The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present as also how long each of them reigned, how many of them came to untimely ends, either by imprisonments, banishments, famine, killing of themselves, poyson, drowning, beheading, falling from horses, slaine in battells, murthered, or otherwise / written by John Taylor ... Taylor, John, 1580-1653. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64190 of text R10068 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T492). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A64190) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 49530) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 552:2) The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present as also how long each of them reigned, how many of them came to untimely ends, either by imprisonments, banishments, famine, killing of themselves, poyson, drowning, beheading, falling from horses, slaine in battells, murthered, or otherwise / written by John Taylor ... Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 32 p. [s.n], London : 1649. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800. A64190 R10068 (Wing T492). civilwar no The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present. As also how long eac Taylor, John 1649 6790 108 0 0 0 0 0 159 F The rate of 159 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2001-00 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2001-08 TCP Staff (Michigan) Sampled and proofread 2001-10 TCP Staff (Michigan) Text and markup reviewed and edited 2001-11 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Number and Names of all the Kings of ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND , From the beginning of their Governments to this Present . As also how long each of them Reigned , how many of them came to untimely Ends , either by Imprisonments , Banishments , Famine , Killing of themselves , Poyson , Drowning , Beheading , falling from Horses , Slaine in Battells , Murthered , or otherwise . Written by John Taylor , at the Signe of the Poets Head , in Phoenix Alley , neer the middle of Long Aker , or Covent Garden . LONDON , Printed in the Yeare 1649. NOVERINT VNIVERSI . BE it known unto all men &c. History hath such sorce and vertue that it wil make a man a Traveller that never went 10. miles from home ; it will describe unto him Cities , Countries , Manners , Lawes , Customes , Fashions , Wars and Peace both at Sea and Land , it will give him admittance to speake with his hat on to the greatest Emperours , Princes , and Poten●ates , and all sorts of people and Nations that have inhabited the whole world : all this , true and well written Histories will furnish a man withall in his owne chamber . And because great bookes are of great prices , and our large Chronicles are of such high rates , that all men cannot reach to , I have at , mine owne cost , written and caused this Briefe to be Printed . Many Writers do make doubts whether this Land had ever any King called Brute ; but the most Authours do affirme , that when Troy was spoyled by the Greekes , that Prince AEneas fled into Italy , and there he was married to a daughter of Latinus , King of Tuscany , now the Dukedome of Florence , by which Lady he had a son named Ascanius , who was the Father of Silvius Posthumus , and that Silvius was the Father of Brute ; Brute being but 15 years old , unfortunately as he in a Forrest was hunting , slew his Father Silvius with an arrow as he shot into a thicket , thinking he hadshot at a Deere , for which he was banished from that Countrey , and shipping himself with a good , or great , number of his followers , he landed here , and was the first King of this Land . This is the opinion of many grave Writers , but divers learned men do oppose those Authors . For my part , I am sure that one King or other did reigne here when this Land was first a Kingdome , and because it beares the ancient name of Brittain or Brutaine , I do hold with su● . Authours , as for Brute do hold with me . Anno Mundi 2858. Yeares before Christ 1108. 1 BRute raigned 24. yeeres : to his 3. sonnes Locrinus , Camber , and Albanact , hee gave to the first England , to the second Wales , to the third Scotland . 2 Locrine raigned 20. yeers ; he beat the Hunns ( or Hungarians ) hence , who would have invaded this land , and their King was drowned in Humber . 3 Queene Guendoline ( wife of Locrine ) raigned 15 yeers , beloved and honored for her just and vertuous government . 4 Madan raigned 40. yeeres , was eaten by Wolves , as he was hunting● he was fierce and tyrannous : he built Doncaster . 5 Mempricius , the son of Madan , raigned 20. yeers , and at last ( like his father ) was devoured by Wolves . 6 Ebrank , built Yorke , and reigned 21 yeeres : he had by 21. wives , and other females , 20. sonnes , and 30. daughters : he lived in the times of K. David and K. Solomon . 7 Brute 2. raigned 12. yeers , buried at York . 8 Leile raigned 25. yeers , built Carlile , and some say Chester . 9 Rudhudibras raigned 29. yeers , built Canterbury , Winchester , and Shaftsbury . 10 Bladud raigned 20. yeers , built Bathe , brake his neck in practising to flie . 11 Leire raigned 40. yeers : he built Leicester , before Christs birth 830 yeers . 12 Cordelia , the Daughter of Leire , raigned 5. yeers : kild her selfe in prison . 13 Morgan and Cunedague were brothers , and grandchildren to Leire : they ruled together , but Cunedague slew Morgan at Glamorgan in Wales , and raigned 33. yeers . 14 Rivallo raigned 46. yeers : it rained bloud 3. dayes in his time : Rome was built out of the putrefaction of the bloud that fell : it bred swarms of hornets and horseflies , that stung many folks to death ; insomuch that with famine , and other calamities , there died so many that they which lived were not enough to bury the dead . 15 Gurgustus raigned 38. yeers : a most vicious Drunkard , and his Brother , 16 Sicilius raigned 49. of both which our Histories make no good mention . 17 Iago raigned 25. yeers : a wicked Prince : he died of a sleepy Le●hargy . 18 Kimmarus raigned 54. yeers . 19 Gorbo●ug raigned 63. yeers , as some write and some write but 42. let the Reader beleeve as he pleaseth . 20 Ferex and Porex were brethren : they were the last Princes of the Race of Brute ; Porex killed Ferex ; to revenge which their mother kild Porex , by which meanes this Land was without a King , and at division many yeares , and shared into 5. petty kingdomes . Some say Ferex and Porex raigned 50. yeers , and others write but 5. 21 M●lmutius Donwallo raigned 40. yeers : hee was the sonne of a Cornish Duke , named Clotton : he brought this Land againe into one Monarchy , and was the first King that wore a Crowne of Gold . 22 Belinus and Brennus were brethren , and shared this Land betweene them ; but ( disagreeing ) Brennus was forced from hence into France , from whence hee went and wan Italy , ransackt Rome , and at a siege of Delphos in Greece , he slew himselfe : Belinus raigned 26. yeers : he builded the Port called Belingsgate . 23 Gurguintus raigned 19. yeeres , hee overcame the Danes , hee sent many scattered and distressed Spaniards to inhabite Ireland . 24 Guinthelinus raigned 26. yeeres : hee built Warwicke . 25 Cecilius raigned 7. yeers , and was buried at Caerleon in Wales . 26 Kimarus raigned 3. yeers : a wicked King , kild by a wild Beast in hunting . 27 Elanius raigned 9. yeers : histories make little mention of him . 28 Morindus raigned 8. yeers : he fought with a ravenous Sea-monster , which had devoured many people , who also devoured the King , but hee killed the Monster afterward , for he was found dead with his dagger in his hand , in the belly of his devourer . 29 Gorbomanus raigned 11. yeers : a good King , built Cambridge and Gra●ham . 30 Archigalo , ●lidurus , Vigenius , and Peredurus , 31 were crowned and deposed again , and with 32 shusfling fortunes these 4. Kings raigned 28. yeers . From the time of Elidurus to King Lud , there reigned in this Land 33. Kings , of whom Historians doe make very various , or little mention , I will therefore but only name them . Gorbonian raigned 10. yeers , Morgan 14. Emerianus 7 , deposed . Ival 20. Rimo 16. Geruncius 20. Catillus 10. hee caused all oppressors of the poore to be hanged . But since that time they have increased much . Coylus raigned 20. yeers , Ferex 5. Chirimu 1 he kild himselfe with excessive drinking . Fulgon raigned 2. yeers , Eldred 1. Androgius 1. Eliud 5. Dodamius 5. Gurginius 3. Merianus 2. Blodunus 2. Capenus 3. Quinus 2. Sillius 2. Bledgabredus 10. Rodianus 2. Archemalus 2. Eldalus 2. Redargius 3. Samullius 2. Penisellus 3. Pirhus 2. Caporus 2. Dinellus 4. Helius ( or Elius ) 1. From this King the I le of Ely had its name . Of these Kings , 24. of them had very short times of either lives or raigns ; 4 of them raignd but 4 yeers , ( that is to say , each of them raignd but one yeere ) and in that course 11 of them reigned 22 yeares ( to years each , as many years as Eares ) 4 reigned each three yeares , and one reigned 4 years ; 3 had the happy , or unhappinesse to beare the royall toile , hazard and slavery each 4 years . But although Records and Histories are burnt , lost , and falsified , by the injury of warres , alteration of times , and partiality or flattery of Writers , that there is no mention made by what meanes all these Kings did come to their long homes in so short a time . It is more then conjecturable , that they died not all in their beds . 64 King Lud reigned 11. yeers : he named Troy-novant , ( or this City of new Troy ) Kair-Lud , or Lu●stowne : hee enlarged the building of London , from Ludgate ( which he founded for Freemen to lie in bondage ) to London stone , which stone was set up in memory of Lud , 60. yeeres before the Incarnation of our Saviour . 65 Cassibelane raignd 17. yeers : the 2. sonnes of Lud and Cossibelane fild this Land with blody contention , that whilst they strived for the mastry , Julius Caesar came in and mastred them . 66 Theomancius the son of Lud raigned 22. yeers : all that I can write of him is , that in memory of his Father and himselfe , his statue is on Ludgate . 67 Cimbelinus raigned 21. yeers : in his Raigne the Heavens did raine the showres , flouds , innundations of gratious love and favour to most miserable Mankinde ; for in this Kings time our blest Redeemer Jesus Christ was borne . 68 Guiderius raigned 21. yeers : in his time our Saviour suffered ; then Tiberius Caesar was Emperour of Rome , and commanded the knowne world . 69 A●viragus 28 yeares , a valiant man ; he founded and built Gloucester . 70 Marius reigned 53 years , he did much for the repairing of the Citie of Chester ; in his time , it is written , that good Joseph of Aramathea came hither , and taught the people Christianitie at Glastonbury in Somersetshire ; some Writers say that he was buried there , in a Chappell of his owne erecting , of which I saw the ruines and rubbish remaining in the yeare of grace , 1649. 71 Coylus the second reigned 55 years ; he built Coylchester , and was interred at York . 72 Lucius was the first King , of any Land a Christian , by the meanes and perswasion of godly men whom Elutherius Bishop of Rome sent hither , the King and People were brought from Paganisme to Christianity : Lucius cast downe 28 Heathen Temples , and erected Churches for Gods service . He reign'd 12 years , buried at Glocester , Anno Christi , 194. 73 Severus was an Emperour of Rome , he reign'd 18 years , he made a strong wall between England and Scotland , to secure us from the Invasion of the Scots , the wall was 112 miles in length , from the River Tyne to the Scottish Seas . Hee was slaine 78 years of age . 74 Bassianus reigned 6 years , he was Emperour of Rome , and son to Severus . 75 Ca●rasius reign'd 7 years , slaine by Alectus our first English Martyr ( Saint Alba● suffred martyrdome in his time . 76 Alectus was a bloudy Tyrant , reign'd 3 year killed by Asclepiodates . 77 Asclepiodates reign'd 2 yeares , as some do write , others relate 30 years ; he was all slain by Coyle Duke of Colchester . 78 Coyle Duke of Colchester reign'd 14 years , h● married Hellen who was the mother ● the Emperour Constantine , she beautifie●Jerusalem , with many faire buildings an● Churches , and she also walled London an●Colchester , where Coyle was buried , An. 315● 79 Constantius reigned 4 years , a good King , buried at York . 80 Constantine the great was an English m●●orne , he was Emperour of the Christia● world ; he was the Founder of Constant●nople , which was an old ruin'd Towne called Bizantium , he was zealous for God glory , for which he was honoured o● earth , and doubtlesse eternally glorified● He raigned 22. yeers . 81 Constantinus raigned 5. yeers , and his brothe● 82 Constantius 3. yeers : these were the sonnes●● the great Constantine : they raigned together , and together by the eares they fell , and never agreed till death made an end of the quarrell . 83 Octavius ( as some do relate ) raigned 54. yeers : he was Duke of Windsor ; hee was slaine by Traherus who succeeded him . 84 Traherus raigned 6. yeers , An. Dom. 353. 85 Constantius 2. raigned 1. yeer , slain by Gratia● . 86 Maximinianus raignd 1. yeer , slain by Gratian . 87 Gratian reigned not one full yeer , was slain : This Land at this time shook off the Roman oppression , having beene vassalls and payd tribute to Rome 483. yeers , An. Do. 446 88 Vortiger raigned 6. yeers : hee was an Usurper , and by his murthering of his lawfull Prince Constans , ( the son of Constantius 2. ) he gat the Crowne , and the peoples inveterate hatred ; insomuch that he was forced to send for Saxons out of Germany to ayd him against his owne subjects ; which Saxons not onely ayded , but invaded the whole Land , and Vortiger was deposed , and afterwards hee and his Queene burnt to death , by firing of the house where they lodged . 89 Vortimer the son of Vortiger ; raignd 11. yeers ; he was victorious against the Saxons , but was poysoned by his wife . 90 Aurelius Ambrose raigned 32. yeers ; a good King , yet was poysoned . 91 Uter Pendragon , ( which in Welsh is a Dragons head ) he cornuted a Duke of Cornewall , by corrupting the Dutchesse Igrene , on whom he begot Englands & the Christian Worlds Worthy ( Arthur ; ●●er was poisoned by the Saxons , after he had raigned 18. yeers . 92 Arthur raigned 16. yeers : hee was King of England , Denmark and Norway . He beat the Infidels and misbeleeving ●aracens in 12. great Battels : he instituted the Order of Knights of the Round Table at Winchester . He had a kinsman named Mordred , who ( in Arthurs absence ) usurped the Crowne ; but Arthur fought with the Rebels , slew Mordred their Leader , and in the fight lost his owne life , and won the name and fame to bee one of the 9. Worthies ; he was buried at Glastenbury . An. Dom. 541. 93 Constantine , ( some have written him the 4. of of that name ) raigned 3. yeers , was kild by his successor . 94 Aurelius Conanus raigned 33. yeers : Writers differ much in writing of this King , and the variation of times that were then : for this Land was divided by the Saxons into 7. Kingdomes , and in the time of 500. and od yeers following , they had to each Kingdome these Kings under named ; and those Lands , Shires , and Counties heerunto annexed . 1. Kent , the first Kingdome of the 7. Divisions , had to its first King Hengist , 2. Esk , 3. Octa , 4. Ymerick , 5. E●helbert , a good Christian King , he built St. Pauls London , and St. Peters at Westminster , 6. Eabald , 7. Ercombert , 8. Egbert , 9. Lother , 10. Edrick , 11. Wi●hed , 12. Edbert , 13. Edelbert , 14. Alick , 15. Ethilbert , 16. Cuthred , 17. Baldred : These 17. Kings raigned in Kent 372. yeers . 2. The South-Saxons Kingdome was onely Sussex and Surry : it continued under 5. Kings 113. yeers : and though Histories doe not mention their deaths , it seemes they died naturally , because so few Kings raigned so long in such cut-throat times as those were . 3. The third Kingdome was the tumultuous , it endured 561. yeers : it had 17. Kings , and contained the Counties of Cornewall , Devonshire , Somersetshire , Wiltshire , Hampshire , and Berkshire . 4. The East-Saxons , they raigned only over Essex and Middlesex ; they continued under 14. Kings 281. yeeres . 5. Northumberland had 23. Kings : it consisted of 6. Shires and Counties ; namely , Yorkeshire , Durham , Lancashire , Westmerland , Cumberland , and Northumberland . It was divided into 2. Kingdomes ; it lasted 379. yeers . 6. The East Angles bounds , were Suffolke , Northfolke , Cambridgeshire , and the Isle of Ely : under 15. Kings it continued 353. yeers . 7. The seventh , last , and greatest , was the Kingdome of the Mercians , it had 20. Kings : it continued 497. yeeres : it contayned 17. Counties ; Northampton , Leicester , Darby , Lincoln , Huntingdon , Nottingham , Rutland , Cheshire , Staffordshire , Oxfordshire , Worcestershire , Glocestershire , Shropshire , Bedfordshire , Warwickshire , Hartfordshire , & Buckinghamshire : All this while I finde that the Welchmen held their owne ; for there is no mention that any of those wrangling petty Kings had possession of so much as one Village in Wales . 95 Vortiporus raigned 4. yeeres , an incestuous Prince , with his Wives Daughter . 96 Malgo raigned 5. yeers ; hee murthered his Wife , and lived incestuously with his brothers Daughter . 4. Learned men were sent from Rome hither , to convert the Idolatrous Heathen Saxons , from Paganisme to Christianity : their names were Augustine , Melltius , John and Justus . 97 Careticus raigned 3. yeers , and being oppressed with the Saxons , he fled for saie●y into Wales , where he died . 98 Cadwane raigned 22. yeers , he tamed the Saxons of Northumberland . 99 Cadwallin raigned 48. yeers , a brave victorious Prince : hee was buried in London at St. Martins Ludgate . 100 Cadwallader raigned 3. yeers , a valiant and vertuous King : he was the last King of this Land called Britaine till his time , for then it was , and not till then , named Anglia , and the men English men . Cadwallader went to Rome , and died there . 101 Athelstane was a valiant noble Prince : hee raigned 15. yeers , he brought this Land to be but one Kingdome againe , after it had beene divided into 7. neere 600. yeeres : he was Crowned at Kingstone , and buried at Malmsbury , Anno Dom. 940. 102 Edmund raigned 5. yeers : he was son to Athelslane , slaine , and buried at Glastenbury . 103 Eldred raigned 9. yeers : the Da●es were entred heer and opprest the people , and banished him : he was buried at Winchester . 104 Edwin raigned 5. yeeres , was crowned at Kingstone ; he was deposed for being an incestuous ravisher of his own kinswoman , & murdring hir husband . 105 Edgar raigned 16. yeers , he was brother to Edwin , ( by birth , but not by nature ) Edgar was crowned at Bathe : he was a vigilant , a valiant , and a pious Prince , he had a navie of 3000. ships ( as some have written ) to scowre the Seas from Enemies and Pirats , hee built , and repayred of Churches and Religious Houses , the number of 47. He took 8. petty Kings of Wales prisoners , and they Rowed him in his Barge on the River Dee , to his Parliament at Chester : buried at Glastenbury . 106 Edward raigned 3. yeeres , crownd at Kingstone , murdered by his mother in law , and his unnaturall brother Etheldred , buried at Shaftsbury . 107 Etheldred raigned 38. yeers , he caused all the Danes to be slaine , or expeld out of England , he was buried in St. Pauls London . 108 Edmond ( sirnamed Ironside ) raigned 2. yeers , Canutus King of Denmarke came with a mighty power of Danes , to revenge their Nations being banished & kild in the time of K. Etheldred , but Edmond and Canutus cōbated singly , with condition that the Surving Victor should have all the Kingdom : The Royall Combatants fought gallantly , till through many wounds , & much blou● lost , they fell both downe in each others armes , and embraced : Then they agreed , that the Kingdome should be divided into halfes between them , and the longest liver take all ; which agreement they lovingly kept till a Traytor named Edricus , murdered K. Edmond ; for the which the Danish K. Canutus , put Edricus to death with most grievous exquisite torments . 109 Canutus raigned 20. yeers , buried at Winchester , An. Dom. 1038. 110 Harold the first raigned 3. yeers . 111 Hardicanutus raigned 3. yeers : This King was given so much to excessive drinking , that hee dranke himselfe to death at Lambeth : in joyfull memory wherof the merry Hock Mondaies were kept ye●rly , with dancing , and friendly meeting of neighbours , which some ( that have beene mistakingly thought wise ) have judged to be Popery . 112 Edward , called the Confessor , raigned 23. yeers ; he freed this Land from Danish slavery , having no heire , gave his Kingdome by Will , to his Kinsman William Duke of 113 Normandy , but Harold● crownd himselfe King , and in the ninth month of his raign , Duke William came , kild , and unkingd King Harold . Thus ended the Raignes of the Britaines , Romanes , Saxons and Da●s in this Land , from the yeer of the Wo●lds Cre●●ion 2858. before the birth of Christ 1108. yeers , which was 1150. yeeres : then ( by Deed of Gift , some write by Conquest ) William the first came hither , after a bloudy battell , neere Hastings in Sussex , with the slaughter of 70000. men on both sides , the Norman Duke was crowned an English King on Christmasse day following : he had a troublous raigne 21. yeers . 115 William 2 ( sirnamed R●fus ) raigned 13. yeers , hee was slaine in Newforrest in stead of a Deere , as he was hunting , buried at Winchester . 116 Henry the first raigned 35. yeeres , in much vexation , he was buried at Redding . 117 Stephen raigned 19. yeeres , in continuall trouble ; buried at Feversham . 118 Henry 2. raigned 34. yeers , in much unquietnesse . One of his sonnes named Jeffrey was troden to death in a throng at Paris : also his son Henry he caused to be crownd King in his own life time , which afterward vext him much : and ( to loade him with more afflictions ) his wife , with his sonnes Richard and John , raysed Armes against him ; he died in France , buried at Fonteverard , 1189. 119 Richard the first , called Cor de Lion , raigned 9. yeers , slaine . 120 John raigned 17. yeers , some have written that he was poysoned by a Monke , others write , he surfeited with eating Peaches . 121 Henry 3. raigned 56. yeers , and after a long , tedious , and troublesome life , had the miraculous fortune to die in his bed . 122 Edward the first raigned 35. yeeres . 123 Edward 2. raigned 19. yeers , murdered at Barklay Castle . 124 Edward 3. raigned 50. yeers , was buried at Sheen● , 1378. 125 Richard 2. raigned 22. yeers , murdered at Pomfret Castle . 126 Henry 4. raigned 14. yeers , buried at Canterbury . 127 Henry 5. raigned 9. yeers , buried at Westminster , 1422. 128 Henry 6. raigned 37. yeeres , murthered in the Tower . 129 Edward 4. raignd 22. yeers , buried at Winsor 130 Edward 5. was never Crowned , raigned o● murdered . 131 Richard 3. raigned not 3. yeers , slaine . 132 Henry 7. raigned 23. yeers , buried at Westminster , 1509. 133 Henry 8. raignd 37. yeers , buried at Winsor . 134 Edward 6. raigned 7. yeers , buried at Westminster . 135 Mary raigned 5. yeers , buried at Westminst. 136 Elizabeth raigned gloriously 44. yeeres . 137 James raigned 22. yeers , a learned man , a Poet , a Poets friend , and a peaceable King , buried at Westminster . 138 Charles raigned 24. yeers , Beheaded . Scotland began to bee a Kingdome 339. yeeres before the comming of our Savior : it hath been neere 2000. yeers under 108. Kings . Anno Mundi 1641. Years before Christ 330. 1 FErgus raigned 25. yeeres , he was a gallant spirited man , and was drowned by storm & shipwrack , neer Carigfergus in Ireland . 2 Fe●harius raigned 15. yeers , murthered . 3 Mainus raigned 29. yeers , he died in peace . 4 Do●nadilla raigned 28. yeeres , lived and died peaceably . 5 N●●hatus raigned 20. yeeres , a wicked man ; he was killed . 6 Reutherus raigned 26. yeeres , a good King . 7 Reutha raigned 14. yeers , hee voluntarily left the Crowne , and lived private . 8 Thereu● raigned 12. yeeres , was banished by his subjects , died at Yorke . 9 J●●●●a raigned 24. yeers , in peace . 10 ●●●●●●anus raigned 3● . yeers . 11 Du●●u● raigned 9. yeers , a cruell tyrant ; he was slaine . 12 Evenus raigned 19. yeers , a just King . 13 Gillus raigned 2. yeers , he was bastard to Evenus , was cruell , was slaine . 14 Evenus 2. raigned peaceably 17. yeers . 15 Ederus raigned 48. yeers , a good King . 16 Evenus 3. raigned 7. yeeres , a wicked man , he died in prison . 17 Metellanus raigned 39. yeers , a good King . 18 Caractacus raigned 20. yeers , about this time our Saviour was borne . 19 Corbredus raigned 18. yeers , a good King . 20 Dardanus raigned 4. yeers , he was by his own subjects beheaded . 21 Corbredus 2. raigned 35. yeers , a good King . 22 Lugtharus raigned 3. yeers , he loved bloudshed and lechery , and was murdred . 23 Mogallas raigned 36. yeers , a good man at first , but turnd bad , and was murdred . 24 Conarus raigned 14. yeers , a tyrant , was deposed , died in prison . 25 Ethodius the first , raigned 33. yeers , murdered by an Irish Harper . 26 Satraell raigned 4. yeeres , by his owne servants hee was murdred . 27 Donald the first , and first Christian King of Scotland , in Anno 199. he raigned 18. yeers . 28 Ethodius the second , raigned 16. yeers , by his owne Guard he was murdred . 29 A●hrico raigned 12. yeeres , a wicked King ; for his bad life his Noble men did rise against him so furiously , that to escape them he kild himselfe . 30 N●●●alocus raigned 11. yeeres , a tyrant , and was murdred , and cast into a Privy . 31 Findocus raigned 11. yeeres , was murdered by counterfet Huntsmen . 32 Donald 2. raignd one yeer , he was slaine . 33 Donald 3. raigned 12. yeers , he was a tyrant , and slame . 34 Crathil●●hus raigned 24. yeeres , he delighted in goodnes , he advanced Christian Religion , he lived peaceably , and died in peace , Anno 277. 35 Fincormachus raigned 47. yeeres , hee was pious and couragious , died in peace . 36 R●machus raigned 3. yeeres , hee was a cruell tyrant , beheaded . 37 A●gusianus raigned 3. yeeres , a good King , and slaine in ●ighting with the Picts . 38 E●●h●macus raigned 3. yeeres , murdered by treason of an Harp●r . 39 Eugenius the first raigned 3. yeers , slaine by the Picts and Roman● , in battell ; and all the Scotch people were forced to forsake their Country 44. yeeres . 40 Vergus 2. raigned 16. yeers , he recovered his Country valiantly fighting with Romanes and Picts , yet at last was slaine . 41 Eugenius 2. raigned 32. yeers , he was a good King , and died peaceably . 42 Dongardus raigned 5. yeers , a just couragious Prince . 43 Constantine the first raigned 22. yeeres , murthered by one of his Lords , whose daughter he had ravished . 44 Congalus the first , raigned 22 yeers . 45 Goranus raigned 34. yeeres , a well governing Prince . 46 Eugenius 3. raignd 23. yeeres , a good King . 47 Congallus 2. raigned 11. yeeres . 48 Kinnatillus raigned one yeer almost . 49 Aidanus raigned 35. yeeres . 50 Kenelihus the first , raigned one yeer . 51 Eugenius 4. raigned 16. yeeres . These 8. wèere good and just Kings , and died naturall deaths : and among all the Chronicles of Scotland , so many Kings successively had not the like fortune . 52 Ferquard the first , raignd 12. yeer , a wicked man , he was cast in prison by his Nobles , where he kild himselfe . 53 Donald 4 raigned 14 yeers , a good King , yet by misfortune drownd in the River Tay , as he was fishing for his Recreation . 54 Ferquard 2 raigned 18 yeers , a bad man , an● a worse king : he was killed by the biti● of a Wolfe , as he hunted . 55 Malduin raigned 20 yeers , his wife was je●lous , and strangled him , for which sh●e w● burnt . 56 Eugenius 5 raigned 4 yeeres , slaine . 57 Eugenius 6 raignd 10 yeeres , a good King● 58 Ambirkelethus raigned little more then ● yeere , he was a vicious Prince , and be● bad was badly used , murdred , Anno 6●● 59 Eugenius 7 raignd 17 yeers , a good King , ●● died in peace . 60 Mordacus raigned 16 yeeres . 61 Etsinus raigned 31 yeers , both good Prince and died peaceably . 62 Eugenius 8 raigned 3 yeers , he was good● first , but hee changing his maners , his Nobles chāged their loyalties , & murdred hi● 63 Fergus 3 raigned 3 yeers , as chast as a Go● was poysoned by his wife . 64 Salvathius raigned 20 yeers , a discreet Kin● 65 Achaius raigned 32 yeers , hee was a goo● King , Charles the Great being then Emperour and King of France , this Scottish King made a League with France , which League was never broken or crackt , although it be almost 900 yeeres old . 66 Congallus raigned 5 yeers . 67 Dongallus raigned 7 yeares , was drowned in the River of Spey . 68 Alpinus raigned 3 yeeres , beheaded by the Scots . 69 Kenneth 2 raigned 20 yeers , for his valour and other Princely vertues , he attained the sirname of Great , hee quite overcame and slew all the Nation of the Picts , and left his Kingdome , ( as he died ) in peace . 70 Donald 5 raigned 5 yeers , a bad life founda bad death , for he kild himselfe . 71 Constantine 2 raigned 16 yeers , slaine , as he fought valiantly with the Danes . 72 Ethus raigned 2 yeers , a wicked Prince , hee died in prison . 73 Gregorius ( who by his prowesse wan the name of Magnus ) raigned 18 yeers . 74 Donald 6 raigned 11 yeers , a good King . 75 Constantine 3. raigned 40 yeers , he was a valiant man , but hee left his Crowne for a Cowle , and died a Religious Monke . 76 Malc●lme the first , raigned 9 yeers , a good King , yet murthered . 77 Indulfus raignd 9 yeers , a couragious Prince , slaine by Danes . 78 Dussus raigned 5 yeeres , was murthered , although a good King . 79 Cudenus raigned 4 yeeres , a vicious Princ● murthered . 80 Kenneth 3. raigned 24 yeeres , a tyrant , h● was murdred . 81 Constantine 4 raigned 2 yeers , an usurper , ●● was slaine . 82 Grimus raigned 8. yeers , a lewd Prince , ● was slaine . 83 Macolme 2. raigned 30. yeers , he was a v●tuous Prince , yet was murthered by ● chiefest Courtiers , who flying away to g● over a frozen River called Farfar , the l●● brake , and the murtherers were drown●● 84 Duncan the first raigned 6. yeeres , a goo● King , murthered . 85 Mackbeth raigned 17. yeers , a cruell tyrant killd . 86 Macolme 3. raignd 36. yeers , a good King , slain● 87 Donald 7. raigned not a yeere , expulst as a● Usurper . 88 Duncan 2. raignd one yeer , an usurper , slaine . 89 Donald 8. raigned 3. yeeres , he was taken by Egar , had his eyes put out , and died in prison lamentably . 90 Edgar raigned 9. yeeres , a good King . 91 Alexander the first , raigned 17 yeers , he was a valiant good Prince , hee was called Alexander the fierce . 92 David the first , raigned 29. yeeres , a worthy King , hee built 11. stately Religious Houses , died in peace at Carlisle , buried at Dumfermling . 93 Macolme 4. raigned 12. yeeres , a maiden unmarried King . 94 William raigned 49. yeers , for his courage sirnamed the Lion . 95 Alexander 2. raigned 35. yeers , a good King . 96 Alexander 3. raigned 17. yeers , died of a fall from a Horse . 97 John Baliol raigned 4. yeeres , Edw. 1. King of England deposed him . 98 Robert Bruce raigned 24. yeeres , a wise , valiant Prince . 99 David 2. raigned 40. yeeres , a good King , was a prisoner 12. yeers in England , 1310. At this time there was scuffling for the Crown , Robert Baliol had the possession , and David the second expeld him , their Raignes are uncertainely written . 100 Robert 2. was the first King of the name of Stuarts 1371. hee was a good King , raigned 19. yeeres . 101 Robert 3. raigned 16. yeeres , a good King , whose life was full of affliction , hiSonne Prince David was famished to death by rebells in Scotland , and his son James was 1● yeeres prisoner in England . 102 James the first , raigned 13. yeers , after hi● 18. yeers imprisoned in England , hee w● slaine by traytors . 103 James 2. raigned 24. yeeres , slaine . 104 James 3. raigned 29. yeeres , slaine at Ban● nockburne field . 105 James 4. raigned 25. yeeres , slaine at ●lod●don field . 106 James 5. raigned 29. yeeres , a good King . 107 Mary daughter to James 5. her raigne wa● sull of trouble , shee was beheaded at Fo●●ringham Castle , after 18. yeeres thra● dome . 108 James 6. raigned 36. yeeres in Scotland , ● most Learned peaceable King . England had 33 Kings before Scotland had any● the number of our Kings were 138 , whereof 2 ; did not die naturall deaths ; for 7 were slain , 6 were murdered , 4 were poysoned , one was burnt , 2 fled the Land , one was beheaded , one dyed with drinking , one was banished , and one● deposed . The Kings of Scotland were in number 108. whereof 21 were slaine , 19 murdred , 3 killed themselves , 4 died in prison , 4 beheaded , 3 drowned , 1 banish'd , and 3 deposed . Thus of all the Scottish Kings , onely 50 dyed naturally , and 58 by casualties . By this short relation may bee perceived that the top of Honour is slippery , and most unsure , where is not to be expected any sure footing , or endurance of standing . For the King of Kings , being the Great and only Disposer of Kings and Kingdomes , hath in his just indignation ( for the peoples transgressions ) turnd and overturnd Monarchies , Principalities , States and Common-wealths . The Assyrian Monarchy began with confusion , and mouldred away to the Persian . The Persian glory was swallowed in the ravenous Gulph of a Grecian Conquest . The Grecian ( like a violent Blaze ) was no sooner in but out , was graspt into the hands of the triumphant Caesars . The Roman Greatnesse overthrew it selfe , with its owne weight ; insomuch that whereas it formerly had all , it hath almost lost all . Our England hath had his share in changings and alterations : first , by the Britaines ; secondly , by the Romans ; thirdly , by the Saxons ; fourthly , by the Danes ; fifthly , by the Normans ; and now lastly , ( by the permission of God ) by our selves . There have beene Commonwealths translated into Kingdomes , as Israel and Judah , and Kingdomes turnd into Commonwealths ; Italy is now divided into more then one , nam●ly Venice , Genoa , Luca , Pisa ; Also the Sw●zers , or Helvetians , are a free State . So are● greatest part of the Netherlands . And since it● the Almighties unresistable will to change the Nations Rule and Government , from a 5. or●● times changed Monarchy , into a Republiqu● I will not repine against divine providence , b● as I was a faithfull servant and subject 45. y● to two Kings , ( who were good Masters to m● so now I must obey the present Government , ●● else I must not expect that I should live und● it , or be protected by it . FINIS .