The consent of time disciphering the errors of the Grecians in their Olympiads, the vncertaine computation of the Romanes in their penteterydes and building of Rome, of the Persians in their accompt of Cyrus, and of the vanities of the Gentiles in fables of antiquities, disagreeing with the Hebrewes, and with the sacred histories in consent of time. VVherein is also set downe the beginning, continuance, succession, and ouerthrowes of kings, kingdomes, states, and gouernments. By Lodovvik Lloid Esquire.

A BRIEFE FOR BRITAINE.

SEeing that I haue written of other countreys, I can not tell how to answere my countrey∣men well, if I should not also somewhat speake of the Bri∣tains, though in trueth many haue sufficiently written of the comming of Brutus vnto this land, of his kingdome and suc∣cession of kings and continu∣ance, which though of some denied, which do now as they then did in the time of Halicar∣nassaeus: * 1.1 who after he had trauailed his histories from Sempro∣nius, Fabius Pictor, and from M. Cato, and proued euidently the * 1.2 comming of Aeneas into Italy, of his kingdome and posteritie in Alba longa vntill Romulus, being 17. discents after him: yet * 1.3 some gens inuidiosa Traianis (as Halicarnassaeus calleth them) seemed not to allow the historie, though they knewe it them∣selues, & also read it by so many proued, because they would * 1.4 be named antiquaries, and the credite of the histories should come from them.

Such was Polidor Virgil in his history of Britaine, such was Berosus in the historie of Hetruria, (being two strangers) and such was Manethon to write of Spaine. So there were among the Iewes Talmudists, who among other matters which they * 1.5 wrote (for they were the onely men among the Iewes) would also by this credit that they had amōg the people, write what they listed, that they became thereby very fabulous in their histories. So among the Egyptians their superstitious priestes filled their bookes with lies: and so of diuers other countreis, men wrote rather fables then histories of their coūtreys. But these are reiected from sound approued authors, tanquam Mi∣thici: * 1.6 for in reading of histories I find nothing so readie as er∣rors in antiquities of countreys, and in original of nations.

And surely it is not to be wondered at, concerning the an∣tiquities of time, euen from the beginning of the world, and the late beginning of writers from Cyrus time, or rather Alex∣anders time: for in the first age from Adam to the flood, no * 1.7 trueth is had nor knowen but onely by Moses in the Genesis, and 1650. yeeres frō the flood vnto the time of the Olympiads, men wandered in no true accompt of time, nor of histories, (excepting that which is written in the bookes of Moses and the Prophets) nothing seemed sound nor certaine, but cōie∣ctures and fained fables, as in the historie of the Chaldeans, As∣syrians, * 1.8 Aegyptians, and diuers other nations, many things are written which is named Mythycum very licentiously and to li∣berally: and after the time of the Olympiads, how vntrue pro∣phane historians wrote vntil Daniels time, who seeth it not?

Since which time, a briefe of al true chronicles is set downe by the Prophet in describing the 4. beastes and their natures, * 1.9 signifying thereby the Monarchies of the worlde, their go∣uernment and their continuance, the onely grounde from whēce all writers make good their histories. But let no man write of his coūtrey with more affection then trueth wil war∣rant him for his proofe, as it seemeth Berosus did of Chaldea, Manethon of Egypt, Ctesias of Persia: for that they may easily be corrected by any late writer that is seene in the Sacred histo∣ries (and yet they were men of singular authoritie and credite in histories of their countreys) who by conferring Propheti∣cal histories with their prophane writings, men find nothing more then fables of antiquities, and errors in lieu of true hi∣stories, not knowing the Centre of all certaine Chronicles, I meane the Prophetical histories.

But haue with them for my countrey also, being cōtented to be excused with them by Liui, In tanta rerum vetustate, multi temporis errores implicātur, &c. For no doubt as Greeke histories * 1.10 are more vncertaine then the Latins, of whom Iosephus saith, that they had nothing to bragge of, but their lies, euery man setting downe in writing his opinion, rather then studying the trueth of the historie. But as occasion shall serue me, so shal I

speake of them and of others. In the meane time I marueile much howe some men are more bent without either reason or authoritie, to reprooue that which in true Histories is approoued.

Many of the best Romane writers seemed to be ignorant of that which they knew, and yet would take no notice thereof: they woulde not haue vrbem omnium gentium, & Imperiorum dominam to bee builded by any of Aeneas stocke, or any of∣springs of the Troyans: neither would they allow any part of Italy to be inhabited with the Grecians, whome the Romanes * 1.11 mortally hated. They claime their antiquitie frō Noah by the name of Ianus, who came from Scythia Saga presently after the flood into Italy: and after Ianus from Saturnus and from * 1.12 Cameses. This Sempronius, Mar. Cato, and Fabius Pictor seeme fully to prooue, and they stand to it stoutly: notwithstanding * 1.13 they haue as many Greeke writers against them in proouing the contrary: affirming, that the Grecians, Arcadians, Lacede∣monians, Achaians, and Pelasgians first inhabited Italy. So Myr∣silus * 1.14 in the whole booke which beginneth thus, Italiam pri∣mùm coluere Graeci, &c. prooueth the Grecians to be the first in∣habitants in Italy. After Myrsilus followeth Dionysius Hali∣carnassaeus in like order and proofe, as he that readeth Halicar∣nassaeus, * 1.15 readeth Myrsilius: and after Dionysius, Herodotus who doeth not onely fully warrant Myrsilus and Dionysius, but also concludeth with more warrants of his owne. This cōtrouer∣sie riseth betweene the Grecians and the Romanes, about the antiquitie of Italy: the Greekes calling Italy, Spurcam, spuriam & nouitiam, and the Romanes naming Greece, Mendacem & fabulosam.

The like controuersie grewe betweene the Egyptians and the Scythians in those dayes, and the like nowe about the com∣ming of Brute vnto this countrey, whose cōming hath bene * 1.16 receiued and confirmed by succession of kings from Brutus to Cadwalader. And after the kings, the line and stocke of Bru∣tus vnto this day 2700. yeeres, sed nihil magnum somnianti: for they can reprooue without authoritie, but they wil not allow

proofs with authorities: such is their credite with some peo∣ple, as Pythagoras was with his owne schollers, who thought Pythagoras speach a sufficient warrant to proue anything, on∣ly alleaging 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. I doubt there be many Pythagoreans, that * 1.17 stand too much in their owne conceites, some dreaming the word Britania to be Pritania, some imagining the Britaines to to be Picts, and that the originall of the Britaines shoulde bee from the Picts, and many such other reasons, rather fables, wherein there is neither agreement of time, which is to bee noted, nor affinitie with speache, neither likenesse of names, nor any things else like: for the Pictes came but the last day to Armorica, which is little Britaine in Fraunce, with one Rodericke their captaine from Scythia, and not with Aene∣as * 1.18 from Phrygia, to seeke where they might haue place to in∣habite. I confesse that these Pictes and Scots, inuaded Britaine, and made often irruptions into Britaine in the time of Con∣stantine the great, Iouinianus, Theodosius, and many other Em∣perours: but they were repelled, and compelled with many a good beating to retire. I should better allowe the opinion of those that say, that the Pictes are Scots: for with the Britaines the Picts by no likenesse may bee resembled neither by time, nor by tongue.

I will leaue the Picts for the Scots, whose kingdome was subdued and translated into Scotland, by Kenedus king of the Scots, where I leaue them. Many licencious writers haue bene, and are in the world, not only in matters of antiquities, but in other matters also. Who will beleeue Polidor a strāger in Britaine, before Giraldus a singular learned man borne in Britaine? who had traueiled as many countries as Polidor did, and therefore was in great credite with Rich. the second: who who will beleeue a forreine late writer before Gildas the Bri∣taine, that wrote of his coūtrie in Claudius Caesars time? If nei∣ther Giraldus, nor Gildas, nor any other ex bardis Britannis are allowed, let Ponticus Virunnius, let Iu. Caesar in his Comment, * 1.19 whosaid they were ex eadem prosapia, be allowed.

For the trueth thereof I doubt not but I shall write as true

as the Frenchmen shall doe of Fraunce, the Hispaniard of Hi∣spaine, and so of the rest: I meane, of the Saxons, of the Greekes, * 1.20 and of the Romanes: and my reason shallbe as probable for the landing of Brutus in this Island from Italie, as the Italians shall prooue Ianus to come from Chaldea into Italie, or as the * 1.21 Frenchmen shall prooue Marcomirus to come from Scythia in∣to Germany, and so in time to come into Fraunce, and so to * 1.22 holde the name of Francus.

I will not speake of Caetubales, Hiberians, Hesperians, nor of the olde Celtiberians, afterwarde called Spaniards, who had their name of Hispanus: neither will I speake of the aunci∣ent stocke of Brutus while yet they dwelt in Creete, and after in Phrygia, and after that in Albalonga, and last in Rome, but of the comming of Brutus vnto this land the sonne of Syluius, the sonne of Ascanius, the sonne of Aeneas, and from the name of the Britaines since that time, of the which if any man doubt, he may aswell doubt of the antiquitie of the Latines, of the Al∣banes, and last of the Romanes, which al did issue and proceede of the house of Aeneas: for imperij Romaniorigo Aeneas, as is prooued by Halicarnassaeus, which affirmeth that Romulus the first king of the Romanes was the seuenteenth king out of the body of Aeneas lineally descending: for after Aeneas died, be∣ing at his death king of the Latines three yeeres, after whom succeeded his sonne Ascanius, and builded a towne hard by * 1.23 the hill Alba, and named it Albalonga, leauing his fathers wife Lauina in that Citie which Aeneas builded thirtie yeres before Ascanius builded Albalonga: where during his life As∣canius kept his Court, and it became the king of Albans Pal∣lace: at what time the names of the Latines were changed to the kings of Alba, which endured foure hundred yeeres and * 1.24 odde, vntill Tullus Hostilius the third king of Rome conquered them: so that the right line and blood of the kings of Alba des∣cended also from Aeneas by succession, from the father vnto the sonne, vntill Romulus time, as Halicarnassaeus saith: whose names are set downe orderly in Annius chronicles, and in Be∣rosus, with whom Dyonis. Halicar doeth in all points agree, as

well for the continuance of time, as also for their sure na∣ming of their kings which reigned betweene Aeneas and Ro∣mulus.

So doeth M. Cato in his fragments, men of great credite in other histories, & to be skant in the Britaine historie allowed, hinc liuor, the cause thereof I take it in some rather negligence then ignorance: for in trueth the Phisicion must study to ease his patients, the Lawyer to please his client, the Diuine to feede the soules: so that few haue time to studie histories. Yea * 1.25 many that read histories, are to seeke in histories other wayes then the histories of Englād: but I wil returne to Aeneas which is as Annius saith, Imperij Romani origo, and therefore I will be∣gin from the comming of Aeneas into Laurentum in Italie.

Nowe as concerning the comming of Aeneas into Italie, his toyles and trauailes, reade Helanicus an olde auncient wri∣ter. My onely purpose is to set downe the true histories of the Britaines, hauing that name from Brutus, euen as the Frenchmen were named of Francus, and the Hispaniards from Hispanus.

If you reade Fab. Pictor de aureo seculo, and Portius Cato, you * 1.26 shall finde the kindred and predecessours of Romulus the first king of Rome so plainely to come out of the very house and stocke that Brutus the first king of the Britaines came out of: so that the last king of the Latines, I meane Aeneas, and his sonne Ascanius the first king of Albalonga, are of that anti∣quitie and continuance in Italie, as Brutus is in Britaine, now called Englande. For as Romulus and the kings of Rome, and af∣ter the Emperours and the Romanes were offsprings of the kinges of the Albanes and Latines, and the Albanes and * 1.27 Latines offsprings of the kings of Troy: so is it prooued that the Romanes came from Troy: for Ascanius was graundfather vnto Brutus, who first came into this Isle named then Albion, but by Brutus after named Britaine. Some take this for fables, certeine it is that the beginning of antiquities seeme fabu∣lous, for that the errors of time haue obscured many things, as is proued of the Romane histories, whom the Grecians neuer

knewe nor neuer heard of: for neither Thucydides, nor Xeno∣phon, two of the greatest writers in the florishing state of * 1.28 Greece, yea and late after the foundation of Rome 360. yeeres, neither Herodot after them made any mencion of Rome.

Euen so the Grecians were to the Persians, and the Persians to the Grecians most ignorant, not one knowing another be∣fore Xerxes with his huge armie thought to inuade Greece: for these be the words of Strabo, Nec Graeci Persas, nec Persae Graecos agnorunt. And as for Fraunce and Spaine they were taken but for two cities, the one named Gallia, the other Hesperia, as Iose∣phus * 1.29 affirmeth.

Many men write very fables of their countries, as Berosus, if it be Berosus, being a Chaldean priest, wrote of the Chaldeans meere fables, and more licencious of the kings of Assyria, without any warrant of trueth, not knowing the Scriptures, * 1.30 where the best and soundest warrant of Chaldean histories are to be found. In like sort Ctesias the Persian wrote of his coun∣trie * 1.31 23. bookes both vaine and foolish in setting foorth the antiquitie, gouernment, and greatnesse of the king of Persia, then is truely prooued by true accompt of time, as Plutarch * 1.32 affirmeth. So Manethon an Egyptian priest, wrote so many lies of his countrie of Egypt that accompteth 340. Pharoes succes∣siuely from Amasis the first Pharao, vnto Amasis the last Pharao: but he is reprooued to his face by Iosephus in both his bookes against Appion the Egyptian, and a scholemaster of Alex∣andria: * 1.33 yet Manethon founde great fault in Herodot for his fa∣bles and lies of Egypt.

But let controuersies passe, all countries haue their fables mingled with trueth: and so I will returne to the histories of * 1.34 the Britaines, whose certeintie and trueth is as sound, and as true to bee prooued, as either Fraunce, Spaine, or any other countrie: whose continuance was without change of name for lōger time, then many bragging kingdoms, whose lawes, whose kings, whose countrie vnconquered longer then any of them both, easie to be prooued by all sound writers: for Spaine was conquered and subdued first by the Carthagineans,

and Affricanes: secondly by the Romanes: thirdly by the Van∣dales: fourthly by the Gothes: and fiftly by the Saracens, who possessed almost all the kingdome of Spaine for 800. yeeres. * 1.35 So may it be said of the change of their names: as Catubales, Iberians, Celtiberians, Hesperians and Spaniards, which during the time of this change, serued the Carthagineans, the Ro∣manes, the Grekes, the Gothes, and the Saracens. The Britaines ne∣uer * 1.36 changed their names since Brutus time, which is 2700. and odde yeeres, which no one kingdome of the worlde can say so much, though in some part it was subdued by the Ro∣manes, and then by the Danes, and last by the Normanes: yet they reserued their names vnchanged, & all the whole coun∣trie of Camber the second sonne of Brutus vncōquered, which of late is called Wales, their auncient name vnchanged, and their language vncorrupted.

So may I speake of the Frenchmen which were called at * 1.37 their first arriuall from Scythia into Germany, Neumagi: then were they called Sicambri: thirdly Franci: and fourthly Galli. So were the Persians, Elamites, Artaeans, and after Cephancs, and last of all Persians: so Egypt was called Oceana, Nilea, Aerea, and last of all, Egypt. To conclude, there is no nation that I can reade of, but were subiect to diuers names, & therby knowē, * 1.38 sauing onely the Britaines, which continue vnto this day: though the Danes beganne to call them Welsh, as they call all strangers Welsh, which was 1800. yeres & odde, as the reignes and gouernmēt of the kings of Britaine do manifestly proue. whose names I neede not to write, for that they be set downe to your viewe in tables printed with the pictures of all the kings of the Britaines: Now after

• 1 Brutus.
• 2 Locrinus.
• 3 Madan.
• 4 Mempricius.
• 5 Ebrancus and
• 6 Brutus, surnamed

Viridescutum, and so forward vntill Rudacus time, the 20. king * 1.39 after Brutus, at what time the kingdome was diuided into foure parts, and gouerned by foure seuerall kings for fiftie yeeres: Rudacus king of Cambria, which is Wales: Pinnor king of

Loegria, which is England, Saterus king of Albania, which is nowe Scotland, and Clotenus king of Cornubia, nowe Cornewall: all the kingdome after fiftie yeeres came to Dunwallus, Clote∣nus sonne, about 700. yeeres after Brutus, and continued vn∣till Elidurus the third, for the space of a 182. yeeres.

And after Elidurus the third, it continued the reigne of * 1.40 thirtie three kings from Elidurus vntill Belinus the great, 185. This Belinus was vncle vnto Cassibelane, who reigned king in Britaine when Iulius Caesar came into Britaine, about a thou∣sand and thirtie yeeres after Brutus: so long was Britaine vn∣conquered, which as I said before: for the spite of Androgeus to Cassibelan, he wrote his letters to Caesar after the first great ouerthrowe of Caesar: of which Lucan the Poet saith.

Territa quaesitis ostendunt terga Britannis Romani, &c.

This Androgeus then Duke of Troinouant, nowe called Lon∣don * 1.41 since king Luds time, promised his aide and helpe with all the Britaines which he coulde make, if after the conquest he should by Caesar be restored to gouerne the Britaines: but Caesar by this meanes brought the Britaines to paye tribute to the Romanes, yet reigned kings in Britaine from Cassibelan lineally vnto Cadwallader for seuen hundred yeres and odde: * 1.42 so that Britaine was gouerned from the first king vnto the last for a thousand eight hundred and odde yeeres, as Guido∣nius affirmeth.

But for that the kings of Britaine are by all their names na∣med, their successiōs & continuance of time writtē in diuers Chronicles of Englande: beside Doctor Powel of late hath written of their ciuill warres, of their kings, their lawes, and * 1.43 gouernments, that I neede not further to write herein: my desire is no lesse to satisfie those that will with reason and au∣thorities bee satisfied, then was M. Coruinus a learned Ro∣mane Orator, willing to please Augustus Caesar for the setting foorth of his familie and his house, in proouing gens Iulia, which was the stocke of the first Emperour Iulius Caesar his vncle, to descende lineally from Ascanius. The historie is writ∣ten

in Coruinus de progenie Augusti, in whose time Coruinus florished; whome Augustus desired to traueile and to set * 1.44 downe the genealogie of his stocke, that being so fortunate an Emperour as hee was, in subduing almost all the king∣domes of the worlde, and captiuating them as Prouinces vnder the Empire of Rome, hee might knowe also whence gens Iulia came, that hee might assure him selfe of the cer∣teintie of his house.

To satisfie this Emperor Augustus being thereunto by him intreated, Coruinus briefely diuided the whole earth into three seuerall partes, Asia, Europe, and Affrike: In this Asia the great is Asia the lesse conteyned: in the which Countrie is a Region named Phrygia, into the which one Dardanus a great prince of Creete that had the daughter of one Teucer gi∣uen * 1.45 him in mariage, came with a great multitude of young men and souldiers to inhabite about the time that Moses dy∣ed, where hee builded a great Citie, and named it after his owne name Dardania, and the inhabitants therein were cal∣led Dardanians.

The fame of this king Dardanus grewe so great, that Teucer his father in lawe came from Creete, with a number of gentle∣men to visite his daughter vnto Dardania in Phrygia, where Dardanus reigned three yeres, after whom succeeded Erictho∣nius * 1.46 75. yeres: after Ericthonius succeded Tros the king of Dar∣dania, which reigned sixtie yeres, by whom Dardania was na∣med Troy, after the kings name: after Tros succeeded Ilus, who reigned 54. yeres, after whom succeeded Laomedon, and reig∣ned 36. yeres: and after him reigned his sonne Priamus named * 1.47 Alexander in histories the sixt and last king of Troy: in whose time Troy was destroyed by the Grecians. This Messala setteth downe in his historie, how Aeneas after the warres came into Italie, and maried king Latinus daughter, succeeded as heire of * 1.48 the king in his kingdom, from whose body lineally descēded these many kings: whose names onely I wil set downe for that I haue in the historie of the Latines written of their continu∣ance and of the time of their gouernment vntill Romulus.

• ...

• 1 Aeneas.
• 2 Ascanius.
• 3 Siluius. * 1.49
• 4 Aeneas Siluins.
• 5 Latinus Siluius.
• 6 Alba Siluius.
• 7 Capetus Siluius.
• 8 Capis Siluius.
• 9 Calpetus Siluius.
• 10 Tiberinus Siluius.
• 11 Agrippa Siluius.
• 12 Alladius Siluius.
• 13 Auentinus Siluius.
• 14 Procas Siluius.
• 15 Amulius Siluius.
• 16 Numitor Siluius which was both grādfather by the mother side & vncle by the father side vnto Romulus.

M. Coruinus wrote vnto Augustus the whole historie of the kings of Alba, vntill Romulus time, and prooueth plaine in his booke, that the noble Emperour Augustus proceeded from the house of Aeneas, that gens Iulia came lineally from the bo∣dy * 1.50 of Iulo, which was the surname of Ascanius: some affirme the contrary. Yet Coruinus, an auncient antiquarie liuing in the time of Augustus, and writing his booke to Augustus at the earnest request of the Emperour Augustus, affirmeth all this to be, which Halicarnas. in all pointes alloweth: but what is to proue the Britaines to come from the Troians? or to proue Brutus to come to Englād, as much & more it maketh proofe, that Brutus came to this land, as Aeneas came to Italie: the one is prooued by a number of Romane writers, the other by so many of both Romane and Britaine authours, and yet Aeneas is by some enrious writers denied to come to Italie, as Brutus is to come to Britaine, of whom Dionys. Halic. saith, Scriptores partim ignorati, partim inuidia dissimulati de aduentu Aeneae in * 1.51 Italiam.

The historie of Aeneas, and the historie of Brutus, after the destruction of Troy, is one of the most auncient histories of the Gentiles, though in some it bee fabulous, as all prophane histories be in many pointes: yet from these Troians, as from the first originall of their kings and Emperours, both the Ro∣manes and the Frenchmen are by some of their owne best wri∣ters proued: of whom Aemilius writes of their antiquitie.

It is most likely that euery Countrie hath more care of it

selfe then of other countries, and rather French writers are to be beleeued in the histories of Fraunce, then forreigne wri∣ters: so of the Romanes, of the Grecians, and of all other coun∣tries as Myrsillus saith, Plus vicinis quàm remotis, & multò plus genti ipsi quàm extremis credatur: and yet who seeth not, but both the Romanes, the Grecians, the Frenchmen, and all nati∣ons, aduaunce their countries with best histories, and passe * 1.52 lightly ouer many histories that makes against their Coun∣tries? But as Diodorus Siculus describeth Britaine, by the name of Britaine, to be fertill and plentifull in corne, cattell, iron, with diuers other commodities: so doeth Strabo commende the Britaines to bee people farre bigger and taller then the Frenchmen are, in these wordes: Britannorum statura supra * 1.53 Gallos procera, &c. and after he reporteth of certaine Britaines which he himselfe sawe at Rome in the time of Augustus Caesar, of bigger bodies, and of taller stature then any Romane, by halfe a foote: for saith Strabo, Vidimus puberes Britannos longis∣simi corporis nostris indigenis semipede celsiores.

But to be short, as it was among the Iewes permitted to the Talmudistes to write their countrie histories, to the Indians * 1.54 Gymnosophists to write of India: the olde Gaules committed the olde recordes and Chronicles of their Countries to their * 1.55 wise men called Druydes: the olde Hispaniards, during the * 1.56 time of their kings, and long after euen vnto the Romanes time, had the antiquaries called Turdetani, to write the Chro∣nicles * 1.57 of their Countries: and euen so among the olde Bri∣taines were called Bardi, to recorde their antiquitie and their histories, men of like credite and estimation among the Bri∣taines, * 1.58 as were these before named in their Countries: with∣out whose consent and councell if any man wrote concer∣ning the state and antiquitie of their countrie, hee should be punished according to the custome of the Countrie. It is ea∣sily spoken, there was no Troy: but all countries haue allow∣ed it, time hath confirmed it, both Greeke and Latine histories haue written of it.

It is soone saide, There was no such Brutus: but continu∣ance

of time, succession of kings, possession of the countrie doe proue the contrary. If neither Geraldus being of the time of Richard the second, neither Gildas long before Geraldus, li∣uing in the time of Claudius Augustus the Emperour, both singularly learned, if neither consent of time, succession of kings, the antiquitie of the historie, nor the affinitie of tongues, which no Grecian can denie, (for we holde the aun∣cient names of riuers, townes, mountaines, and other monu∣ments euen from Brutus time in the selfe same tongue that Brutus spake.)

Let them giue some credite to Pont. Varunnius, Iulius Caesar, who said, Gens ex nostra prosapia est, being proued by M. Corui∣nus, and Halicarnassaeus, lineally to descend from Aeneas. What shoulde I write more? Inuidia serra animae: and truely is that spoken, that three good vertuous mothers had three wicked vicious daughters:

• Familiaritie the mother of contempt.
• Peace and quietnesse, the mother of idlenesse.
• And Trueth the mother of hatred.

Yet in spite of that scorpion, Su•…•…s ex merito quemque tuetur ho∣nor. The historie of Belinus the great, whose daughter named * 1.59 Cambra was maried to Marcomirus sonne, the first king from whom the Frenchmen since their comming to Germany flori∣shed by the name of Sicambri, after the name of Cambra the Britaine: the historie of Brenus his brother are wel knowē with forreigne writers: so of Rodericus the great, of Leoninus the * 1.60 great, who are in the Britaine historie as much cōmended, as Pompey the great, or Constantine the great among the Romanes: * 1.61 for as Pyrrhus saide, Italie was not to be subdued but by Italians, neither Rome but by the Romanes: euen so the Britaines were not to be ouerthrowen but by Britaines.

And here I end.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sempron. de Ital.
• * 1.2

  Fabius Pictor de aureo seculo.
• * 1.3

  Mar. Cato de originibus.
• * 1.4

  Berosus and Manethon wrote vn∣knowen histo∣ries.
• * 1.5

  Talmudists fa∣bulous.
• * 1.6

  The priestes of Egypt, Mithici.
• * 1.7

  No prophane writers known before Cyrus time.
• * 1.8

  The vncer∣taintie of pro∣phane histo∣ries.
• * 1.9

  Daniel a true Chronogra∣pher for the 3. last Monar∣chies.
• * 1.10

  The Greekes histories more fabulous then the Latines.
• * 1.11

  Fab. Pictor de orig.
• * 1.12

  M. Cato de or•…•…g. Ital.
• * 1.13

  Semp. de diu. Ital.
• * 1.14

  Myrsilus de bello Pelasgico.
• * 1.15

  Halicar. lib. 1.
• * 1.16

  Contention betweene the Scythians and the Egyptians.
• * 1.17

  Pythagoras au∣thoritie with his schollers was no more but 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.18

  Picts inuaded Britaine.
• * 1.19

  Pont. Virunnius
• * 1.20

  Brutus from Italie.
• * 1.21

  Ianus from Chaldea.
• * 1.22

  Marcomirus from Scythia.
• * 1.23

  Albalonga builded by Ascanius.
• * 1.24

  Reade Dyonis. Halicar. of this historie lib. 1.
• * 1.25

  Halic. lib. 1. Origo Romani imperij Aeneas.
• * 1.26

  M. Cato de frag. origo.
• * 1.27

  The Romanes. come fromthe Troians.
• * 1.28

  Romanes not knowen to the Grecians before Alex. time, nei ther the Greci∣ans to the Per∣sians, vntill Xerxe, time.
• * 1.29

  Strab. lib. 15.
• * 1.30

  Berosus.
• * 1.31

  Ctesias.
• * 1.32

  Manethon.
• * 1.33

  Ioseph. lib. cont. App. on.
• * 1.34

  The proofe of Brutus cōming into Albion more plaine then of Francus into Fraunce, or of Hispanus into Hispaine.
• * 1.35

  Reade Annius de frag. Hispa∣niae of the sun∣dry names of Hispaniards.
• * 1.36

  The Britaines neuer chāged their names.
• * 1.37

  The diuers & sundry names of the French men.
• * 1.38

  The Persians and the Egyp∣tians were by diuers names called.
• * 1.39

  Britaine diui∣ded for 50. yeeres into foure king∣doms.
• * 1.40

  From Elidurus vnto Belinus the great 185. yeeres.
• * 1.41

  Androgeus the onely cause of Caesars victorie.
• * 1.42

  The kings of Britaine conti∣nued 1800. yeeres.
• * 1.43

  Iu Caesars stock proceeded frō gens Iulia.
• * 1.44

  Augusts Caesar desirous to knowe his ge∣nealogie.
• * 1.45

  Dardanus mar∣ried the daugh ter of Teucer.
• * 1.46

  The successi∣ons of all the kings that reigned in Troy.
• * 1.47

  Dionys. Halicar lib. 2.
• * 1.48

  Aeneas maried Latinus daugh ter.
• * 1.49

  Dionys Halycar Annius, & M. Coruinus, set downe these kings in this sott.
• * 1.50

  Augustus Caesar lineally pro∣ceeded from Aeneas.
• * 1.51

  Dionys. Halicar lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.52

  Diodor. lib. 2.
• * 1.53

  Strab. lib. 4.
• * 1.54

  Talmudists.
• * 1.55

  Gymnosophists.
• * 1.56

  Druydes.
• * 1.57

  Turdetani.
• * 1.58

  Bardi.
• * 1.59

  Belinus the great.
• * 1.60

  Rodericus the great.
• * 1.61

  Leoninus the great.