The original and growth of the Spanish monarchy united with the House of Austria extracted from those chronicles, annals, registers, and genealogies that yeild [sic] any faithful representation how the houses of Castile, Aragon and Burgundy became knit and combin'd by Thomas Philipot ...

GALLICIA.

GALLICIA or Gallaecia, is bounded on the East with Leon, on the South with Portugall, from which it is separated by the Ri∣ver Minio, on the North with the Cantabrian Ocean, and on the West with the Atlantick. The Ancient Inhabitants were the Gallaeci, whence it assumed its Name, broken into the several Tribes of the B••dyi, Su••ri, Cilini, Capori, and Lemavi.

It was one of the last Provinces which resigned themselves up to the Power of the Romans; en∣couraged to this Noble Defence and asserting of their Liberties by that Chaine of Cantabrian Mountains, with which this Country is almost

interlaced; out of which Consideration it was selected as a Refuge or Sanctuary by those af∣flicted Christians who groaned under the Con∣quest of the Moors.

It was in Times of an Elder Inscription a Limb of Hispania Tarraconensis; after it swelled it self into the Estimate of a Province, and had the Name of Gallicia imposed upon it, being augmented with the Asturia's, and some part of Portugall, and the Old Castile. In the E∣clipse of the Roman Power, the Suevi, a warlike Nation of Germany (accompanying the Vandals and Alani in their Eruptions) invaded Spain, and atchieved the Conquest of this Province. But not satisfied with their new Acquists, they assaulted the Silings, a Collateral Tribe of the Vandalls, then invested in the Possession of Boetica; whom they subdu'd, and by a successful Province extorted that Province from them, animated to this Conquest by the presence of Richila their second King. They not long after improved their Victories by the Addition of Lusitania; but their farther pro∣gresse was intercepted by Theodorick the second, King of the Goths, by whom they were discomsi∣ted and shut up within the Recesses of Gallicia; which they enjoyed untill their final Suppression and Subversion by L••u••igild King of the Goths, about the Year 858. and then this Province was linked to the Gothish Scepter. In Times subse∣quent to this, it was incorporated into the King∣dome of Leon, being Conqueted by retaile and

in pieces from the Intruding Moors by the Kings of that Province. It was first erected into a Kingdome by Alfonso the third, sirnamed the Great, Anno 886. and given to Ordogno, his se∣cond Son, who upon the Decease of his Elder Brother Garcia was entitled to the Crown of Leon likewise, and so Gallicia became once more united to Leon; but so as by particular Compact it was beheld as an independent distinct Realme of it self. But this Connexion was not very per∣manent, for in the Year 955. the Gallicians re∣senting with regret the ill Government of Ray∣mir the third, elected Veramund for their King, who was Son of Ordogno the third, and had the most manifest Title to the Diadem; who being advanced to the Crown of Leon on the Death of Raymir, once more incorporated the two Realms under one Scepter; but it was torn off once more from Leon, by Ferdinand King of Castile and Leon, who gave it unto Garcia his youngest Son, Anno 1067. But it was again reduced under the Sway and Dominion of Leon, by Sancho eldest Son to Ferdinand above mentioned, by whom the Forces of Garcia were broken, and he him∣self made Captive in the Year 1081. never since broken off from Leon and Castile; but when Leon was rent from Castile, being still involv'd with Leon in those Distinctions till that dis••nion of Leon and Castile was sodered together and Cimented in the Person of Ferdinand the second, in the Year 1230. And being thus entwined they

are by Successive Descent brought down to con∣fesse the Diadem of Philip the fourth, now King of ••Spain.