beyond Humber to be a continual guard against all invasions on that side Which being granted he sends foâ— Occa his Brother and his Son Ebusa to manage that design and hereby the Saxons came to possess Kent and Northum beland which contained all the Countrey from the Riveâ— Humber to Scotland And now of Servants they became Masters contemâ—ing their Entertainers and committing many insolencies whereupon the Brittish Nobility combine together and resolve to depose Vortigern the Author of this inconsiderate admission of Strangers and to chuse Vortimer 〈◊〉 Son in his stead a Prince of great worth who whilâ— he lived gave them many fierce encounters but all prevailed not for the Saxons being possest of the chief Gaâ—â— of the Land which lay open to their own Countrey 〈◊〉 receive continual supplies from thence without resistanâ—â— had the advantage to weary them all out at last And beside force they are said to have used treachery in murthering three hundred of the Brittish Nobility at Ansbury where they innocently met to treat of a peace with them took their King Prisoner and would not release â—im but upon granting them three Provinces more Also the long life of Hengist a Politick General who â—ved almost forty years made much for the setling â—heir Dominion here which was not effected withâ—ut a great deal of labour and much effusion of â—loud For the Brittaines being by continual Wars made exâ—ert in Military discipline grew at length so inraged to â—e their Countrey ravished from them by Forreigners â—hat they sold their Liberties and Inheritance at a very â—ear rate Wherein much must be attributed to the courage â—nd gallantry of their Leaders from whom the Spirit and alour of a people doth usually proceed of whom none â—re more worthy to be remembred than Aurelius Ambrosius â—e last of the Romans and our worthy Prince Arthur â—e Noblest of the Brittains A man in conduct and vaâ—ur almost above a man and worthy of eternal memoâ—y who while he stood bore up the sinking state of his â—ountrey He was the Son of Vter Pendragon by the â—ir Igrene and during his life had continual War â—ith the Saxons and the Picts and Scots who were someâ—â—mes confederate with them In the beginning of his â—eign the two Kings of these two Nations seemed to envy â—s advancement to the Crown of Brittain Loth King 〈◊〉 the Picts having married the elder sister of Aurelius â—mbrosius and Vortigern and Conran King of Scots â—â—e younger and because Arthur was begot out of wedâ—ck though his Mother was after married to Vter â—â—ey thought it more reasonable the Kingdom should deâ—end to their Sisters Son than to him Whereupon Loth â—â—nt Ambassadors to the Brittish Lords and Nobility reâ—iring that according to the ancient Laws and Cusâ—â—ms of this Realm they should receive him as King who â—nd Married the Sister and Heir of the two brethren Amâ—osius and Vter their last Kings The Erittains received â—is Message with great scorn disdaining to think of subâ—iting to a stranger and dispatching the Ambassadors â—ith many reproaches against Loth and the Picts they proclaimed Arthur King of the Realm who raising a potent Army marched instantly against the Saxons hoping to engage them before the Picts should join which doubtless they would do suddenly Having therefore procured more aid from Armorica or little Brittain in France they met with the Saxons within ten Miles of London whom they vanquisht in two set battels and obliged them to pay Tribute and receive such Governors over them as Arthur should appoint with several other very hard conditions to the great rejoicing of the Brittains for such prosperous and happy success under their new elected King. After this the Brittains easily took London where Arthur continued for some time in consultation with his Nobility and Commanders how they should proceed it their Wars against the rest of the Saxons Having aâ— length prepared a mighty Army Arthur resolved to geâ— against those beyond Humber in the North with whom the Picts had concluded a League whereby they were obliged to assist each other against their Common Enemies the Brittains Arthur marching into Yorkshire incamped near the Enemy who were already joined together and resolving to fight the next day he appointed Howel Commander of the French Brittaines to ingage the Picts while himself dealt with the Saxons The battel was very furious and for some time the Victory was doubtful but at length the Picts were put to flight which the Saxons perceiving and thinking themselves unable to bear the whole Force of the Brittains they likewise left the Field and fled with all speed toward York Arthur pursuing them beseiged that City almost three months the Saxons valiantly defending it and making brisk sallies upon the Besiegers but at length provisions growing very scarce they were just ready to have surrendred when notice was given them that a strong Army of Picts and Saxons were coming to their relief together with Occa who escaping into Germany from the last battel was newly arrived with fresh Forces in the River of Humber whereupon the Saxons refused to treat any further not doubting but the Brittains would be quickly forc't to raise the seige and be glad to get off with their own lives Arthur having Intelligence of these Succors and judging it no wisdom to stay for their coming considering how many of his Souldiers were diseased and sick by lying so long in the Field raised his seige and went into Wales where leaving the French Brittains to quarter that Winter he with his choice Troops marched to London to prevent any disturbance from the Kentish Saxons or others In the Spring having mustered his Forces he proceeded against Colgern and Occa the two Saxon Generals who coming out of Northumberland wasâ—ed and destroyed the Brittish borders with their usual Cruelty Whereupon Arthur encountring them twice in â—attel overcame in both and then again beseiging York 〈◊〉 at length got possession thereof by means of a Brittain who living among the Saxons within the City privately â—et in some Brittains in the dead of the night who breaking open the gates gave entrance to the whole Army Arthur would not suffer many of the Saxons to be slain but â—ardoned all who beg'd quarter thereby to gain a repuation of Clemency amongst his adversaries The Britains having thus gotten York many skirmishes
happened between them and the Saxons thereabout but Winter â—oming on they gave up themselves to drinking banuetring and other voluptuous pleasures so that when they harcht into the Field next Summer they were unable to â—ndure the labours and Fatigues of War and for several ears performed very little Service At length Arthur concluded a League with Loth King of â—icts whereby it was agreed That Arthur during his life â—ould be King of Brittain and after his discease the Kingâ—on should descend to Mordred the eldest son of Loth and his â—eirs That the Picts should at all times assist the Brittains against the Saxons and should freely possess all such Lands as â—bey recovered from them beyond the River Humber â—hat they should duly observe the League which was maâ—â— between them and the Scots That Mordred should marry the Daughter of Gawolan a Noble Brittain and next to Arthur himself That the Children of this marriage should be brought up by their Grand-father in Brittain till they came to years of discretion That Gawan the Brother of Mordred should serve King Arthur in his Wars for which he should receive large possessions and rewards Arthur having concluded this League and being desirous to purge this Island of the Heathenish Saxons he sent to the Kings of Scotland and Pictland requiring them That for the advancement of Christs Religion which they professed and owned they should forthwith assemblâ— their Forces and meet him at Tynmouth at a day appointed that so they might join together and march against their commoâ— Enemies the Saxons These two Kings presently consented to this so reasonable request and in a few days meeting with the Brittains they presently marcht altogether against the Saxons whom they understood were already in the Feild under Occa their General ready to receive them Both Armies approaching each other Colgern Duke 〈◊〉 Northumberland rid up to the very Front of the Picts Army where he severely reproached Loth and his Nobility 〈◊〉 their breach of Friendship with the Saxons and told theâ— he did not doubt but suddenly to see some just judgmenâ— fall upon them for their Treachery and Falshood 〈◊〉 thus joining with their former Enemies against theâ— most trusty Friends and constant Allies The Pictish King being mayed hereat commandeâ— his Standards to advance neither were the Saxons idâ—â— so that the Skirmish began which Arthur perceiving commanded the Brittans to ingage so that there immediately followed a terrible slaughter The Scots in thâ— right wing killing Childrick an eminent Saxon Captain quickly discomfited them on that side Colgern earnesly desiring to be revenged of King Loth rushed in up him with such violence that at the first encounter threw him to the ground but instantly two Pictish Heremen coming on one side of Colgern ran him quite throuâ—â— the body Loth soon recovered himself but Colgern beâ— dead his men were so disheartned that they presenâ— ran away Arthur perceiving the main battel of 〈◊〉 Saxons was now left naked pressed â—n so violently up Ocea that having received a desperate wound 〈◊〉 escaped out of the battle but being at length brought to the Sea side he got into a Ship and escaped into Germany This Victory being thus obtained the Saxons were forc'd to submit themselves to King Arthur who offered them pardon as to life and goods if they would turn Christians and never hereafter ingage against their Neighbours the Brittains Scots and Picts which if they would not consent to he commanded them that leaving their Arms and goods behind they should upon pain of death depart the Kingdom within fourteen days Hereupon many Saxons went over to Germany others pretending to be Christians still remained hoping for better fortune Several who continued after the time appointed and refused to be baptized were put to death according to the proclamation so that very few were thought to profess he Christian Faith sincerely All things thus quieted in Northumberland Arthur repaired several Churches in York and other places which had been ruined and defaced by the barbarous Infidels Next year he had notice that the Saxons who inhabited the Isle of Wight joining with those in Kent had fallen upon the Brittains on that side the Thames killing and destroying a great number of them whereat being much moved he hasted toward Lonaon with his Forces resolving utterly to root out the East and South Saxons since his Subjects could never be secure so long as that wicked generation remained amongst them In pursuance of the League he had Twenty Thousand Picts and Scots in this expedition Eugenius Nephew to King Congal and Mordred Son of King Loth being their General Then marching forward he incamped in the Field near the Thames and himself with some of his Nobility going to London caused prayers to be made to Almighty God three days together for their good success against the Saxons on the fourth day Divine Service being celebrated by the Bishop of London and a Sermon preached in the Market place he committed himself and his whole Army to the tuition and protection of Jesus Christ and then issuing out of the City he exhorted his Souldiers to be of good courage since they were to fight in a just quarrel against Pagans and the implacable enemies of the Christian Faith. Morderd and Gawolan his Father in Law marched in the front with five thousand Horse and being come within five miles of the Saxons Camp there came Ambassadors to King Arthur desiring him not to proceed any further since if he pleased they were willing to depart the Land with their goods and substance without further molesting the Brittains ever hereafter But Arthur would not consent hereto neither would so much as allow them a Truce for three days which they earnestly desired only he told them that he would not march above two miles that day so that if they came again next morning he would in the mean time consult with his Nobility and Captains what answer to give to their request Whilst the Brittains were busied about the news these Ambassadors brought the Saxons suddenly marching out of their Camp fell with much violence upon the Forces of Mordred and Gawolan of whom they killed a great number in that surprize though by their exhortations their men made the utmost resistance so small a company could against the multitude of their Enemies by whom being at length opprest they were forced to fly not resting till they came to the rest of the Army Mordred and Gawolan by the help of fresh Horses made their escape without hurt though many of their followers were killed in the Fight and Chase The Saxon Ambassadors being not yet gone out of the Camp were hereupon secured till next morning and then sent back with this answer That the Brittains were resolved for the future never to treat with any Messengers free the Saxons about Peace since it is apparent they designed nothing but treachery and falshood having contrary to the Laws of Arâ—â— unworthily fallen upon the
of the Greeks thâ— Empire was divided into the East and West That of thâ— West began with Charlemagne and remain'd in his Famiâ—ly while they continued Virtuous and was afterward removed to the Princes of Germany who acknowledgâ— the German Original of Charlemagne he being born a Worms Crowned at Spire and buried at Aix all Citie of Germany Charles lived fifteen years after he had united the Râ—â— man Empire to the French Monarchy Grimald Duke 〈◊〉 Benevent after endeavoured to disturb Italy for the Lombards but was timely prevented and about the same time the War in Saxony was renewed being always proâ— to Rebellion and likewise that against the Huns Boheâ— ans Sclavonians and Saracens As likewise a dangerouâ— War against the Venetians by whom the Emperor and hiâ— Frenchmen received a severe check and had reason to gloâ—ry that among all the People of Italy subdued by Charle magne they remained unvanquished and were able 〈◊〉 oppose themselves against him At length all things beinâ— quieted and Char'es finding himself old and broken witâ— cares and that his three Sons were Wise Valiant anâ— Obedient he resolved to divide his Empire among them To Pepin he gave Italy to Charles Germany at the Neighbour Counereys keeping Lewis his Eldest Soâ— at home to Inherit the Kingdom of France But in a shoâ— time after his two Sons Charles and Pepin the best supports of the Empire and true Inheritors of their Fatheâ— Valor both died leaving Lewis their Brother with large Territories and mean Virtues to succeed in so great aâ— Estate Charlemagâ—e secming hereby deprived of 〈…〉 Arms his Enemies the Saranens in Spain and the 〈◊〉 â—on aâ—s and 〈◊〉 in the Nâ—rth rose in Rebellion agâ—â—â—â— him â—ut as old and broken as he was he vanquisht theâ— all and reduced them again to Obâ—â—ience And his Aâ— fairs being thereby again setled his mind now woâ—n out with the toils and difficulties of his whole Life reâ—â—â—â—d nothing but rest and being well instructed in Religion and knowing how necessary it was that those who taught others should be well qualified themselves both in Doctrine and Manners he called five Councils for Reforming and Governing the Church and likewise a great Counâ—il at Frankford of the Bishops of France Germany and Iâ—aly which he himself honoured with his presence where by general consent The false Synod of the Greeks untruly â—alled the Seventh was condemed and rejected by all the Bishops who subscribed to the condemnation After this a new accident called Charles again to arms Alphonso King of Navar Sirnamed the Chast for his singular temperance sends to him that now there was opportunity utterly to root the Saracens out of Spain Charles extreamâ—y desirous to finish this work raises an Army and marches thither but though Alphonso meant sincerely the Chief of his Court who feared the Forces of Charles no â—ess than the Saracens doubting to be deprived of their Governments by a new Master created so many difficulties and dangers that he was obliged to return into France without acting any thing considerable and so concluded all his Enterprizes imbracing the care of Religion as a Subject only fit for the remaiâ—der of his â—â—â—ys He was Sixty eight years old when he left the Wâ—s and spent three whole years in his Closet reading the Bible and the Books of St. Augustine whom he admired above all the Doctors of the Church He resided at Paris to have frequent conference with the Learned where he erected a famous University supplyed with learned men and inriched with great Priviledges Thus Charlemagne spent three years happily only in the care of his Soul leaving an excellent example to Princes to moderate their greatness with plety and in the full enjoyment of Temporal things not to forget eternal nor their departure out of this life Then soreâ—clling the time of his Death he made his Will leaving Lewis his Son sole Heir of his mighty Deminions and causing him to be Crowned by the General consent of thâ— Estates where himself being present after having madâ— a long and fervent prayer prostrate before God with hiâ— dear Lewis he put the Crown upon his head and said thus to him My Dear Son it is to day that I die to the Empires of thâ— World and that Heaven seems to make me be born again in you Person If you will Reign happily fear God who is the foundation of Empires and the Soveraign Father of all Dominions Keep his commandments and cause them to be observed with in violable fidelity Take the care and protection of Religion anâ— Gods Church into your hands Love your Sisters render youâ— self good and officious to your kindred Honour Gods Ministers cherish tenderly your Subjects as your Children and be continâ—â— ally the Comforter and Protector of the Poor Chastice the vicious and recompence men of merit Establish Governors Judge and Officers that are capable and without reproach and whe you have chosen them do not deprive them of their charges with out very just cause Serve first of all for an Example to aâ— the World and lead before God and man an irreproveable life After this Action he survived about a year longer imploy'd in all kind of Religious Exercises and then fallinâ— sick continued so only eight days and died in the 71 yeaâ— of his age and the 47 of his Reign including the 15 year of his Empire and in the year of our Lord 814 Hâ— Corps was exposed in publick cloathed like a King witâ— a Sword and the Gospel lying by him which he had â—â—glor ously defended He was buried with a Stately magâ— nitiance in the Church of Aix in a Chappel himself he butle He was one of the greatest Princes of the Age His Virtue may be a pattern for Princes and his Forturâ— the Subject of their withes The greatness of his Mon â—â—â—chy is admirable for he quictly enjoy'd all Franâ— â—â—many most part of Hungary all Italy and part of Spaiâ— Yet his Virtues were greater thâ—n his Empire his 〈◊〉 mency wisdom courage Learning even in the Holâ— Serâ—â—â—res his 〈◊〉 Magnanimity and singular 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Pâ—aise He was universally lamened 〈◊〉 all the Wold as the Farner of the Univere and the Singular Oâ—â— mâ—â—â— of 〈…〉 and truly merited thâ—n aâ—me of one of 〈◊〉 Worthies of the World. The History of Godfrey of Bullen called King of Jerusalem The Ninth Worthy of the World. GOdfrey a Worthies Name doth well deserve Whom for his Valour All might wish to serve He for recevery of the Holy Land The Turks and Infidels did oft withstand Whereby at length he won Jerusalem That had a long time been enslav'd by them In which he so much Courage made appear The Christian Princes with one voice declare That he alone shall be Jerusalems King And th' richest Spoils they freely to him bring Which Honour all Men since him justly give And'mong the Great his Fame shall ever live the Princes of that fair Dutchy of Lorrain Godfrey of