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A91005	An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?; Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3439; Thomason E466_1; ESTC R203318	211,216	358

handsomenesse and comely dauncing which by chance he beheld among her country companions 2. After the overthrow of Harold with little lesse then the losse of 68000 men on both sides in Battle field he quickly brought under the rest of the Kingdome The Kentish men circumvent him by a stratageme and thereby retained their ancient Customes and Liberties 2. Edgar Etheling the right heire formerly wronged by Harold with the discontented Earles Edwin and Morcar make some resistance but to no purpose Edgar flyes with his Mother and Sisters into Scotland where King Malcolme entertaining them nobly takes Margaret his Sister to Wife and by his constant and effectuall standing for him Edgar was reconciled unto the Conquerour and had Royall allowance from him 3. To those insurrections that here vexed him his eldest sonne Robert added a more unnaturall in Normandy which he hastening to appease was in Battle Vnhorsed by his own sonne whom upon submission he was content to pardon for the time 4. The Church found no friend of him whose Revenues he alienated and burthened with unusuall taxes not sparing the poore meanes of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford which must be diverted from the Students 5. Besides the imposing of the Norman Lawes he left the Doomesday Booke in the Exchequer containing a Survay in generall of all England For a groat to short in payment of some dues required he forced the Monkes of Ely to lay downe a 1000 markes notwithstanding for all this the Pope bucks him and allowes his doings and Title 6. He depopulated about thirty miles in compasse Cambden i● Hantshire and outed the Inhabitants to make a forrest for Wild-beasts which pleasured not himselfe so much as it proved unluckie to his Posterity The plainnesse of these times of Letting Lands is worth the comparing with the intricate prolixity of our times Then it passed for good From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine were To witnesse that this is sooth I bite the white waxe with my tooth But now we find it otherwise 7. After all these transactions abroad he is summoned by Death as he was in Normandy but had the place of his buriall compounded for before he was interred and then the Grave proved too little for him that had proved so great a Conqueror in the World His second sonne 2. A.C. 1087 WILLIAM Rufus by Arch-Bishop Lanfrankes working for him gets the place 1. He is strongly opposed by his elder brother Robert whom he calmeth with promising faire words without performance and Robert joynes in the famous expedition to the Holy Laud with Godfrey of Bullaine 2. As his Father began so he persisted to withstand Papall intrusions He sleighted the Popes Binding Loosing and held it bootlesse to invocate Saints Curbed Anselme Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and taxed the then swelling Clergy for their Pride Luxury Idlenesse and Avarice Heard a Disputation of the Iewes who bribed him to favour them against the Christians but they lost the day and their mony togither 3. A Groome of his chamber on a time bringing him a paire of Breeches of three shillings price was blamed of him and commanded to furnish him with a paire fit for a King that should cost a marke He goes and presenting him with a meaner paire which he said cost so much yea Bellamy or by St Lucies face saith the King they are well bought such was the frugality of those times and difference from ours 4. His liberality to Religious persons and places shewes that he was not voyd of Religion though he could not endure Appeales to Rome and his building the Towre in London and Westminster Hall of 270 foot in length and 74 in breadth are sufficient testimonies of his Magnificence 5. His death was casuall by the glance of an arrow from a tree Cambden in Hantshire ex G. Mapes shot by Sir Walter Tirrell at a Stagge in the New Forrest wherein foure Abbies and thirty fixe Parish Churches had been demolished with the removing of all the Inhabitants to make roome for Beasts or Doggs game as one calls it Rex cervum insequitur Regem vindicta Tyrellus Non bene provisum transfixit acumine ferri The King the Stagge vengeance the King doth chase Tyrells hard hap concludes this Tragick case Also Richard his brother and Robert his Nephew came to their untimely ends in the same place so dangerous it is to prove Abaddons especially in consecrated things A Colliars Cart that removes him thence brake in the way and left him in the dirt whence he was after taken and buried as a King in Winchester dying without issue his Scepter descended to his brother 3. A.C. 1100 HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark for his Learning He was wont to say that an unlearned King was a Crowned Asse 1. Great stirres he had with his brother Robert who returning from Ierusalem where he was made King to possesse England but missed of it and at length lost Normandy togither with his eyes by his unnaturall brother 2. He Married Maud King Malcolmes daughter of Scotland by her Mother Margaret lineally descended from Edmund Ironside to strengthen his title to the Kingdome 3. As his predecessors did so he stoutly denyes the Popes incroachings Curbs Anselme that continued Romes agent establisheth the Lawes of Edward the Confessor Holinshed and addes other convenient of his owne 4. A.C. 1114 He is said to have held the first Parliament which he ordained should consist of Three Estates of which himself was the Head Martin A great Bickering began in his time between Canterbury and Yorke for priority which continued a long time after till Canterbury carried it And Cardinall Cremensis the Popes Legate sent hither to interdict Priests Marriages was taken in the Act with a common strumpet which he excused in saying he was no Priest himselfe but a corrector of them 5. The drowning of his sonne William with diverse other Nobles was repaired in some sort by the Marriage of Maud his Daughter first with Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany and he dying without Issue next with Jeffery Plantagenet Earle of Anjoy by whom she had Henry Fitz Empresse Heire apparant to the Crowne But his Grand-father dying unexpectedly by eating of Lampresse and he not upon the place 4. STEPHEN of Blois steps in A.C. 1135 sonne to Adeliza daughter to the Conquerour and holds it which was the cause of no small stirres and blood-shed especially it being against his Oath which he had taken with the Nobles for the Empresse Mauds succession and first brake it The Bishops excused it that it was for the good of the Church but Perjury promotes not Piety 2. Lesse he could not expect then continuall oppositions from the Empresse and her sonne Henry to recover their right wherein after various successe and windings on either side At the Battle of Liucolne notwithstanding his Herculian laying about him with his slaughtering Axe the King himselfe was taken Prisoner

his Vncle Laban and marryed both his Daughters blear-eyed Leah and faire Rachel 3. Thence after ●a●d service having gotten many Children and Goods he returnes unto Canaan and is reconciled by God's mercy in the way to his Brother Esau who came out with 400 men to doe him a Mischeife 4. After many Afflictions in Canaan by the deflowring his only Daughter Dinah by the murthering thereupon of the Sichemites by his rash Sonnes Simeon and Levi by the untowardly matching of his Sonne Judah his Rachel's death in Child-birth and the like which the Scripture hath at large Through envy of his Brethren Joseph was sold into Egypt 5. where after much sorrow he was at length advanced to be cheife Governour and by that meanes preserved his Father and Brethren in a most dangerous time of Famine Gen. 46.27 6. Jacob and his Family of 70. persons repaire to Ioseph in Egypt where he provided plenteously for them in Goshen 7. Iacob broken with age after he had bestowed upon his Sonnes a Propheticall Blessing dyes in Egypt but was honourably translated thence by Ioseph and his retinue to be buried with his Fathers at Mackpelah in Canaan His third Sonne 3. LEVI Succeeds for the Preistly Dignity Of him besides Gen. 46. 1. Chron. 6. we have nothing singular As also of his Sonne 4. COHATH who descended with his Grand-father and Father into Egypt where he begat 5. AMRAM in whose time the persecution was hot through the cruell Law of Pharaoh Amenophis for slaying all the Male-Children Exod. 1.16 as soone as they were borne He marryed Jacobed Exod. 2.1 a Daughter of Levi and had by her first a Daughter whom he called Miriam from the bitter Affliction which they suffered then a Sonue Aaron who afterward was the first solemnely consecrated High-Preist of the Israelites Then 6. MOSES of whose miraculous preservation and Education in Pharaoh Chenchres Court. 2. flying from thence and soiourning with Jethro in Midian and marrying Zipporah Iethros Daughter 3. Returning thence by God's Especiall Commission and negotiating with Pharaoh for the Deliverance of his Brethren which at last was accomplished after Tenne Plagues upon Egypt and Pharaohs drowning 4. Troubles in the Wildernesse 5. receiving the Law in Horeb. A.M. 2460 Aprilis 15. 6. setling Church Discipline 7. Victories over Arad Amaleck Sehon and Og in his passage toward Canaan Death in Mount Nebo with all circumstances the Scripture is most copious By the Bye we read of him in other Authors that his foster Mother was the Princesse Thermutis Bitia o● Zerris Pharaohs daughter 2. Iacobus Iustus in the notes to his Map of the Holy Land That Balaam Iob and Iethro were at that time Pharaohs Counsellors who when the child trampled Pharaohs Crowne under his feete Balaam said it presaged destruction to the State Iob would have nothing determined against him but Iethro said it was but a childish trick and therefore not to be regarded Whence those 3. sped afterward accordingly Balaam was slaine Job afflicted and Iethro made happy by Moses affinity 4. The Iewes say he begd done playday in the weeke for his Countreymen and that fell out by miracle to be the Iewish Sabbaoth 5. Iosephus shewes how he overthrew the King of Aethiopia and married his daughter Tharbis Antiqui● l. 3. c. 9. that fell in love with him 6. Lyra hath from a Rabbyn the combate he had with Og the Gyant of Basan but these things are Apocrypha 7. The Pentateuch we have of his which may claime the Title de Originibus above all other writings being the first extant of uncontrouleable certainty some say Ioseph other that Moses was the same with Mercurius Trismegistus of the Aegyptians he is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the fragment we have of Orpheus In Hymno which agrees well with his name drawne out of the waters Scalig. 2. COntemporary with this period besides the obscure Kings of the Assyrian Monarchy mentioned by Africanus Eusebius the forger Annius Viterbiensis and others fall in 1. the foundation of the Druides repaired unto for determining of all controversies amongst the Celts 2. The great floods of Ogyges Aventine Picardus de Celtopaedia And 248 years after that other in the time of Deucaleon which almost drowned Greece 3. Prometheus and Atlas his brother the ancient starre-gazers 4. Iannes and Iambres with Balaam the great Magicians 5. Cecrops of Athens Plinius Nar. Hist l. 7. c. 5. 6. from whom we have Phaeton that set the world on fire 6. Bacchus and Apis or Serapis the Idoll of the Aegyptians 7. The story of Iob whom some think to have been the same with Iobab Gen. 36.33 of the line of Esau vid. Torneel Bellarm. Inquiries 3. Whether 1. The sale of Esau's Birth-right were legall he having it not in possession 2. A blessing gotten by circumvention and lying be fit for imitation 3. Iacobs marrying of two sisters and using their Maidens for Concubines may be excused 4. There be any certainty in the art of Ouerocritiques or divination by Dreams 5. Pharaohs Magitians did true miracles 6. Moses Aethiopian expedition may passe for trueth 7. Balaam had his Prophesies from God or his Asse understood what he spake CAP. IV. Of Judges 1. THe 4th distance is extended from the departing of the Israelites from Aegypt to the building of Solomons Temple for the space of 480 yeares 1. Kings 6.1 2. In it are two Dynasties 1. Iudges 2. Kings That of Judges followeth in this Line 1. IOSUA the Conquerour who by the overthrow of one and thirty Kings setled the Israelites in the promised Land and divided it amongst them according to their Tribes with Eleazar the high Priest Araons successor 2. He is thought to have written the last chapter of Deuteronomy and his own acts containing the space of fourteene years Seaven spent in the conquest wherein diverse of the Canaanites fled for feare and setled themselves in Africke which is gathered by a Pillar mentioned by Procopius that expressed so much as also by the Harmony of the punick dialect with the Hebrew as appears by the fragment of Gibberish by Plautus in Paenulo and diverse words in S. Augustine And the other seaven in the division of the Land 3. Iosh 2●● With Eleazarus the high Priest he held the first Councell in Sichem for abolishing strange worship and burying Iosephs bones 4. He setled the Tabernacle in Shiloh where it rested 369. years till Eli's time dyes honourably being a type of Christ whose name Iesus he carried to him succeeds 2. OTHONIEL who after they of Iudah and the Simeonites had cut off Adonibezeks thumbes Judges 1. and great toes as he had served 70. other Kings led the Israelites against Cushan●rishathaim King of Mesopotamia Ib. 3. whom he overthrew and setled peace amongst his Countreymen till his dying day His successor was 3. EHUD Ib. that slew Eglon with his Left-hand dagger by a stratagem and so

Winchester and of the 24 seats thereof amongst the Welsh Lancelot du Lake Tristram and Gawen are named for his chiefest Knights and these names at this day are commonly given in Baptisme amongst us whereupon most conclude with Ieffry of Monmoth and Leland that there was such a valiant man against Newbrigensis and Pollidore that question it but all except against the Monkish fictions that are put upon him 2. King Henry the second upon bearing of a Welsh Bard chanting his Acts and death with his interring at Glassenbury sent to search the place where his corps were found with his faire Queene Guenevers the Brittish Helena's as her name imports In a Battle with his Cosen Mordred who laid a claime to the Kingdome at Commelford in Cornewall he received his deaths wound but slew outright the Rebell Duke Cadors sonne of Cornewall 6. A.Ch. 543 CONSTANTINE the third succeeds him who after diverse bickerings with Mordreds sonnes that stood for their right at length flew them both having taken sanctuary whereof Gyldas pittifully complaineth But himselfe soon found the like measure by a Nephew of Arthur's 7. A.Ch. 546 AUREZIUS Conanus a man sufficiently valiant and liberall but hearkning too much to Sycophants and embrewing his hands in the blood of his kindred he became soon odious and left his place to his sonne 8. An. C. 548 VORTIPORUS He valiantly withstood the intrusions of the Saxons yet Gildas declaimes against him also as a Tyrant and a dissolute libertine which made way the easier for the Nephew of Aurelius Conanus 9. An. C. 552 MALGO a Duke of Britaine He was a most personable man and therewithall a hardy King Yet his Imperfections were so notorious that he could not escape Gilda's lash who termes him a Tawny Butcher a Beare a contemner of Religion and an oppressor of the Clergy words unfit for a Clergy man to give or a King to beare some say that thereupon out of remorse of Conscience he betook himselfe to a Monastery but quickly threw off his cowle againe and ended his life in such desperate courses One worse then himselfe 10. CARETICUS is put into his place An. C. 586 This the Saxous soon espied and finding the dislike between him and his Subjects which he delighted in rather then appeased They aime at a Conquest of the whole Land and get Gurmundus an Arch Pyrate of Norway others say a King of the Africans then being in Ireland to assist them in it 2. He comes with all his Forces The King flies to Chichester the befiedgers by a stratagem of tying fire to Sparrowes ang so leting them flye into the Towne amongst Thatched houses and dry straw quickly fired it Careticus escapes into Wales which was with Cornewall the chiefe hold left for the poore Britaines Saxons then roame up and downe at pleasure and as some say called the whole Country Hengistland which now we call England 3. After 24 years of this streightning of the Britaines 11. An. C. 613 CADWAN Duke of North-wales becomes Governour of his Country Austine the Monke had before arrived amongst the Saxons sent by Pope Gregory and converted many of them to Christianity but carrying himselfe too high at a meeting with the British Bishops at a place thereupon called Austines Oake in Worcester shire no agreement was made between them not long after a Massacre was executed upon the harmelesse Monkes of Bangor wherein 2000 were slaine som say not without Austins instigation by wild Ethelfrid the Pagan King of Northumberland 2. This barbarous cruelty Gadwan leads his Forces to revenge but the matter by mediation was so composed betwixt them that they ever after continued friends untill his dying day to whom succeeded his sonne 12. CADWALLO An. C. 635 He joyning with Penda King of Mercia killed Edwin King of Northumberland with his sonne Osfride in the Battle at Hethfeild for which he it bitterly taxed by Beda but Beda being a Saxon is observed not to speake the best of the Britaines and soothed by the Romane Faction of Austins breed accounted the dissenting Britaines though better Christians then themselves little better then Pagans 2. Others acquit Cadwallo for a Noble Prince and a great defendor of his Country and scourge of their adversaries His sonne 13. An. C. 683 CADWALLADER proved not so successefull Notwithstanding at the beginning he had the better of those Saxons that opposed 1. In a great famine that fell upon all his territories he was forced with his Nobles to forsake his Country and sojourne with his Cosen Alan King of Little Britaine 2. In the interim his Pined Subjects were oppressed by the Saxons He about by his returne to relieve them is diverted by a Dreame some make it the appearance of an Angell and so goes to Rome on Pilgrimage there turnes Monke dyes and is there buried Where interred was with him the last of the Brittish Monarches Such an influence had Dreams and fancied apparitions and forged Sawes and the like delusions upon suspicious dispositions 2. WIth this last Distance or Ranke in the British Dynasty Contemporize 1. The Sourse of Mahumatisme by the Alcaron in the East 2. The Propagation of Papall Pompe and Superstition in the West betwixt which it was no marvaile if 3. Paganisme also tyrannized being conceited as senior to both as here it did by the barbarou Saxons upon the Poore Wasted and forsaken Britaines INQVIRES 3. Whether 1. Vortiger with Rowan his Saxon wife were consumed with wild fire from his besiegers or with Lightning from Heaven 2. The Rocks of Stone-heng were brought thither out of Ireland by Merlins Inchantments or Vter-Pendragons forces 3. Igren the Dutches of Cornewall could be so deluded without some connivence of her own as to mistake Vter-Pendragon in stead of her Husband 4. The story of Arthur be for the most part fabulous 5. That Pattent be undoubtedly from him that is alleadged to justify the Antiquity of the Vniversity of Cambridge 6. Austine the Monke arriving for the Saxons conversion to Christianity might not be suspected to have had a finger in the Massacre of the 2000 Monkes of Bangor 7. Cadwallador may be excused that forsook his distressed Country to become a Monke Saxon Heptarchie DINASTY II. 1. THE Dynasties of the Britaine 's having been exhibited in the former seaven Parcells The second of the Saxons succeeds and expires at the beginning of the Danish Government 2. It usually is divided into the Saxon 1. Heptarchy 2. Monarchy 3. The Heptarchy is intricated with diverse bickerings and Changes that puzzell the Memory and may be so farre only touched upon as they preface to the Monarchy which brings us to our direct discending line againe 4. In it are reckoned these seven petty Kingdomes 1. KENT 2. SUSSEX 3. EAST-SAX 4. EAST-ANGLES 5. MERCIA 6. NORTHUMBERLAND 7. WEST-SAX Of all which some particulars only may be pickt out which are most remarkable In KENT with Hengist the first invador seventeene or eighteene are said to Raigne An. C.