Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
35 How _Aulus Vitellius_ Emperour of Rome, came to an infortunate
    end. A. D. 71. _Higgins_                                         307

    36 How _Londricus_ the Pict was slayne by King _Marius_ of
    Britaine. A. D. 80. _Higgins_                                    310

    37 How _Seuerus_ the Emperour of Rome and Gouernour of
    Britayne was slaine at Yorke, fighting against the Picts. A. D.
    206-13. _Higgins_                                                313

    38 How _Fulgentius_ a Scythian, or Pict, was slayne at the seege
    of Yorke. A. D. 206-13. _Higgins_                                320

    39 How _Geta_ the yonger sonne of the Emperour
    _Seuerus_ once Gouernour of Britayne, was slayne in his
    mother’s armes, by his brother _Antonine_ Emperour of Rome.
    A. D. 214. _Higgins_                                             325

    40 How _Aurelius Antonius Bassianus Caracalla_ Emperour of
    Rome, was slayne by one of his owne seruauntes. A. D. 209.
    _Higgins_                                                        330


    PART II

    _The Printer’s Advertisement_                                    347

    _The Authour’s Epistle. Blenerhasset_                            348

    _The Induction. Blenerhasset_                                    353


    LEGENDS.

    41 How _Guidericus_ refused to paye tribute vnto _Claudius Cæsar_:
    how he subdued _Galba_: how hee became desirous to winne
    all the worlde: spoyled France, Germany, and a great part of
    Italy: and lastly how hee was miserably slayne in a tempest of
    Thunder. _Blenerhasset_                                          355

    42 How _Carrassus_ a Husbandman’s son, slewe _Lodrike_ the
    King of the Pictes, and howe the Emperour made him a captayne.
    Then howe he obtayned the Britayne crowne and how suspition
    brought him to decay. A. D. 293. _Blenerhasset_                  369

    43 How Queene _Helena_ was Empresse of all the world. A. D.
    289. _Blenerhasset_                                              384

    44 How _Vortiger_ destroyed the young King _Constantine_, and
    howe he obtyned the crowne: & how after many miseries he
    was miserably burnt in his Castle by the brethren of _Constantine_.
    A. D. 446. _Blenerhasset_                                        396

    45 How _Vter Pendragon_ was inamoured with Duke _Garelus_
    wife: and howe by lawlesse loue he lost his kingdome. A. D.
    500. _Blenerhasset_                                              409

    46 How _Cadwallader_ the last King of the Britaynes, after he
    had behaued very valiantly against the Saxons, resigned his
    crowne, and went to Rome, where he liued in a religious house.
    _Blenerhasset_                                                   419

    47 How _Sigebert_ was thrust from his throne and miserably
    slayne by a heardman. A. D. 755. _Blenerhasset_                  428
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