here 1. Iewish Priests 1. Nason that bought the place 2. Menelaus that out bid him but had little comfort of his bargaine 3. Alcimus the betrayer of his Countrey the last of the race of Aaron 4. Then Jonathan 5. Simeon 6. Iohannes Hircanus of Mathathias stock injoy it 2. Onias building a Mock-Temple at Heliopolis in Aegypt 2. Macc. 7. for the Iewes of those parts 2. Heliodorus whipping by an Angell for offering to trake the Temples Treasure 3. The horrible persecution of Epiphanes specified in old Eleazarus in the Mother and her Seaven Sonnes 4. In the death of Razis who to escape Nicanors hands strangely slew himselfe 5. The rising of the Sects of Pharisees Sadducees and 3. 2. Macc. 14.41 The quarrels with various successe between the Seleucidae and the Lagidae untill the end of the brethren Antiochus Grypns and Cycicenus INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. The second booke of Maccabees be the same Authors with the former and may be reconciled with it 2. Mattathias might lawfully slay an offendor being no Magistrate 3. Forced circumcision practised by Mattathias and John Hircanus may be approved 4. Hircanus taking 3000 Talents out of Davids sepulcher for secular uses were not a kind of Sacriledge 5. He might not more providently have altered the property of the Temple on Mount Garesin then have utterly razed it 6. The Pharisees Saducees and Essenes were unknown to ancient times before the Jewes commerce with the Grecians 7. Rasis resolute killing of himselfe may be rather pittied then defended SECT III. Kings 1. THe Asmonei thus farre contented themselves with the title of Governours or High-Priests now they aspire to be Kings In which descent followes 1. ARISTOBULUS the eldest sonne of Iohannes Hircanus 1. He associates to him in the government his brother Antigonus but quickly by his wife 's Salomes perswasion makes him away 2. He imprisoneth his three younger brethren and starved his own Mother upon suspcition she affected the Kingdome 3. For which his conscience torturing him after a years Reigne he dyes miserably 2. ALEXANDER IANNaeus his brother released by Salome out of prison succeeds him for which kindnesse he marries the widdow 2. With much adoe he getteth Ptoleenais receives two overthrowes by Lathurus who was banished Aegypt by his Mother Cleopatra 3. The Pharisees are hard against him of whom he dispatched at once 50000. 4. Notwithstanding finding by experience how they led the vulgar he exhorteth his Wife to close in with them and to be ruled altogether by them This counsell 3. ALEXANDRA alias Salome his wife wisely followes and so gets the government 2. The Pharisees doe what they list and tyrannize over the contrary faction The Queen growes to be of 73 years of age and much broken after nine years Raigne dyes his eldest Sonne 4. HIRCANUS whom she before had made High-Priest succeeded by right This he being but a soft man hardly maintained by the helpe of Antipater the Idumean and Aretas King of Arabia who drove Aristobulus his brother that withstood him out of Jerusalem 2. The matter came to be disputed who should be King between the brethren Hircanus and Aristobulus before Pompey the Great He takes with Hircanus makes a breach on the Temple laies open the Holiest of Holies 3. And having done what he list hasteneth to Rome carrying with him Aristobulus prisoner with his two Sonnes and two Daughters but his sonne Alexander escaped by the way Antigonus was led on and there kept for a while 4. Hircanus held up by Antipater and the Pompeian faction at length falls into the hands of Antigonus his brother Aristobulus sonne who cutts off his eares and sends him Prisoner with Pacorus and Barzaphanes the Parthians where he was well used by their King Phraates and returned back againe to his Countrey There at the age of 80 years he was put to death by Herod who with his Father and Brethren formerly had stood so for him Competitour with this Hircanus was his Brother 5. ARISTOBULUS the second he was the more Active man and by composition had the Kingdome left to him by his brother Hircanus but that Antipater with his sonnes backed by Pompey revived Hircanus title 2. He being freed from his imprisonment at Rome by Julius Caesar to returne into his Country was poysoned by the way by some of Pompey's Faction His sonne Alexander having stirred in Iewry as much as he could to make way for him 3. This Alexander had to wife Alexandra his unkle Hircanus daughter which bare him the two paragons of that time for beauty Aristobulus and Mariamne At length himselfe at Pompeys direction is beheaded at Antioch by Scipio In whose right and revenge his Brother 6. ANTIGONUS shewes himselfe Backed by the Tyrians Parthians and other friends Invades Galily takes Jerusalem held it for a while but at length is taken by Socius the Romane leader after sixe months Seige Thence was he sent to Antony who dispatched him at Antioch In all this 7. HEROD had the chiefest stroke who then had none to withstand his usurpation He was the sonne of Antipater the Idumean a Rich Wife and expert man a great friend to Hircanus and upholder of him against his brother Aristobulus 2. In all which excellent parts this second sonne of his Herod came nothing behind him 3. For executing Ezechias the Thiefe with his associates he is questioned before the Sanedrim where downright Sanreas tells him his owne but he was grown too stiffenecked for such a curbe 4. Vpon the death of Caesar touching with amorous Cleopatra of Aegypt by the bye he gets to Rome There by Antony's means whom he had well bribed and still observed he is proclaimed King of Iudea 5. Returnes and by great industry valour and Policie settles himselfe in it makes away with all the Bloud-Royall that might question his title Amongst which the sweet Aristobulus in sport is duckt to death by his fellow Swimmers And the beautifull Mariamne his sister through Herods deerest wife is executed as also her Mother Alexandra afterwards for pretended Treason 6. This barbarous cruelty is extended farther to his own Children so that Augustus said he had rather be Herods swine then his Sonne 7. He was magnificent in buildings expressed in Samaria called by him Sebastia Caesarea his own pallace at Ierusalem but especially in the third Temple by him erected 8. He escapeth many conspiracies but at length after the mercilesse butchery of the Infants of Bethlem and other villanous massacres the hand of God seazeth upon him so that he dies of a most horrible and loathsome disease In his time 3959. from the Creation our Saviour Christ Iesus was borne The beginner of the last period COncurrent with these times were the 1. High-Priests 1. Alexander Ianneus 2. Hircanus first put in by his Mother Alexandra 3. Aristobulus his brother 4. Ananelus a base fellow foysted in by Herode and outed againe by him to make way for 5. Aristobulus Mariamne's brother who was treacherously
funerall of an Asse Of this Emperour runnes the distichon Principe in hoc patuit Romanae injuria Papae Et quantum sceleris Curia tota tegat 7. His last wife was Matilda our King Iohns daughter he had married before Iolam the Kings daughter of Ierusalem by whom he was entitled to that Kingdome some say he dyed a naturall death others that he was strangled by his Bastard Manfred His sonne Conrade and our Richard Duke of Cornewall with others were named to succeed him but none enjoyed the place for the space of 22 years untill Radulphus the beginner of the next and last Period 2. WIth this Period concurre 1. The Emperours of the East 1. Nicephorus who expelled Irene and agreed with Charles the Great that he should have the Empire of the West to him and his successors 2. Michael Curopolites his Sonne in Law who ratified the same composition 3. Leo Armenius an intruder who banished his predecessor and was slaine himselfe by 4. Michael Thraulus an unworthy Amorite 5. Theophilus his sonne was better but the Saracens brake his heart 6. Michael his sonne comes in with his mother Theodora protectrix but he mued her quickly in a Monastery and was slaine himselfe by 7. Basilius Macedo a man of a better temper he left his sonne to succeed 8. Lee more addicted to Astrology then carefull in his calling 9. His brother Alexander followes that kill'd himselfe with gurmundizing 10. Then Constantine Leo's sonne who is said to have converted some Turkes to Christianity 11. Romanus his sonne on the contrary caused his Mother and Sisters to turne strumpets and himselfe was poysoned 12. Nicephorus Phocas that usurped the place pretended to doe somewhat against the Saracens but oppressâ—d only the Subjects with taxes 13. John Zimisces out off all his race did somewhat against the Bulgarians and was poysoned 14. Basilius and 15. Constantine being brethren passe on without performing any thing worth the notice 16. Romanus Argyropilus did somewhat in the beginning but was quickly choakt in a bath by the means of Zoe his adulterous Wife and 17. Michael Paphlago a driveling slave after him by the same Zoe is thrust in 18. Michael Galaphates a base dissembler who soon outed his patronesse but proved so intollerable himselfe that she was recalled from banishment and made Empresse shee marries 19. Constantine Monomachus a slugge they drop away togither And 20. Theodora Porphyrogenita Zoes sister takes the reines in her hand This holds not but 21. Michael Strato an old man is thrust in by the Courteours and soon outed by 22. Isaacus Comnenus who proved somewhat better yet could not give content but 23. Constantine Ducas must have his place This he soon left to his wife Eudochia and her Children who married that she might the better hold it 24. Romanus Diogenes victorious against the Turkes but ungratefully deprived of his sight and banished by those whom he had preserved 25. Nicephorus Botoniatos succeeds by thrusting the right heire into a Monastery 26. Alexius Comnenus does as much for him and treacherously used the Lattaines in their passage by him to recover the Holy Land 27. Much better was his sonne Calo Johannes who prevailed against the Turkes and dyed by the prick of a Dart himselfe had envenomed 28. Emanuel his sonne was he that mixed chalke with the flower he sent the French for provision for the Army and put out the eyes of Dandalus the Venice Embassadour contrary to the Law of Nations 29 Alexius his young sonne was villanously made away by his Tutor 30. Andronicus who had soon his deserved punishment by 31. Jaacius Angelus who royally entertained Frederick Barbarossa passing to Palestina but was most barbarously deprived of his sight and imprisoned by his own brother whom he had redeemed from Turkish slavery 32. Alexius Comnenus the fratricide he was soon outed by his Nephew 33. Alexius the third who restored his blind father Isaacius he soon dying left the place to him which Myrtillus or Murziphlus a base fellow treacherously extorted from him He was cut off by the French and Venetians that setled the first Lattaine in the Greeking Empire 34. Baldwin Earle of Flanders He left for his successour 35. Henry his Brother 36. Peter Altisidorensis followes him betrayed and slaine by Lascaris 37. Robert his sonne succeeds and leaves the place to his sonne Balwin the second In him ended in Constantinople the Government of the Lattines who had held it about 60. years under five Emperours although Theodorus Lascarus Iohn Ducas John Theodore stiled themselves Emperours of Greece the same time in Adrinople untill 38. Michael Paleologus recovered Constantinople againe about the yeare 1270. which falls in with the time of Rodulphus Haspurgensis 2ly In the compasse of this Period sprang up the seaven bloudy controversies that set all Christendome in combustians Concerning 1. The Popes Supremacy over Bishops Councells Princes 2. Their Elections without and against the Emperours consent 3. The Investiture of Bishops by Staffe and Ring 4. Priests Marriages 5. Images 6. Transubstantiation 7. And Indulgences 3ly In the same compasse Postillators Schoolemen and Canonists In Warenfride Lombard and Gratian had their first beginnings and countenancing 4ly The diverse expeditions for recovering the Holy Land 5ly The persecutions of the poore Waldenses 6ly The multiplying of Monasteries and Orders of Fryars And 7ly decay of Polite Learning may be within this circle evidently taken notice of as matters of no small concernment INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. The agreement of Charles M. with the Greeke Emperours imply not that he held Pope Leo's pronouncing him Emperour of the West and Crowning him to be no sure title 2. That Crowning de facto were a sufficient ground for the succeeding Popes to claim the same priviledge de Jure as essentiall to the being of an Emperour 3. In vite Careli Those stories and wonders of Oliver and Roland and the foure sonnes of Ammon related by Arch-Bishop Turpin and others are for the most part fabulous 4. The Westerne Emperours had more trouble to keep correspondence with the incroaching Popes then to quit themselves from the invasions of other Enemies 5. Christianity were more abused and corrupted by the Schoolemens affected nicities then by the grosse figments of the Legendaries 6. The recovering of the Holy Land were of more importance then the maintenance of unity amongst Christian Princes to stop the Infidells from coming any farther 7. Pious and prudent Preachers might not have prevailed more for the Enemies conversion then the Sword-men performed for their subversion SEAVENTH PERIOD of Austrians PERIOD VII THE Seaventh and Iast Period yet current hath continued for the space of 360. years and more From Radolph of Ausperg to Ferdinand the second and numbers in it 18. Emperours 1. A.C. 1273 RADULPHUS AUSPURGENSIS chosen with much adoe by the seaven Electors after 22 years vacancy of the Empire 2. He overthrew Ottacar King of Bohemia and pacified the tumults in Germany was free to
chalenge a Supremacy over all Bishops which so earnestly was opposed in John of Constantinople 2. Math. 16. Io. 21. It were not a grosse oversight to have neglected the urging of Thou art Peter and feed my sheepe If in these Texts it had been conceived that the Supremacy was granted by our Saviour to S. Peter and the Popes his Successors 3. The Clergyes withstanding Boniface the second 's endeavour to name his Successour were not prejudiciall to the Popes Infallibility 4. Gregory the great were the author of the foute bookes of Dialogues ascribed to him 5. He Gott Trajanus soule out of Hell by his Intercession 6. Sabinian brought in the first use of Bells into Churches 7. He were knockt in the head by Gregories Ghost for abusing and defaming him when he had gotten his place SECT VI. Vsurping Nimrods VVEE have seen the best of the Tolerable Arch-Bishops and Patriarchs 38 Vsurping Nimrods become their Successors for about 250. yeares in this order 1. BONIFACE the third a Romane A.D. 606 This man obtained of Phocas an adulterous Assassine who had most brutishly slaine his Master the Emperour Mauritius that Popish supremacy which to this day is so much stood upon 2. Platina Then came the name of Pope to be appropriated to the Romane which formerly was usuall to other Bishops and Volumus Jubemus We Will and Command Rom. 13. not I beseech you Brethren to be the stile of a Priest This brought in the Quaere that Platina scarce replyeth unto Quantum reddat Episcopatus non quot oves pascuae in co sunt What is the Bishopricke worth not what opportunity is in it to get soules 3. Many strange Prodigies ushered in this supreame head of the Church A Commet of a stupendious magnitude P. Dlaconus L. 18. Sea-monsters shewing themselves to the terror of many and Mahomets publishing of his Alcharon to make worke on both sides for the faithfull to defend themselves Here then is began the Kingdome of the Beast Revel 13. But this usurper continued not a yeare before he was forced by death to part with all his pompe to 2. BONIFACE the fourth an other Italian A.D. 607 who set as good a face upon the matter as his predecessor He changed the Pantheon of mother Cybele and the heathenish Pagods to be a Fane for the blessed Virgin and Martyrs and thereupon instituted Allhallan-day 2. Turned his Fathers house into a Monastery and endowed it with revenues ' to farten some Monkes he might make use of But amidst his many endeavours he leaveth his seate and businesse to his Successour 3. An. D. 615 DEUS-DEDIT or Theodorus another Romane This man ordred that Gossips should not marry 2. Some say he was Cardinall of S Iohns Aera Christiana or year of the Lord. and S. Pauls being so stiled by Gregory the first who first brought in the account from the Birth of Christ He is reported to have cured a Leeper with a kisse yet in his time such a Leprosy raigned so disfiguring men that they could not be knowne And then Impious Cosroes of Persia having gotten as he thought the Crosse of Christ placed himselfe in the midst Ciacon that on the Right-hand and a Cocke on the left in contempt of the Trinity which he paid for afterwards 4. An. D. 618 BONIFACE the fifth comes in this mans roome of the fame Country Asyla He did little worth the noting but only priviledged Murtherers and Theeves that tooke sanctuary should not be thence plucked out to suffer by the hand of Justice His Countryman 5. An. D. 626 HONORIUS the first succeeds him This Pope was censured by the third Councell of Constentinople to be a Monothelite but Onuphrius Ciaconius Bellarmine and Baronius with diverse others of that side labour to quitt him 2. He clothed S. Peters Church with Iupiter Capitolinue coate and instituted the feast of Exaltation of the Crosse leaving 6. A.D. 639 SEVERINUS a Romane to doe lesse from whom Isacius the Exarch of Italy tooke away the Laterane treasury to pay his Souldiers for which Severinus severity dared not to Anathematize him for Popes as yet were the Exarchs creatures so was 7. An. D. 641 IOHN the fourth a Dalmatian who with the remainder of the Treasury of the Church redeemed some exiles of his Countrymen 2. He busied himselfe more then need about the celebration of Easter and the translating of Martyrs bones Yet wrote into England against the Pelagian Heresy 3. Vnder this Popes nose Rhotharis of Lombardy placed two Bishops in one Sea the one a Catholique and the other an Arrian 8. THEODORUS a Graecian that followes him A.D. 642 was the Bishop of Jerusalem's sonne He makes bold to deprive Pyrrhus Patriarch of Constantinople for the Heresy of the Acephalies who differed not much from the Monotholites 9. An. D. 649 MARTIN the first an Italian that comes after him bestirres himselfe in decking of Churches and appoynting of Holy-dayes and commanding Priests to shave their Polls and to keep themselves single 2. For being too forward in deposing Paul the Patriarch of Constantinople he was fetcht to Constantinople by Constantius the Emperour De Rom. l. 4. c. 12. and banished into Pontus where he dyed Bellarmine straines himselfe to justify this Pope against some imputations of the Magdeburgenses but 10. EUGENIUS I. the Romane that succeeds him A.D. 654 was lesse active and sped better Yet he would have Bishops to have prisons for their Priests who were so bold with the Pope himselfe that when his Holinesse had received hereticall Letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople they threatned that they would interdict him from saying Masse before he had burnt them 11. An. D. 665 VITALIANUS his Countryman followes in a more troublesome time Wherein Constans the Greek Emperour came to Rome and after some complements of kindnesse rifles it especially of the gay Pictures and rich Statue's 2. Maurus Arch-bishop of Ravenna is excommunicated by this Pope but retorts the same kindnesse upon him againe 3. Theodorus a Greeke and one Hadrian an African are sent hither into England by him to bring in the Lattaine service being the yeare 666. just the number of the Beast of which the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Baleus Reckoning give a shrewd account Monkery was much in request in this mans dayes Which having a period way is given to 12. A DEO DATUS or Theodatus his Countryman An. D. 669 who formerly was a Monke and in the Popedome did little besides the repairing of Erasmus Monastery in Mount Caelius of which he ahd been 2. Ciacon He decreed that Maurus Arch bishop of Ravenna should not have Christian buriall in regard he denyed to stoop to the Sea of Rome as Reparatus his successor did 3. Earth-quakes Comets and Tempests much amazed men in this mans time Amidst which 13. A.D. 676 DONUS the first a Roman succeeds him he so layes about him â—iacon that
Hence it is observed that all Kings of England must acknowledge the Pope for their Land-Lord In this proud Popes time the poore Waldenses stood up for the truth and increased amongst all persecutions To this Pope Nicholas Maniacutius wrote mad verses extant in Onuphrius where he concludes Scimus Alexandrum per soecula commemorandum As long 's there is a Goose or Gander We must remember Alexander He kept the place 21 yeares and more 32. LUCIUS the third his Countryman sooner quirted it An. 1181 1. At his Election by the Cardinals the Romanes were so much exasperated that they abused all his Partizans setting them upon Asses with their faces backwards and disgraceing them with the like Contumelies for offering to abolish their Consuls 2. The Pope gets to Verona and condemnes their doings exhorts the Christians to resist Sultan Saladine in the East but to no purpose somewhat he did for Luca where he was borne gives over to 33. VRBANE the third a Millenois A.D. 1185 He animates the Christians against Victorious Saladine and would have Excommunicated the Emperour Crantzius because he honoured not his Holinesse in all his projects whence some termed him Turbanus but he was prevented by death As also was 34. A.D. 1187 GREGORY the eight an Apulian his Successour who was very earnest the same way to set the Christians upon the Saracens that the Popes might rule all in their absence 2. Endeavouring to agree the Pisans and Genuans he was poysoned as t is thought amongst them 35. A.D. 1188 CLEMENT the third a Romane that Succeeded him prevailed more in setting forth the expedition against the Saracens 2. For upon his instigation Frederick the Emperour Philip of France and our Richard Cordelion with other Worthies undertook the businesse but performed little 3. Vpon the death of William of Scicily this Pope puts in to make that Country Tributary to Rome but the Scicilians found an Heyre Tancred Williams base Sonne to hold it 4. He Excommunicated the Danes for maintaining the Marriage of their Clergy but composed the dissention about superiority between the Citizens of Rome and the Clergy by granting the Senators and Patricians their right Which controversie had continued from Innocent the second to this Clement the third fifty yeares together 36. A.D. 1191 CELESTINE the third a Romane that succeeds being an old man yet is for this holy Warre as his Predecessors had bin for having a sting at Tancred of Sicily he gets Constance King Rogers lawfull Daughter out of a Nunnery and Marries her to the Emperour Henry the sixth with condition that he should out Tancred and admitt the Pope a sharer in the conquered Kingdome 2. When Henry came with his Empresse Constance to be Crowned by him in Rome he did it not with his hands but feet setting it on and spurning it off againe with this saying per me Reges regnant I have power to make and unmake Emperours 3. He sets all Princes almost together by the Eares that Rome might gain by making them friends Whereupon Vspergensis cries out rejoyce ô Mother Rome because all rivers of Treasures flow into thy Ocean c. Hellish was this Celestine but 37. INNOCENT the third a Campanian that follows A.D. 1198 more contraried his name 2. He held the great Councell of Laterane under pretence of recovering Jerusalem but it was for deposing the Emperour for witholding as it was pretended some Church-rights At which time Anricular Confession was established and the Cup taken from the Layty in the Communion 3. It was this Popet resolution against Philip the Emperour only because he was chosen without his liking Either I will Vn-crowne him or he shall Vn-throne me Whereupon he raysed the Otho 's against him who at length slew him And yet this Champian could not so please the Pope but upon clayme of the Imperiall rights he must needs be Excommunicated 4. He bore a heavy hand over our King Iohn deposed him interdicts the Kingdome for six years together upon his restoring by his Legate Pandulph tynes it at the yearely rent of 1000 Marks to be held of the Pope in Fee-farme 5. He was terrible against Preists Marriages whereupon we have these Verses by an Oxford man Prisciani regula penitus cassatur Sacerdos per Hic Haec olim declinatur Nune per Hic solum articulatur Cùm per nostrum Praesulem Haec amoveatur Old Priscians rule hence forth must hold no more 'T was Hic Haec Sacerdos heretofore But now poore Hic must lye alone perforce For his deare Haec our Prelate doth diverce And an 100 were burnt in one day in Alsatia for holding the free use of meates and Matrimony Almericus Bones were burnt after his death because living he had spoken against Images in Churches This man must have all differences between Princes devolved to his Decision After him 38. A. 1216 HONORIUS the third a Romane continues to be a Stickler for the holy Land 2. He Crownes Frederick the Nunne Constanc's Sonne against Otho the 4th and notwithstanding for clayming his rights afterwards Excommunicates him 3. Confirmes the Orders of Dominick and Francis and sets them against the Waldenses grounded upon certaine Dreames which Innocent his Predecessor had fore-boading these mens service in that behalfe 4. He caused 400 Scotts to be hanged and their Children Gelded for burning their Bishop who had Excommunicated them in his owne Kitching and exacted by Otho his Legate of every Cathedral amongst us Two Prebends to help to pay scores of Mother Laterane which gave occasion to this Rime O Pater Honori multorum nate dolori Est tibi decors vivere vade mori O Father Honori borne for a sad story To live is it glory Death is to good for ye So he died and left a worse in his place 39. A. 1227 GREGORY the ninth a Campanian This man thrice Excommunicated Frederick the Emperour whom he had sent to recover the Holy Land that he at the more case might get Apulia and Lombardy from him in his absence 2. With much adoe and at a deare rate the Emperour gets his absolution but his Holinesse raiseth new stirres against him that so exasperate him that Satynicall verses as it were of defyance past between them Many of the Clergy suffered in the broyles amongst which the Popes brother was hanged for his Treasons 3. Dominick Francis and Anthony of Padua are Canonized a deadly feud fell between the Papaline Guelphes and Imperiall Gibelines which in a manner to this day continues 4. To affront the opinion that the Pope was Antichrist strongly urged by the Waldenses and the Emperours Preachers out of the Revelation of S. Iohn Cyrill a Grecian the third president of the White Fryars or Carmelites obtrudes certain tables of silver written as he said by Gods own finger and delivered him to publish which shew an other gats progresse of the Church then the Apocalips foretell and are illustrated by the Comments of Abbat Ioachim Gulielmus Cisterciencis
the West was so hardly put to it by him that a quarrell arose between a Father and his Sonne who should have a dead mouse that by chance in the famine fell from a roofe betwixt them 4. He supposed that he had very politiquely married his daughter Stratonice to Celeucus of Babylon but it proved otherwise for this Sonne in Law of his soon after sides with Ptolomy of Aegypt and outs him of his Kingdome 5. More we shall find of him afterward in the line of Macedon In the mean while 4. CELEUCUS Nicanor would not leave him without an heire but annexeth all his Asian Dominions to his whose line we follow here as the most illustrious 2. From this man we have the Aera or Account used in the Books of Maccabees Applâ—â— in Gyâ—iaciâ— 3. Besides his continuall warres to inlarge his Territories he was a great builder and erected nine Citties calling them all by his name Selenciah 4. He was contented to bestow his faire wife Stratocias upon his sonne 5. A.M. 3668 ANTIOCHUS Soter who so desperately doted on her that without that salve his wound was incurable 2. It was not for any great good he did the name of Saviour was afforded him but because he did not much hurt Notwithstanding he is said to have carryed a hard hand over the Jewes 3. Not much better proved his sonne by his Mother wife Stratonica 6. ANTIOCHUS howsoever termed Theos and made as it were a god by the Milesians for freeing them from the tyranny of Timarchus 2. Great quarrells fell between him and Ptolomy Philadelphus of Aegypt which were partly skinned over by his putting away his wife Laodice by whom he had two sonnes Seleucus Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax and marrying Berenice the daughter of Ptolomy But this held not Dan. 1â— 6 as it was foretold by Daniel For upon Theo's death enraged Laodice falls on disconsolate Berenice and caused her to be put to death with her young sonne she had by Theos which was basely performed against the solemne oath of 7. SELEUCUS Callinicus A.M. 3704 who made into his succession such a bloudy entrance This Berenices Haire is continued an Asterisme in the celestiall Globes 2. Ptolomy Euergetes of Aegypt sets upon him to revenge the murther of his sister Berenice takes part of Syria from him Callinicus by the help of his brother Hierax recovers it againe makes peace with Ptolomy without his brothers consent 3. Hierax thereupon exasperated warres on him and expells him out of Syria 4. Vpon these dissentions Eumenes in Bithynia Arsaces in Parthia and the Gaulls plundering every where make more work 5. Hierax is slaine by Ptolomies Souldiers Gallinicus dies by the fall from a horse He left two sonnes behind him Seleucus and Antiochus of which 8. SELEUCUS raigned next after him A.M. 3724 by the name of Ceraunus which signifies Lightning 2. But as Lightning soon flasheth pierceth and fadeth so this sparke passing â—ver the Mountain Taurus was by his own Souldiers extinguished leaving his Dominions to his brother 9. ANTIOCHUS afterward called Magnus A.M. 3726 perchance for undertaking much and performing little 2. He set upon on Philopater of Aegypt but was faine to make his Peace with him opposed the Romanes who had taken upon them the Wardship of young Ptolomy Epiphanes of Aegypt by whom being often Beaten he was forced to retyre himselfe beyond Taurus and leave the Territories on this side of it to the Conquerours 3. To him Haenniball fled being defeated in the second Punick Warres but could not be protected by him and therefore made himselfe away to prevent his delivering to the Romanes 4. His end was by an enraged multitude in defence of their God Belus whose Temples Treasures in Syria he went about to rifle 5. Of his three sonnes surviving him Seleucus Philopater Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius 10. A.M. 3763 SELEUCUS Philopater the fourth of that name succeeds him 2. He is foretold by Daniel to be a raiser of Taxes Dan. 11.22 â— Macch. 3. v. 38. having heard of the Treasure in the Temple of Ierusalem he sends Heliodorus his Treasurer to seaze upon it for his use but Heliodorus met with such a Lashing from Heaven that he told his Master at his returne If he had any Enemy or Traytour he should send him thither upon the like imployment 3. whiles his two Brothers Epiphanes and Demetrius were Hostages at Rome this man addicts himselfs securely to all Licentiousnesse but Epiphanes breaking from thence and taking his opportunity was quickly found to ease him of his Government This 11. A.M. 3775 ANTIOCHUS Epiphanus tooke upon him 1. Of his entrance 't is said as of Boniface the eight that he entred as a Fox raigned as a Lyon and dyed like a Dogg 2. He tooke upon him at the first only to be a Guardian to Demetrius his Brothers Sonne but once setled quickly dispatched him and takes all to himselfe 3. Sets upon Aegypt but staved off by the Romanes from that enterprize 4. Returnes furiously upon the Iewes whose Temple and Religion he would needs extinguish 5. Old Eleazarus and a Widdow with her seven Sonnes are Martyred by him 6. Iupiter Olympiu's Image must be erected upon Gods Altar and Incense and Sacrifices offered unto it 7. This made the seven Asmonei or Maccabees succesfully to stand up against him for the vindication of Gods honour to the defeating of diverse of his Generals and Forces 8. Polybius termes him Epimanes a mad man and Christian Divines a Type of Anti-christ a vile man saith Daniel that had not one commendable quality to speake for him Having at last spit his Venom wasted himselfe he would needs into Persia to rifle the Treasures of the Temple of Nannea to whom he pretended to be a Suiter in Marriage and to take that wealth for a Dowry but the Priests there so Polted him that the Match was broken and the Dowry left behind whence returning with disgrace Gods vengeance ended him on the way leaving Inheritour of his Infamy and Kingdoms his Sonne 12. ANTIOCHUS Eupater A.M. 3786 who made Peace with the Jewes in regard he perceived that it was in vaine to oppresse them 2. But within two yeares his Vncle Demetrius the third sonne of Antiochus Magnus gets loose from Rome where he had bin a pledg with his Brother Epiphanes kills him and succeeds under the title of 13. DEMETRIUS Soter a preserver A.M. 3788 but neither preserved he others neither long preserved himselfe 2. Vpon a complaint of Treacherous Alcimus 1. Macch. 7. 2. Macch. 14. he sent his Generall Nicanor to subdue Judas Maccabeus but he with 3000 men defeated the Hoast of Syria and slew their Generall For which a Feast was set a part to be celebrated By an other Generall of his Bacchides Judas deserted by his own men nobly sold his Life 3. 1. Macch. 10. But Soter had small time to Triumph in it for in a set Battle he was overthrowne and slaine by 14.
ALEXANDER his Nephew A.M. 3799 who pretended he was the Sonne of Epiphanes He is termed otherwise Alexander Bala or Veles 2. Philometor of Aegypt gives him his Daughter but afterwards taking his advantage deprives him of his Wife and Kingdome 3. The poore man flies into Arabia where he was slaine and his head presented to Philometor Soter that was before this mans intrusion had two sonnes the younger Antiochus Sedetes and the elder 15. DEMETRIUS Nicanor who succeeded A.M. 3804 but little content he had in it for Sedetes joyning with Tryphou a great Commander in those dayes with the concurrence of the Valiant Asmonean Jonathan â—oseph Anti. 13. c. 9. quickly outed him 2. Tryphan had a plot to King himselfe but businesses were not ripe he goes therefore into Arabia and thence procures from one Malchu's tutorage young Antiochus the son of Bala or Veles forementioned to have a plausibletitle this Child 16. A.M. 3807 ANTIOCHUS Entheus therefore is invested for a state â—oseph Ib. but after a defeat given to Nicanor by Arsaces of Parthia who took him Prisoner and the Coast at it were cleared young Antiochus must sleepe with Fathers and Triumphing 17. A.M. 3808 TRYPHON the Apamean ascends the Throne without pretence of Title 2. He overcometh Nicanor 3. Treacherously inveigheth Jonathan and put him to Death 4. Simon Ionathans Brother chosen the Jewes Generall Beseigeth this Trifler as Ioseph termes him in Dora from whence escaping to Apamea Antiq. l. 13. c. 12. he was there taken and slaine by 18. A.M. 3811 ANTIOCHUS Sedetes termed Soter and Pius sonne of the former Soter and Brother to Nicanor 2. He dealt not well with Simon the Father and Hircanus his Sonne 3. Who purchased a Peace of him for mony 4. Invading Arsaces he was slaine by him 5. By meanes whereof his Brother Nicanor returnes out of Captivity and raignes thre yeares Vpon his death 19. A.M. 3824 ALEXANDER Sebenna is foysted in by Physcon of Aegypt Ioseph Antiq. â— 13. c. 17. but is quickly outed againe by 20. ANTIOCHUS Gryphus who slew him in battle this Gryphus was sonne of Nicanor A.M. 3826 and had a younger Brother Cyzicenus that perpetually Warred upon him with variable successe 2. This ennity of the Fathers was continued by 21. CYZIZENUS Seleucus Philippus and Demetrius the Sonnes of Gryphus and Antiochus the Sonne of Cyzizenus their Vncle untill that wasted by such irreconcilable dissentions They were surprized by Tygranes of Parthia who put a Period to the Line of the Seleucidae but himselfe was soone after subdued by the Romanes and Syria made a Province 2. Cnotemporary with this Period must be paralleled the Line of the Ptolomies or Lagidae of Aegypt taking their rise from 1. Ptolomeus Lagus a By-blow of Philips of Macedon the third sharer in Great Alexanders Dominions Ioseph Antiq l. 12. c. â— He surprized Ierusalem by a Stratageme taking the vantage of the strict celebration of their Sabboth and carried multitudes of them Captives into Aegypt which 2. Philadelphus his sonne redeemed with his owne Treasury and set at Liberty who was famous besides for his exquisit Library and procuring the Translation of the Septuagint Farre short of him came 3. Evergetes his sonne commended notwithstanding for revenging of his Sisters Beronices death upon the bloudy Callinicus of Syria But devillish proved his sonne Nick-named 4. Philopater for Butchering his own Parents from whose tyranny the Iewes in Aegypt were miraculously delivered by Gods frustrating his projects and turning his Elephants prepared for to destroy the Iewes to the destruction of their Leaders See the Booke of Symion the high Preist commonly called the 3. of Maccabees 5. Epiphanes was too young to be so Villanous upheld by the Romans his Gardians against Philip of Macedon and the great Antiochus 6. Philometor comes next in the Line so called from the deadly hate his Mother bore him 7. Phiscons great Panche wallowes in next that sent his sonne to be eaten of his own Mother as bad or worse proved 8. Lathurus that vexed the Iewes and forced his Prisoners to feed on dead Carcases whereupon outed by his Brother 9. Alexander Alexander kept the place untill his Mother Cleopatra plotted to kill him which he prevented by Matricide Deposes himselfe gives way for Lathurus his returne to Raigne againe 10. Then Auletes the Fidler comes on but by Pompeyes perswasion was banished by the Romans to give way to 11. Dyonisius his sonne that proved Pompey's executioner when he fled to Aegypt from his overthrow in Thessalia Only 12. Cleopatra his Sister remained to succeed Minion first to Julius Caesar then to Mark-Anthony whose overthrow at Actum brake her heart Antony made himselfe away by poyson she by Aspes applyed to her Breasts And the date of the Lagedae exspired Aegypt falls also to be a Romane Province 3. The next paralell is the line of Macedon In which the 1. Arideus Alexanders halfe brother did nothing but by direction of stirring Perdiccas to whose tutorage he was committed but both of them quickly cut off 2. Cassander Antipaters sonne did more then he should in barbarously making away Olympias Alexanders mother â—ustin l. 14. Cleopatra his sister with his two Wives Roxane and Barsena and their Children Alexander and Hercules the cry of whose blood found revenge in his 3. Antipater that succeeded and Alexander his brother who were the ruine one of another and the whole bloudy family This was especially performed by 4. Demetrius Poliorcetes who outed from Syria by overthrowing the wrangling brethren setles himselfe here But 5. Pyrrhus of Epyre soon got the Kingdome from him and as quickly left it to 6. Lysimachus of Thrace that stout commander of Alexanders who strangled the Lyon he was exposed unto without weapon to be torne in pieces But this valour defended him not against the undermining and forces of the Aegyptian 7. Ceraunus who outs him growes in with his Wife cheats them and abuses them all But before a whole year past 8. Meliager another of Alexanders leaders dispatches him he Raignes but two Months before 9. Antipater the second had gotten the Scepter from him and about 45 daies after left it to 10. Sosthenes who freed the Kingdome from the plundering Galls but could not free himself from 11. Antigonus Gonatus Poliorcetes sonne who recovered the Kingdom after five intervenient intruders To him succeeds 12. Antigonus the second his Sonne He leaves Antigonus the third tearmed Doson for promising much and performing nothing but his government ended with the nonage of 13. Philip Gonates sonne to whom Doson was only Protector Philip hath great overthrowes by the Romanes who captivated at length his sonne 14. Porseus by Paulus Aemilius And so Macedon also fell to be a Romane Province 4. With these fall in the beginnings and growth of the Romanes Greatnesse under their Kings Consulls Tribunes and Dictators upon occasion 2. Whence we have their Victories in Europe in the Italian Scicilian Spanish Macedonian
Graston Leland 1. in setling Archflamines in London Yorke and Carleon Built Billings gate and the Tower of London 7. and so died honourably and was buried with great pompe leaving his sonne 3. A.M. 2588 GURGUINTUS to succeed him Vpon denyall of the Tribute granted to his Father Beline by Guiltdake King of Denmarke he passed thither with an Army and by Force recovered the continuance of the Payment of it 2. In his returne he mett with Captaine Partholine with a company of vagrant Spaniards that sought a place to dwell in whom he fixed in Ireland 3. This Partholines brother Cataber is said in earnest by some to have Founded the Vniversity of Cambridge Gaius 4. A.M. 3607 GUINTHOLINUS his sonne followes him the more famous for his learned and prudent Wife Martia from whom the Saxons had their Lawes Marthehelog translated unto them by King Alfred 2. He is said to have built Warwick about the time that Alexander the Great was borne leaves to succeed his sonne 5. A.M. 3640 SICILIUS guided by his mother in his nonage In his time the Picts got footing in the Marches of England and Scotland whom his sonne 6. A.M. 3642 KIMARUS a dissolute and carelesse young Prince never endeavoured to remove he was treacherously slaine in Hunting and 7. A.M. 3644 ELANIUS his sonne or brother that took his place in only named whose Bastard 8. A.M. 3652 MORINDUS had more mettell in him and was much magnified for his comely personage and courage but rashly encountring alone a Sea-monster that devoured all before him after a furious conflict he was also devoured by it leaving five sonnes of which 9. A.M. 3660 GORBOMAN proved a good Prince He repaired Temples Grafton â—ellinsh promoted Sacrifices according to the blind devotion of those dayes Built Cambridge and Grantham which others deny and say it was Canta another Towne inclosed with walls wherein some Philosophers were placed destroyed afterwards by the Saxons He dying without Issue 10. ARCHIGALLUS his brother takes the place A.M. 3671 but Deposed by the Nobles for his oppression untill the third brother 11. ELIDURUS finding him discontented in a Wood A.M. 3676 as he rode on Hunting lovingly restored him to his Royalties and then upon his death Raigned after him which was not long before 12. A.M. 3693 VIGENIUS and Peridurus the two youngest brethren bandied against him and shared his meanes betwixt them Vigenius dies and Peridurus for his cruelty was slaine by his Nobles so that Elidurus was freed out of Prison to Raigne the third time between whom and Helie there passing about 180 yeares Monometensis and others have made bold to name 33 Kings to take up that time But herein there is no agreement in names number or whether they were before Dunwallo or succeeded Elidurus Graston Hollinsh Polltdor Virgil. whereof Hollinshed hath a digression in the History of England lib. 3. c. 8. The names therefore of these Fayrie Kings may be well omitted of whom nothing is noted but the name to pitch upon 13. HELIE From him some think A.M. 3800 the I le of Elie took his name others say noe but from a multitude of Eales into which the Married Preists with their Wives and Children were transformed that refused to obey St Dunstanes Ordidinance that Preists should live single but that derivation is more probable that is deduced from Helig LLoyd which signifies in Brittish a Willow by reason of the plenty of Willowes which there grew 2. This Holye had three sonnes Lud Cassibilane and Nennius Nennius came not to raigne but 14. LUD succeeded his Father and reformed Lawes A.M. 3801 augmented Troynovant and thereupon called it Ludstowne now London His brother Nennius was offended with it conceiving thereby that the name of Troy should be forgotten Ludgate more plainly beares his name without offence 2. Some say Baynards Castle others that the Bishop of Londons Pallace was built by him for his Court 3. He left two sonnes behind him Androgeus and Theomantius who in their Nonnage fell under the protection of their Vncle Cassibellane the foreman in the next Distance 2. VVIth those times concurre 1. The latter Kings of the Persian Monarchy and former of the Greeks 2. The beginning of the Scotish Monarchy by Ferâ—usius crowned upon the fatallstone brought by Gathelus out of Spaine that hath this Inscription Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur Ibidem Except old sawes do faine and Wissards witts be blind The Scotts in place shall raigne where they this stone shall find 3. Aspiring of the Romanes to overtop all those that had gone before them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Any of Mulmutius Dunwallo's or Marcian's lawes may be now distinctly shewen 2. Brennus that sacked Rome were a Britan or a Gaule 3. Irelands first Inhabitants were Spanish exiles under the conduct of Captaine Partheline 4. The Vniversity of Cambridge were Founded by Cantaber Captaine Parthelin's Brother 5. Morindus encountring alone the Seamonster express'd not more vanity then vaâ—lour 6. The Transforming of Marryed Preists into Eales be not as hansome a Metamorphosis as any in Ovid 7. It were not surly vnadvisednesse in a Senator of Rome to hassard his owne head and of many others for some incivility offered to the gravity of his Beard Romane Tributaries DISTANCE V. THE fifth Distance is extended to King Lucius the first Christian that Raigned among the Britaines and begins with 1. A.M. 3095 CASSIBILLANE in whose time the Britaines were first Conquered and made Tributaries to the Romanes 2. He was brother to Lud and had the Kingdome cast upon him by reason of the nonâ—age of Luds sonnes Androgeus and Theomantius 3. Iulius Caesar at that time imployed in the subduing Gallia being informed they had underhand supplies from Britaine takes vantage thereupon to invade the Ile where partly by Stormes at Sea that wracked his Navy partly by Valour of the Inhabitants under this Kings conduct Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis He Britanes sought but Force to quell did lack And like a Coward shew'd his fearefull back As Pompey in the Poet object 's to his disgrace 4. Lucan Our writers say farther that Nennius the Kings brother meeting with Caesar hand to hand got his sword from him but with it a knock on the pate Monomelens that cost him his life within fifteene dayes after 5. At length upon a quarrell between the King and his Nephew Aadrogeus concerning one Evelin who had slaine the Kings kinsman and was countenanced therein by the young Prince matters came to that height that Androgeus revolts and calls back Caesar from France and assisteth him to the overthrow of his Country This rendred him so hatefull that Cassibellane dying without Issue the younger sonne of Lud 2. A.M. 3921 THEOMANTIUS was preferr'd to the place He quietly paid the Tribute to the Romanes which his vnkle had promised to Caesar administred Iustice at home and protected his Subjects from Forreigners