CHRONICLES
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND,
AND
IRELAND.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
ENGLAND.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; WILKIE
AND ROBINSON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME;
CADELL AND DAVIES; AND J. MAWMAN.
1807.
AMS PRESS INC.
NEW YORK
1965
AMS PRESS INC.
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003
1965
MANUFACTURED in the U.S.A.
THE
THIRD VOLUME
OF
CHRONICLES,
BEGINNING AT
DUKE WILLIAM THE NORMAN, COMMONLIE CALLED THE CONQUEROR;
AND
DESCENDING BY DEGREES OF YEERES
TO ALL THE
KINGS AND QUEENES OF ENGLAND
IN THEIR
ORDERLIE SUCCESSIONS:
FIRST COMPILED BY
RAPHAELL HOLINSHED,
AND BY HIM EXTENDED TO THE
YEARE 1577.
NOW NEWLIE RECOGNISED, AUGMENTED, AND CONTINUED
(WITH OCCURRENCES AND ACCIDENTS OF FRESH MEMORIE)
TO THE YEARE 1586.
WHEREIN ALSO ARE CONTEINED MANIE MATTERS OF SINGULAR DISCOURSE
AND RARE OBSERUATION,
FRUITFULL TO SUCH AS BE STUDIOUS IN ANTIQUITIES,
OR
TAKE PLEASURE IN THE GROUNDS OF ANCIENT HISTORIES.
With a third table (peculiarlie seruing this third volume) both of names and mattersmemorable.
HISTORIÆ PLACEANT NOSTRATES AC PEREGRINÆ
RIGHT HONORABLE AND HIS SINGULAR GOOD LORD,
SIR WILLIAM CECILL,
BARON OF BURGHLEYGH, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER,LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND, MAISTER OF THE COURTS OF WARDSAND LIUERIES, AND ONE OF THE QUEENES MAIESTIES PRIUIE COUNCELL.
Considering with my selfe, right Honorable and my singular good Lord,how redie (no doubt) manie will be to accuse me of vaine presumption, forenterprising to deale in this so weightie a worke, and so far aboue my reachto accomplish: I haue thought good to aduertise your Honour, by what occasionI was first induced to vndertake the same, although the cause thatmoued me thereto hath (in part) yer this beene signified vnto your goodLordship.
Whereas therefore, that worthie Citizen Reginald Wolfe late Printer to theQueenes Maiestie, a man well knowne and beholden to your Honour, meantin his life time to publish an vniuersall Cosmographie of the whole world, andtherewith also certaine particular histories of euery knowne nation, amongstother whom he purposed to vse for performance of his intent in that behalfe,he procured me to take in hand the collection of those histories, and hauingproceeded so far in the same, as little wanted to the accomplishment of thatlong promised worke, it pleased God to call him to his mercie, after fiue andtwentie yeares trauell spent therein; so that by his vntimelie deceasse, no hoperemained to see that performed, which we had