for Habitation; and fo planted themfelves in that Part, fituated betweene those two great and pleafant Rivers, Euphrates Weftward and Tygris Eastward, both fuppofed to have paffed through the Garden of Eden; the firft. going under the Name of Perath, the other of Hiddekel. A Country furpaffing all in the World for Beauty, Fruitfulneffe, Commodioufneffe, and Amænitie.

Thefe Places are here principally in the uppermoft Divifion of this Map contained, as also a small Touch of the Land of Canaan, but for as much as Canaan with Egypt is there inferted, it ferves onely to fhew at one Glance, how that beares from thofe other Countries, and they from it; but the Ufe appertaines moft to the Eafterne Lands betweene the two Rivers; the originall Country of Abraham the Patriarch; of whom and his Pofterity, their native Country, living, and Journeyes, this Defcription and. Plat are compiled. Thus therefore. After that at the Building of Babel in the Land of Shinar, afterward Chaldea, (the Languages being then confounded) the People were difperfed; Abrahams Ancestours taking their Way thence, planted themselves upon a fweet River in a moft wholfome, delightfull, rich, and fertile Soyle, and erected there a famous Citie called Ur of the Chaldees.

Here continued Terah; with Abraham, Nabor, and Haran, Terabs 3 Sons, untill it pleafed God to reveale himfelfe to Abraham in his divine Oracles; commanding him to depart the Land of his Nativity, teaching him the true Worship of the true God, that before was trained up in Idolatry, both he and al his Fathers Houfe, Gen. 11. 31, 32.

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So Terab with Abraham and Nabor (for Haran Terabs other Sonne dyed before his Father in the Place where he was borne) they and theirs leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and the Territories of Babylon, journeyed Weft and Northward till they came unto Haran (called by Stephen, Charran, A&t. 2.) in Mefopotamia, where a long Time they lived; where Terab dyed, and where Nabor and his Pofterity made their Manfion, and fetled their Abode. But Abraham the Called of the Lord, as before he had (upon God's Appointment) forfaken his naturall Birth-place and familiar Acquaintance; fo now by another Motion of Gods Spirit directing him thereto, hee takes Leave of his dearest and neereft kindred, goes out of Haran on the other Side of Euphrates, and Mefopotamia, toward the Land of Canaan South, onely accompanied of Lot his Kinfman; a Place altogether unknowne, and (well may bee imagined) uncouth to him, to enter in there, with all his Poffeffions of Goods, Servants and Cattle, among a Multitude of Strangers; many of them almost barbarous, moft of them cruell and covetous, but the Faith he had on God his exceeding great Reward, as it did and does make him famous in all Ages, and in all Lands, fo it made him confident to goe to, and conftant to paffe through that Land, treading under all Obftacles and Impediments whatfoever, especially seeing the gracious Lord that made him his happy Servant, gave him by Promife to poffeffe in Hope that rich Country.

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Now that this worthy Patriarch is come to Canaan, paffing by the Way of Damafcus and fo onward, you shall understand, that he first pitched his Tent about Sechem, where hee built an Altar to the Worship of God, from thence hee removed to a Mountaine, between Bethel and Haai, recting there an Altar likewife. From this Place a Famine was Cause of his Journey Southward into Egypt, whence after a hard Welcome there, hee repaired to the former Stage by Bethel, and from thence to the faire Plaine of Mambre, bordering upon the great City Hebron, whence after he had seen the Destruction of Sodom, and thofe other, he came to Gerar in the Philiftims Countrey, and fo paffed over to Berfheba. Then was he commanded to go to the Land of Moriah (his tenth Removall) and offer in Sacrifice his Sonne Ifaak, from whence comming the fame Way, he returned to his Tent at Bersheba; and his laft Paffage was from Berfheba again to the Plaine of Mambre by Hebron, where first Sarah, and after, himselfe deceased, and were interred: as evidently appeares; each severall Journey; noted by Prickes and Figures, and their Place of Sepulture notified in particular. And for thefe Things here fpecified you must have Recourse to the nethermoft Plat, which is onely of the Land of Canaan, where you may fee all this perfectly defcribed; which in the uppermoft could not be fet.

The other Sons of Abraham, as Ifmael, and thofe that Keturah bare him, tooke their Way Eaftward and South, into Arabia and the adjacent Parts, betweene the Red Sea and the Perfian Gulfe, all which Places are in these Maps orderly feated: but Ifaack, for the most Part, abode in the Land of Canaan; and after him Jacob, when he returned with his Family and Poffeffions from his Uncle Laban from Haran or Padan Aram; till his going into Egypt. Both Abraham, Ifaack, and Jacob, the great Patriarchs, all of them Wanderers, Travellers, and Pilgrims, by these their Pilgrimages manifeftly fhowing that they had here no abiding City, but fought one to come, by Faith; carrying themfelves as Strangers and Sojourners upon the Earth, journeying from one Place to another; dwelling in Huts and Tents, having no certaine Place of Inheritance here, but, feeking one immortall and undefiled, even in the Heavens.

Such was the Condition of their Life: and although it bee not now with us (the most at leaft) fo to change Place, yet it behoves every one of us to confider of what Country he belongs to, and what his Heritage is to be; which is not to settle our Affections upon earthly Things, that are at best but transitory; but to fixe our Eies on the right Object, and aime at the right Marke, the heavenly Kingdome, that high Inheritance provided and prepared for us by our bleffed Saviour. That, as thofe holy Patriarchs in the former, fo we in the latter Times of the World, may all of us together fhew the fame Faith in the fame God, and the fame Hope of that fame true unfading Heritage, referved for us in the Heavens.

For all fuch as defire to know the Situation of these Countries here included, by Longitude and Latitude; The Latitude is from 30 Degrees, to 43 of North Latitude, and the Longitude beginning at 74 or thereabouts

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upon Egypt, continues running along unto 100, Degrees of Longitude; Perfia being the South, and Part of the Caspian Sea the North Bound thereof.

Thefe Lands (all but Egypt) are comprehended under that Part of the World called Afia, and that very Part of Afia, which hath beene by many accounted the Middle of the World, and being first inhabited, difperfed into all other Parts of the World, the People which have ever fince covered the Face of the Earth. Herein alfo is a Touch given of the Garden of Eden, and the Rivers iffuing thereout; but it is best not to bee too curious about fuch Things that are altogether concealed from our Know.. ledge, and that purposely by the Scripture.

But it is certaine that as this was the Mother of all other Places, fo was it also the Miftreffe of all knowne Places; as well appeares by the proto Cities Ninive, and the reft; and the two firft univerfall Monarchies of the World therein erected; the one of the Affyrians and Chaldeans, the other of the Medes and Perfians.

Many other Things might be added of the Country it felfe; as alfo of the changing of fome Names, and fuch like; which I rather referre to the ingenious Perufers Judgment to confider of by himfelfe..

The Praise of KING RICHARD the Third.

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By Sir WILLIAM CORNWALLIS.

1617.

HAT Princes. are naturally ambitious, and that Ambition makes them to effect their Defires, rather than to affect the Equitie of their Defignes, may more truly then fafely be avowed. For all of them, I thinke, were the Record of their Actions indifferent, might be taxed of this Vice. But this Excufe cleares not the Accufed; yet it teftifies, that Princes erre against Nature, if they afpire not. Wee hold (not without Reafon) that if the Bill of the Plaintiffe be ftuffed with frivolous. Affertions, that the Complaint favoureth more of Malice then of Wrong. Why should not the fame Axiome be a Motive to cleare this wronged Prince, whofe Accufers lay to his Charge the Anguish his Mother felt, when he came into the World? Then which Accufation what can be more frivolous; it being a Punishment hereditary to all Women, from the first? His being toothed as foone as borne, feemes to me rather a Bleffing, then any Imputation, as being a Prefage of his future Worthineffe, and as all Nurfes will confeffe, an Eafe of much Paine and Danger. But he was crook-backt, lame, il-fhapen, il-favoured. I might impute that Fault to Nature, but that I rather think it her Bounty: for the being wholly intentive to his Minde, neglected his Forme, fo that the infused a straight Mind in a crooked Body, wherein thee fhewed her carefull Providence. For oftentimes, the Care to keepe. those Parts well formed, with-drawes Mens Mindes from better Actions, and.

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drownes them in effeminate Curiofitie. His Lameneffe turned to his Glory; for with thofe imperfect Limbes he performed Actions most perfectly valiant.

How rightly his Father (a) claimed, his Brother (b) obtained the Scepter, is fufficiently knowne, and therefore fuperfluous and impertinent: and alfo how his Brother dufked his Right (if Right) by abrogating the Oath, which hee fware at Yorke, that his Comming in Armes was onely for that Dukedome. (c) But to dilate how variable and inconftant the People of thofe Times were, fhall be more neceffary and effectuall, that knowing their Inconftancy, their Traditions (like themselves) may the leffe be beleeved: fo lightheaded, fo foolish, fo irreligious, as their Opinion (for what elfe are the Thoughts of Ignorance but Opinion?) made them breake their Oath to their Prince, (d) and to fuch a Prince as they did not fhame to diflike, onely because hee was too good. Him they abandoned, depofed, after reftored; not as defiring, (being guilty of their owne Fault) but onely that it stood with the Liking of (e) Warwicke the Childe of their Love. If then they were fuch, as (indeede they were) and that thofe Relations wee have, muft come from that People, it were better (I thinke) to bury their Traditions, then refute their Objections, were not our Age, apt to erré, infected with this Folly.

For his Brother K. Edward: (f) though his Vices feem not to adde Vertues to this condemned Prince, yet queftionleffe they do; making all his ill-estimated Actions of another Nature. He obtained the Crowne, but rather fortunately, then wifely, were not all Wifedom thought Folly, to which Fortune lends not. Succeffe. For I thinke, Luft, or if you will terme it Love, could not more have prevailed with the most licencious Creature, then at once to breake the Bonds of Amity, Difcretion, and Policy; and all to enjoy a Woman, in Respect of his Height, base: a Widow (g) and of his Enemy, without bringing him either Alliance, or Riches; Props moft pertinent to his new erected Builings. Wherein, befides his Breach of regall Difcretion, with his chiefeft Friend the Earle of Warwick, whom he had fent into France, to treat of Marriage betweene him and the Lady Bona, (b) (wherein being deluded, he became his mortallest Enemie) his Abufe to God was more abominable; being before betrothed (as his owne Mother conftantly affirmed) to the Lady Elizabeth Lucy in Teftimonie wherof he had laid fuch Earneft, (i) as fhould have bound

(a) Richard Duke of Yorke, Father of Edward the Fourth, George Duke of Clarence, and Richard the Third,

(b) Edward Earle of March, eldeft Sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke, after King by the Name of Edward the Fourth. (c) For the Dukedome of Yorke, as his Right, from his Father Duke of Yorke. (d) King Henry the Sixt.

(e) Richard Nevile, Earle of Warwick,

firnamed the King-maker.

(f) King Edward the Fourth.

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of Sir John Gray, Knight, afterward married to King Edward the Fourth.

(b) Lady Bana, Neece to the French King Lewes the Eleventh, and Daughter to Lewes Duke of Savoy.

(i) For he had got her with Childe.

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any common Man, much more a King, to Performance. How foone the Wrath of God followed this his irreligious Inconftancie, his being driven from the Seate Royall into Exile: the Birth of his Sonne in a Sanctuary; (having no Place elfe of Freedome in his Fathers Kingdome) the Miferie of all his Partakers fufficiently teftifie. In which generall Miferie, who did more truly follow him? Who more faithfully ayded him, then his now difgraced Brother? Whereas his other Brother (k) Clarence not only left him, but joyned in Marriage () with the Daughter of his principall Enemie, and holpe to expulfe him: with what Love, what Conftancie, his Indeavours, his adventuring his Life to restore him, doth witneffe.

Never was he noted all the Life of K. Edward, to thirst after the Kingdome; never denied he any Commandement of his Prince, but performed all his Imployments difcreetly, valiantly, fucceffefully. The Sufpition of helping his Brother Clarence to (m) his End, was but a Sufpition, fince the Kings old Difpleasure awaked by a new Prophefie, was undoubtedly the Caufe; if otherwife (when he after repented him) hee would have misliked of Gloucester, it being naturall to finne; but unnaturall, to ease others of their Crimes. For the killing of the Heire of the House of Lancaster at Tewksburie, (n) (if fo) feemes to me, rather the Effect of Love to his Brother, then Cruelty to the Prince: for he was an Enemie, yea, the chiefe and principall Enemie of the contrary Faction. Yet it cannot be proved the Action of Richard, but that it was an Act wifhed by the King to be done, and executed in both their Prefences, by the Duke of Clarence, the Marqueffe Dorfet, the Lord Haftings and others.

The Death of Henry (0) the Sixt in the Tower, can no Way belong to him, fince the fame Reason that cleareth his Brother, fitteth him; he being able, if defiring his Death, to have effected it by a more unworthie Hand. And indeed this Accufation hath no other Proofe, then a malicious Affirmation. For many (more truly) did fuppofe that he died of meere Melancholy and Griefe, when hee had heard of the Overthrow of his Friends, and Slaughter of his Sonne. But if it were true, though it fpots him with Bloud, yet it confirmes his Love to his Prince; which Love was fo coldly requited, as might have moved a true Lover of Rewards more then of Vertue, to have altered his Endeavours; whether it were a Jealoufie of the Nobilitie of his Blood, or of the Height of his Spirit, whether the Abundance of Affection to be led by a Woman, or that hee was defective in all brotherly Affection, certaine it is, he rather imployed him, then rewarded his Imployments. Contrary, the Queenes Kindred, dayly to rife, meerely without Defert, but that they were of her Kindred; and their Bafeneffe being thus fodainly exalted, not only to plucke from him Pro

(k) George Duke of Clarence, fecond Brother of King Edward the Fourth.

(1) He marryed Ifabell, Daughter of Richard Nevill, Earle of Warwicke.

(m) Hee was drowned in a Malmfey Butt in the Tower.

(n) Edward Prince of Wales, Son of King Henry the Sixt, flaine after the Battaile of Tewksbury.

(0) The Death of Henry the Sixt in the Tower.

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