A TRUE RELATION OF A MIGHTY GIANT, named Theutobocus, sometimes King of the Theutons and Cimbrians, overthrown by Consul Marius, 1700 years agone.  
Buried then by the Castle of Langon, near the Town of Romans in the Province of Daufine in France; Whose bones were found of by chance, An. 1613. in a place called to this day, The Giant's ground; and upon his Tomb in graven in old letters Theutobocus Rex.  IN DOMINO CONFIDO  printer's device of Edward Allde 
LONDON, Printed by Edoward Allde, dwelling near Christ Church. 1615.   

A TRUE RELATION OF THE GIANT THEUTOBOCUS.  
AMong the many effects which this great mother and workemistris Nature hath produced in this under-world, the excessive tallness of Giants hath ever held one of the highest ranks upon the Theatre of wonders. Even the holy Scripture in sundry places dtoh bear them witness; And the historiographers in the description of their so huge Colosses & other relations, which the Poets in their Giganto-machies do show the admiration wherein they were had. As also the very Etymology of their name doth infer the same (for Giant signifieth a Son of the Earth) As though it were not of the nature & possibility of men to be get such creatures. Hence the verse Juvenal. Sat. 4.  unde fit ut malim fraterculus esse gigantum, 
Seems to infer an uncouth and extraordinary lineage, as proceeding strangely from the Earth. which is also the cause that some who for their high fortunes thought scorn to have so low a birth, did boldy avouch that their Ancestors were those Angels, which the Greeks' & Latins call Demons and Genii: as if it 
Lactant. Fir. lib. 10. cap. 15.  had been impossible to Nature to have brought forth such high blood as they thought to be. Or that that great worke-mistrisse should not have been able to have imparted them, both an extreme heat & moisture together, the true causes of this excessive tallness; & to bring this sentence to effect,  Operatur natura quantum, & quandiu potest, Ab extremis 
Picolomin. de scientia civili gradu 10. c. 9 Arist. 9 de natura anima.  ed extrema. Natura enim in suis operationibus non facit saltum. 
It is most true then, that there have been Giants in this world, & that they have had men for their fathers, not only before, but also long after the flood. Otherwise from whence should Goliath have come? from whence Og King of Basan? the first being 6. cubits & a span high, & the bed of the other 9 cubits long; the cubit according to the Greeks' being 2. foot, & to the Latins one foot & a half, from whence all those Amachins in respect of which the Israelits did seem but as grasshoppers? And from whence all the rest mentioned all along the Scriptures?  
Do not the fathers also & almost all Historiographers testify with one consent against all hard believers, that in all ages, since at one time or other, there have been men of such great & extraordinary height?  
S. Austen rehearseth that a little before the Goths affliction there was at Rome a woman-Giant whose Parents did not exceed the common stature. 
Plutarch in vita Sertorii. 3.   
Plutarch (the life & soul of truth & Antiquity) writeth that Sertorius being entered the Town of Tingis in afric, and finding there a mighty, long and huge grave, where then Antheus told him that that famous Antheus of Libya was buried; a hard believer, as many others, upon mere incredulity caused it to be opened, where finding indeed a man's body full 30. cubits long, with much wonder & solemnity did sacrifice unto it peace-offerings, & religiously caused it to be shut again.  
Pliny, most curious in the inquiry of natural things, saith that in old Creta, now of later years called Candia, a great earthquake having turned up a whole mountain, there under was found a dead coarse 46. cubits long, which some did avouch to be the body of Arion.  
Philostratus makes mention of 3. others of the same length, one of whose skulls he could not fill with 72. pints of Candia. Some others have said that one of them was 30. cubits high, the second 22. & the third 12. But because he doth only describe that which was found in the Island of Cos which he saith was 18. foot long, not otherwise meddling with that of Imbros, nor of Lemnos found by Menocrates, I am contented with the most verified things.  
Finally all historians make report of an infinite number of such other great bodies as of that of Orestes being 7. cubits long which was digged up by the commandment of the Oracle; That of whom there are yet some bones to be seen at Valence; As also of a live woman, which Zonaras saith was a long cubit higher than any of the tallest men of her time. And specially of the Emperor Maximinus, which (as saith julius Capitolinus in his life, according to Codrus, did use his wives bracelett as a ring to his finger; pulled and drew whole coaches & carts loaden after him, broke & bruised to dust powder a Topase between his fingers, eat at his meals 50. & 60. pound of flesh, drank a certain measure full, called Amphora Capitolina which is no less than the eight part of an Hogshead; & did weary out 20. 25. & 30. soldiers in wrestling, & beat down to the ground ten of them at once, with many such & greater deeds that cannot but argue an extraordinary strength & bigness.  
And if we will give credit unto Virgil in that great piece of strength he doth attribute to Turnus in his combat against Aeneas, which yet is not likely he would have feigned to grossly, but that he had either read, heard, or seen the like, you may see in the following verses, that he alone pulled out of the ground a huge stone & cast it at his enemy, which hardly 12. other men could have stirred or lifted up.  
I should never end if I would go from time to time relating every particular which is found in the stories, about Giants. One only, & the same now in hand, (belonging to the King of France, which for some special causes he hath most graciously lent to the Printer & bearer hereof) being now in England, is to be seen, as it hath been already through most Protestant Countries, for a present & ready eyewitness unreprovable of what above we have said.  
The same bones Monsieur de Langon, (a worthy Gentleman of Daufine in France) found in a Tomb which lay in a piece of ground of his, called to this day and of old Giants-ground, where he had occasion of building, & therefore of digging, where in by some Tomb was accomplished the Profery of Virgil,  
Gradiáque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris.  
The tomb of these bones, 30. foot long was found some 17 or 18. foot deep under the ground, hard by an old Castle in times past called Chaumont, now Langon, near a little hillock; And the bones within were some putrefied by reason of a certain slow spring which was found there, & what bones soever the water or moisture did touch, became as hard as stone, therefore as heavy. Some are yet naturally light and worm-eaten as commonly old bones are. Some altogether perished, and turned to dust. But by the principal pieces that are here, which are no less than 200. weight (the rest being to heavy to carry easily up and down) the bones of the thigh and leg set together being full 9 foot long, without neither the foot nor the joint; whereby it may easily be perceived, that (what soever the others were, either Orion of 46. foot, or Antheus of 30.) this our Giant could be no less, at the very lest then ●6. foot high; Which yet doth suffice over & above to ravish with admiration, such as shall see those limbs of his.  
For his teeth, whereas S. Austen saith he saw one upon the sea shore at Utica, which was a hundred times greater than any of our common ones; I think I may concur to double that number in those we have 101. hands, to show, whereupon every body may imagine what an oven he had for a mouth, what a gulf for his belly.  
And that I may not longer stand upon every piece we have; whereof the beholders shall be more sure & content to trust their own eyes, than my describing; I'll tell you but a word of the thickness of his vertebres, whereby those that have even any superficial skill in Anatomy may easily judge the whole dimension of our Giant, (according to the proportion of his leg and thigh aforesaid) to have been above 25. foot, every one of his vertebres being almost half a footlong, and the number of them in every man 28. besides those 5. which are called dissimilitudinary, whereupon I durst almost say, he was very near the whole length of the Tomb itself.  
But that which is no less to be noted then his extraordinary height, is his own name, rank and quality thus found inscribed upon his Tomb, THEUTOBOCUS REX, for he indeed was a King or at least one of the Kings, of that famous Army of Theutons, Tigurines, Ambruns and Cimbrians, which Marius defeated upon the borders of France towards Italy, when they were ready to enter and invade it, in the year of the foundation of Rome 642 and before the Incarnation of our Saviour 105. For his name, quality and height Florus tells it us in these few words lib. 3. cap. 3.  
Certe Rex ipse Theutobocus quaternos, senosque equos transilire solitus, vix unum cum f●geret ascendit, proximoque in sal●● comprehensus, ensign spectaculum triumphi fuit, quip vir proceritatis eximia super ●ropha● opsa●manebat.  
King Theutobocus, who was wont to leap over 5. or 6. horses, did scarce get up upon one, when he fled away; And so being taken in the next wood, was a wonderful ornament to the Triumph, for he being a man of an excessive height, was higher than the very trophies for that war. Orosus lib. 5. cap. 16. doth rehearse it a great deal more at length, and surely with a great deal more truth than any, saying that these Barbarians came with their huge Army to assail Marius in his own camp, near the falling of the river Lisere into the Rosne, with whom having had some light skirmishes divers days, at last thinking themselves strong enough, they divided their army in three, and so went three several ways; whereby Marius took time to dislodge, and set his Camp in a place of more advantage upon a little hill, commanding the enemies; from which falling to battle, he did kill 200000. of them and took 8000. prisoners; among the rest making mention of their king which either by error of report, or of former scribes, or late Printers, he calls Theutobodus, who (saith he) did make the victory more glorious by his death. As also afterward the very women, who seeing they could not obtain from Marius, freedom for their bodies, and liberty to serve their own Gods according to their custom, after they had killed, first their own children, and then the most part one another, the rest did hang themselves at their cartwheels, some with ropes, some with their own hairs.  
I know some will say with Plutarch and Florus that Marius did overthrow those Barbariaus in another part of France hard by Aix, & Marseilles in a Province which is far enough from Daufiné; And that the Marsilians did enclose their vines with the bones of those that were the slain, so great the discomfiture was.  
But the answer is ready, that according to the huge numbers whereof this flood of men was compounded, Marius did not overthrow them all at once, by reason also that they had divided themselves, as Orosus saith; and that those who were defeated there, we but the third part which went that way rowards Italy, whom Marius also overtook and cut short after he had overthrown these former. And although Florus make but one of the overthrows at Marseilles and the death of Theutobocus; yet since he himself doth specify the height of that king, and we find him buried in this place, it must needs follow he was not killed very far thence. Finally though we had not those strong likelihoods and proofs we know that the first part of these Barbarians with their king Theutobocus were defeated not far from the place where we have found his Tomb, yet the modalls of the stamp hereunder represented, that have been found therein, marking so clearly Marius, & being so like to those of the Amphitheator of Oranges, all which is also of Marius, do show howsoever and prove without any difficulty, that this our Giant was none else than Theutobocus, a King among these Theutons, and other Barbarians, whom Consul Marius overthrew upon the borders of France either in Daufiné or Provence, brought from wheresoever, and upon what soever occasions, to be buried where we have found him.   

A true Relation of the Bones of Giants, which are to be seen at this day, as well in Germany, Brabant, Flanders, Holland, Freeze, as in Italy, Lorraine, & France.  By, I. B. G. 
THe better to verify that which we report, our Theutobocus of an Almande race, we will speak a word of the bones of Giants which are found at this day in Germany and elsewhere. First in the City of Wornes, which is thought to be builded by the Giants, there is found the tomb of a Giant called Herusfephery or jephem of the Horn, with a certain cloven staff and a stone wherewith he used to salute himself; the which staff is as bog as one could well brace in his arms as long as thirty ordinary paces, and the stone four foot high large downwards ten paces & upward, before in the fashion of a piramyd. And under the Town house there are many bones of divers sorts of divers Beasts very huge, as also divers bones of men, as the broken bones of the arm and thigh of a Giant, which is of the bigness of a foot round & a foot and a half in length, and that of the thigh of the like bigness, but two foot and a half long.  
At Openhoin there is the whole bone of the thigh of a Giant three foot and a half long, and they say he was borne in the same house where the bone remaineth, the house is called until this day, the house of the Giant and is not sold without this bone.  
At Saint Troy there was found within the Rhine An. 1612. the bone of the left thigh of a Giant of the same bigness that this of Theutobocus, four foot long, the which is now at Cleves in the house of Monsieur Wiss●l, of the bones there were none but the inward part of the 
Bocace ch. 68 4 l. del●genealogie des Dieux.  skull besides that of one thigh, yet not altogether whole but somewhat rotten. His teeth were weighed and three of them weighed 100 ounces. The same body was by skilful men judged to have been 200 cubits. And those teeth hang to this day with chains in the Church of Drepano.  
In the Hage hard by the wood there is a Gentleman who hath in his house a thigh bone 3 foot in height, and in thickness one.  
At Rotterdam algardener hath a leg bone two foot long, which he found in an Abbey. 
Holland.   
At Greninghen they hold it for true, of a Church there which hath been builded by Giants without any 
Freeze.  ladder. It is 25 foot in height, round above, after the form of a Drum, and 40 foot in breadth; built upon huge foursquare pillars, and did serve for a kind of house and strong defence to them, 500 year before Christ's coming.  
At Francfort there is a jaw tooth or grinder as they term them, as big as once fi●t which is in the hands of Monsieur Malapert.  
At Darmestat there is in the house of the Prince many bones of Giants.  
At Bona upon the Rhine, there is to be seen a thigh bone of a Giant five foot high.  
At Ladebourg fishermen found the bodies of two Giants the one 30 foot high, the other 22. who took away only the thigh and leg bones of the greatest.  
At Manom near Frankendad, hath been found a hip bone of the bigness of the bullet of a battering Cannon.  
The Duke of Bartens hath a bog bone of a mighty Giants thigh, which hath cost him very dear; And hath been showed of late in Paris at the fair of S. Germane; being 3 foot and a half long.  
And in the time of Cesar there lived a marvelous Giant called Druon, fifteen cubits high full of horrible and cruel tyranny, who lived in a very strong Castle in Brabant situate upon a marish by the side of the river Schaldis; the which Giant constrained all that past that river to leave there the moiety of their merchandises, and if any did fail all was forfeited, and the Merchant lost his hand. Wherefore the place was named Hantwerp, which is as much to say; as cut off the hand, which is now called Anwerp.  
With this Giant fought a Knight of Caesar's called Brarius and bravely slew him, whence it is likely that the word, brave came Those of the town of Antwerp show at this day in their town-house some bones of the said Giant, which are of marvelous greatness.  
At Bruges in the Prison of the town under the gate upon two Irons, there is a thigh-bone bog in the midst, of a foot in roundness, and long three foot and a half, and is said to be of a Giant which builded the prison without a ladder.  
At Stenan in digging the ditches of the Town hath been found the whole bones of a Giant 22 foot high in the time that the Duke of Butkion held it, from the Duke of Lorraine  
Two years since there was found within 3 leagues of Mets the head of a Giant which was as bog as the barrel of a drum, which was returned to the said Duke, saving three teeth which some special Burgesses of that City keep to themselves.  
Bocace affirmeth that in his time in the bottom of a mountain near the city of Drepan in Sicily was found the whole Body of a marvelous Giant, in his full proportion holding a staff club, or rather a t●ee of the form of a mast of a ship, the which staff being touched, went presently to dust, being garnished within with lead, which being melted weighed fifteen quintals, every quintal containing a hundred pound. The Body being likewise touched turned to dust, except some bones and three of his teeth.  
In the Castle of Moulins in the province of Bourthere is the Picture of an huge boned Giant, with a true 
France.  shoulder bone of his, which might well serve for a table to six men.  
All which things are yet, either to be seen to this day, or read in faithful Authors: therefore without doubt so true, as they that will gain say them, must needs be even less than Pigmies in any skill, wit, learning, or judgement, and more than very Giants in ignorance, rudeness and brutishness.  Admire and praise God for his mighty and wondrous works in Heaven and Earth. 
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