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¶ Ezechias ¶ Capitulum 34

EZechias was the fourtenth kynge of Iuda. in his seconde yere the Cyte Siracusana and in his thridde yere the cyte Catina in Scicilia were buylde ¶ The kyng of Babilon wor∣shipped this Ezechias with yeftes· For he hadde herd telle that the sonne that they worshiped in stede of god· had torned ayene atte prayer of Ezechias / And so he vnderstode that the sonne had don the kyng grete worship / therfor he sente messagers with ryche yeftes / and desired to knowe the reason and cause of that wonder· Than Ezechias shewed all his tresorye ¶ Sena¦cherib otherwyse callyd Salmanasar was kyng of Caldees and

ouercome osee kynge of israel and beseged Samarya thre yere and gate it / ¶Also he toke ten lygnages that is to say the se∣uen other lygnages prisons in to the hilles of medes besides the Riuer gothan / Girald that is beyonde the hilles of caspy wher Alysaunder encluded and closed twey foule maner peple gog & magog / Antecrist whan he cometh shal delyuer thes people and bringe hem out / Also the Iewes abyden this antecrist and bile∣ue that he is Messias that is crist / Petrus in the first takyng in to seruage of the thre lygnages ¶ Me troweth that Tobye was taken and lefte with kyng Osee prysonner in Nynyue his story was fulfylled vnder manasses Ezechias sonne· owther atte moost the xx yere of Iosias the kyng / Than the kynge of Assy¦ryes brought men of dyuerse londes in to Samaria to kepe the lande of Israel / And they for drede of lyons that were cruel & styerne weren made holders of the lawe of Iewes and cleped Samarite and samaritani that be kepers. they be cleped also chu¦tei and Iacobites that be supplanters but they left not her mau¦metrye· Romulus dyed whan he had regned xxxix yere / as it is sayd bifore / and the Senatours ruled the comyns of Rome the space of an yere and half and space of tyme was callyd Int¦tempus as it were a tyme bytwene Numa pompilus began to regne· amonge the Romaynes and regned four and fourty yere· This numa had no batayll with men that dwellyd aboute hym he ordeyned to the romaynes lawes and good lyuyng For they semed rather by custome of batayls theues and tyrauntes law∣les This deseryued or departed the yere without redy. acomptes in ten monethes / Hugo capitulo Ianus ¶For the Romaynes as the hebrewes bigan her yere fro the moneth of marche vnto the tyme▪ of this pompilus but he putte Ianuar and februare to the begynnyng of the yere· and so the yere lefte amonge the Ro¦maynes incorrecte vnto Iulius cezars tyme / Eutr· Numa ordeyned ornamentes and serymonyes and all worshippes of god¦des bisshoppes dyuynes and mars preestes and other mynystres of presthode euery by due ordre and forboden dayes and other He yaf a temple to god Ianus and another with fire to the god¦desse vesta & her maydens to be worshipped that the lyght shold be warden of Emperye and wake and shyne to the lykenesse of ster¦res of heuen And numa sayd that he had all thes to the keping of the noble goddesse / Also he buyld the capitoyl and rered it from the firste fundement he ordeyned peny to his peple & cleped

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moyses book of the lawe & destroyed mawmetrye with the high places Treuisa High places be templis that were in groues vpon hye totes or hilles to worship mawmettis in Than folo∣weth in the story This Iosias brent the bones of fals prophete•• and of fals preestes that worshipped and serued fals goddes / And helde the esterday in mynde of passage thurgh the reed see. And atte last he faught with pharao nechao kyng of Egypte & was slayn and lefte after hym thre sones Elyachym otherwyse called Ieconias Ioathas otherwyse called sellum and mathani as otherwyse called Sedechias ¶ Ancus marcius the fourth kyng of Romaynes Numaes neuew borne of his doughter by∣gan to regne and regned xxiij yere ¶This Ancus for the grace that he sawe in tarquini{us} prisc{us} / made hym warden of his he yres but he quyte it ful euyl / Ieremyas was Elchias the bisshops sonne & began to prophecye and prophecied xlj yere vnto the des¦troyeng of the cyte withoute that tyme that be prophecied in E∣gypte This Ieremyas sawe thre tokenynges a yerde waking a crocke brennynge and his owne bregyrdel y roted besides the riuer of eufrates. he made the lamentacions for the deth of Iosi∣as kyng of Iuda / Also that woman olda and sophonias the pro¦phete prophecied of them & is made mynde in the book of kynges Tarquinius priscus the fyfthe king of Romaynes regned seuen and thyrtty yere This priscus doubled the nombre of Sena∣tours / he ordeyned games and playes and made walles and vi∣ses and other strong places and pryuy and atte last Ancus son¦ne that was his precessour slough hym ¶ Titus •• Whan an¦cus was deede he sente traytously ancus sonnes an huntyng for he wold hym self be ordeyned kyng in the meene tyme Also he chees Seruius Tullius to wedde his doughter and to be his heyr after hym. therfor Ancus sonnes conspyred ayenst hym & hiered heerdes to slee hym / therfor the heerdes feyned a plee. & as it were to haue a rightful dome they appeled to the kyng In the whiche cause and plee whyle the kyng toke hede to that one / that other heerde slough hym / Ioathas Iosias myddel sone whā his fader was deed & his elder broder forsakē was ordeined by the peple kynge of Iuda & regned thre monethes / as it were from the first day of Ianuar to the first day of auerel ¶Pharao Nechao kyng of Egypt lad hym bounden in to Egypt and ma∣de his elder brother Elyachym kynge and Trybutarij to the kyng of egypte and cleped hym Ioachym in token of subiection

Than this elyachym that was so cleped Ioachym regned en∣leuen yere and lyued atte worst for he slough vrias the prophete and prisoned Ieremye and brent baruchis book