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, poison, Drowning, Beheading, falling from Horses, slain in battles, murdered, or otherwise. Written by John Taylor, at the sign of the poet's Head, in Phoenix Alley, near the middle of Long acre, or Covent Garden. LONDON, Printed in the year 1649. NOVERINT VNIVERSI. BE it known unto all men &c. History hath such source and virtue that it will make a man a Traveller that never went 10. miles from home; it will describe unto him Cities, Countries, Manners, laws, customs, Fashions, Wars and Peace both at Sea and Land, it will give him admittance to speak with his hat on to the greatest Emperors, 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 withal in his own chamber. And because great books are of great prices, and our large Chronicles are of such high rates, that all men cannot reach to, I have at, mine own cost, written and caused this brief to be Printed. Many Writers do make doubts whether this Land had ever any King called Brute; but the most authors do affirm, that when Troy was spoiled by the greeks, that Prince AEneas fled into Italy, and there he was married to a daughter of Latinus, King of Tuscany, now the dukedom 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 forest was hunting, slew his Father Silvius with an arrow as he shot into a thicket, thinking he hadshot at a deer, for which he was banished from that country, 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 reign here when this Land was first a kingdom, and because it bears the ancient name of Britain or Brutaine, I do hold with su●. Authors, as for Brute do hold with me. Anno Mundi 2858. Years before Christ 1108. 1 BRute reigned 24. years: to his 3. sons Locrine, Camber, and Albanact, he gave to the first England, to the second Wales, to the third Scotland. 2 Locrine reigned 20. years; he beat the Huns (or Hungarians) hence, who would have invaded this land, and their King was drowned in Humber. 3 Queen Guendoline (wife of Locrine) reigned 15 years, beloved and honoured for her just and virtuous government. 4 Madan reigned 40. years, was eaten by Wolves, as he was hunting● he was fierce and tyrannous: he built Doncaster. 5 Mempricius, the son of Madan, reigned 20. years, and at last (like his father) was devoured by Wolves. 6 Ebrank, built York, and reigned 21 years: he had by 21. wives, and other females, 20. sons, and 30. daughters: he lived in the times of K. David and K. Solomon. 7 Brute 2. reigned 12. years, buried at York. 8 Leile reigned 25. years, built Carlisle, and some say Chester. 9 Rudhudibras reigned 29. years, built Canterbury, Winchester, and Shaftsbury. 10 Bladud reigned 20. years, built bath, broke his neck in practising to fly. 11 Leire reigned 40. years: he built Leicester, before Christ's birth 830 years. 12 Cordelia, the Daughter of Leire, reigned 5. years: killed herself in prison. 13 Morgan and Cunedague were brothers, and grandchildren to Leire: they ruled together, but Cunedague slew Morgan at Glamorgan in Wales, and reigned 33. years. 14 Rivallo reigned 46. years: it rained blood 3. days in his time: Rome was built out of the putrefaction of the blood 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 reigned 38. years: a most vicious Drunkard, and his Brother, 16 Sicilius reigned 49. of both which our Histories make no good mention. 17 Jago reigned 25. years: a wicked Prince: he died of a sleepy Le●hargy. 18 Kimmarus reigned 54. years. 19 Gorbo●ug reigned 63. years, as some write and some write but 42. let the Reader believe 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 killed Porex, by which means this Land was without a King, and at division many years, and shared into 5. petty kingdoms. Some say Ferex and Porex reigned 50. years, and others write but 5. 21 M●lmutius Donwallo reigned 40. years: he was the son of a Cornish Duke, named Clotton: he brought this Land again into one Monarchy, and was the first King that wore a crown of Gold. 22 Belinus and Brennus were brethren, and shared this Land between them; but (disagreeing) Brennus was forced from hence into France, from whence he went and won Italy, ransacked Rome, and at a siege of Delphos in Greece, he slew himself: Belinus reigned 26. years: he builded the Port called Belingsgat. 23 Gurguintus reigned 19 years, he overcame the Danes, he sent many scattered and distressed Spaniards to inhabit Ireland. 24 Guinthelinus reigned 26. years: he built Warwick. 25 Cecilius reigned 7. years, and was buried at Caerleon in Wales. 26 Kimarus reigned 3. years: a wicked King, killed by a wild Beast in hunting. 27 Elanius reigned 9 years: histories make little mention of him. 28 Morindus reigned 8. years: he fought with a ravenous Sea-monster, which had devoured many people, who also devoured the King, but he killed the Monster afterward, for he was found dead with his dagger in his hand, in the belly of his devourer. 29 Gorbomanus reigned 11. years: 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 reigned 28. years. From the time of Elidurus to King Lud, there reigned in this Land 33. Kings, of whom Historians do make very various, or little mention, I will therefore but only name them. Gorbonian reigned 10. years, Morgan 14. Emerianus 7, deposed. Ival 20. Rimo 16. Geruncius 20. Catillus 10. he caused all oppressors of the poor to be hanged. But since that time they have increased much. Coylus reigned 20. years, Ferex 5. Chirimu 1 he killed himself with excessive drinking. Fulgon reigned 2. years, 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. Pyrrhus 2. Caporus 2. Dinellus 4. Helius (or Elius) 1. From this King the I'll of Ely had its name. Of these Kings, 24. of them had very short times of either lives or reigns; 4 of them reigned but 4 years, (that is to say, each of them reigned but one year) and in that course 11 of them reigned 22 years (to years each, as many years as ears) 4 reigned each three years, and one reigned 4 years; 3 had the happy, or unhappiness to bear the royal toil, hazard and slavery each 4 years. But although Records and Histories are burnt, lost, and falsified, by the injury of wars, alteration of times, and partiality or flattery of Writers, that there is no mention made by what means all these Kings did come to their long homes in so short a time. It is more than conjecturable, that they died not all in their beds. 64 King Lud reigned 11. years: he named Troy-novant, (or this City of new Troy) Kair-Lud, or Lu●stowne: he 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. years before the Incarnation of our Saviour. 65 Cassibelane reigned 17. years: the 2. sons of Lud and Cossibelane filled this Land with bloody contention, that whilst they strived for the mastery, Julius Caesar came in and Mastered them. 66 Theomancius the son of Lud reigned 22. years: all that I can write of him is, that in memory of his Father and himself, his statue is on Ludgate. 67 Cimbelinus reigned 21. years: in his reign the Heavens did rain the showers, floods, inundations of gracious love and favour to most miserable mankind; for in this King's time our blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ was borne. 68 Guiderius reigned 21. years: in his time our Saviour suffered; then Tiberius Caesar was Emperor of Rome, and commanded the known world. 69 A●viragus 28 years, a valiant man; he founded and built Gloucester. 70 Marius reigned 53 years, he did much for the repairing of the city of Chester; in his time, it is written, that good Joseph of Aramathea came hither, and taught the people Christianity at Glastonbury in Somersetshire; some Writers say that he was buried there, in a chapel of his own erecting, of which I saw the ruins and rubbish remaining in the year 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 means and persuasion of godly men whom Elutherius Bishop of Rome sent hither, the King and People were brought from paganism to Christianity: Lucius cast down 28 Heathen Temples, and erected Churches for God's service. He reigned 12 years, buried at Gloucester, Anno Christi, 194. 73 Severus was an Emperor of Rome, he reigned 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. He was slain 78 years of age. 74 Bassianus reigned 6 years, he was Emperor of Rome, and son to Severus. 75 Ca●rasius reigned 7 years, slain by Alectus our first English Martyr (Saint Alba● suffered martyrdom in his time. 76 Alectus was a bloody Tyrant, reigned 3 year killed by Asclepiodates. 77 Asclepiodates reigned 2 years, as some do write, others relate 30 years; he was all slain by coile Duke of Colchester. 78 coile Duke of Colchester reigned 14 years, h● married Helen who was the mother ● the Emperor Constantine, she beautifie●Jerusalem, with many fair buildings an● Churches, and she also walled London an●Colchester, where coile 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 Emperor of the Christia● world; he was the Founder of Constant●nople, which was an old ruined town called Byzantium, he was zealous for God glory, for which he was honoured o● earth, and doubtless eternally glorified● He reigned 22. years. 81 Constantinus reigned 5. years, and his brothe● 82 Constantius 3. years: these were the sonnes●● the great Constantine: they reigned together, and together by the ears they fell, and never agreed till death made an end of the quarrel. 83 Octavius (as some do relate) reigned 54. years: he was Duke of Windsor; he was slain by Traherus who succeeded him. 84 Traherus reigned 6. years, An. Dom. 353. 85 Constantius 2. reigned 1. year, slain by Gratia●. 86 Maximinianus reigned 1. year, slain by Gratian. 87 Gratian reigned not one full year, was slain: This Land at this time shook off the Roman oppression, having been vassals and paid tribute to Rome 483. years, An. Do. 446 88 Vortiger reigned 6. years: he was an Usurper, and by his murdering of his lawful Prince Constans, (the son of Constantius 2.) he got the crown, and the people's inveterate hatred; insomuch that he was forced to send for Saxons out of Germany to aid him against his own subjects; which Saxons not only aided, but invaded the whole Land, and Vortiger was deposed, and afterwards he and his Queen burnt to death, by firing of the house where they lodged. 89 Vortimer the son of Vortiger; reigned 11. years; he was victorious against the Saxons, but was poisoned by his wife. 90 Aurelius Ambrose reigned 32. years; a good King, yet was poisoned. 91 Uter Pendragon, (which in Welsh is a dragon's head) he cornuted a Duke of Cornwall, by corrupting the Duchess Igrene, on whom he begot England's & the Christian Worlds Worthy (Arthur; ●●er was poisoned by the Saxons, after he had reigned 18. years. 92 Arthur reigned 16. years: he was King of England, Denmark and Norway. He beat the Infidels and misbelieving ●aracens in 12. great battles: he instituted the Order of Knights of the Round Table at Winchester. He had a kinsman named Mordred, who (in Arthurs absence) usurped the crown; but Arthur fought with the Rebels, slew Mordred their Leader, and in the fight lost his own life, and won the name and fame to be 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) reigned 3. years, was killed by his successor. 94 Aurelius Conanus reigned 33. years: 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. Kingdoms, and in the time of 500 and odd years following, they had to each kingdom these Kings under named; and those Lands, Shires, and Counties hereunto annexed. 1. Kent, the first kingdom 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. Paul's London, and St. Peter's at Westminster, 6. Eabald, 7. Ercombert, 8. Egbert, 9 Loather, 10. Edrick, 11. Wi●hed, 12. Edbert, 13. Edelbert, 14. Alick, 15. Ethilbert, 16. Cuthred, 17. Baldred: These 17. Kings reigned in Kent 372. years. 2. The South-Saxons kingdom was only Sussex and Surry: it continued under 5. King's 113. years: and though Histories do not mention their deaths, it seems they died naturally, because so few Kings reigned so long in such cutthroat times as those were. 3. The third kingdom was the tumultuous, it endured 561. years: it had 17. Kings, and contained the Counties of Cornwall, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire. 4. The East-Saxons, they reigned only over Essex and Middlesex; they continued under 14. King's 281. years. 5. Northumberland had 23. Kings: it consisted of 6. Shires and Counties; namely, Yorkshire, Durham, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Northumberland. It was divided into 2. Kingdoms; it lasted 379. years. 6. The East Angles bounds, were Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and the Isle of Ely: under 15. Kings it continued 353. years. 7. The seventh, last, and greatest, was the kingdom of the Mercians, it had 20. Kings: it continued 497. years: it contained 17. Counties; Northampton, Leicester, Darby, Lincoln, Huntingdon, Nottingham, Rutland, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Glocestershire, Shropshire, Bedfordshire, Warwickshire, Hartfordshire, & Buckinghamshire: All this while I find that the Welshmen held their own; for there is no mention that any of those wrangling petty Kings had possession of so much as one Village in Wales. 95 Vortiporus reigned 4. years, an incestuous Prince, with his wife's Daughter. 96 Malgo reigned 5. years; he murdered his Wife, and lived incestuously with his brother's Daughter. 4. Learned men were sent from Rome hither, to convert the Idolatrous Heathen Saxons, from paganism to Christianity: their names were Augustine, Melltius, John and Justus. 97 Careticus reigned 3. years, and being oppressed with the Saxons, he fled for saie●y into Wales, where he died. 98 Cadwane reigned 22. years, he tamed the Saxons of Northumberland. 99 Cadwallin reigned 48. years, a brave victorious Prince: he was buried in London at St. Martin's Ludgate. 100 Cadwallader reigned 3. years, a valiant and virtuous King: he was the last King of this Land called Britain till his time, for than it was, and not till then, named Anglia, and the men English men. Cadwalader went to Rome, and died there. 101 Athelstane was a valiant noble Prince: he reigned 15. years, he brought this Land to be but one kingdom again, after it had been divided into 7. near 600. years: he was Crowned at Kingston, and buried at Malmsbury, Anno Dom. 940. 102 Edmund reigned 5. years: he was son to Athelslane, slain, and buried at Glastenbury. 103 Eldred reigned 9 years: the Da●es were entered here and oppressed the people, and banished him: he was buried at Winchester. 104 Edwin reigned 5. years, was crowned at Kingston; he was deposed for being an incestuous ravisher of his own kinswoman, & murdering her husband. 105 Edgar reigned 16. years, he was brother to Edwin, (by birth, but not by nature) Edgar was crowned at bath: he was a vigilant, a valiant, and a pious Prince, he had a navy of 3000. ships (as some have written) to scour the Seas from Enemies and pirates, he built, and repaired 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 reigned 3. years, crowned at Kingston, murdered by his mother in law, and his unnatural brother Etheldred, buried at Shaftsbury. 107 Etheldred reigned 38. years, he caused all the Danes to be slain, or expelled out of England, he was buried in St. Paul's London. 108 Edmond (Surnamed Ironside) reigned 2. years, Canutus King of Denmark came with a mighty power of Danes, to revenge their Nations being banished & killed in the time of K. Etheldred, but Edmond and Canutus combated singly, with condition that the Surving Victor should have all the Kingdom: The royal Combatants fought gallantly, till through many wounds, & much blou● lost, they fell both down in each others arms, and embraced: Then they agreed, that the kingdom should be divided into halves between them, and the longest liver take all; which agreement they lovingly kept till a traitor named Edricus, murdered K. Edmond; for the which the Danish K. Canutus, put Edricus to death with most grievous exquisite torments. 109 Canutus reigned 20. years, buried at Winchester, An. Dom. 1038. 110 Harrolld the first reigned 3. years. 111 Hardicanutus reigned 3. years: This King was given so much to excessive drinking, that he drank himself to death at Lambeth: in joyful memory whereof the merry Hock Mondays were kept ye●rly, with dancing, and friendly meeting of neighbours, which some (that have been mistakingly thought wise) have judged to be Popery. 112 Edward, called the Confessor, reigned 23. years; he freed this Land from Danish slavery, having no heir, gave his kingdom by Will, to his Kinsman William Duke of 113 Normandy, but Harold● crowned himself King, and in the ninth month of his reign, Duke William came, killed, and unkingd King Harrolld. Thus ended the reigns of the Britain's, Romans, Saxons and Da●s in this Land, from the year of the Wo●lds Cre●●ion 2858. before the birth of Christ 1108. years, which was 1150. years: then (by Deed of Gift, some write by Conquest) William the first came hither, after a bloody battle, near Hastings in Sussex, with the slaughter of 70000. men on both sides, the Norman Duke was crowned an English King on Christmas day following: he had a troublous reign 21. years. 115 William 2 (Surnamed R●fus) reigned 13. years, he was slain in Newforrest in stead of a deer, as he was hunting, buried at Winchester. 116 Henry the first reigned 35. years, in much vexation, he was buried at Redding. 117 Stephen reigned 19 years, in continual trouble; buried at Feversham. 118 Henry 2. reigned 34. years, in much unquietness. One of his sons named Jeffrey was trodden to death in a throng at Paris: also his son Henry he caused to be crowned King in his own life time, which afterward vexed him much: and (to load him with more afflictions) his wife, with his sons Richard and John, raised arms against him; he died in France, buried at Fonteverard, 1189. 119 Richard the first, called Cor de Lion, reigned 9 years, slain. 120 John reigned 17. years, some have written that he was poisoned by a monk, others write, he surfeited with eating Peaches. 121 Henry 3. reigned 56. years, and after a long, tedious, and troublesome life, had the miraculous fortune to die in his bed. 122 Edward the first reigned 35. years. 123 Edward 2. reigned 19 years, murdered at Barklay Castle. 124 Edward 3. reigned 50. years, was buried at Sheen●, 1378. 125 Richard 2. reigned 22. years, murdered at Pomfret Castle. 126 Henry 4. reigned 14. years, buried at Canterbury. 127 Henry 5. reigned 9 years, buried at Westminster, 1422. 128 Henry 6. reigned 37. years, murdered in the Tower. 129 Edward 4. reigned 22. years, buried at Windsor 130 Edward 5. was never Crowned, reigned o● murdered. 131 Richard 3. reigned not 3. years, slain. 132 Henry 7. reigned 23. years, buried at Westminster, 1509. 133 Henry 8. reigned 37. years, buried at Windsor. 134 Edward 6. reigned 7. years, buried at Westminster. 135 Mary reigned 5. years, buried at Westminst. 136 Elizabeth reigned gloriously 44. years. 137 James reigned 22. years, a learned man, a Poet, a poet's friend, and a peaceable King, buried at Westminster. 138 Charles reigned 24. years, Beheaded. Scotland began to be a kingdom 339. years before the coming of our saviour: it hath been near 2000 years under 108. Kings. Anno Mundi 1641. Years before Christ 330. 1 FErgus reigned 25. years, he was a gallant spirited man, and was drowned by storm & shipwreck, near Carigfergus in Ireland. 2 Fe●harius reigned 15. years, murdered. 3 Mainus reigned 29. years, he died in peace. 4 Do●nadilla reigned 28. years, lived and died peaceably. 5 N●●hatus reigned 20. years, a wicked man; he was killed. 6 Reutherus reigned 26. years, a good King. 7 Reutha reigned 14. years, he voluntarily left the crown, and lived private. 8 Thereu● reigned 12. years, was banished by his subjects, died at York. 9 J●●●●a reigned 24. years, in peace. 10 ●●●●●●anus reigned 3●. years. 11 Du●●u● reigned 9 years, a cruel tyrant; he was slain. 12 Evenus reigned 19 years, a just King. 13 Gillus reigned 2. years, he was bastard to Evenus, was cruel, was slain. 14 Evenus 2. reigned peaceably 17. years. 15 Ederus reigned 48. years, a good King. 16 Evenus 3. reigned 7. years, a wicked man, he died in prison. 17 Metellanus reigned 39 years, a good King. 18 Caractacus reigned 20. years, about this time our Saviour was borne. 19 Corbredus reigned 18. years, a good King. 20 Dardanus reigned 4. years, he was by his own subjects beheaded. 21 Corbredus 2. reigned 35. years, a good King. 22 Lugtharus reigned 3. years, he loved bloodshed and lechery, and was murdered. 23 Mogallas reigned 36. years, a good man at first, but turned bad, and was murdered. 24 Conarus reigned 14. years, a tyrant, was deposed, died in prison. 25 Ethodius the first, reigned 33. years, murdered by an Irish Harper. 26 Satraell reigned 4. years, by his own servants he was murdered. 27 Donald the first, and first Christian King of Scotland, in Anno 199. he reigned 18. years. 28 Ethodius the second, reigned 16. years, by his own Guard he was murdered. 29 A●hrico reigned 12. years, a wicked King; for his bad life his Noble men did rise against him so furiously, that to escape them he killed himself. 30 N●●●alocus reigned 11. years, a tyrant, and was murdered, and cast into a Privy. 31 Findocus reigned 11. years, was murdered by counterfeit Huntsmen. 32 Donald 2. reigned one year, he was slain. 33 Donald 3. reigned 12. years, he was a tyrant, and flame. 34 Crathil●●hus reigned 24. years, he delighted in goodness, he advanced Christian Religion, he lived peaceably, and died in peace, Anno 277. 35 Fincormachus reigned 47. years, he was pious and courageous, died in peace. 36 R●machus reigned 3. years, he was a cruel tyrant, beheaded. 37 A●gusianus reigned 3. years, a good King, and slain in ●ighting with the Picts. 38 E●●h●macus reigned 3. years, murdered by treason of an Harp●r. 39 Eugenius the first reigned 3. years, slain by the Picts and Roman●, in battle; and all the Scotch people were sorced to forsake their Country 44. years. 40 Vergus 2. reigned 16. years, he recovered his Country valiantly fighting with Romans and Picts, yet at last was slain. 41 Eugenius 2. reigned 32. years, he was a good King, and died peaceably. 42 Dongardus reigned 5. years, a just courageous Prince. 43 Constantine the first reigned 22. years, murdered by one of his Lords, whose daughter he had ravished. 44 Congalus the first, reigned 22 years. 45 Goranus reigned 34. years, a well governing Prince. 46 Eugenius 3. reigned 23. years, a good King. 47 Congallus 2. reigned 11. years. 48 Kinnatillus reigned one year almost. 49 Aidanus reigned 35. years. 50 Kenelihus the first, reigned one year. 51 Eugenius 4. reigned 16. years. These 8. wèere good and just Kings, and died natural deaths: and among all the Chronicles of Scotland, so many Kings successively had not the like fortune. 52 Ferquard the first, reigned 12. year, a wicked man, he was cast in prison by his Nobles, where he killed himself. 53 Donald 4 reigned 14 years, a good King, yet by misfortune drowned in the River Tay, as he was fishing for his Recreation. 54 Ferquard 2 reigned 18 years, a bad man, an● a worse king: he was killed by the biti● of a wolf, as he hunted. 55 Malduin reigned 20 years, his wife was je●lous, and strangled him, for which sh●e w● burnt. 56 Eugenius 5 reigned 4 years, slain. 57 Eugenius 6 reigned 10 years, a good King● 58 Ambirkelethus reigned little more than ● year, he was a vicious Prince, and be● bad was badly used, murdered, Anno 6●● 59 Eugenius 7 reigned 17 years, a good King, ●● died in peace. 60 Mordacus reigned 16 years. 61 Etsinus reigned 31 years, both good Prince and died peaceably. 62 Eugenius 8 reigned 3 years, he was good● first, but he changing his manners, his Nobles changed their loyalties, & murdered hi● 63 Fergus 3 reigned 3 years, as chaste as a Go● was poisoned by his wife. 64 Salvathius reigned 20 years, a discreet Kin● 65 Achaius reigned 32 years, he was a goo● King, Charles the Great being then Emperor and King of France, this Scottish King made a League with France, which League was never broken or cracked, although it be almost 900 years old. 66 Congallus reigned 5 years. 67 Dongallus reigned 7 years, was drowned in the River of Spey. 68 Alpinus reigned 3 years, beheaded by the Scots. 69 Kenneth 2 reigned 20 years, for his valour and other Princely virtues, he attained the surname of Great, he quite overcame and slew all the Nation of the Picts, and left his kingdom, (as he died) in peace. 70 Donald 5 reigned 5 years, a bad life founda bad death, for he killed himself. 71 Constantine 2 reigned 16 years, slain, as he fought valiantly with the Danes. 72 Ethus reigned 2 years, a wicked Prince, he died in prison. 73 Gregorius (who by his prowess won the name of Magnus) reigned 18 years. 74 Donald 6 reigned 11 years, a good King. 75 Constantine 3. reigned 40 years, he was a valiant man, but he left his crown for a Cowle, and died a Religious monk. 76 Malc●lme the first, reigned 9 years, a good King, yet murdered. 77 Indulfus reigned 9 years, a courageous Prince, slain by Danes. 78 Dussus reigned 5 years, was murdered, although a good King. 79 Cudenus reigned 4 years, a vicious Princ● murdered. 80 Kenneth 3. reigned 24 years, a tyrant, h● was murdered. 81 Constantine 4 reigned 2 years, an usurper, ●● was slain. 82 Grimus reigned 8. years, a lewd Prince, ● was slain. 83 Macolme 2. reigned 30. years, he was a v●tuous Prince, yet was murdered by ● chiefest Courtiers, who flying away to g● over a frozen River called Farfar, the l●● broke, and the murderers were drown●● 84 Duncan the first reigned 6. years, a goo● King, murdered. 85 Macbeth reigned 17. years, a cruel tyrant killed. 86 Macolme 3. reigned 36. years, a good King, slain● 87 Donald 7. reigned not a year, expulsed as a● Usurper. 88 Duncan 2. reigned one year, an usurper, slain. 89 Donald 8. reigned 3. years, he was taken by Egar, had his eyes put out, and died in prison lamentably. 90 Edgar reigned 9 years, a good King. 91 Alexander the first, reigned 17 years, he was a valiant good Prince, he was called Alexander the fierce. 92 David the first, reigned 29. years, a worthy King, he built 11. stately Religious Houses, died in peace at Carlisle, buried at Dumfermling. 93 Macolme 4. reigned 12. years, a maiden unmarried King. 94 William reigned 49. years, for his courage surnamed the Lion. 95 Alexander 2. reigned 35. years, a good King. 96 Alexander 3. reigned 17. years, died of a fall from a Horse. 97 John Balliol reigned 4. years, Edw. 1. King of England deposed him. 98 Robert Bruce reigned 24. years, a wise, valiant Prince. 99 David 2. reigned 40. years, a good King, was a prisoner 12. years in England, 1310. At this time there was scuffling for the Crown, Robert Balliol had the possession, and David the second expelled him, their reigns are uncertainely written. 100 Robert 2. was the first King of the name of Stuarts 1371. he was a good King, reigned 19 years. 101 Robert 3. reigned 16. years, a good King, whose life was full of affliction, hiSonne Prince David was famished to death by rebels in Scotland, and his son James was 1● years prisoner in England. 102 James the first, reigned 13. years, after hi● 18. years imprisoned in England, he w● slain by traitors. 103 James 2. reigned 24. years, slain. 104 James 3. reigned 29. years, slain at Ban● nockburne field. 105 James 4. reigned 25. years, slain at ●lod●don field. 106 James 5. reigned 29. years, a good King. 107 Mary daughter to James 5. her reign wa● sull of trouble, she was beheaded at Fo●●ringham Castle, after 18. years thra● doom. 108 James 6. reigned 36. years 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 natural deaths; for 7 were slain, 6 were murdered, 4 were poisoned, one was burnt, 2 fled the Land, one was beheaded, one died with drinking, one was banished, and one● deposed. The Kings of Scotland were in number 108. whereof 21 were slain, 19 murdered, 3 killed themselves, 4 died in prison, 4 beheaded, 3 drowned, 1 banished, and 3 deposed. Thus of all the Scottish Kings, only 50 died naturally, and 58 by casualties. By this short relation may be 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 kingdoms, hath in his just indignation (for the people's transgressions) turned and overturnd Monarchies, Principalities, States and commonwealths. The Assyrian Monarchy began with confusion, and mouldered away to the Persian. The Persian glory was swallowed in the ravenous gulf of a Grecian Conquest. The Grecian (like a violent Blaze) was no sooner in but out, was grasped into the hands of the triumphant Caesars. The Roman greatness overthrew itself, with its own 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 Britain's; 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 ourselves. There have been Commonwealths translated into kingdoms, as Israel and Judah, and kingdoms turned into Commonwealths; Italy is now divided into more than 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 almighty's unresistible 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 faithful 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.