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¶ Saul ¶ Capitulum 28

SAul of the lignage of Beniamyn was the firste kyng of Ebrewes and regned tw••nty yere / so seyth Iosephus of the whiche yeres the scripture speketh not / Petrus / For Saul regned xviij yere whyle that samuel lyued & two yere after his deth The .iiij. kyng of latyns Eneas siluius was posthum{us} sone and began to regne and regned xxxj yere R In somme histo¦ryes posthumus brother latynns siluius is sette the fourth and this eneas is sette the fyfth but in this place eneas is sette the fourth / The xvij duc of Ath••ne Codrus melautus sonne began to regne & regned one and twenty yere after his deth kynges

of athene faylled ¶ Augustinus libro octodecimo capitulo 14 The peloponens men of thessalia rebelled ayenst them of Athene. Than was answer yeuen of goddes / that on whether side the duc were slayne that side shold haue the maystrye ¶ Therfore the knyghtes were charged ouer all thynge to take good kepe of kyng Codrus· Netheles Codrus toke a pore mannes clothyng & a byrthen of Fagottes on his neck and entred in to the strength of his enemyes. and ther was stryf arered amonge the peple and a knyght slough hym· that he had rather wounded with an hook whan it was knowen that coreus went awaye without bataylle and the Athenes were delyuerd / Codrus hadde leuer dye and his men haue the maystrye than lyue and his men be oue••come After his deth the comonte was gouernyd by maystrys for there was no lawe but lykyng of lordship vnto the tyme that Salon the noble maker of lawes was chosen Iugge Maddan Locti¦nus sonne by Gwendolena geten regned fourty yere amonge the britons and bigate mempricius and maulus / the Amasons maken warre in Asia saule & his childeren ben slayn in the hill mount Gelboe and soo endeth the thyrd age of the world from the byrth of Abraham to the kyngdome of dauyd ¶ Ysidorus libro quinto Seyth that the third age of the world conteyneth nyne honderd and eyght & f••urty yere by fourtene generacions But eyther translacion sayth that the thyrdde age of the world conteyneth nyne honderd yere and two and fourty R¶ This dyuersyte befalleth for ysidorus sayth that Samuel and Saul ruled the peple fourty yere ¶ Netheles Iosephus libro octa∣uo and the maister of the storyes acorden that Samuel reuled the peple allone twelue yere and after hym Saul regned ·xx· yere