DM Roberti Halford Mit. Caroli Tucker Ar. De Antiquitatibus Alburiensibus optime meritis ex voto posuit L. M. Q. _W. Stukeley._ _Stukeley f._] The dynasty of the pastor kings is what we are chiefly concern’d in, which belongs to the most early ages after the flood. Sir _John Marsham_ has set them too low. Bishop _Usher_ and _Cumberland_ are much nearer the truth, as I apprehend, and from whom I differ very little. The last of this dynasty of pastors is _Assis_, _Archles_, our _Egyptian Hercules_. They were _Canaanites_ that followed _Misraim_ into _Egypt_, and at first liv’d very peaceably, but in time the two families quarrel’d, and wag’d terrible wars together, for 200 years. The _Misraimites_ possess’d the upper regions of the _Nile_, _Canaanites_ the lower or marshy part upon the _Mediterranean_ sea, call’d _Delta_. Hence the former call’d ’em _Titans_, i. e. dirty, fenmen, bog-trotters, as we say contemptuously, of a people who are their real descendants. The _Misraimites_ call’d themselves the _Elohim_, or Gods, descendants of _Ilus_ or _Cham_, and that liv’d, as it were, in a heavenly region, toward _Egyptian Ethiopia_, where _Homer_ makes the gods to hold their festivals. So the _Greeks_ call’d such as liv’d in the high countries, _Athamanes_, _heavenly_. Mount _Olympus_ was heaven, the habitation of the gods. This was the way of talking in the heroical times. The _Canaanites_, on the other hand, call’d themselves _Hycsi_, or _royal pastors_. And the stories of the battles between these two people are the oldest stories we have among the poets, when they ring about the wars between the gods and the _Titans_. In the chronology of this pastor dynasty, I differ a little from the great authors aforementioned. The chief reason why, is this. They take the numbers in _Josephus_’s catalogue, as in the present copies; but I hold ’em erroneous, and to be corrected from _Africanus_, _Eusebius_, and _Syncellus_, who copied from _Josephus_ in earlier times. _Josephus_’s present numbers are somewhat too short: for tho’ _Africanus_, _Eusebius_, and _Syncellus_ differ from one another, as well as from _Josephus_, (such is the misfortune of negligence in transcription) yet they all agree to heighten the numbers. And _Josephus_ himself, twice in the same books, makes the sum total to be 393 years, which is more than his particulars, by which _Marsham_, _Usher_, and _Cumberland_ go. But take that sum total 393, and set it at the _exodus_, and count upwards: I apprehend then we have it in its right situation. By this means, the head of the pastor dynasty in _Egypt_, which commenced with _Salatis_, must be placed _anno mundi_ 1860 instead of 1920, as _Usher_ and _Cumberland_ have it: and during the reign of _Menes_, _Misraim_, _Osiris_, according to their own chronology. This, I am confident, is near the truth. And thus that dynasty is to be plac’d in the list of time. _Manethon_’s dynasties of pastor kings in lower _Egypt_.