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A07894	A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, from the creation of the world, to this instant· Containing, the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers, before and after the Floude, as also, of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kingdomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments, in most nations of this worlde: and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1611 (1611)	STC 18263; ESTC S112963	308,814	636

because they were the first that forsooke their owne natiue Countrey which was called Gothia or Gothland signifying a good Land it béeing a Northerne Prouince of Germanie This Land abounded in Graine Fruites Cattle Woodes Riuers Mettals but especially in Copper and Skinnes seruing for Furres At all times and as yet at this day is to be discerned the Kingdom of Swessia or Sweuia hath bin comprized vnder the Dominion of the Gothes As the Countrey was fertile in fruites euen so were the Women thereof likewise in Children for as they were strong and of great stature so had they vsually two Children at a birth which was the cause then and so it yet continueth that they had and haue more people then can wel liue together the Country not being sufficient to find sustenance for so many In like manner they are very great féeders much more then they that liue in the Easterne or Meridionall partes The Gothes perceiuing and aduisedly pondering on this vrgent case they leuied the more part of the youngest and strongest men of their Countrey to the number of thrée hundred thousand and married such as were not to ridde themselues of the charge of Daughters as well as of Sonnes for the Countrey ordinarily abounded in the Feminine more then in the Masculine Sexe So being well prouided of all necessaries for warre and leauing a chiefe commander at home of the Royal linage they wandred abroad through the fields to win by power or compasse by loue some new habitation wherein to liue Many Authors and among the rest Trebellius sayth that the first tidings of this their straiing was vnder the raigne of the Emperour Flauius Claudius about the yeare of Iesus Christ 272. And that they passed thorough Allemaign Hungary Thrace Greece Gaule and into Italy They lost many battailes and wonne likewise as many against the Romaines and other people maintaining themselues so well that they raigned in Italie euen in despight of the Italians and Emperours the space of seauentie one yeares as Procopius auoucheth At length they went into Spaine whence afterward they would not remooue For the Catholique Kinges of Spaine that then raigned by succession and raigne yet to this present were issued from the race and line of their Kinges who were indéed very generous people Now it is not to bee imagined that in regard of such a mightie leuy of men the Countrey of Gothia or Gothland or the neighbouring borders remained without Inhabitants or the rule of Kinges For there were then left behinde so many as the Land was able to nourish who had their Kinges in authority ouer them and strength sufficient to withstand any inuasion of the Countrey As for the conquering Armyes abroad they continued in Honour for a very long time albeit they lost great store of men in battailes encounters surprisals and passages of Riuers yet were these disaduantages still supplied by the daily birth of Children among them because they had their wiues in all places with them Perhaps some strangers mingled among thē who wearing their habits learning their language holp still to supply the fri● of this people Such as haue bin named Ostrogoths were people issued of the same country of Gothia or Gotteland frō a place which is yet cald Ostrogothia the principall Citties whereof are Sche●ng and Lincopt They vsed to warre alone by themselues being separate from the Goths yet ranging the world according as they did The Westrogothes in like manner came out of a Country cald Westrogothia among whom the chéefest Citties to this day are Scaris and Vernen Wisigoths or Bisigoths came foorth of a Countrey named Visbi the principall Cittie whereof i● yet called Visbi I was the more willing to make this discription because I haue heard of diuers who are but slenderly experienced in Cosmography that do tearme those Ostro●goths to bee Gothes Orientall or of the East and the Westrogoths Occidentall Gothes or dwelling in the West and so contrarywise of the other Albeit they were all descended and came out of the kingdome of Gothia or Gotteland as Munster hath very well obserued The Vandales in the erronious iudgement of Procopius a Gréeke Authour are said to bée of the same Nation and that all the people of Goths Vandales Alains Hunnes and others whom I am hereafter to describe were deriued out of one and the same Land and were comprehended all vnder the Name of Sauromates or Sarmates and haue no other difference but by the names of their Captaines or Kinges But I must maintaine against him that the land of the Vandales is distant from Gotheland aboue the space of two hundered leagues and therefore they cannot bee one people with the Gothes True it is that this Nation is Septentrionall or in the North as the others are and is a Maritime Countrey named yet to this day Vandalia but as I haue already saide very farre off the one from the other This people did almost as much hurt to the Romaine Empire as the Gothes did for ioyning diuers other people with them as the Alaines Suabes Franconians they trauerssed the Rheine Gauderichus béeing then their King and passing among the Gaules wasted and spoyled them very greatlie Then went they into Spaine and tooke possession in despight of the Gothes of the Countrey adioyning to the Kingdome of Granado which to this day is called Vandalia or by corrupting the Worlde Vandelusia albeit the Spanyards mince it more nicely and nick-name it to be Andalusia But to bee bréefe they were thrust foorth of Spayne wholly in the yeare 431. vnder another of their Kings named Gensericus and passed thence into Asia where they raigned 76. years From thence they were compelled in the seauenth yeare of the Emperor Iustinian Anno Dom. 528. by the valour of one of his Captaines named Belisarius The Hunnes departed also out of their Countrey for the selfe-same cause as the Gothes did about the yeare one hundred sixty eyght onely to séeke some Land where they might liue after the Scythians Religion making first choyce of Pannonia where they alwayes so strongly kept and guarded it till after their owne name it was called Hungaria This people came from that part of Scythia which is tearmed Hunos no long distance from the Riuer Tanais but it is a miserable estate at this day and vnder subiection of the Moscouite Hauing vsurped Pannonia they kept it manfully against the Romaines and two hundred yeares after Attila theyr King accompanied with some people of Allemaigne as Bohemians Gepides or Girpides Schlesites Werlies Thuringians Goths Ostrogothes and others making in all about the number of sixe hundred thousand men passed through Allemaigne which they much endamaged Then went he into France where hee lost a battaile in which perished a great number of his men this battel was giuen him by the Romans Gaules and certaine Goths allied together and he lost as some Authors

doe affirme aboue two hundred thousand men At length he iournyed into Italy which he well-néere vt●erly ruined and retiring afterward into his owne Countrey of Hungary he died within fewe following moneths and on the day of his nuptials which was in the yeare of Iesus Christ 443. The Lombards were a Northerne people decended out of Denmarke as Eusebius maintaineth and no other reason had they to leaue their Countrey but onely a desire to win some other There happened in the time of Seno or Sweno as some call him King of Denmark a very great dearth or scarsity in the Land of victuals and because the people endured it very impatiently it was concluded by the King and his Councell to ease the Countrey of so many men as were ready to famish that all such persons as were vnable either for war or labor of the ground should be slaine whether they were old or young But this seuere Edict being reuoked they then resolued to make a leuy of all sorts of people that by the help of armes might trauaile to find out some other dwelling so to disburthen the charge of the Countrey This being put in execution they trauailed so far and carried themselues so couragiously in trauersing diuers lands that they came at last into Italy and there conquered the Countrey which was called Istria making themselues absolute Maisters thereof Now because these people were long and tall of stature the Italians and Istrians called them long Barbarians which by corruption of the word and succession of times made them tearmed Longbards or Lombardes Some are of opinion that vnder the raign of Valentinian the Emperor they began to make thēselues first knowne which was about the yeare of Christ 385. and that they became commaunders in Istria in the yeare 570. Likewise according to Diaconus the Emperours made peace with them in the yeare 730. and euer since they haue held that Country which at this day is named Lombardy Let it here be further noted that where in any History mention is made of people tearmed Daces or Danians the Nation of Denmarke is thereby vnderstood out of which countrey many great Armies haue trauailed at sundry times and haue mightily troubled diuers kingdomes among which they continued long time in England but were thence expelled about the yeare 860. The Normanes were people of Norduegia or otherwise called Normania or Norwey a Countrey in the North being much addicted to crueltie and inhumanitie because they vsed many great Piracies on the Sea An hundred and fifty thousand men of this Nation bestowed themselues in vessels on the Sea and took possession of that part of Gaule or Fraunce which was then tearmed Neustria now Normandie which was doone in the yeare of Iesus Christ 600. others saie 884. and in the time of Charles le Gros. But bée it howsoeuer they haue since then kept it against all encounters of the Emperours Kings of France and England preseruing it still by the Name of Normandy and themselues reckoned to bee people of vndaunted courage There are diuers others that doe sauour of this their first originall and doe yet proule vppon the Seas committing many cruell Robberies The Nation which we call Swesses Zuitzers or Sweues who at this daie are auxiliarie to the French came out of Sweuia or Sweueland a Northerly Region like vnto the other They likewise by the dearth of food among them departed forth of their Countrey about the yeare of Grace 800. and went so farre as the Rhine which they would haue passed but were hindered therein by the Franconians Thence went they to the Land of the Heluetians who dispising the Suessians because they were poorely and wretchedly apparelled rude in their féeding and not looking like souldiers suffered them to wander about their Countrey At length perceiuing the kinde sufferaunce of the Heluetians they sought to abide in a certaine Canton of their Land Which when the Heluetians noted they demaunded of them to what ende they thus wandered about the World They answered that they were poore people and sought but to weare out their liues in trauaile by deluing or labouring in the Earth And séeing that there was wast Ground in those partes vnlaboured or any vse made of it béeing Hilles and Vallies enuironed with Lakes they desired the Heluetians to permit them to woorke in those rough Fieldes as yet not cultiue and they should receiue the benefit thereof onely allowing them but nourishment for their pains This was all that they séemed to pretend iustifying their requests with solemne oathes and protestations Theyr desire was graunted and not long after the Countrey wherein they liued was not onely called Suesia in regarde of the Swesians there dwelling but likewise the ancient Inhabitants had the same name giuen then and yet the country is very hilly and vnapt for Ryding Howe afterward it came to be called the Lande of Cantons or Leagues shall at large be shewne in our Generall history Iustinian and other Emperors both before after him entitled themselues Lordes of the Allemaignes for hauing receiued some victories ouer the Allemaignes But this may not be said as some doo that those victories were obtayned against the Germaines For euen at this daye when we speake or write of Allemaigne therein is comprehended all the Nations which are contained throughout Germany and that do speake the Language of the Tentones But as for Allemaigne or Almaines the Romains neuer vnderstood or meant any other people then those of Suaba And to speake vprightly they haue euer bin the true and ancient Allemaines as Cornelius Tacitus plainely confirmeth Drusus Nero was the first that styled himselfe Germanicus for hauing rather angered the Germaines then foyled them as diuers other Emperours afterward did Moreouer by Germany is to be vnderstood nine and forty great Prouinces as well of the lower part as the higher part of the sayde Germany comprizing the Countrey of the Suisses and Heluetians Now concerning the Alaines or Alans many haue supposed them to be a people of Germanie But therein they were and are deceiued for Ptolomy knew them whom he placeth in a parte of Scythia Capitolinus bestowes them in Dacia Marcelinus Plinie Dionisius the Poet giues them a being in Sarmatia of Europe Iosephus in his last Booke affirmes their aboade to bee betwéene the Riuer Tanais and the Palus Moeotides And saith moreouer that in his time the Alaines or Alanes accompanied with the Hyrcanians both robbed and spoyled all the Region of the Medes As for my selfe by that which I haue gathered from such as haue written on the actions of the Gothes I am perswaded that those Alaines were theyr companions and that oftentimes in their warres for their owne aduantage they sundered them-selues from them as one while they did with the Vandales But questionlesse their discent was from Scythia according to Ptolomies affirmation If we shall speake of the Gepides Girpedes

one Moneth vacante eight daies Then was Manes head of the Manichean Heretiques 29 Caius the son of Caius borne at Salona in Dalmatia martyred vnder Carinus Numerianus Dioclesian and Maximianus Emperors He held the See eleuen yeares foure Moneths xij daies vacante eleuen daies 30 Marcellinus a Romaine son to Proiectus martyred vnder Dioclesian and Maximianus He held the See six yeares two moneths xvi daies Vacante seauen yeares seuen moneths and xxv daies Then was the tenth and bloudy Persecution And a Synode holden at Sinüessa for the cause of Pope Marcellinus The third Age. 3 In this third Age flourished Origen Minutius Foelix S Cyprian S. Gregory cald the worker of myracles Dionisius bishop of Alexandria Victorinus Bishop of Poicters Arnobius and S. Methodius Byshop of Tyre In this age were fiue persecutions The first vnder Maximinus the second vnder Decius the third vnder Valerianus and Gallien the fourth vnder Aureliauus and the fift vnder Dioclesian 31. Marcellus a Romaine the Sonne of Bennet or Benedict Priest Cardinall of the Romaine Church vnder Constantine Hee helde the Sée six yeares fiue months thrée dayes vacante xx dayes 32 Euscbius a Greeke sonne to a Physitian vnder Constantine He held the Sée four yeares one month thrée daies Vacante thrée dayes 33 Miltiades or Melchiades an Affricane Cardinall Priest of the Romaine Church vnder Constantine He held the Sée foure yeares seauen months nine dayes vacante xx daies Then was the Schisme of the Donatists in Affrica the Elibertine Synod in Spaine the Synod of Rome and of Carthage 34. Syluester a Romaine sonne to Ruffinus Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine Hee helde the Sée three and twenty yeares ten months eleuen dayes vacante fifteene dayes Then were the Synodes of Ancyra and Neocaesaria The generall Counsell of Nice wherein Arrius was condemned and the third Sinod holden at Rome 35 Marcus a Romaine the sonne of Priscus Cardinall Deacon vnder Constantine hee helde the Sée two yeares eight months twenty daies vacante twenty daies 36 Iulius a Romaine sonne of Rusticius Cardinall Deacon vnder Constantine and his children Hee helde the Sée fiftéene yeares two moneths ten dayes Vacante two dayes Then wer the Asterians Anthropomorphites Eusebians Macedonians Dulians Luciferians and Marcellian Heretiques with Photinus Acacius and Aerius The Synodes of Rome Cullen Sardis Ierusalem and Alexandria 37 Liberius a Romaine the son of Augustus a Cardinall Deacon was sent into exile vnder Constance He held the Sée twelue yeares thrée moneths foure daies Vacante sixe daies Then was the persecution of the church by the Arrians and second Schisme betwéene Liberius and Foelix 38 Foelix the second a Romaine and Son of Anastasius a Cardinall Deacon was created Pope in the life time of Liberius vnder Constance and martired by the faction of the Arrians He held the Sée one yeare four months two daies 39 Damasus a Portuguize sonne of Antonio Cardinall Deacon vnder Valentinian Valens Gratian Theodosius and Arcadius He helde the Sée tenne yeares thrée monethes eleuen daies Vacante xi dayes The third Schisme betwéene Damasus and Vrsicinus then happened and Synods were held at Rome in Spaine and at Valentia in France As also the Euuomina Entichian Priscillianists Apollonarian and Messalian Heretickes A generall Counsell at Constantinople against Macedonius 40 Siricius a Romaine son of Tiburtius Cardinall Deacon vnder Arcadius and Honorius He held the Sée fifteene yeares eleuen months fiue and twenty daies vacante xx daies Some Synods were then held at Carthage Heluidius Dorotheus and Vigilantius heretickes were then The fourth age IN this fourth Age liued Lactantius Eusebius of Caesaria S. Athanasius Iuvencus Sa. Hillarie Bishop of Poictiers Optatus Byshop of Maltha S. Basile S. Gregory Nazianzene S Ambrose S Hierom S Iohn Chrysostome S Epiphanius S Cyrill of Ierusalem and Martine Archbishoppe of Tours 41 Anastasius a Romaine sonne of Maximus Cardinal Priest vnder Honorius he held the Sée thrée yeares ten daies vacante xxi daies Then were the synodes of Cyprus and Tolledo 42 Innocentius a Natiue of Albania or Scotland sonne of Innocentius Cardinal Deacon vnder Honorius he held the Sée fifteen yeares two months fiue twenty daies vacante xxij daies The hereticks then were Arcadius Theodosius and Pelagius 43 Zosimus of Cappadocia sonne of Abraham Cardinall Priest vnder Theodosyus the younger he held the Sée one year iij. months xii daies vaca xi daies Then was the sixt synod of Carthage 44 Bonifacius a Roman Son of Iocundus Cardinall-Priest vnder Theodosius he held the Sée thrée yeares eight months ij dayes vacante nine daies The Schisme of Eulalius Anty-Pope 45 Celestine a Romaine Sonne of Priscus Cardinall-Deacon he held the Sée eight years ten months seauentéen daies vacante 21. daies Then was the generall Councell of Ephesus against Nestorius vnder Theodosius 46 Sixtus the third a Romaine and Son of Sixtus Cardinall-Priest vnder Valentinian hee held the Sée 8. yeares eighteene daies 47 Leo the Great a Romaine sonne of Quinctian Cardinall Arch-deacon vnder Theodosius he held the sée one yeare one month 13. daies vacante 8. daies Then was the generall Councell of Chalcedon against Dioscorus and Eutichus 48 Hillarius borne in Sardignia son of Crispinus Cardinall-deacon vnder the Empire of Leo. He held the Sée 7. yeares three months ten daies vacante ten daies 49 Simplicius a Natiue of Tiuoli sonne of Castinus or Castorius vnder Leo he held the see fifteene yeares one month seauen daies vacante 26. daies 50 Felix the third and younger a Romaine son of Felix a Priest Cardinall vnder Zeno. He held the see sixe yeares eleauen monthes seauentéene daies v●cante fiue daies 51 Gelasius an Affricane sonne of Valuerus Bisoppe vnder the Empire of Anastasius hee held the See fiue yeares eyght months seauenteene daies vacante seauen daies 52 Anaestasius the second a Romaine sonne of Peter vnder Anastasius He held the see 1. yeare ten monthes twenty foure daies vacante foure daies The fift Age. IN this fift age liued Saint Augustine Orosius Cassianus Eucherius of Lyons Cyrillus Alexandrinus Vicentius Lyrinensis Socrates Sozomenes Theodoret Prosper Petrus Chrysologus Saluianus Byshop of Marseillis Sidonius Apollinaris Gennadius Petrus Diaconus Boetius and many others 53 Symmachas a Natiue of Sardignia Sonne of Fortunius vnder Anastasius he held the See fifteene yeares sixe months twenty two dayes vacante seauen daies Then was the fift schisme between Symmachus and Laurentius who afterward was Byshop of Nocera 54 Hormisda borne in Terra di Lauoro or the Land of Labour Sonne of Iustus vnder Anastasius and Iustine hee helde the see nine yeares eighteene dayes vacante six daies The Synods of Geronda of Caesar-Augustus and of Constantinople 55 Iohn a Natiue of Tuscane Sonne of Constantius Cardinall-Priest vnder Iustine Hee dyed in Prison at Rauenna hauing then bin taken by Theodoric king of the Goths he held the See two yeares eight months eight twenty daies vacante one month 56 Foelix

Haicinthus Bobo sonne of Peter Cardinal Deacon vnder Henry the sixt he held the See six yeares seauen months eleuen daies The twelfth Age. IN this twelfth Age liued Sigebert Zonarus Cedrenus Rupertus Sa. Bernard Hugo de S. Victor Peter Lombard Peter Comestor Euthimius Nicetas Coniates and diuers others 183 Innocentins the third of Anagnia called Lotharius one of the Counts of Signia sonne of Transimund Cardinal Deacon vnder Henry the sixt Otho the fourth and Fredericke the seconde Emperors he held the See eighteen yeares vij months sixtéene daies vacante one day The 4. generall counsell of Laterane for reformation of the church where a thousand Prelates were present 184 Honorius the third a Romaine called Cen●ius Sabellus sonne of Amerie Cardinal Deacon Chamberlaine of the church and afterward Cardinall Priest vnder Fredericke the second he held the Sée ten yeares seauen moneths thirtéene daies vacante one day 185 Gregory the ninth of Anagnia called Hugolin one of the Counts of Signia of a Cardinal Deacon he was made cardinall Byshop of Ostia vnder Fredericke the second he held the see fourteene yeares three months vacante one month one day 186 Celestine the fourth a Milanois cald Gaulfridus Castellio of Cardinall-Priest was made Byshop of Sabina vnder Frederick 2. He held the see eighteene daies vacante one yeare nine moneths 187 Innocentius the fourth borne in Genewaie called Sinibaldus de Fiesca a Count of Lauinum sonne of Otho Vice-chancellor was made Cardinall-Priest vnder Fredericke the seconde Conrade the fourth Henry the fourth William Emperors He held the Sée xi yeares six months xii daies Vacante three daies The generall counsell of Lyons vnder Frederick the second 188 Alexander the fourth of Auagnia called Rainald one of the Counts of Signia sonne of Girard Retraent otherwise called Phillip of Cardinall-deacon was made bishop of Ostia Deane of the Cardinal Bishops vnder William Richard and Alphonsus He held the Sée-sixe yeares fiue monthes fiue daies vacante three months four daies 189 Vrbane the fourth a French-man of Troy in Champaigne called Iacques Pantaleon Patriarcke of Ierusalem vnder Richard and Alphonsus he held the See three yeares one month 4. daies vacante fiue monthes 190 Frances by some called Clement of Narbona called also Guy the Grosse sonne of Fulcodius Arch-byshop of Narbona and cardinall Bishop of Sabina vnder Richard and Alphonsus he held the see fiue yeares xxi daies vacante two yeares nine months 191 Gregory the tenth of Placentia called Theobald Vicount Arch-byshoppe of Leige vnder Rodolphus He held the Sée foure yeares two moneths ten daies Vacante nine daies The second general Counsel of Lyons for recouery of the Holy Land 192 Innocentius the fift a Burgundian called F. Peter of Tarentase of the Order of the preaching Fryers of Arch-byshoppe of Lyons he was made Byshop Cardinall of Ostia and great Penetentiarie vnder Rodolphus He held the See six months two daies Vacante nine daies 193 Adrian the fift of Genes called Othobon one of the Counts of Lauinum sonne of Thedisius Brother to Pope Innocent the fourth Cardinal Deacon vnder Rodolphus Hee held the Sée one month nine daies vacante eight and twenty daies 194 Iohn the one and twentith a Portugais of Lisbone called M. Iohn Peter Iuliani byshop Cardinall of Tusculanum vnder Rodolphus He held the see eight months vacante sixe moneths seauen daies 195 Nicholas the third a Roman called Iohn Caietane de Vrsini Cardinall Deacon vnder Rodolphus he held the Sée three yeares eight moneths fifteene daies vacante fiue moneths xx dayes 196 Martine the fourth borne in Tours called Simon de Brie Cardinall Priest vnder Rodolphus hee helde the See foure yeares one month vacante thrée daies 197 Honorius the fourth a Romaine called Giacomo Sabella sonne of Luke first Cardinall Deacon vnder Rodolphus He held the See two yeares one day vacante ten months 198 Nicholas the fourth a Natiue of Asculum called F. Hierom a generall Minister of the Friars Minors he was made Cardinall Priest afterward the Praenestine Byshop vnder Rodolphus and Adolphus He held the See foure years one month eight daies vacante two yeares 3. moneths two daies 199 Celestine the fift borne in Isernia called F. Peter de Morone sonne of Anglerius vnder Adolphus he voluntarily forsooke the Popedom and was the beginner of the Celestines order he held the Sée fiue months seauen dayes vacante ten daies 200 Boniface the eight of Anagnia called Bennet Caietane Sonne of Luitfroy who was borne in Spaine Cardinall Deacon afterward Cardinall Priest vnder Adolphus and Albertus Hee instituted the Iubilée of an hundred yeares and did first celebrate it in the yeare 1300. He held the see viii years nine months seuenteen daies vacante t●n daies The thirteenth Age. IN this thirtéenth Age liued S. Fraunces S. Dominicke Albertus Magnus Mathew Paris Thomas Aquinas S. Bonauenture C●basilas Henry of Segusium Cardinall of Ostia Nicholas de Lyra Accursius and others 201 Bennet the eleauenth a Treuisane called F. Nicholas Bocasino of Generall Minister of the Preachers Order was made Cardinall Priest and afterward Byshop of Ostia vnder the Emperor Albertus He held the See eyght moneths seauenteene dayes vacante one yeare one month 202 Clement the fift a French-man in Gascoigne of Burdeaux called Raymond Goth son of Bertrand of Byshop of Cominges he became Arch-Bishop of Burdeaux vnder Albertus and Henry the seauenth he held the See eight years ten months fifteene dayes vacante two yeares thrée months seauenteene dayes The generall Counsell of Vienna in France for reformation of the Church 203 Iohn the xxij a Frenchman of Cahors called Iacques d'Ossa Sonne of Amauldo Cardinall Bishop of Portua vnder Lewes the fourth of Bauaria he held the Sée ninetéene years four months vacante sixtéene daies The ●8 ●chism betwéene him and Nicholas the fift 204 Bennet the xij a Frenchman of Tolosa called F. Iacques Forneen de Sauardu● a Cisteaux Monke a Diuine Byshoppe of Mirepoix and Cardinall-Prieste vnder Lewes the fourth He helde the Sée seauen yeares three monethes seauentéene dayes vacante fiftéen dayes 205 Clement the sixt a French-man borne in Lymosine called F. Peter Monstrie son of Roger Monke of Maumont a Diuine Abbot of Fescamp Arch-Byshop of Arles afterwarde of Sens and lastly of Rouen cardinal Priest vnder Lewes the fourth He celebrated the second Iubilee in the fiftith year 1350. And held the Sée eightéene yeares sixe moneths eightéene daies vacante ten daies 206 Innocent the sixt a French-man of Lymosine called Stephen d'Albert Bishoppe of Clermont cardinall Priest after made byshop of Ostia and great Penetentiary vnder Charls the fourth he held the See nine yeares eight moneths and sixe daies vacante one yeare fiue moneths 207 Vrbane the fift a French-man of Lymosine likewise called F. Guillaume de Grisac son of Grimauld Monke and Abbot of S. Victor de Marseillis vnder Charles the fourth hee helde the Sée eleauen yeares eight months vacante

applause Hee dealt in such sort with Pope Iohn the 12. that the Churches of Grada was made Patriarchall and Metropolitane of all the Venitians State and of Istria Otho the Emperour granted him many honourable priuiledges Hée ruined Vderzo and was slaine with his Sonne in a sedition of the people hauing gouerned 20. yeares 23 Pietro Orseolo was a man altogether deuout and was elected by the people against his will He would very often walke in an vnknown habite to visite the Houses of poore people and Hospitalles Hee appeased the dissentions betwéen the Venitians and them of Capo d'Istria who yéelding themselues tributarie Hée went with Beato Romualdo of Rauenna to liue religiouslie Hée gouerned two yeares and two moneths dooing many woorthy and charitable déedes 24 Vitale Candiano Sonne of Peitro the third made the confederacy with the Emperour Otho He fell sicke so soone as hee entred vppon his charge wherfore he became a Monk hauing gouerned about a yeare 25 Tribuno Memo was very rich but no man of State In his time happened great dissentions betwéene the Families of Moresina and Caloprina by reason wherof many notorious murders were committed He took part with the Moresini which caused the other faction to withdraw themselues to Verona to the Emperour Otho He gaue the Isle of Saint Giorgio Maggiore to the Abbat of Moresini And renounced the Principality in his twelfth yeare entering into Religion 26 Pietro Orseolo the second being a verie discréete man ordered the matter so well with the Emperours Basilius and Alexius that the Venitians were exempted from Toules and taxations Otho the Emperour lying at Verona did highly fauour him and among other graces to hold one of his Sonnes at Baptisme He was the first that extended their Confines on the sea winning many places in Istria and Dalmatia Hauing caused the Church and Pallace to be finished in his time hee died the ●8 yeare of his Principality 27 Ottone Orseolo hauing gouerned some space with his Father Pietro was confirmed in the dignity at the age of eighteen years He won such reputation that Geta King of Hungaria gaue him one of his Sisters in marriage In person he conquered them of Istria who were become Rebels And went into Dalmatia in the enterprise against Cresmura At length the malicious enuiers of his glories deuised a conspiracy against him and hee was confined into Greece in the 17. yeare of his rule 28 Pietro Centranico or Barbolano succéeded next to Otho But hauing not well qualified all dissentions as well concerning the Cittizens remouing as the other neighbours he was compelled to forsake the dignitie and make himselfe a Monke Orso Brother of Otho returned from Constantinople being Patriarch of Grada and he was constituted in expectation of Othos comming He continued about a yeare in the pallace and forsooke the Principality newes béeing brought of Othos death Dominico Orseolo would then perforce vsurpe the Dignity but hée was expelled by the people the next morning and dyed at Rauenna 29 Dominico Flabanico was elected during his exile by the faction of them that had excluded Dominico Orsolo In his time and in the yeare 1040. the national Councel was held for gouernment of the Ecclesiasticks He made the Familie of Orseolo suspitious to the State by his owne meanes and laboured for their vtter supplantation He gouerned ten yeares foure months and twelue daies 30 Dominico Contarini was very pleasing to the people He brought Dalmatia to peace béeing heauily burdened with the rebellion of Zara. Hée fauored the Normans against Robert K. of Apulia And the discord which happened betwéene the Common-wealth and Pepo Patriarch of Aquileia was by him qualified Hee builded the Monastery on the Lido and died in his 28. yeare 31 Dominico Silino won himselfe such reputation that Nicephorus Emperor of Constantinople gaue him his sister in marriage by whose perswasion he made war vpon the forenamed K. Robert of Apulia and at the first attempt returned with a very honorable victory possesing himselfe of Duras But at his second aduenture he fought with small aduantage whereby ensued the diminution of his credit He pergetted the Church of S. Marke with Marble first and before any other causing it also to bee beautified with an artificiall Checquer-worke Hee died in the 13. yeare of his gouernment 32 Vitale Faliero beeing made Duke he immediatly obtained of Alexius then Emperor to haue the Soueraignety of Dalmatia and Croatia Henry successour in the Empire did him many great fauours and comming in deuotion to Venice hée held on of his Daughters at Baptisme The Office of Proprieties was constituted in his time and the workemanship of Saint Markes Church continued He died in his sixtéen yeare 33 Vitale Michele by his woorthy aduenturing on the Sea did very farre extend the Common-wealths limits Hée made the Easterne warre by perswasion of Pope Vrban the second for conquest of the holy Land with the Princes of Christendome The Isle of Smyrna Suria and Ierusalem were then recouered from the Infidels He died in his sixt yeare 34 Ordelafo Faliero Sonne of Vitale assisted King Baldwine against the Infidels in conquest of the Holy Land and made such progression as they deuided the Empire betwéene them thoroughout all the Kingdome of Iudea In the eight yeare of his Principality Malamocco was almost all burned and submerged by reason whereof the Episcopall Sée was transferred to Chioggia He went in person to the war against Zara which was become rebellious and winning the victory hee would néedes returne thither againe a second time and on the like occasion where he died in Armes in the 15. yeare of his principality 35 Dominico Michele being made Duke for his high repute and merit went to giue ayde to the Christians in the holy Land With 200. wel appointed ships and Gallies hee made the Infidels to raise their siedge from before Ioppa Hée took Tyre which he gaue to Vaumond Patriarch of Ierusalem Emanuell the Emperor made war against him from whom he won Chio Rhodes Samos Mitylline and Ister Hée renounced his Principality in the 13. yeare of his rule 36 Pietro Polani Kinsman to Michele was a very wise Man insomuch as hee was made Arbitratour of the difference betwéene Conrade and Emanuell the Emperour Hée made Warre against them of Pisa and Padua whom hée conquered He armed himselfe against the Duke of Apulia in behalfe of the said Emanuell to whose Empire he added many worthy possessions Some say it was his Sonne that won all the battailes and that himselfe being fallen sick returned thence and died in his eightéene yeare of rule 37 Dominico Moresini hée swept the Gulfe of certaine Pyrats of Ancona the chéefe whereof béeing called Guiscardo was taken and hanged He laide siedge to Pola which hée tooke with Parenzo which Citties were become rebellious in Istria Hee held confederacy with William King of Sicilie of whom hee obtained many exemptions for the Traffique of his Merchants Zara made the Metropolitane Cittie at his

euen in his Baptisme and all his successours at their Coronations haue in like manner béene sacred Clouis changed his former Coate of Armes taking thrée Golden Floure-de-luces in a fielde Azure where-with hée first warred vppon Gondebant King of Burgundy who was Vnckle to his Wife and discomfited the Vuisegothes before Poictiers hauing slaine with his owne hand Alaric theyr King and wonne from them the Countrey of Aquitaine so farre as the Pyrenean Mountaines and almost all Gaule and Allemaigne Héereuppon the Emperour Anastasius sent him a Crowne of Golde with th● Title and vesture of Patritius and Consull He made a choyse of Paris for his ordinarie abyding and commaunded it to bée the chéefe Cittie of his Kingdome where he dyed in Anno 514. béeing aged eyghty yeares And was buryed in the Church of S. Geneuiefue du mont de Paris which himselfe had founded in memory of Saint Peter and Saint Paul leauing four Sons and two daughters 6 Childebert succéeded his Father Clouis in the yeare fiue hundred fiftéene but not in the whole kingdome For he leauing foure Sonnes liuing it was deuided into foure partes among them and each one was King of his seuerall portion Childebert hadde for his part Paris where hée held his Seate royall with other dependaunces as Poictu Maine Touraine Champaigne Aniou Guienne and Auuergne Clothaire was King of Soissons Clodomire King of Orleaunce and Theodorick the Bastard béeing the eldest was King of Metz. They made Warre by the procurement of Clotilda their Mother on Sigismond King of Burgundy who was slaine with his Wife Child by Clodomire king of Orleaunce who likewise in another battaile was kild himselfe by Gondemar vnder a feigned pretence of friendshippe but for this in the end Burgundy was taken and destroied Clothaire assisted by Childebert possessed himselfe of the Kingdom of Orleaunce and slew his Nephewes Clothaire and Childebert had great wars together which in the ende was accorded and they passed with their armies into Spaine against Almarick who vsed their Sister very hardly because she would not bee an Arrian And killing him in the battaile they brought her backe with them into France Hée raigned 45. yeares and dyed without any Children hee lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez which he founded by the name of S. Vincent 7 Clothaire the Sonne of Clouis succéeded his Brother Childebert in the yeare 559. or as some say 560. hee had before béene King of Soyssons fortie fiue yeares and suruiued all his Brethren and their Children so that at length he remained sole-king of France He was luxurious and cruell in the death of his two Nephews Children to Clodomire King of Orleaunce He likewise with much disgrace vpon a Good-Friday slewe Gauliter d'Yuetot in a Church For reparation of which wrong he aduanced or erected the Land of Yuetot which is in Normandy into a kingdome to the heires of the said Gaultier Clothaire séeing himselfe Sole-Monarch of the Gaules would néedes leuy the third part of the Churches reuennewes Against which the Arch-bishop of Tours made resistance telling the King boldly that the reuennewes of the Church were the goods of the poore He lost a battaile against the Saxons and Thuringians because hee would not take them to mercie and suffer them to depart with their liues saued Hee ouercame in warre Cran his Bastard Sonne who rose in armes against him causing him his wife and Children to be burned hauing also formerly slaine the Duke of Bretaigne whom he had caused to reuoult Hee raigned 51. yeares dyed at Compeigne and lieth buryed at S. Medard de Soyssons Anno 567. 8 Cherebert or Aribert succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 567. Paris fell to him by partage He was very vnchast of life repudiated his Wife to entertaine two of her waighting women for which Germaine Byshoppe of Paris excommunicated him Hee raigned nine yeares died without any heires And lieth buried at Saynt Romaine néere Blaye in Gascoigne 9 Chilperick succéeded his Brother Cherebert in the year 577. hauing before raigned nine yeares King of Soissons He had thrée wiues the first whereof he diuorced from him compelling her to enter into Religion The second beeing named Audoüera he banished And the thyrde called Athanagilde he caused to be strangled in her bedde All which was done by the procurement of Fredegonde his Concubine whom hée then married and had a Sonne by her named Clothaire His Brethren warred againste him for his inhumanities and woulde haue deposed him but in the ende they were pacifyed Chilperick perceiuing his Brother Sigibert king of Metz to be much molested by the Allemaigns tooke many Citties from him whereat Sigibert being iustly offended neuer ceased till by the helpe of Gontran hee recouered all that was taken from him pursuing him still in such sort that Theodebert his Son was slaine and hee glad to saue himselse in Iournay where Sigibert besieged him Sigibert was slaine in his Tent by two Traitors hyred thereto by Fredegonde In short while after Fredegonde knowing that the king had noted ouermuch familiarity betwéene her and Landry Maire of the Pallace her adulterer she caused the king to be murdered by the said Landry at Chelles néere Paris as hee returned somewhat late one night from hunting hauing raigned in all 23. years and lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez 10 In the year 587. Clothaire second of that name the son of Chilperick Fredegonde being but foure months old was acknowledged for Legitimate and made king vnder the gouernement of Gontran King of Orleans his Vnckle who made Landry Maire of the Pallace Tutor to the young King and because he should bee norished with his Mother Fredegonde Childebert King of Metz endeuoured by Armes to get the gouernment of the kingdome and as much as in him lay to haue Fredegonde punished for the death of his Father Sigibert and of his Vnckle Chilperik whom she had caused to be both murdered Gontran appeased him by making hym his heire yet notwithstanding in short while after he began war againe against which Landry with Fredegonde who was a woman of admired courage opposed themselues And she to imbolden the French carried the young king hir son in her armes walking so with him thorough the thickest of the battell and shewing him vnto the soldiors she would say Fight for your younge King and defend his kingdom by which means Sigibert was foiled and driuen to flight Brunehault hauing put to death many children of the bloud Royall was deliuered to Clothaire who caused her to be torne with four horses He reuenged himselfe on the Saxons leauing no male child aliue that was taller then his sword He raigned 44. yeares and lyeth buried at S. Germaine des Pres. 11 Dagobert first of that name succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 631. he gaue to his brother Aribert the kingdom of Aquitaine in partage which

hundered shippes alwayes in readinesse and sayled therewith once a yeare about all great Britaine Hee had the whole Isle and all the Kinges thereof in subiection to him and was rowed vp and downe the Riuer of Dee by seauen Kings his vassailes Luduall one of those Kings did pay him a yearly tribute of Wolues He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Glastenburie Edward eldest Sonne to King Edgar succeeded his Father being crowned at Kingston but by Counsell of Elfrith his Step-mother he was treacherously murdered when hee had raygned three yeares and was buried at Shaftesbury Ethelred or Egelred second Sonne to King Edgar was crowned at Kingstone but because his comming to the Crown was by his brothers murder he could neuer obtaine his peoples affection Al the Danes in England by the command of King Ethelred were murdered in one night He raigned 38. yeares and was buried in Saint Paules Church in London Edmund Son to King Ethelred and Surnamed Ironside was immediately proclaimed K. after his Fathers death as the Cleargy and Nobility did the like to Canutus because they hadde sworne fealty to his Father Swaine or Sweno whereon three great battailes were fought betwixt King Edmund and Canutus the Danes ouerthrowne at Otford in Kent beside the great battell at Ashdone in Essex neere Saffron walden where the Englishmen were foyled by the Danes and the Land once againe deuided betweene Canutus and King Edmund who was treacherously slaine at Oxford hauing raigned but one yeare and some few months and was buried at Glastenbury Canutus the Dane challenging all England to himselfe was crowned King in Saint Paules Church in London and maried Quéen Emma the widdow of king Etheldred hee raigned xx yeares and was buried at Winchester Harold surnamed Harefoot vsing the power of the Danes in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardi-kenutus Gouerned in Denmarke Hee raigned foure yeares dyed at Oxford and was buried at Westminster Hardikenutus or Hardy-Canutus Sonne of King Canutus and his Quéene Emma obtayning his Fathers Kingdome sent for his mother from exile He died with the cup in his hand as he sat merrily disposed at his Table in the third yeare of his raigne and was buried at Winchester With this Hardy-Canutus ended the dominion of the Danes in England who had grieuously oppressed this nation for the space of 250. yeares Edward the sonne of Ethelred and Emma was next crowned King at Winchester all the Danes being then quite expulsed the land This Edward was Surnamed the Confessor for hys vertuous life and worthy Lawes also he is saide to be the first that cured the Disease called The Kinges Euill Hee raigned three and twentie yeares and was buried at Westminster which in his life time hee had most sumptuouslye repayred Harold sonne of Earle Goodwin tooke vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome but William Duke of Normandy came into England with a powerfull Army and in battell Harold was shot through the braines with an Arrowe hauing raigned but nine months and was buried in the Monastery of Waltham in Essex by whose death Duke William obtained his Conquest of England William Duke of Normandy base Sonne of Robert Duke of Normandie and Nephew to King Edward the Confessor whom he perceiued more addicted to vertue then policy and through debility of body not like to liue long contryued his owne attaining to the crowne of this land after the decease of the aged King For hee placed diuers Normans in the cheefest roomes about him while he liued and when he was dead leuied an Army of diuers Nations and there-with pretending the Patronage of England agaynst Harold Earle Godwins Sonne who vsurped the Kingdome first fought with him and flewe him at a place now called Battell in Sussex and then tooke the Crowne on him by election of the Estates Seeking next to barre Titles he imprisoned Edgar Etheling the onely true heire of the Saxons bloud and by means of Ethelbert Arch-bishop of Hamborow procured Sweno King of Denmark for money to cease the Danes claime Hee builded foure strong Castles one at Nottingham another at Lincoln the third at York and the fourth neere to Haftings where he landed at his first arriuall in England Hee deuised the Couer le feu Bell to bee Rung nightly at eight of the clocke in all Citties Townes and Villages for preuention of mighty tumults He ordained the Tearmes and that they shoulde be kept foure times in the yeare and Iudges to sit in seuerall Courtes for desciding controuersiall matters betwixt party and party as is vsed vnto this day He appointed Sheriffes in euery shyre and Iustices of the peace to see offenders punnished and the Countries kept in quiet He ordained the Court of Exchequer with the Barons Clarkes and Officers thereto belonging as also the high Court of Chancery with the Booke then called The Rowle of Winchester nowe The Doomesday Booke whereby the whole Land was taxed and euery mans estate and wealth thoroughly knowne He raigned twenty yeares ten months and 26. dayes and was buried in the Abbey of Saint Stephen at Ca●n in Normandy which he had founded And this is well worthy memory that hee being so great a Conqueror yet after his death coulde not haue so much ground to bury his dead body without wronging some other vntill that by his Executors it was bought for him William Rufus second sonne to the Conqueror by his Fathers appointment succeeded him in the Kingdom and was crowned at Westminster Robert elder Brother to King William Duke of Normandy went with Godfrey Duke of Bullen and other Christian Princes to the Holy-land to recouer it from the Sarazi●s This King William Rufus caused new Walles to be builded about the Tower of London and layed the foundation of Westminster Hall Hee raigned thirteene yeares and was slain with an Arrow by one Sir Walter Tyrel a French knight in the New Forrest in Hampshire his body being buried at VVinchester In which Forrest not many yeares before had stoode 36. Parish Churches diuers faire Townes Villages and Hamlets containing thirty miles in circuite all which was laide wast by the Conqueror the poor inhabitants expelled thence and it was made a place for wilde beastes to liue in It was somewhat strange that in that very place the King should bee so vnfortunately slaine Richard his Brother blasted to death and Henry the Conquerors Nephew by his eldest Sonne Robert as hee ouer-earnestly pursued the game in the the bushes like to another Absolon straungely strangled to death vengeaunce from God as was thought punnishing the fathers offence in his posterity Henry sur-named Beauclerke for his Learning and youngest sonne to the Conqueror succeeded his Brother King William was crowned at VVestminster Robert Duke of Normandy being returned from the Holie-Lande warred with his Brother Henry for his right in the

three thousand Florens Chichester beganne in the Isle of Seales or Seolsie and was translated to Chichester in the time of William the Conqueror when generall remoue of Sees was made from small Villages to greater Townes It hath Sussex onely vnder iurisdiction wherein are 16. Deanries and 551 parish Churches and paide to Rome at euerie alienation 333. Ducates VVinchester was giuen to Biri●us his successors by Kinigils Oswald of the Northumbers in whose time it was erected It Gouerneth Hampshire Surrie Iardseie Gardeseie and the Isle of Wight contayning eight deanries 276. Parish-Churches beside perpetuall Prelary of the Honourable Order of the Garter It paid to Rome 12000. Ducates or Florens Salisbury was made chiefe Sée of Shirbourne by Byshop Harman Predecessour to Osmond who brought it from Shirbourne to that Cittie It gouerneth Barkshire Wiltshire and Dorsetshire It paid to Rome 4000. Florens Excester hath Deuonshire and Cornewall sometimes two seuerall Bishoppricks but in the end brought into one of Cornewall and from thence to Excester in the time of King William the Conqueror It paid to Rome at euery alienation sixe thousand Ducates or Florens Bath the Sée whereof was sometime at Wels before Iohn the bishop there annexed the church of Bath vnto it which was in An. 1094. it hath Somersetshire onely and it paide to the Court of Rome 430. Florens Worcester hath VVorcestershire and part of Warwickshire Before the Bishopricke of Glocester was taken from it it paid to the Pope two thousand Ducates of Golde at change of euerie Prelate It began in the time of Offa King of the East Angles Glocester hath Glocestershire onely wherein are nine Deanries and 294. Parish-Churches It neuer paide any thing to Rome because it was erected by King Henry the eyght when he had abolished the Popes vsurped authority Hereford hath Herefordshire and part of Shropshire It paid to Rome at euery alienation 1800. Ducates Lichfielde had Couentry added to it in the raigne of King Henry the first at the earnest sute of Robert Bishop of that Sée It hath Staffordshire Darbishire part of Shropshire and the rest of Warwickshire voide of subiection to the Sée of VVorcester It was erected in the time of Penda King of the South Mercians And paide to the Pope thrée thousand Florens at euery alienation Oxford hath Oxfordshire onely neuer paide any taxation to Rome being erected by K. Henry the eight Elie hath Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Elie being at first a wealthy Abbey it was erected by King Henry the first in Anno 1109. It paid to the Pope at euery alienation 7000. Ducates Norwich called in elder times Episcopatus Donnicensis Dononiae or Aestanglorum was first erected at Felstow or Felixstow afterward remoued to Donwich thence to Helmham next to Theodford or Thetford and lastly in the Conquerours time to Norwich It contayneth Norffolke and Suffolke onely but at first included Cambridgeshire also and so much as lay within the Kingdome of the East Angles It began vnder Cerpenwald King of the East-Saxons and paid to Rome 5000. Ducates It contained sometime 1563. Parish-Churches beside 88. religious Houses but now wee heare of no more then 1200. Peterborow sometimes a notable Monastery hath Northampton and Rutlandshires beeing a Diocesse erected likewise by King Henrie the eyght and neuer paied first Fruites to the Pope Bristow hath Dorsetshire sometime belonging to Salisbury a Sée also erected by king Henry the eight Lincolne of all other of late times was the greatest and albeit that out of it were taken the Sées of Oxford and Peterborow yet it still retaineth Lincolne Leicester Huntingdon Bedford Buckingham shires and the rest of Hertfordshire extending it self from Thames to Humber It paied to the Pope at euery alienation 5000. Ducates and began in the time of King William Rufus Thus much of the Bishoprickes in Lhoegres or England as it was left to Locrine now goe we to VVales Landaffe or the Church of Taw hath Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in Glamorgan Monmouth Brechnoch and Radnor shires and paide 700. Ducates to Rome at euery exchange of Prelat But it was a poore aunswere vppon call of the incumbent in Court before the Lord President when hée sayd The Daffe is héere but the Land is gone S. Dauids hath Pembroke and Caermardineshires whose liuery and first fruites to the Sée of Rome was 1500. Ducates Bangor is in North-wales and hath Caernaruon Angleseie and Merioneth shires and paid to Rome 126. Ducates S. Asaphes hath Prestholme and part of Denbigh and Flint Shires in ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction and is the least in circuite in VVales amounting in all not to one good Countie yet it paied to Rome at euery alienation 470. Ducates Hitherto of the Prouince of Canterburie for so much thereof as now lieth within compasse of this Island The Archbishops Sée of Yorke was restored about the yeare of Grace 625. in the time of Eadwin king of Northumberland Paulinus sitting as first Byshoppe there by ordination of Iustus Arch-bishop of Canterbury It hath Iurisdiction ouer Yorkeshire Nottinghamshire and the rest of Lancashire not subiect to the Sée of Chester It paied to Rome 1000. Ducates beside 5000. for the pall of the new elect Chester vpon Dee otherwise called Westchester hath Chestershire Darbishire the most part of Lancashire euen to the Ribell Richmond a part of Flint and Denbighshires in Wales It was made a Byshoppricke by Henry the eyght An. regni 33. Iuly 16. Durham hath the County of Durham Northumberland with the Dales the Bishops haue bin sometimes Earles Palantines ruling vnder name and succession of Saint Cuthbert It paid to Rome 9000. Ducates at euery alienation Caerleill was erected Anno 1132. by king Henry the first and hath Cumberland VVestmerland in rule It paid to the Pope a thousand Florens There is another Bishopricke called the Sée of Mona or Man somtime named Episcopatus Sodorensis whereof one VVimundus was ordained the first Bishop and Iohn the second in the troublesome time of king Stephen But the guift of this Prelacy is said to rest in the Earls of Darby to nominate thereto from time to time such as they déeme conuenient ¶ Of the Colledges in Cambridge and Oxford and their Founders In Cambridge Colledges by Founders 1. Trinity Colledge by King Henry the 8. King Henry the sixt 2. The Kings Col. by Edward the fourth Henry the 7. Hen. 8. 3. Saint Iohns by L. Margaret grandmother to Henry 8. 4. Christs Colledge by K Hen. 6. and Lady Marg. before named 5. The Quéens col by Lady Margaret wife to Henry the sixt 6. Iesus Colledge by Iohn Alcock bishop of Elie. 7. Bennet Colledge by The Brethren of a Guild cald Cor. Chr. 8 Pembroke Hall by Maria de Valencia Countesse of Pembr 9. Peter Colledge by Hugh Balsham byshop