second Moses, to encounter the first, upon this his first Ascent; and, as in all the rest, we shall find them sweetly kissing and embracing each the other. And yet I cannot say, his late Highnesse was extracted from so Priestly a Fa∣mily, but altogether as Princely, being lineally descended from the loynes of our most Anti∣ent Brittish Princes, and ty'd in near alliances to the blood of our later Kings, as by that thrice Noble Family of the Barringtons, and divers others; which to make a Petigree of, would take up more paper, than we intend for our Volume, and make me appear more a He∣rald, than an Historian. Nay, indeed, should I but go about to prove, his Highnesse most il∣lustrious House Noble, I should commit a sacri∣ledge in the Temple of Honour, and onely violate his most glorious Family, with a more solemn infamy.
His Highnesse is unquestionably known to have descended from such a stem of Princely Antecessors, that whole Ages, which wast Rocks, and wear out Elements, have never al∣tered to lessen, but rather advance the honour of his great House. He was derived from such a Family, that we may better say of it, than what was of the other, ex qua nescit aliquid Mediocre nasci, from whence nothing ordinary can pro∣ceed; as is likewise made notoriously evident, in those other mosteminent persons of Honour, now living, who are blest with a share of his incomparable blood: who have spread their glory abroad, so well as at home, and built