Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
Locrinus, Maddan, Memprise, Ebrancke, Brute the ii, Leyl, Lud
Hurdibras, Bladud, Leir, Queen Cordeile, Morgan & Conedag, Riueall,
Gurgustius, Sysyllus, Jago, Kymar, Gorbonian, Dunwallon, Bellinus,
Gurgwin Batrus, Guitellin, Sicilius, Morindus, Gorbonianus, Archigall,
Elidurus, Vigenius & Peridurus, Gorbonias, Morgan, Emerianus, Idwall,
Rimo, Geruntius, [Here the names of 26 kings are given in genealogical
circles, according to succession, of whom “we fynd not much written”
and we may presume, that circumstance the reason for omitting any
supposed resemblance of them.] Elinguellus, Hely, Lud, Casseuelanus,
Tenentius, Kimbeline, Guinderus, Aruiragus, Marius, Coell, Lucius,
Bassianus, Carasius, Asclepiodotus, Coell, Constantius, Constantyne,
Octauius, Traherus, Maximianus, Gratian, Constantyne, Constans,
Vortiger, Vortimerus, Aurelius Ambrose, Vter Pendragon, Arthur the
great, Constantyne, Aurelius Conan, Vortiporuis, Malgon, Cathericus,
Cadwan, Cadwallon and Edwyn, Cadwallader.
“Here endeth the raignes of the Britaines, from the time of Brute to
Cadwallader, and then this realme being in great misery, the English
Saxons inuaded it, and so raigned vntill the comming in of willyam
Conqueror.” As
Athelscayne, Egbrut, Edelnulph, Alfred, Edward, Athelstone, Edmond,
Edred, Edwin, Edgar, Edward, Etheldred, Edmond Ironsyde, Ciuiton or
Swayne, Herauld, S. Edward, Harauld.
“Here endeth the raignes of the Saxon kinges: & beginoneth the raigne
of willyam Conquerour, who slewe the last of the Saxons ligne, &
conquered the land: & from him, to our Souueraine lady the Queenes
maiestie that nowe is, whom god prospere. Amen.”
From William the Conqueror to Q. Elizabeth, the names of the portraits
are according to the general regal table. With that king the compiler
of the Chronicle commences his description in octave stanzas, of which
a specimen for comparative use may be here preserved.
Willyam Conquerour i.
William Conquerour Duke of Normandy
Conquered England and began there to raign
The thousand syxty syx yeare truelye
Of Christ: but the Englysh men rebelled again
Yet he subdued them to their great paine,
And brought y^e king of Scottes to his obeissance
With his eldest son Robert, warre he did sustain
In Normandy: & with king Philip in France.
In Fraunce he fell sycke and tooke his death
And to his son Robert which then was most old,
The Dukedome of Normandy he did bequest.
To his Sonne called William Rous he wolde
The Realme of Englande; but his gold
He wylled to his yongest sonne Henrye
And XXI. yeare he raigned it is told
And lyeth buried at Cane in Normandy....
Phillip and Mary.
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