Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Amasias ¶ Capitulum 31

AMasias Ioas sone regned in iuda xxix yer aft him the king¦dome of Iuda was without king xiij yere. Petr{us}. vpō caas me sayth y^t the kyngdom was voyde so long For amasias departed the kyngdome while he was a lyue / & his sonne a child of / iij / ye¦re old yet myght not regne & so it semeth for whan his fader ama¦sias was deed his sonne Ozias was but xvj yere olde whan he began to regne / ¶ R. Thes xiij yere in the whiche me sayth that the kyngdome of Iuda was without kyng somme storyes acompteth hem not other acompte hem amonge the xxix yere of amasias the kyng / els shal not so many yeres be founden ther as Eutropius acompteth from the xxv yere of kynge latyn in the whiche yere Troye was destroyed vnto the buyldynge of rome that was in all four honderd xxxij yere Ieroboam Ioas sone reg¦ned in israel xlj yere / the xiij kyng of latyns euentin{us} silui{us} reg¦ned among the latins .xxxiiij yere. Ozias that heet asarias ama¦zias sone regned in Iuda lij yere / this kyng loued wele erth til∣lyng also this kyng wold haue taken vpon hym & entremeted of thoffyce of preest & was smyten with lepre or meselrye & half a greet hille claf and fell vpon his gardins Arbaces otherwise called arbactus the first kynge of medes slough Sardanapallus

the last kyng of Assyries and regned amonge the medes xxix / yere· And tho faylled the hool kyngdome of assyries that hadde continued from belus and ninus to the last sardanapallus a thou¦sand yere & .iiij·C / Nethehes after sardanapallus were myghty kynges in assiria vnto the destroyēg of nynyue though they were not ful & hool kynges / Trogus / li· p / This Sardanapallus was a man more wretche than ony woman. his stuard arbaces fonde hym spynnyng reed silk on a distaff in womās clothyng among company of comyn wymmen / for to to receyue sōme of the huyr Therfor arbaces toke greet indignacion & exited his knyghtes a∣yenst the kyng in conspyracye & atte last the kyng was ou{er}come& went in to his ryal place & brēt hym self with moch rychesse / R / Comētator / p / eth̄ / c / 14 ¶Sayde that one wrote on sardanapallus tombe in this man / so moch I had as I ete & drāk· And seint au∣styn de. ci· de / li / 2 // ca / 17. Vnderstādeth that sardanapallus hym self whiles he liued ordeyned that to be writen on his tōbe whan he was deed. for it was the man that tyme that kinges ordeined the wrytyng that shuld be writon on her tombe after her deth / the / xiiij· kyng of latyns procas siluius regned among the latyns xxij / yere / that tyme fidon foūde vp & yaf the argyues mesure & w••yghtes Trogus libro tercio Ligurgus kynge of Lacedo∣monies yaue lawe to his peple· the tenor of his lawes is thus The peple is enformed to be buxome to the prynces and the prin¦ces to doo the people right and reason· he techeth al men to be skyl∣fully scars or mesurable that the trauaylle of knygthode be not destroyed by greet wastyng and spendyng / ¶Al that shal be bought and sold shal be bought and sold not for moneye / but for chaungyng of marchandyse / he dyde away vse of moneye as it were matier of vyce or synne / He departed the gouernaunce of the comonte by degrees. and yaue kynges knyghtes power of batayls and to Iugges power of domes and to the Sena∣tours kepyng· and mayntenyng of the lawes and yaue the pe∣ple power for to chefe Iugges whom they wold· the land and grounde he dealed euen amonge alle men that egalyte of enhery¦taunce of londes sholde make hem al lyke myghty and stronge Her yonglynges sholde holde hem apayed alle the yere with one clothe· he suffred no man to be gayer than other / ne noo man to fare better than other of mete ne of drynk· He bade that childer of fourtene yere he sholde not vse hem in chepynge ne in feyres / but in feldes vnto they come to mannes age. Nothynge shulde

be sprad vnder theym when they shold slepe they shuld lyuewith out delicio{us} mete / maidēs shuld be wedded without endowing or yeftes for to constrayne wedlok the faster whan noo wedlock were bound with bridels of endowyng He ordeyned that oldmen shold be more worshiped than ryche / he ordeyned no thyng to be hol¦den ef other men but as they wold hold it hem self / ¶ And for his cyte that was out of good reule & out of good lyuyng shold the rather come to rule and receyue the lawe· he feyned that ap∣polyn was fynder of this lawe / And for he wold that this la∣we sholde last euermore / he bonde the peple by oth and made hem hem swere not to chaunge this lawe til he came ayene / And fey∣ned hym that he wold goo to Appolyn delphicus and axe coun∣sel of hym yf ought sholde be withdrawe of this lawe or made moore Netheles he went in to Creta that ylonde and was there till be dyed and whan he shold dye he bade throwe his body in to the see / leste he were born to lacedomonia and the men that were sworn to his lawe wold wene that they were discharged of their oth Cranius the first kyng of lacedomonia regned there echte and twenty yere Ganfr ¶ Cordeylla kyng leyers dough∣ter after hir fader regned in brytayn fyue yere but atte laste her sisters sonnes morgan and cunedagius put hir in prison and cu∣nedagius regned in brytayn after cordeylla thre and thyrtty ye¦re he slough morgan that was rebelle ayenst hym in Glammorgā in wales and by cause of that happe that countrey is called mor¦gans lande / ¶ After cunedagius regned Ryuallo after hym Gurgustius siluius after hym Iago After hym kymnarchus after gorbodio he had twey sonnes fferrex and porrex· this porrex for couetyse of lordship slough his broder ¶ Therfor her moder was ful wroth and fylle with her maydens vpon the mansleer / whyle he slept and hakked hem all in gobbettes ¶ Afterward was discorde in the lond that greued the peple ful soore vnder / v kynges vnto molyuncius donwallons tyme / ¶The fyftenth of Latyns Amilius procas yonger sonne regned thre and fourty yere but his yeres be acompted with his broders munitors yeres Munitor procas sone was put out of his kyngdom by his owne broder amulius and lyued in his owne felde afterward and his doughter rea otherwyse callyd Etilia for she shold haue noo child was chosen to be a mayde in the temple of the goddesse ves∣ca And the seuent yere of hir eme amulius she bare tway childer at oo childyng Remus and Romulus. and she sayd that god

mars gate hir with child and therfor she was buryed quycke & the childeren were leyd in a woode & a woluesse that had loste hir welpis fedde ofte the childer & made hem souke of her owne tetes But faustulus the heord espyed this doyng & toke away the childer from the wylde beest and norysshed hem vp amonge his beestes with mete of wode and of feldes ¶ Than whan the the childer come to age and hadden wytt and strength they saued ofte the beestes from strong theuys but atte laste the theues toke Remus & brought hym to munitor for he shold punyssh hym as a thef that had stolen his beestes And whan munitor toke hede of the shap of the child he aduysed him long and bythought him how his doughter childer were layde somtyme in the wode Than in the mene tyme come fastulus the herd and brought with hym Romulus Thenne after whan munitor knewe that the childe∣ren were his doughter sonnes he and the childeren entended to slee his broder Amulius Eutr ¶Faustulus the heorde that kept the kynges beestes fonde twey lytil bretheren leyde by the brynke of the ryuer tyber & brought hem to his wif y^t was callid acta laurencia & for hir fayrenes & concupyscēce of her disordina¦te lust she was called lupa in latyn that is a woluesse in englissh And therfor the hows of comyn women is called yet lupanaria in latyn Thes childer Remus and Romulus waxed strong and gadred to hem many heerdes and theues and slough amu∣lus vpon the Ryuer Alba and restored her grauntsir munitor to his kyngdome ayene ¶Martinus· ¶ Netheles whether that woman was called lupa or noo the old wrytyng in marble & in other stones at Rome sheweth yet / that a woluesse fedde the twey bretheren with hir mylk / a woluesse is lupa in latyn Zacharias Ieroboams sonne regnede in israel sex monethes hym smote Sellum Iabes sonne and regned oo moneth Petrus by veray acomptes owther the kyngdome of Israel. after the deth of Ierobam was thre and twenty yere without kynge owther this Zacharyas began to regne the xv yere of Ozias and so reg¦ned all thylk thre and twenty yere that be not acompted to him for al that tyme he lyued a wycked lyf and for he amended him and lyued s••x monethes good lif therfor sex monethes be acomp¦ted to hym in the xxxviij / yere of Ozias Manaen gaddyes son∣ne regned in israel ten yere ¶O••ors yaue the egypcians lawe in his tyme a lamb spak and told redy tales The lacedomo∣nies arayed bataylle ayenste the mecenes and atte laste were

agreued by playntes of her wyues for they were so longe from home & ordeyned that the womē that were lefte at home euerych sholde take many men for they hoped in that maner to haue the strenger childern ¶R Loke more herof in the firste book capitulo grecia scilicet lacedomonia ¶In corinthy were euery yere ordey¦ned Iugges in stede of kynges ¶ The first Olimpias began that tyme so feyth Eusebius in his Cronyke This yere phace∣as manaens sonne began to regne in israel and regned two yere