Philadelphus, or a defence of Brutes, and the Brutans history Written by R. H.

THE CHRONOLOGY OF Clotos offspring.

AFter the yeare of the worldes Creation, 3480. there was ciuill Warre continu∣ally in this Iland for the space of 50. yeares: in which time vainglorious Xer∣xes was weakened of the Greekes, both by Sea and Land: then the 12. Tables of Lawes were brought to Roome: then Euripides was born: then Esdras began to restore the Temple at Ierusalem.

Mulmucy began in the yeare 3530. and raigned 40. yeares: in which time Bellum Peloponnesiacum began and ended: then Socrates died violently by poyson & malice.

Belin began in the yeare 3570. & raigned 26. yeares: in the first fiue yeares he and his brother Bren liued qui∣etly together: in this time Roome was taken of the Gauls: now Aristotle was borne, may the world be glad thereof?

Gurguint began in the yeare 3596. and raigned 19. yeares: in this time Xenophons greeke History is en∣ded: now Alexander the great is borne, to begin a peece of a new world.

Guintelin beganne, 3615. and ruled 26. yeares: in which time Plato dyed, the more the pitie: then Isocrates and Demosthenes plaied their partes with Philip: then the Greeke Monarchy began to go on foote: hereabout Buchanan begins his Scottish kinges, 330. yeares be∣fore Christes Natiuitie.

Sisill began, 3641. and ruled 7. yeares: in this time Alexanders kingdoms were deuided betweene his wor∣thies.

Kymar the second began, 3648. and ruled 3. yeares: in this time Cassander restoreth the Cittie Thebes the 20. yeare after Alexander destroyed it.

Elane began, 3651. and raigned 9. yeares: in this time Seleucus beganne his raigne in Syria, and Demetrius deliuered Athens from the Macedonian yoke.

Morind began 3660. and raigned 8. yeares: in this time Flauius a Secretary published the Ciuill Lawe, which the high Priest onely knew aforetime.

Gorboman began, 3668. and raigned 11. yeares: in which time Decius the sonne deuoted himself to death for his Country Rome in the wars of the Samnites.

Archigall began, 3679. and ruled 5. yeares: in this time the Consul T. Coruncanus began first to professe the Ciuill Law: now Pirrhus the Epyrote made warre with the Romans.

Elidure began, 3684. and ruled 5. yeares: in this time Ptolomeus Philadelphus entertained many learned and wise men.

Archigal began again, 3689. and ruled 10. yeares.

Elidure began againe, 3699. and ruled 2. yeares.

Vigeny and Peredure began, 3701. and ruled 9. years: in this time the 70. translated the Bible into greeke: in this time the first Punick war beganne: now Phalereus the Rhetorician, now Theocritus the Poet, now Euclides the Geometrician, now Aratus the Astrologian liued.

Elidure began again, 3710. and raigned 4. yeares.

Gorboman the second began in the yeare of the world, 3714. and raigned 10. yeares: in this time the people created T. Coruncanus the high Bishop in Roome.

Thus the Time of Clotoes offspring seemeeh to end in the yeare of the word, 3724. and to haue endured 194. yeares in the Rule of Bru∣tany: a verie little time of continuance for so many kings: but all plantes haue not roote alike: some are rooted broadway, as Elmes, and fall quickly: some are rooted downward, as Okes, and stand in the mids of the windes, euen till the violent axe or verie age ouer∣turne them.