Miscellaneous papers apparently comprising drafts of or notes for the Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.

Vols.II and III. Miscellaneous papers on chronology arranged in no particular order, unless otherwise stated in the proper place.

Mention has already been made of a previous attempt by the Ekins at clarification regarding many of the papers as correspondence, but as Newton used it - old correspondence are of used scrap-paper for his notes.

The following list of letters thus extracted is preserved as as some guide to the letters which may be found among the papers.

Letter from Sir Isaac concerning weights kept at the Mint, dated Aug. 14. 1712. ætat. 70.

Letter from Sir Isaac to the Lords Commissioners of his Maj.^t{illeg}s Treasury dated in his office Iune 26. 1722._{ætat. 80.}

Letter to Sir Isaac Newton with calculations & remarks written on the back

Letter from Calverley Pinkney dated Sept.5 - 1719. _{ætat. 77.}

Letter from M. Pilkington of thanks for money received dated Oct.30. 1712 ætat. 80.

Letter from Augustus Tampynn dated April 3d. 1723. ætat 81.

Letter from Newton Chapman dated Oct. 23. 1725 _{ætat. 83.}

Letter from J. Bayner - Jan. 21. 1722/ _{ætat. 80.}

Letter from H. Smithson - May 26. 1717. _{ætat. 75.}

Letter from Richard Hindon - June 9. 1725. _{ætat. 89.}

– From H. Jackson with astronomical calculations on the back dated June 8. 1726. ætat. 84.

– From Littleton Powys - dated Dec. 14. 1721. _{ætat. 79.}

Letter from Cha. Kewson with Grecian Chronology on the back - dated Dec. 31. 1723 –

A receipt for money received from Sir Isaac      dated 1722.

Letter from Iohn Corkor - June 21. 1717.

Letter from Amb. Warren with mathematical calculations in Latin - Dec. 19. 1721.

Rev^d. J. Ekins Mor{fe}th

Loose papers relating to the Chronology w^ch d{illeg} w^ch do not follow follow m{illeg} of {illeg} of them with C{illeg}ly – In one there is a computation {illeg}the reigns in England for w{illeg} he reckons - Cromwell's o{illeg} Examined by J C –May - 1729

Loose papers relating to the Astronomical proofs of the Chronology Examined - May 1729

– through the middle of those constellations

For Hipparchus tells us that Eudoxus drew the Colure of the Solstices through the middle of the great Bear & the middle of Cancer & the neck of Hydra|u||s|, & the star between the Poop & Mast of Argo & the tail of the south fish & through the middle of Capricorn & of Sagitta & through the neck & right wing of the Swan & left hand of Cepheus – – – & within 9'.50'' of the third. To make it pass as near as can be in the middle of these three stars, it should cut the Ecliptic in ♌ 5. 45.{illeg}37, And & ♒ 5. 54. 37. And if it be drawn in the middle between the two places ♌ 5. 50. 36 & ♌ 5. 54. 37 it will cut the Ecliptic in ♌ 5. 52. 36 & ♒ 5. 52. 36. This Colure passes also through the middle of the great Bear – – – – described by Eudoxus.

The back of Aries through which the Equinoxical Colure should pass is a star of the sixt magnitude marked η by Bayer. Its longitude in the end of the year 1660 was ♉ 9°.22'. 57'' & north latitude 6°.7'. 20''. And the colure drawn through this star to the Ecliptick in an Angle of 66^gr 30' the complement of the angle in w^ch the Ecliptick cuts the Equator did then cut the Ecliptic in ♉ 6. 41. 34.

The back of Aries through w^ch the Equinoctial Colure should pass is a star of the sixt magnitude marked η by Bayer Its longitude in the beginning of the year 166|9|0 was ♉ 9^gr.{illeg}|4|8'.4|3|5'' Lat Bor. 6. 7. 56. & north Latitude 6^gr. 7'. 56''. And the Colure drawn through this star to the Ecliptic in an Angle of 66^gr. 30' (the complement of y^e angle in w^ch the Ecliptic cuts the Equator) did then cut the Ecliptic in ♉ 6. 41. 34. ♉ 7^gr. 7'.54|5|'' ♉ 7^gr. 7'. 55''. So then the Æquinox between the Argonautic expedition & the beginning of the year 1690 moved backwards 37^gr 7'. 55'' which after the rate of 72 years to a degree an{illeg} produces 7' an interval of 2673 years w^ch counted backwars from y^e end of the year 1689 places y^e Argonautick expedition in the 36^th year of Solomons reign.

To Collonel Armstrong surveyor of the Ordnance
at his house in the Tower of London.

S^r The other day, I signed a Letter \to you/ without duly considering it being sick at Kensington. I hope in a few days to be well enough \to/ come abroad & as soon as I am able I intend to come at wait upon you at your house & explain the Letter with the business it concerns. I am

Prop.\Chap./ I

Of The ancient luni-solar year, & the reduction of it to the solar year by the Egyptians. the original Of t|T|he Asterisms & ancient sphere of the Greeks the \formed by Chiron & Musæus for the Argonauts,/ Of The places of the Equinoxes & Solstices in that sphere at the time of that expedition, |&| \of/ The time of that expedition collected from thence. of t|T|he time when the Egyptian solar year was began at the vernal Equinox. Memnon then reigning who was contemporary to the Trojan war of \The age of Memnon & the Trojan war collected from thence/ t|T|he uncertainty of the chronology of the ancient Greek|s| ,|&| the general error upon w^ch is was founded viz^t by taking the reigns of kings for generations. That k|K|ings reign one with another about 18 or 20 years a piece, & that according to this recconing the return of the Heraclides into Peloponnesus was about 180 years before the end of the first Messenian war, & by consequence the taking of Troy was about 75 years & the Argonautic expedition about 44 years after the death of Solomon as was above stated by the Astronomy. Of t|T|he beginning of the Olympiads, \&/ the age|s| of \Iphitus,/ Lycurgus the legislator, & Phidon \Caranus/ & some others.

Chap. Prop. II.

Of the affairs of Greece contemporary to those mentioned in scripture. That Sesostris invaded Thrace one generation before the Argonautic expedition & was Sesac. That The Edomites being vanquished by David \fled/ some of them with their young king \Hadad/ into Egypt, others to the Philistims the enemies of David, & others to \Chaldea &/ other places, & carried w^th them letters, & their skill in building of ships & navigating by the stars w^ch they had learnt upon the red sea. That t|T|hese \fugitives/ assisted the Philistims in fortifying Azot & building of ships upon the Mediterranean, & taking of Zidon. That t|T|he Zidonians when their city was taken fled some to Tyre & Aradus under Abibalus the father of Hiram & some \others/ to Aradus Arvad or Arpad & others to other hævens in Asia minor Greece & Libya under the conduct of other capitains as Cadmus, Cilix, Thasus, Membliarius Atymnus & other captains. That t|T|he Tyrians being friends to David traded with th upon the red sea with Solomon & the kings of Iudah by assistance of the fugitive Edomites untill the reign of Iehoram the successor of Iehosaphat & then upon the revolting of the Edomites from Iudah, being driven from the red sea, built ships upon the mediterranean & began long voyages upon the|a||t| Mediterranean \sea/ to ports n places not yet frequented by the Zidonians, [such as were Carthage, Leptis, Carteia, Gades, Tartessus] \such as were Arumstum Carteia Gades Tartessus/ & celebratin|ed|g their \first/ Admiral by the name of the Tyrian Hercules. And t|T|his retiring of the Tyrians from the red sea (together with the flight of the Edomites from David) gave occasion to the tradition of the the Phenicians & Persians mentioned by Herodotus, \viz^t/ that the Phenicians came originally from the red sea & presently undertook long voiages. Of other affairs of the Greeks contemporary to these already described.

Chap. III

Of the \ancient/ affairs of the Greeks contemporary to those already described, & of the state of Greece before the coming of Cadmus & Europa from Sidon.

Chap. III.

The ancient affairs of the Greeks between the return of the Heraclides \& the Empire of Persia/ & particularly the beginning of the Olympiads, \the kingdome of Corinth/ & the ages of Iphitus, Lycurgus the Legislator, Phidon Caranus \Draco/ Alcmæon, Clisthenes \Draco/, Solon, Pisistratus.

855. 42,75, And the first twenty kings of Sicyon about 855 years w^ch is 4|a|bove 42 years a piece | 529 (44. The first twelve kings of Sicyon 529 years w^ch is 44 years a piece. \amount to 140 years./ Count backwards therefore 140 years from the invasion of Greece by Xerxes to the end of the first Messenian war, & 190 years more to the return of the Heraclides into Peloponesus & that return will be 330 years before the sixt year of Xerxes that is 34 years before the first Olympiad. – & this return will be about 298 years before the death of Cyrus &|–| by consequence about 51 years before the first Olympiad. But the followers of Timæus – – – of the Greeks. Damaus was also called Armais & Armais was the brother of Sethosis.

The upper & lower Ægypt were never united into one kingdom before the expulsion of the shepherds. For they

The shepherds reigned only over the lower part of Egypt & the until their expulsion the upper part of Egypt was under other kings & Manetho places their expulsion but a little before the building of the Temple, saying that that they came \went/ from Egypt into Iudea & built Ierusalem & the Temple. And before their expulsion there is no ro\o/me for any {illeg} Sesostris who might reign over all Egypt Libya & Troglodytica & come out thence w^th a great army to invade the nations.

While \Egypt was divided into several kingdoms &/ the shepherds reigned in the lower Egypt \part of thereof/ there was no room for any such \great/ king of Egypt as Sesostris; & Manetho places the expulsion of the shepherds b just before the reign of |David & Solo.| saying that they went out of Egypt into Iudea & built Ierusalem & the temple: & no historian makes Sesostris later than Sesac. And therefore Ses they must be \are/ one & the same king of Egypt. This is no new opinion.

No historian make Sesostris later then Sesac.

While Egypt co

The shepherds reigned \long/ in the lower part of Egypt 900 years together & were expelled about \thence {into} Ie/ just before the building of Ierusalem & the Temple according to Manetho; & while Egypt was d under \divided into/ several king\d/s|o|\ms/ there could b was no room for any such great king of Egypt as Sesostris: & no historian makes him later then Sesac. And therefore he was one & the same king of Egypt w^th Sesac. This is no new opinion – –

His Amazons whom he carried from Thrace & left at \the river/ Thermoodon called him by the same name in calling themselves the daughters of Mars.

Pag. 9. The Europeans had no chronology – – – – And this is the fundamental error of the chronology of the Greeks. p.13. Hence also it may in general be understood that if the durations of the kingdoms of ancient Greece be shortned in the proportion of three to five or \about/ four to seven the chronology of the Greeks \will be/ mended thereby.

P.13|5|. The kingd artificial chronologers have made Lycurgus – – – – \p.17. before the Olympiads, as above./ [P.17 B. Dele, as was determined above by arguments taken from Astronomy. And at the end of this section after the words till the return of the Heraclides add: The taking of Troy I place one generation later then the Argonautic expedition because many sons of the Argonauts weere {sic} in the Argonautic expedition.] – – – – – & there place {illeg} death of Solomon as above. p.18.

P.20. The expedition of Sesostris – – – – or 44 years after the death of Solomon. p. 21.

P.1. All nations – – – – – monument above mentioned in memory thereof. p.9.

P.21. Rehoboam was born – – – conformable to it self. p.26.

P.13. The kingdom of Macedon was founded – – – – & therefore not to be admitted. p.15.

P.17. Pa\u/sanias represents – – – – – – originally any further p.20.

P.26. When Sesostris – – – – – to the end p.44.

Pag.13. The kingdom of Macedon – not to be omitted p.15.

P.17. lin 31 In this interval of – – reign 517 years p.17. lin 49.

P.18. Thucydides tells us that the Corinthians – then the days of Solomon & Rehoboam p.19.

And for this \reason/ the sumptuous temple of Vailean built by Menes in|at| Memphis was not older then the days of Solomon. And such was the temple of Vulcan built b at Memphis built by Menes

Argos the father of Iasus, Piranthus, Epidaurus & Criasus, was succeeded by Criasus. Iasus was the the father of Agenor the father of Crotopus, the father of Sthenelus, the father of Gelanor Peranthus \or Phorbas/ the father of Triopas the father of Iasus see pag. 22 & 24

Timæus & Apollodorus tell us that Lycurgus converst with Homer, &] Heraclides Ponticus \(in Lycurgus)/ & Plutarch \tell us/ that Lycurgus brought Homers {illeg}|p|oems out of Asia & published them. & Timæus & \&/ Apollodorus say & Strabo \&/ say that Lycurgus converst w^th Homer \Cicero that Homer lived in the time of Lycurgus/ & Strabo that Lycurgus converst with hi|Ho|m|er| in Chia|u|s {illeg}. [Now Aristotel by an Olympic Discus in w^ch the name of Lycurgus was written gathers that Lycurgus was the companion of Iphitus in restoring the Olympiads & Cal Phlegon \& Pausanias/ writes that Lycurgus Iphitus /Iphitus\ &|&| Cleosthenes restored the Olympic games. And Callimachus that these \y 13 the/ \first/ Olympiads \{illeg}/ were restored \of/ Iphitus were omitted in \before/ the vulgar {illeg} recconing Æra of the Olympiads began: {illeg} Lycurgus therefore flouris{h}ed about \13 Olympiads or/ 52 years before the vulgar Æra of the Olympiads \began/, that is 154 years after y^e death of Solomon, or about 80 years after the taking of Troy. Which is a competent space of Time for Homer to flourish in & converse w^th Lycurgus. But if the taking of Troy be placed {illeg} \made/ above 260 years older, the as in y^e vulgar account, the interval will be much too great \& between Homer & the next Greek Poets there will be above 400 years w^ch is also two {sic} great a chasm/ .] Thucydides saith that the Lacedemonians – Crates saith that there were 400 years & a little above to y^e end of y^e Peloponnesian war since the Lacedemonians \had/ continued in the same form of government, that is since the making of their laws by Lycurgus. The last year of that war was an. 1. Olymp. 94. c|C|ount backwards 400 years & the {illeg} Laws of Lycurgus will be made something above 27 years before the Olym vulgar Æra of the Olympiads, that is within less then 178 years after the death of Solomon & within 108 less then 1{illeg}8 \108/ years {illeg} after y^e destruction of Troy.

Collonel Parsons – place. But M^r Le Clerk is a skilful & expeditious Graver, capable of doing good service the Mint very fit to be received into y^e Mint., \having some perfections w^ch are wanting/ – House. And that M^r Le Clerc be taken into the third place with a salary of also of 80^£ p^r an̄ & be allowed two Rooms to lodge & work in over the great Press room & over M^r Crokers shop. And that the salaries of M^r Croker & M^r Bull commence from y^e death of M^r Harris, but by reason of the charges w^ch the Mint has been at by the dammages done by the great winds last Autumn, we are humbly of opinion that for saving these charges money to defray those charges the salary of M^r Le Clerc do not commence till next Midsummer.

To
Sir Isaac Newton
in Ge^rmane Street
near S^t Iames is Chu^rch
London.

The conquests of Sesostris are described w^th by authors with some confusion but considering that he had forces by sea & land. he seems to have guided the course of his conquests by the course of y^e sea, conquering first the regions \between Egypt & the red sea then the regions/ of Afric along the Mediterranean \westward/ as far as the Ocean, then the regions of Ethiopia along the red sea \southward/as far as the promontory Mossylites, then the crossing y^e red sea at Dira he went eastward as far as India conquering Persia Arabia felix & the south|e|of|r||n| parts of Persia & India as far as Ganges & beyond, & then returning to y^e Mediterranean he conquered the regions thereof easward & nortward that is Phenicia, & \Syria &/, the regions upon Tigris & Eufrates, &\&/ Asia minor, & G\&/ Thrace & part of Greece.

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S^r M^r Bull of\the/ second ingraver \of in the Mint/ is dead & & upon inquiring after another engraver who upon the death of \the/ first engraver M^r Croker, may be fit to succeed him, I can hear of no better artist then M^r Rollos the kings idel>|e|ngraver of Seales \to succeed him/. The place \in the mint/ is 80^£ per an̄ w^th a house part of the gravers \house/ hos|u|se & the p\r/ospect of succeeding the principal graver when he dyes. And M^r Rollos is willing to accept of it & to live \& work/ in the Mint. & do all &|A|nd as he is the fittest person that I can hear of I take the liberty to recommend him to your consideration. I am Yo^e

The D^r acknowledging that |t|he did not took th reason why he made so so little mention of the Me Differential method was because he took that method to be the same \with mine/ & did not know the Differences or Improvements made \to it/ by M^r Leibnits \after I had explained it to him/ to this Method: M^r Leibnitz fully acquiesced \in this acknowledgement/ {wit} without making the least complaint against the Doctor for saing that by my Letters in the year 16{illeg}|7|6 I had explained to him th{illeg} /the\ method \w^ch was the common to us both & which was/ found by me ten years before \that time/ or above, that is, in the year 1666 or before. And thus the

And if after such a concession as M^r Leibnitz made in these his Letters now recited, \& printed 17 years ago/ men may be allowed to go back upon any pretence whatever, even printing it self will be no security after witnesses are dead.

MOERIS V{illeg} MOERIS. the first letter M being in \some/ old decayed Manuscript \taken/ for VC VC & an{illeg} Conqueror by the name of Salman. And perhaps tha|Sah|ma might be a|| \the first/ part of the name of Salman{illeg}asser, & Iarib a|| \the last/ part of y^e name of his successor Sennach{illeg}erib. And|But| whoever these Princes were it appears not they reigned before Sennacherib\Salmanasser/. Put seems to be the first
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when they hav|d|e made the the Egyptian Isis as old as Io the daughter of Inachus, & they made \they made/ her husband Osiris or Bacchus & his mistres Ariadne as old: &|t|hey \&/ feigned \that there were/ two Ariadnes one the mistress of Bacchus the other the mistress of Theseus & two Minoses their fathers, & two Io & a younger Io the daughter of Iasus writing Iasus corruptly for Inachus, And for the Erectheuses & two {illeg} Pandions contemporary to the two Ariadnes & two Erectheuses their fathers contemporary to of the two Pandions, gaving the name of Erechthonius to y^e first Erecth of them who Homer calls Erechtheus. And by such corrections they have exceedingly perplexed ancient history.

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To 699
S^r Isaac Newton
at his house in
S^t martan^s Street
near Leicester Fields
London

As Babylon & Rome were adorned in the height of their Empire so doubtless it was in the reig{illeg}n of Sesostris & his successors that That Thebes & grew so great & splendid & that all almost all {illeg}magnificent works were done in Egypt was adorned w^th those magnificent works of Temples, Obelisks, Pyramids, Labyrinths & y^e like \the spoiles & Tribute of the nations being employed on these things/. For Sesostris returning w^th home w^th a great multitude of captives imployed them in building Tem new Temples in all the cities of Egypt & cutting ditches from Nile all over Egypt for watering the cities. He erected also \in Heliopolis/ two Obelisks of 120 cubits inscribing on them the greatnes of his dominion & tribute w^th y^e number of the nations conquered: \one of/ w^ch two Obelisks Augustus Cæsar translated to Rome placing it in y^e Campus Martius. Rhampses erected two Obelisks enlarged y^e Temple of Vulcan w^th a Portico on the west. Memnon erected the speaking statue & a wonderful Palace in Abydus. And Am & (of he be Imandes) the {illeg} Labyrinth. Herodotus refers y^e Pyramids to kings who reigned a little after. Sesostris & w^th good reason since y^e kings who preceded had not wealth sufficient for such great works. |The Labyrinth is attributed to one of y^e successors of Sesostris called Lachares by Manetho, Labaris by menemes called Mandes or Eusebius. Imandes & Isimandes by Strabo & Mandes & Marrus by Diodorus that is Amenemes & Ameres the two successors of Lachares For it seems to have in Manetho. For Herodotus calls it the work of kings as if made by more then one & not finished till y^e reign of Psammiticus.| And tho he places Mæris almost 900 years before his own age, yet the vast Lake w^ch he \Mæris/ built w^th two magnificent Obel Pyram of 3600 stadia in compass & 50 paces depth where deepest, w^th two Pyramids in y^e midst of 50 paces height above y^e water & upon each a Colossus on a throne representing him & his wife, are works w^ch agree far better w^th this \magnificent/ age then w^th that af{illeg} unhappy \difficult one/ when y^e Shepherds reigned over y^e lower Egypt. And therefore the {illeg} I had rather attribute it to that Marrus whom Diodorus makes y^e founder \author/ of the Labyrinth & Manetho seems to call Ammeres. For Mæris built the me{illeg} who made this Lake ^a[1] built also the \memorable/ north Portico of that famous Temple of Vulcan whose foundation was doubteles laid by Sesostris \when he renewed all y^e Temples in Egypt/, & Pliny Lycias in ^b[2] Pliny makes y^e Labyrinth to be y^e sepulcher of Mæris. This Mæris also wrote y^e Elements of Geometry & Geometry is thought to have had its rise from the division of Egypt \by Sesostris/ amongst his soldiers & probably Sup Siphocas who succeeded Maris is that Suphis who erected y^e according to Manetho erected y^e greatest Pyramid \& whom Herodotus calls Cheops./ For that Suphis wrote a sacred book & Siphoas for writing sacred books was accounted y^e second Mercury.

The successors of Sesostris were

In y^e sepulcher of I|O|simandes was a ring in compass \of Gold/ 365 cubits in compass & a cubit thick divided into 365 equal parts w^th y^e days of the year inscribed on each & y^e rising & setting of y^e stars & their significations according to y^e Egyptian Astrology. Diodorus C. 1 p. 32.

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Manetho {illeg}^[3]Successorem Sesostris qui Labyrinthum sibi sepulchrum fecit Manetho Lacharem Eusebius Labærem vocat. Et Lacharis successor aput|d| Manethonem est Ammeres. Forte hic est Marrus vel Mœris cui Diodorus & Lysias apud Phinium Labyrinthum tribuunt. \For/ Mæris autem Port ^b[4] built the \stately/ nothern Portico of y^e Temple of Vulcan & by that character is ^a[5] found out y^e Elements of Geometry w^ch had its rise from y^e \geometrical/ division of Egypt amongst y^e soldiers made by Sesostris & by both those characters was one of the successors of Sesostris. For Sesostris ^c[6] began this structure & divided Egypt equally \by measure/ amongst his soldiers {illeg}tting all the Egyptians w^ch gave occasion to geometry. And This MÆris

Strabo \an eye witness/ tells as y^e above y^e speaking statue of Monnuon \in Thebais/ were y^e sepulchers of 40 kings of Egypt in caves cut in stone & {illeg}\by/ them in \certain/ Obelisks inscriptions declaring the riches & power of those kings & their dominion [of some of them] propagated to Scythia & Bactriana & India & Ionia & \with/ the greatness of their tribute & their army |of| about a thousand thousand men.

Among the successors of Sesotris are recconned Rhampses & Amenophis Rha\m/pses (called Remphis by Diodorus & R\h/ampsinitus by Herodotus {illeg} & by Manetho said to be y^e son of Setostri Setho{illeg}|s| or Sesostris) \a^[7]/ \did nothing glorious but/ spent his whole age in heaping up {illeg} riches & was y^e richest of all the kings of Egypt gathering together 400000 \Egyptian/ Talents , that is 800000 Attic talents an Egyptian talent conteining two Atti{illeg}|c|{illeg} Talents that is 120{illeg} Attic{illeg} drachms or about 25^lb {illeg} sterling. \pounds/ Tacitus^[8] tells us that Germanicus \Cæsar/ visited Egypt to see \know its/ Antiquities & & saw y^e great ruins of old Thebes in some of w^ch were \where some structures remained with/ Egyptian letters expressing the former greatness \its/ ancient wealth. And the oldest \older/ /old\ \ancienter/ of y^e Priests being commanded to interpret them related that there once dwl|e|lt 700000 \in it/ seven hundred thousand of military age, & that king Rhampses w^th that army reigned over Libya, Æthiopia, the Medes, & Persians, & Bactrians & Scythia & the territories of y^e Me Syrians, Armenians Cappadocians & Bithynia & Lycia from sea to sea. The tributes & gifts of every nation \(gold & silver & armour & horses & ivory & odours for y^e temples & corn & all utensils)/ were also read being scarce less magnificent than what the Parthians or y^e Romans \Empires/ exacted.

Amenophes (called \Ammenephthes by Eusebius & Imandes Ismandes & / Memnon by the Greeks |& Mendes| \& Osymandes by Strabo)/ visited the conquests of Sesostris, marched through \Ismia &/ Phyrygia staid long in Susiana & left{illeg} monuments of his stay there & subdued y^erebelling Bactrians but after a while Strabo an eye witness tells us that in Thebais above the \vocal speaking/ statue of Memnon – – – – a thousand thousand men. These {illeg} Obelisks being among y^e ruins of Thebes its probable that y^e inscription above mentioned w^ch Germanicus caused to be inter{illeg}|pr|eted, was on that Obelisk w^ch was dedicated to Rhampses.

M^r Sawyer had 40 ^lb by a bill at London paid to his order.In money left in his hand either 6 or 11 ^lb above what /when they retur\ned to Brigstock. My sister thinks 6 ^lb.
To y^e Apothecary at two payments between 4 & 5 ^lb. To M^r Sawyer for two journeys to Brigstock 30^s at one time & 30 or 40 at y^e other if there was another.
To his man 40^s for attendance.

At M^r Tindalls an Apothecary in Bridges Street at ה signe of the Pestell & Mortar {illeg} neare the play house.
M^r                 at y^e Bell & Dragon on Newgate Market.

years of Nabonassar 586 & 618. The middle year is 602 w^ch is 286 years after the aforesaid observation of Meton & Euctemon. And in these years the equinox must have gone backward \about/ four degrees & So have been in the fourth degree of Aries in the days of Hipparchus & by consequence have then gone backward elven degrees since the Argonautic expedition, that is in 1090 year{s a}ccording to the chronology of the ancient Greeks then in use. And this is after the rate of under about 99 years, or in the next round numbers an hundred years to a degree, as was then stated by Hyparchus. But it really {w}ent back a degree in seventy & two years & 11 degrees in 792 years. Count these 792 years backwars|d|s from the year of Nabonassar 602 (the year from w^ch we counted the 286 years) & the recconing will place the Argonautic expedition about 43 years after the death of Solomon. /43 years after the death of Solomon.\The Greeks – – – a degree in an hundred years.

– After the \great/ victory of Asa over Zerah & the following revolt of the lower Egypt from Zerah to Osarsiphus, Amenophis \(his father being slain)/ might f presently fly from Osarsiphus \w^th the remainder of his father's army the Ethiopians/ to Memphis & spend about two years in \building &/ fortifying Memphis\that city/ & thirteen years more in Æthiopia, & then return from Æthiopia with a great army & \to/ conquer the lower Egypt about sixteen years after the victory of Asa \over Zera/ or 51 years after the death of Solomon, & \Amenophis/ having spent two or three years \a year or three or four years/ in conquering Osarsiphus & \another year/ setling the affairs of the lower Egypt & then \he might then/ leave Proteus his viceroy at at Memphys, & go with his army into Persia & build the Memnonia to secure his dominions \{in}/ {illeg}|i|n those parts & build the Memnonia at Susa {illeg} fortifying that city as the Metropolis of his \eastern/ dominions in those parts \in those/ in the east, & about the time that \soon after the taking of/ Troy was taken or soon after return into Egypt & erect the speaking statue & the Temple

Africanus calls Boceharis a Saite, but Sais at this time had other kings.

9 to 5 - nine to five 19 to 33 1/3. 57 to 100|2|. 19 to 34. nine to five – become 30 years – ann 2 Olymp 53

All paid till Lady Day\Mich/ 1722

And this summ together with 12^£ received Aug. 3^d 1725 & 8^£ received November 16^th \1724/ & ten pounds in money & two pounds in taxes {illeg} received March 24 172 3/4 makes up the summ of 56 pounds, the same being his rent for two years ending at Michaelmas 1724 besides eight pounds towards his rent for the half year ending at Lady day 1725.

Pag.7. The expedition of Sesostris – death of Solomon pag.8.

Pag. 9. At length the Egyptians – minded not arts and sciences. p.10.

Pag. 13. The Trojan war was one gen – dominions in those parts. p.14.

seven Weeks of years or seven sabbats of years = a Iubilee. Levit. 25.8.

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The building of Babylon by Pul seems

Quintus Curtias tells us that Semirramis built Babylon or, as many beleive Belus, whose {illeg} Palace is there shewn. The occasion of ascribing it to Semiramis seems that she \(as Herodotus tells us)/ built great banks throughout y^e plane of Babylonia w^ch before were overflowed by {illeg} Euphrate y^e {illeg}|R|iver. And this was done about the time of Belus y^e reign of Belus {illeg} \Pul/ For \Herodotus places/ Semiramis saith Herodotus lived five ages \ages/ generations before the mother of Labynitus King of Babylon whom Cyrus conquered

The Found I reccon Pul the founder of Babylon be

Babylon was therefore founded by a king of Assyria & by consequence by Pul \Belus/ the first king we read of who began to erect that monarchy. For y^e Æra of Nabonassar shews that it was founded about y^e time of his reigne. & the founder is Hence \Dorotheus/ Sidonius an old Poet [apud Iulian Firmicum

And so Diodorus tells us – – – – – – The Phenicians would have this|e| Belus to be founder of Babylon to be a Phœnician & y^e Egyptians an Egyptian b{illeg} but both agree in his name Belus. Quintus Curtius tells us – – – Cyrus conquered. And Abydenus out of Megasthenes – – – – Empire of Macedon. So Berosus \[apud Ioseph. cont. App. 1. p 1045 a]/ ascribes the building of y^e was|l|ls \palace/ & Pensil gardens & temple of Belus \in this city/ to Nebuchadnezzar & blames the Greeks for ascribing them to Semiramis the Assyrian. And accordingly Nebuchadnezzar himself boasted Is not this great Babylon which I have built? Dan 4.30

When Belus had assigned to everyone his portion of y^e watry; Semiramis an built Assyrian Lady \assisted him in draining them. For Herodotus tells us that he/ built great banks throughout y^e plane Those watry places were overflowed by the river Eufrates till Semirames an Assyrian Lady built great banks throughout the plane |which was before overflowed by the river & that she lived but 5 ages before generations before {illeg} y^e Mother of Labyrintus the last King of Babylon whom Cyrus conquered. {illeg} She lived| therefore about y^e age of Pul & so points at \thence I understand I reccon/ him to be y^e Belus who founded Babylon. Porphyry places Semiramis a little higher \earlier/ telling him \us/ that Sanchoniathon a writer of Berytus lived under Semiramis a Queen of y^e Assyrians who is reported\related said/ to have lived about or \been/ before \or/ about y^e times of y^e Trojan wars. But its'^s more probable that Sanchoniathon was a later writer because he mentions y^e Theology of y^e Greeks

But For Ctesias & those that follow him make semiramis the author of y^e walls Pensil gardens & other great works in Babylon & so But Berosus

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I have lookt into De Omerique's Analysis Geometrica & find it a judicious & valuable piece answering to y^e Title. For therin is laid a foundation for restoring the Al|n|alysis of the Ancients w^ch is more simple more ingenious & more fit for a Geometer then the Algebra of the Moderns. For it leads him more easily & readily to the composition of Problems & the Composition w^ch it leads him to is usually more simple & elegant then that w^ch flows w^th more pains \is forct/ from Alg{illeg}|eb|ra.

Which reigns according to Chronologers took up 244 years, w^ch is much too long for the course of nature being after the rate of 4{illeg} 35 years a piece\to a reign/ At 20 years a piece one with another they amount to no more then 140 years that is 8 90 years to y^e death of Cyrus & 50 years to the invasion of Greece by Xerxes. Add the 200 years from the return of the Heraclides to the Anaxandrides & Ariston Kings of Sparta were contemporary to Cræsus (Herod l. 1. c. 67) & therefore between the end of the first Messenian war th|&| the death of Cyrus reign of Cambyses \death of Cyrus/ there were about five reigns of the Spartan kings w^ch at about 20 years to a reign make about 100 years. This intervall was therefore about 90 or 100 or at a medium 95 years: w^ch added to y^e 200 years between the {illeg} return of the Heraclides & the end of the {illeg} \first/ Messenian war places the d \said/ return of 20 about 295 years before the death of Cyrus. This invervall according to recconing of Ephorus &

The making of the Puncheons a month barring accidents or five \between five &> six/ weeks if a Puncheon breaks.

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& his followers was about 560² & according to later Chronologers 574|3| years which is 278 years too long. Subduct the Olympiads & >there will remain but 290 about 4{illeg}|7| years between the {illeg} \said/ return of the h|H|eraclides & the first Oly{m}piad. Which intervall \according to/ the followers of Ephoru{s I} reccon to be \was/ about 320 years. And this is the fundamental error of the artificial Chronology of the Greeks

1200 Silver medalls coyned by the mill & press will cost

p.22. Cadmus \{illeg}/ came first to Rhodes \{illeg}/ & left there a colony of Phenicians who sacrifice men to Saturn. Phobas carried a colony of Telchines thither \to Rhodes/ from Argos, & Triopas the son of Phorbas carried a colony from thence \Rhodes/ to Caria & from this & such like colonies Caria was anciently called Phœnice.

P.32. Triopas led a Colony from Rhodes into Caria & Agenor the son of Triopas invaded Argos w^th a great multitude

For Cadmus \in coming to Greece/ arrived first at Rhodes neare \an island bordering upon/ Caria & left there a colony of Phenicians who sacrificed men to Saturn; & the Telchines being repulsed b in Peloponesus by Phoroneus retired thence \from Argos/ to Rhodes under with Phorbas who purged the island of serpents: & Triopas the son of Phorbas carried a Colony from Rhodes to Caria. And from this & such like colonies Caria was anciently \furnished with shipping &/ called Phœnice.

p.31. From Cecrops to Codrus I reccon \inclusively/ were 14 kings of Athens w^ch at 18 years a piece one w^th another take up 252 about 259|2| years. And these years counted back from the death of Codrus place the reign of {illeg} Cecrops in the days of Samuel.

14. & the death of Codru{illeg}|s| [& beginning of the {illeg} Archons for life (of th\e/re {illeg} were so many) & the Ionic migration about 190 under the \his/ sons of Cod about 1{illeg}|9|0 or 200 years before the decennial Archons, or about 90 or 100 \100 or {illeg}105/ years after the taking of Troy.

14 & the death of Codrus & Ionic Migration under his sons, & the beginning of the Archons for life {illeg}|a|bout 19|8| \or 190/ years before the decennial Archons or 100 years after the taking of Troy.

an. 2 Olymp. 65; the first annual Archon of Athens an 1. Olymp. 49; the first decennial Archon about 40 or 50 years before, some of the \seven/ decennial Archons dying in their regency {illeg}: & the death of Codrus {the} & Ionic migration under his sons, [& the beginning of the Archons for life] about \ninety or/ an hundred years after the taking of Troy, that interval being taken up with the reigns of six kings of Athens, ( Demophoon, Oxyntes, Aphy|i|das, Thymætes, Melanteus & Codrus, & Aphidas reigning but one year; & the interval between the death of Codrus & the decennial archons being taken up by twelve Archons for life

The inte time between the taking of Troy & the return of the Heraclides was taken up by the successive reigns of these three kings of the Mycenæ Ægystus Orestes & Tisamenus. And that between the taking of Troy the \&/ the death of Codrus by the successive reigns of these six kings of Athens Demophoon, Oxyntes, Aphidas, Thymætes, Melanthus & Codrus, the four first of which according to chronologers took up but 54 years ] the third & fourth of w^ch took according to chronologers took up but 9 years.

Historians tell us that Sardus the son of the Libyan Hercules carried \went with/ a colony from Libya to Sardinia & gave his name to that Island. & that Sardinia \{illeg}/ was peo at first peopled by Libyans {illeg}. The Libyan Hercules is he who contended with Antæus, that is, the Hercules whom Sestostris who was {illeg} one of y^e |was he who contended with Antæus. He {illeg} who being one| \was one of the/ brothers of Sesostris & whom Sesostris \& was by him/ left governour of Thebais Thebais & Æthiopia by Sesostris & came down from thence to the assistance of the God's aga against the Giants. Which makes it probable that Zerah was {illeg} the same man with Sardus, & fled from Osarsiphus into Libya \& thence into Sardinia/ about the same time y^t Amenophis retired into the upper Egypt & fortified Memphis [& went thence into Æthiopia to recover strength.] against the same Osarsiphus.

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     I received your kind present of a collar of very good brawn, &return my hearty thanks for it. I hope you have your health well & wish you a happy new year.

Deni Iudicium prædictum subjunxi, unam notis quibus pateat illud \eidem/ in Recensione illa confuta in esset et septem ipsus, responsum essem \vivente Leibnitio Respondum fuisse/ & Sespum eites esse tantum ut ut Commercium epistolicum sine Resposo dimitteret{illeg}ur..

Reges Arcadiæ post Argioos

• 1 Pelasgus qui gentem rudem & feram in ordinem redegit & Deos coleve docuit, quod hinc in alios universim {illeg}\populos/ transit
• 2 Lycaon Cecropi synchronus
• 3 Nyclimus \f/ sub quo Diluvium Deucalionis
• 4 Arcas \n./agriculturam a Triptonelo doctus
• 5 Azan. f
• 6 Clitor f
• 7 Æpytus
• 8 Aleus Argonauta
• 9 Lycurgus
• 10 Echemus qui Hyllum occidit
• 11 Agapenor \Anaæphilius/ Lycurgi nepos, qui inter Helenes procos fuit & ad Trojanum bellum profectus est
• 12 Hippothous quo imperium tenente Anchises in Arcadia \mortus est/
• 13 Epytus f. Orestes in Arcadiam venit.
• 14 Cypselus. Heraclidæ in Peloponesum redeunt.
• 15 Olæus.f.
• 16 Bucolion f
• 17 Phialus f
• 18 Simus f
• 19 Pompus f
• 20 Æginetes f
• 21 Polymestor f
• 22 Æchmis {eu}frate nepos
• 23 Aristocrates f. occisus.
• 24 Hecetas f
• 25 Hiestas f. /Aristocrates f.\ an. 1 Olymp {illeg}|2|8 occisus.

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I do not know of any book of Epistles\Letters/ in w^ch Rob^t Stevens saith what Manuscripts had & what had not the Epistles. I am My Lord.

Demetrius Magnes in his book de Homonymis, says that there were fives Tha several men called Thales, one of w^ch was very ancient, being contemporary to Hesiod & Homer & Lycurgus. Apud Diog. Laert in Thalete p 9 f.

Thales Mylesius was born an 1 Olymp. 35. Obit Olymp 58 annos natus 78, or 90.

Cleobulus (unus e 7 sapientibus Minervæ templum a Danao ædificatum instaravit Diog. Laert in Cleob.

Epimenibes qui geneologias scripsit. Diog Laert in Epimen.

Neptune = Briareus = [Enceladus=] Ægeon = Typhæus = Typhon. Callinachus vol.1 p 239. Vol 2 p 425.

Amymone Danai filia Neptuno Nauplium edidit Callim vol. 1. Notis p 443

Hyagris Phyx tibias invenit regnante Athenis Erech{illeg}|h|thonio qui currum junxit Callin. Not. Vol 2 p 296.

Tridens est trifide hasta & tridentem habere est imperium maris obtinere. {Hymanin} Callim vol 2 p 347.

M^r Hunt
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Ægypt was at first divided into many kingdoms like other nations & we >do notk by degrees grew into one Monarchy |by degrees| And there were Sesac in the fif^t year of Rehoboam came out of Egypt w^th an army of Libyans, Troglodites & Ethiopians \(2 Chron. 12.3)/ & therefore was then Lord \king/ (2 Chron. 12.3) & so was Sesostris & we do not read in scriptu{re} that any former king \of Egpt/ who reigned over all those countries & \nations/ &, came out of Egypt w^th {illeg} a great army to conquer his neighbours. The sacred history of the {illeg} Israelites from the days of Abraham to the days of Solomon admits of no such conqueror. Sesostris reigned over all the same nations of \the/ Libyans, Troglodites & Ethiopians, & in prophane history we do not read of any later king of Egypt who reigned over all those nations & came in came out of Egypt w^th a great army against Phenicia Syria & the nations round about. And therefore Sesostris \& Sesac/ must be Sesac \one & the same king of Egypt./ This is no new opinion. Iosephus perceived it when he affirmed that Herodotus \erred in/ ascribing the actions of Sesac to Sesostris erring\& the error was/ only in the name \of the king/. For in \this is as much as/ to say {illeg} that they Herodotus erred in calling them by two the name is to say that the true name of Sesostris was Sesac, & to say that he erred only in the name is to say that he erred not in ascribing the actions of Sesac to Sesostris. |ascribing the actions of Sesac to Sesostris & that the error was only in the name is to say that the true name of Sesostris was Sesac & that Herodotus erred only in| calling him Sesostris as if Our great Chronologer S^r Iohn Marsham is also of the same opinion that Sesostris was Sesac And if this be granted, it is then most certain that Sesostris came out of Egypt in the fift year of Rehoboam to invade the nations & after an expedition of nine years returned backinto Egypt in 14^th year of Rehoboam: & in the 5^th year of Asa \& his brother Danaus fled from him in a long ship after the pattern of w^ch the Ship Argo was built by Argus/ [Then Asa in the fift year of his reign revolted & fortified Iudea, & by consequence Ægypt \He was called also Ægypt for a reason to be given hereafter & his brother/ fell then into distraction by the death of Sesostris; In the & in the 15^th year of his reign he beat Zerah an Æthiopian then became king of Egypt so that he could not recover himself. Thereupon the lower Egypt revolted under Osarsiphus, & Amenophis the successor of Zerah retired into first to Memphis & then into Æthiopia, & the notice of \all/ these distractions coming into Greece seems to have given occassion to y^e Argonautic Expedition about 7 or 8 years after the victory of Asa.] the grandson of Danaus

I have now carried up the chronology of the Greeks as high as to the Trojan war the Argonautic Expedition & the victory of Asa invasion of Asia of|&| Greece \by/by Sesostris{illeg} \the nations of Asia India & Europe/ |by| Sesostris & fixed the times by the coincidence of Sesostris with Sesac: [it remains now that I try to carry it up [to the planting of Greece w^th Colonies of Phenicians \from Sidon/ under Cadmus & his companions] a little higher.] These are the ages of reputed dark & fabulous by the {illeg} \old/ Historians of the Greeks.] It remains that I examin whether there be any thing earlier in their histories w^ch will \may/ tally with sacred history. For these are the ages reputed dark & fabulous by the ancient Greek historians, & there is no other way of carrying the chronology of things down in Europe any higher then by comparing the histories of the Europæans w^th those of other {illeg} nations.] For these are the dark & f ages reputed dark & fabulous by the \ancient/ Greeks \Historians/ & there {illeg} \is was/ no other. way of settling their chronology \other better in the times ~ before the Argonautic Exped/ to any degree of exactness \\to any/before that argonautic exp by genealogies &/ then that of comparing the Greek histories with those of other nations. It remains now that I try by the whether by the same \{and}/ method their chonology {sic} can be carried up any higher.

Tatian in his book – – – Abia & Asa.

Rehoboam was born – – – & some years longer.

Herodotus tells us – – – predecessor of Erychtheus \& Ion be grown up before his death/

I have now carried up – – – to be further examined.

Before the Phœnicians introduced – – – – older then is represented in scripture.

The Latines had no chronology of their own till they began{illeg} to reccon by the years of their city \w^ch/ was not till after the days of Ennius. The Greeks had none till sixty years after the death of Alexander y^e great. & yet be The chaldeans had none that we know of before the but the Eclipses of y^e ☾ set down by Thucydides \since/ the times of the Peloponnesian War. are deter The Chronology of the kings of the Medes \times of/ Chaldeans Medes & Persians are setled by the {illeg} Canon of Ptolomy. There by the times of the invasions of Greece by Darius Hystaspis & Xerxes are setled. The times of Pygmalion & Dido are setled by were recorded in the Archives of of Tyre & Carthage & the Trojan War was in the days of the|ir| predecessor of Pymaleon {illeg} father. And The time of the invation of Greece by Sesostris is setled by his being the same king of Egypt with Sesac mentied {sic} in Scripture, & And the time of the coming of colonies of Phœnicians from Sidon into Crete & Greece under Cadmus & his br Alymaus, Phœnix & other captains if fixed by the

P.14.6. & The first annual Archon of Athens in the 49|8| or 49^th Olympiad. & the first decennial Archon 3|4|0 or 4|5|0 years before, some of the seven decennial Archons dying in their regency.

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May it please yo^r Lord^ps           I have procured an assay to be made of the Oar w^ch you|r| \L^p/ sent to me, & send y{illeg}|o|u inclosed the Report of the Assayer. by which He found neither \silver nor/ Lead nor any other metal in the Oar: but in melting \assaying/ \it/ some part of it evaporated in a sulphureous fume & the rest {illeg} became a cinder without yeilding any metall. He tells me that if he had had a sufficient quantity of Oar he would have made two or three \{illeg} more/ assays. For a single a|A|ssay is scarce to be trusted \sufficient to ground a rep{illeg}|o|rt upon/ by reason of the different natures of Oars, & unforeseen accidents. & the different natures of Oares. ; & \He tells me also/ that the Oare w^ch I gave him was scarce sufficient to make a single assay: & that to enable him to make a r|R|eport with assurance, there should have been a pound of oar or at the least half a pound, I am & that if I can help him to any more of the Oar he will repeat the Assay. I am
My Lord
                         yo^r Lord^ps most humble & most obedient Serv^t

And we do not read in scripture that any king of Egypt came into Pho came \ino Phœnicia/ out of Egypt with an army into Phœnicia before the father of Solomons Queen. He took Gezer & gave it to his daughter, & proceeded no fu

|And| The father of Solomons Queen was the first king of Egypt who came into Phenicia w^ch an army. He But he only took Gezer & gave it to his daughter.

him whom \by way of submission to the conqueror/ b|t|hey called Melcartus, king of their city \city/, because he was \assumed the title of/ king of kings & Lord of Lords. [And this Temple they adorned with – – ] that Hercules of whom Pomponius writes (lib. 3. cap. 6) Temptum Ægyptij Herculis, conditoribus, religione, vetustate, opibus illustre, Tyrij condindere.

The Poets place the flood of Deucalion in the reign of Cranaus & presently after the reign of Lycaon in Arcadia \& also & als just after the reign of Lycaon in Arcadia &{illeg}/ , & therefore the reign of Amphictyon at Thermopylæ, that of Hellan in Thessaly, \&/ that of the sons of Lyc\a/on in Pelopennesus, began a few years (suppose 5 or ten about 8 or 1{illeg}|2|) years before the reign of Erechtheus \in Attica/ or about the time that the Phænician reign of Asterius Phœnicians came into Greece under the conduct of Cadmus, & that reign of Abibalus began at Tyre & that of Astesius in Crete.

Lycurcus –

|–|Erechtheus {illeg} & Minos. And Chiron was begot – – – \of his father/ Asterias in Crete fourth year of Solo – – And unless Chiron was above 84 years old in the time of the Argonautic Expedition – – – |–|will not begin before the reign of Solomon. Mythologists say – when Alcmena was with child by Heracles w^th who was born about the 8^th or 10^th year of Solomon \Rehoboam/ as above. And Niobe the daughter of Phoroneus – – – of Argus the son of Iupiter & Niobe & successor of his grandfather Phoroneus at Argos king of Argus next after his grandfather Phoroneus. Io the daughter of Inachus & sister of Phoroneus was one generation older then Niobe – – – – – – answers to the golden age. Hesiod tells us that he himself lived in the fift age & calls that the iron; for the present age is always the iron age. Hesiod therefore flourished in \the fift age/ the age next after the taking of Troy. This fable of the four ages seems to have been made by the Curetes in the fourth age, the po in honour of their country-woman Europa & her posterity kings of Crete & in memory of the first four ages of their coming into Europe as into a new world. In the first age reigned Asterius the husband of Europa & \the/ Saturn of the Latines. In the next This age began about the 16^th or 18 year of Davids reign when the Phœnicicans came first into Europe under Cadmus & Atymnus, & {illeg} The In the second reigned Minos th the son of Europa a king celebrated for dominion & justice, the Iupiter nursed up by the Curetes in whose reign the Greeks began to plow & sow & on whose sepulchre was inscribed τοῦ Διο ΤΟΥ ΔΙΟΣ. The His In the beginning of his reign he begat Apis of Niobe suppose in the 6^th year of Solomon: & in the end o his reign ended when Alcmenas was with child of Hercules suppose in the 8^th year of Rehoboam. Then reigned Deucalion the son of Minos till the Argonautic Expedition, & Idomeneus his grandson who warred at Troy.] – into a new world, & in honour of their country-woman Europa & her husband Asterius the Saturn of the Latines, & of their son Minos \the Cretan ♃/ & grandson Deucalion who warred at Troy reigned till the Argonautic expedition & \great/ gre|an|dson Idomeneus who warred at Troy. Hesiod tells us that he himself lived in the iron \fift/ age, & therefore he lived in the age next after the taking of Troy, &

as old as Inachus the father of Phoroneus. And being only almost 700 years Acusilaus & his followers making them almost 700 years older than the truth, \to make out this recconing/ Chronologers have lengthed the races of the kings of Argos & Sicyon, & for that end they have changed several – Kings of Sicyon.

The first men would be apt to reccon by days & nights new moons & full moons summers & winters & thence came y^e Lunisolar years. For these years seem to have been generally received in the first ages \being the oldest years of the {illeg} Iews Egyptians Chald Assyrians Greeks Latins &c/. So Moses tells us that at y^e Creation God appointed y^e sun & moon for signs & for seasons & for days & for years: w^ch is as much as to say that y^e first ages numbred their \Months/ by y^e revolutions of the moons & their years \& {illeg} seasons of summer & winter seed time & harvest/ by y^e revolutions o revolutions of y^e sun. & {illeg} & \of/ the seasons w^ch accompanied it accompanied w^th the seasons of summer & winter & ripe fruits And as often as they found 12 Lunar months too short for y^e year they added a thir For before the inventions of Astronomical rules they had \could have/ no other way recconning them by the visible returns of y^e sun & moon & seasons of the year. But at length finding that a{illeg} Moon conteined {illeg} \almost 30/ 30 days & that there were someting {sic} more then 12 moons – 1260 days. \And/ As oft th as they had occasion Yet to reccon times past or to come, the {illeg} \because/ they could not be assisted \in such recconings/ by the visible revolutions of y^e Sun & M oon \& knew not the exact length of y^e year/, they would be apt to make their recconnings in the nearest round numbers of 30 days to an month & 12 months to a year, while at y^e same time they used y^e Luni-solar year in civil affairs & determined it by the visible revolutions of the sun & moon & returns of the annual seasons. For I do not find that any nation ever kept account in civil affairs by s{illeg} 30 days to a month & 12 months to a year. In all antiquity there is no mention of {illeg} any a|Æ|ra of such years not|r| is it probable that such an Æra could have been lasting because in y^e space of 35 years it would turn winter into summer & summer into winter.

|The months of the years of ancient Ægyptians kept to certain seasons for Ioseph interprets seven kine fat or lean & seven ears &c – aristas. {illeg} So also th{illeg}| The months of y^e years w^ch the Iews brought out of Egypt kept to certain seasons of the year{illeg} because \For/ in the first month they offered the first fruits of their {illeg}w For the first month they called Abib \that is/ an ear of corn because in this month the corn began to be in y^e ear, & in \the feast of/ this month they offered \began to put the {illeg} siccle into the corn & offered/ the first {fruts} fruits of thereof. {illeg} \{illeg}/. From that time they counted 4{illeg} 7 weeks & then kept y^e of harvest & in y^e seventh month they kept y^e feast of ingathering after they had gathered their corn & wine \& fruit/ Exod 23.16 Levit. 23.15, 39. Deut. 9.13. [Their year had a double y|b|eginning the one in spring in the month Abib according to y^e institution of Moses & the other in autumn in the month Tisri according to their old recconing before they came out of Egypt.] & {& henc} And hence its manifest that their \year/ consisted not of any certain 360 or 365 or any other certain number of days but was regulated by the visible revolutions of y^e sun & seasons of y^e year. \For being Luni-solar Their months began on the New moons Psal 81.3. Num 10.10 & 28.11, & therefor their years were Luni-solar./ And tho Solomon had 12 officers w^ch provided victuals each man his month in the year 1 King 4.7 & David had 12 Captains for all the twelve months of the year \w^ch came in & went out month by month/ throughout all y^e months of y^e year. {illeg} 1 Chron 27 yet it is not said that the turns of every Officer & captain fell always upon the same season & month of the year. The The months might be Lunar & the year thirteen of them sometimes go to y^e year notwithstanding th{illeg}|e|se institutions. T{illeg} [The 24 {illeg} \houses{illeg}/ of Priests served in order. For the like courses of y^e Priests were observed after y^e captivity (Luke 1) when {illeg} the year (as all allow) was Lunisolar. {illeg} Their year had a double beginning the one in spring in the month Abib by the institution of Moses & the other in Tis autumn in the month Tisri according to their old recconing before they came out of Egypt And thence I gather that y^e year of the Egyptians till the age of Moses was Lunisolar like that of {illeg} y^e Iews & began in autum. [ |F| Ioseph interprets Lunisolar years seven fat kine \far or lean/ {illeg} & seven ears of corn to signify seven Egyptian years {illeg} fat kine being put for y^e plentiful years of grass & ears of corn for harvests according to y^e {phrase} \language/ of y^e poet, Post septem aristas.] And this shews that y^e Egyptians years the{illeg} were answered \were equivalent/ answered to y^e returns of summer & harvest were then taken for Egyptian years. And this shews that y^e months of y^e old Egyptian year kept their seats according to y^e several \to the same/ seasons of the year \like that of the Iews]/. The year of y^e Iews had a double \two/ beginning|s|, the one in spring the other in autumn in the month Abib, the other in by the institution of Moses & y^e other in autumn in y^e month Tisri according to their old recconing before they came out of Egypt. {illeg} From all w^ch I gather that y^e old year of y^e Egyptians was \And no doubt they then used the year of the Egyptians their Lords w^ch was \&/therefore the old Egyptian year was/ Lunisolar & like that of the Iews & began in Autum. So the ancient years of the Chaldeans Arabians & Syrians was Lunisolar & \of/ the several Greek nations was|er||e| Lunisolar & began at certain seasons as \the Chaldean & Arabian with that Lunar month w^ch happened in the autumnal Equinox/ the Olympic years & y^e Macedonic years with the|a||t| Lunar month w^ch happened in \or next after/ y^e summer solstice, the Attic, Bœtic Laconic & Syracusan years with that Lunar month w^ch happened in y^e winter solstice. And \Censor/ so in Italy (as ^[9]Cen <19v> Censorinus tells us, alium, Ferentini, aluim Lavinij, item Albani vel Romani habuerent annum; ita et aliæ gentes. Omnibus tamen fuit propositum suos civiles annos, gravie intercalendis mensibus, ad unum verum illum natualem corrigere. Censorino cap. 20.

Again, after Tisamenes reigned Temenus in Argos & five others in Argos untill Phidon who was the tenth from Hercules & y^e sixt from Temensus inclusively. He was the first introduced weigt|h|ts & measures & was the first who coyned money in Greece. His brother was Caranus the founder of the kingdom of Macedon & between Caranus & \that/ Alex{illeg}|a|nder who was contemporary to Xerxes were nine kings. So that between Temenus & A the end of 19^th year of Darius Hystaspis where|n| Alexander (according to          ) began his reign there were the reigns of 15 Kings w^ch recconning 21 year a piece to a reign make 315 Kings.

Anno post captam Trojan 80^mo Heraclidæ in Pelopponnesum redierunt ducibus Aristodemo Temeno & Cresphonte Aristomachi filijs Aristomachi qui fuit filus Cleodæi qui fuit tertuis ab Hercule. Duces illi Exinde Temenus & alij q{illeg} posteri regnarunt in Argo Exinde Temenus Argos, Cresphontes Messenian, & Aristodemi filij Lacedæmo obtinuerunt. Sextus a Temeno, decimus ab Hercule fuit Phidon qui who introduced weights & measures into Greece & was the first who coyned money in Greece. He {illeg} \was/ brother was to Caranus the founder of y^e kingdom of Macedon & between Caranus & Alexander who according to Eusebius began his reign in y^e 19 year of Darius Hystaspis, there were nine successive king, so that from y^e return of y^e Heraclidæ to y^e 19^th year of Darius there \were 16/ {illeg}|15| reigns of kings w^ch at 21 years to a reign make 315 years. in all And by this recconing the 15^th return of y^e Heraclidæ into Peloponnesus will be (I.P. 3896) 162|3| years after y^e death of Solomon.

Again c|C|resp\h/ontes & seven others reigned \successively/ in Messene till the beginning of the first Messenian warr, so that recconing 21 years to a reign there were 168 years between the return of y^e Heraclidæ & beginning of that warr. The war lasted 20 years & ended an. 1. Olymp. 2|1|4 (            ) & therefore counting backwards 188 years the return of y^e Heraclidæ will be (I.P. 3842) {illeg} 69 years after y^e death of Solomon

Again at Argos \And at Argos/ after Orestes & Tisamenes reigned Temenus & six othes successively \at Argos/ the last of w^ch was Phidon who introduced weights & measures & was the first who coyned money in Greece. {illeg} He was & whose \He was/ brother was \to/ Caranus the founder of the Kingdom of Macedon & between Caranus & Alexander \Alexander P{illeg} \that/ K. of Macedon/ who \(that king who/ (according to Euseb.    ) began his reign in y^e 19 \{9^t}/ 19 year of Darius Hystaspis Artaxerxes Longimanus \Darius Hystaspis/ there were 10|9| successive Kings so y^t there were in all 18 successive reigns between \{illeg}/ the death of Ægystus & |y^e| 19^th year of Darius w^ch \at 21 years to a reign make {illeg} 3{illeg}|7|8 years & these years/ counted bacward place the beginnin death of Ægystus beginning of y^e reign of Orestes about 100 years after y^e death of Solomon at w^ch rate the destruction of Troy will be 90 years after \later then/ the death of Solomon.

Now [from the coming of Cadmus into Europe unto y^e Trojan War destruction of Troy was about 130 or 140 years.|.| For from Cadmus \as I shall shew hereafter./ w^ch counted from y^e latter end of Davids reign will place the destruction of Troy about 80 or 90 years after the death of Solomon as above] Eteocles & Polynices the sons of Oedipus the son of Laius, the son of Labdacus, the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus & Harmonia were slew one another in the war of the seven Captains at Thebes & a little before the war of Troy & ten years after Thersander the son of Polynices warred against \took/ Thebes & was soon after slain by Telephus in going to the war at Troy (Pausan Boeot. \c 5/ p. 722.) No These six generations by the eldest sons \between the coming of Cadmus & the warr of Troy/ could scarce take up less time then 130 or 140 years between y^e coming of Cadmus & the warr of Troy w^ch \w^ch with the ten years duration of that warr being/ counted from the middle of latter p{illeg} Davids reign will place y^e beginning of y^e Trojan war \taking of Troy/ about 80 or 90 years later then the death of Solomon & y^e end thereof as above.

This recconing is still confirmed by considering that the warr of Troy by the consent of all antiquity was later then the reign of Sesostris & fell in w^th the latter end of the reign of Memnon. For Sesostris was Sesach & Memnon died about 85 or 90 years after the death of Solomon as we shall shew hereafter. – as Arcadia from Arcas.

Plutarch \{nexi.} 189/ represents great uncertainty in y^e Originals of Rome. The old Records of the Latins were burnt by y^e Gauls 64 years before Alexanders death. {A} \and/ Q. Fabius Pictor, the oldest Historian of the Latins, li{illeg}|v|ed 100 years after his death later then Alexander & the Antiquities of y^e La & the chronology of y^e Latins was still later \that King./

He represents that after y^e destruction of Troy, Teucer being barred \by his father Telamon/ from returning into y^e Island Salamis by sailed to Cyprus & there being granted him by Belus y^e father of Dido he built y^e city Salamis, & told Dido the story of y^e Trojan war before she fled to Afric.

\For Belus & his son Pygmalion reigned over Cyprus \or some part thereof/ & built there the cities Citium Lapethus & Carpatia./ Teucer /And\ After the destruction of Troy Teucer being barred by his father Telamon from returning \home/ into y^e Island Salamis sailed to Cyprus & there built Salamis & \he &/ his posterity reigned there to Evagoras took \till {illeg} th till {illeg} till Evagoras whom y^e Persians \the last of these was/ invaded by the King of Persia in/ the {illeg} days of Isocrates y^e Poet. Also Agapenor another Greek \the Captain of y^e Arcadians/ after y^e destruction of Troy sailed to Cyprus & built the \there a/ new Paphus & Temple of Venus about 60 furlongs from y^e old Paphus built by Cinyras [Now Y Virgil tells us that Teucer came to Cyprus \Sidon/ in the reign of Belus the father of Dido & {illeg} P \who subdued Cyprus to seek new seats & that Belus had then conquered Cyprus/ For Belus & his son Pygmaleon reigned over Cyprus & there built the cities Citium Lapethus & Carpatia.] |And Theopompus tells us that the Greeks who followed Agamemnon (meaning Teucer Agapenor & their companions &c| Whence Ve And And \Now/ Virgil tells us the|a|t these things were done in y^e reign of Belus the father of Dido \before she fled from her brother/. For he represents \introduces/ Dido speaking thus At equidem Teucrum memini Sidona

So then Belus \therefore/ took Cyprus from Cinyras the posterity of Cinyras. For {illeg}|Belus| & his son Pygmaleon reigned over Cyprus & built there the cities Citium Lapethus & Carpatia. \Cinyras ~ ~ ~ & there gave seats to the Greeks \who assisted him.// |Cyprum Subactam, saith Servius, concessiti Teucro ut in ea collocaret imperium. t Theopompus \[l. 12 apud/ {illeg} saith that y^e Greeks who followed Agamemnon (meaning Euc & Agapenor & their followers) seized Cyprus & ejected Cinyras. It seems they did it by the assistance of Belus| Servius tells us \also/that this Belus was called also Methres & Iosephus calls him Matgenus. \According to y^e Tyrian Annals/ {illeg}|h|e reigned 9 years & died 83 years after Solomon. Whence \I gather that/ /it follows y^t\ Troy was taken about |75 or| 80 {illeg} \or 80/ years after y^e death of Solomons death.

In Till then the Greeks lived either \first either/ w^thout houses or \& then/ \or/ in villages \or huts/ very meanly built & fed upon y^e spontaneus fruits of the earth without planting \of/ trees or sowing corn \without/ sowi plowing & sowing \without wine or beer/ w{illeg}|i|thout commerce or money, often changing their seats in per |without laws, \or letters &/ being w^thout fixed seats being in per|petual arms & often changing their seats as they drove out one another by force or sought a better soile until at length they villages combined to b wall in some towns for to w^ch they might fly in case of danger & these towns w{illeg} united under common councils & kings: w^ch came first to pass in the days of Saul & David & their successors. And this is the reason why Greece was \at first/ so very much divided in those days & did nothing in common before the war of Troy. How mean the towns & cities were in those days may be understood by Ovids description of \old/ Rome. / How the several kingdoms of Egypt \being/ united under one {illeg} into one Monarchy seated at Thebes remai We have shewn how the cities of Egypt united \very early/ into several small kingdoms & how those kingdoms grew \at length/ into one Monarchy seated at Thebes remains now to be explained.

Anno XVIII Car II Cap. 5.
An act for encouraging of Coynage.

And it is hereby further enacted that no monies leviable \& payable/ by this Act, shall be applied or converted to any use or uses whatsoever other then to the defraying the charges of.

May it please your Lord^ps



     Idel>|We| have further considered the proposal of \erecting/ an Irish mint &|w|^th my L^d Chancellors thoughts upon y^e Report of the late Officers Warden & Master about it & upon a humbl waving all y^e interest that y^e any of the officers or other members \I or others/ of the Mint \in y^e Tower/ may have in the coynage we I humbly represent \allow/ that what relates to y^e the effect w^ch a new Mint may have upon y^e minds of the people of Ireland is a \political/ consideration not before us, & should have been waved in y^t report, {illeg}that the [A new \Mint in Ireland/ of like equal advantages \with ours/ to the Importer Merchants & others importing gold & silver is more like to derive Bullion from England then if it had {illeg} some advantages] \the advantages less were less, as/ they paid a seigniorage were \that{illeg}/ paid for coynage {illeg} That we do not know \And We do not know/ what these \apprehension/ the people of England may have \of/ {illeg} such of the enlargemt of their trade & losing any part of their trade {illeg} bullion or trade by such a Mint [may deserve yo^r Lord^ps consideration] {illeg} but we beleive that a Mint of equal advantages w^th that in the Town is like to la o^rs to Merchants & others Imports is|ing| is like to ☉ & ☾ is more like to derive Bullion from England then if the advantages were less.

We find y^e Question about a new Mint depends so much upon political considerations that w^ch are not before above us that we \still/ think it safest to be cautious as y^e Officers of y^e Mint were as from y^e G{illeg} as from Officers of y^e M as o^r Predecessors have been. What effect it may have upon y^e minds of the People of Ireland or how the people \and People of/ of England {wise} \may/ relish it we are not able to foresee A Mint w^ch gives equal advantages to y^e Merchant & other importers of bullion is more like to be of {illeg} draw Bullion from \England/ {illeg} then one w^ch w^ch makes them pay a seigniorage. {illeg}The How And how the people of England may relish it or what effect it may have upon y^e minds of the people of Ireland we are not able to foresee. \All eyes will be upon it &/ We think it safer to have y^e sense of a Parliam^t about it before it be erected then afterwards. In y^e mean time we

Herodotus tells us that Leonidas \(lib.7) makes Leutichides \(the who/ commanded af y^e Navy of the Greeks against Xerxes) to be/ the 20^th from Hercules & tells us that all \the men/ in this succession were kings \of Sparta/ except two. If to y^e 18 kings be allotted 21 years a piece & to y^e two private men \gen generations/ 32|3| years a piece the whole succession will take up 446 years w^ch counted back from y^e 6^t year of Xerxes when Leonidas was slain at Thermopylæ, will place Hercules about 56 years after y^e death of Solomon agreably to y^e computations above.

To the R^t Hon^ble Sidney L^d Godolphin L^d High Treasurer
of England

May it please yo^r Lord^p
The Petition of M^r Cha. Fryth for an allowance in his Acc^ts now depending of 370.8.9 upon two Tickets of the M^r & W^r of Chester Mint w^th y^e Report of the Comm^rs of Excise upon it we received 30 March 1702 & in obedience to the Order of y^e then L^ds Comm^rs of y^e Treasury upon them we have enquired\examined/ into y^e matter & humbly conceive the true state of it to be as follows

M^r Fryth imported into Chester Mint several parcels of hammered money w^ch were all before Lady day 1702|697| for all w^ch he received \back/ new moneys at 5^s p^r oz & cancelled\in new monies & endorsed all/ the Tickets before y^e end of Iuly following. In May he imported two other parcells for w^ch at 5^s p^r oz he was to receive back 807^£. 10^s & in part thereof received in August of Williams (M^{r Neales Clerk} 400^£ & afterwards of \Lewis/ another Clerk 300^£ more & then recconing w^th Lewis concealed the 400^£ p^d by Williams & deducted only the 300^£ & took Lewises Note for the remaining 507^£. 10^s & cancelled \endorsed/ the Tickets: whereas he should have deducted also the 400^£ & taken a Note only for 107^£. 10^s \the true deficiency./. And this misreconning is y^e grownd of y^e Petition.

After these Importations there were two others in Iuly & August for w^ch at 5^s p^r oz he M^r Fryth was to receive \back/ 370^£ 8^s. 9^d. And in October November & December following he \did/ received of Lewis at 4 payments 500^£, w^ch \if the recconing be set right/ makes up the aforesaid deficiency of 107^£ 10^s & discharges \pays of y^e 370.8.9./ |due upon| these last two Tickets for w^ch an allowance is now petitioned & leaves 22^£ .1^s .3^d in M^r Fryths \his/ hands in part of the 8^d p^r oz \w^chhe is \was/ further/ to be allowed him by her Maj^ty in his Acc^ts now depending. For the 500^£ was paid for \out of the Treasury of y^e Mint/ \in satisfaction for/ silver imported \by Mr Fryth/ & therefore ought to be set off upon y^e Tickets & \the surplus/ deducted |in his Acc^ts| from y^e \allowance of/ 5^s 8^d p^r oz in his Acc^ts now depending according to y^e words of y^e Act of Parliam^t w^ch run thus. And that all & every such Receivers Geveral |"| & Collectors in their respective Acc^ts to his Maj^ty shall be allowed the deficiency |"| occassioned by the recoyning of the said hammered money that is to say the differ|"| ence between the summ of the hamm^d money brought into y^e Mint computed at |"| 5^s 8^d p an ounce & the summ in tail of the new money w^ch he or they do receive |"| back from y^e Mint for the same.

\Therefore instead of allowing \granting/ the Petition we are humble of opinion that M^r Fryth be further charged to her Ma^ty w^th 22.1.3 in his Acc^ts now depending./All w^ch is most humbly submitted to yo^r Lord^ps great wisdome.

Vpon All his importations at 5^s 8^d \p^r oz/ b amount unto            he received out of the Mint in new monies by tale            & in his Accompts now depending is to be further allowed

All w^ch .

{illeg} Ctesias & his followers \suppo/ making Nineve to \be/ ruined \a little/ before the days \reign/ of Tigtata{illeg} Pulasser \this king/, have given occasion to \Castor & some others to/ speak of a Ninus reigning after the \over Assyria/ presently after the days of Sardanaplaus \the last king of this city/ And thence Vsser in his Annals calls Tiglathp{illeg}|u|lasser by the name of Ninus junior. Its probable therefore |y^t| this king was y^e Ninus who built Nineve that |is| fortified it & built it magnificently suitable to his conquests & that his wife was y^e Semiramis of Herodotus.

For Sardanapalus was not the same King w^th Nabopolassar \the father of Nebuchadn{illeg}|e|zzar/ as Polysstor affirms but contemporary to him.

The enemies of y^e Iews, as Manetho & Apion, by way of reproach derive the original of that nation from these shepherds expelled Egypt for their impieties & so Iews hence Diodorus makes them led out of Egypt by Moses &led into Phenicia by Moses just before Ierusalem & the Temple were built whereas Moses lived many before. {illeg} And in If these authors & Diodore|u|s be corrected as to what they say of Moses, their words will amount to this, that a little before the building of Ierusalem & the Temple Moses a great body of foreigners being \were/ expelled. Egypt \&/ some of them came into Greece \& other places/ under Cadmus & other leaders &|but| the greatest part of them settled in Phœnicia next Egypt. Its probab We may reccon therefore that the warrs between the Egyptians & the Shepherds were the occasion that \in those days/ so many {illeg} men came \w^th colonies/ out of Egypt & Phœnecia into Grece, as Cecrops, \Cadmus, Erectheus,/ Peteos, Cadmus, Lelex tho Danaus seems rather to have fled from Sesostris befo \long after the expulsion of the Shepherds/ because he fled in a long ship not in use before the days of Sesostris.

Diodorus \here mistakes the n{illeg} places Moses in a wrong age but thereby/ lets us know that y^e Shepherds were expelled Egypt just before y^e building of Ierusalem & the Temple & that several colonies {illeg} of them & after several hardships \some of them/ came in to Greece \& other places/ under the Conduct of \leaders as/ Cadmus & other leaders Captains but the most of them settled in Phenicia next Egypt. We may reccon therefore that the warrs between the Egyptians & y^e Shepherds were the occassion that in those days so many ma|e|n came w^th colonies out of Egypt & Phenicia into Greece, as Cecrops, \Lelex/ Cadmus, \Lelex/ Erechteus, Peteos, Danaus, tho Danaus seems rather to have fled from Sesostris long after y^e expulsion of y^e Shepherds because he fled in a long ship not in use before y^e days of Sesostris.

The expulsion of these shepherds Polemo placed|s| in the time of Apis the son of Phoroneus, as above, &|But| \this Apis was contemporary to Sesostris being taken by the Greeks for Osiris the Egyptian Osiris \a little later being taken by the Greeks for the Egyptian Osiris who was Sesostris/ as we shall shew hereafter &/ Appion placed it in the days of the Grammarian relates out of Ptolomy Priest of Mendes in Egypt \the Mendesian an Egyptian Priest/ that Am{illeg}osis who expelled them \shepherds & ruined Avaris/ was contemporary to Inachus king of the Argos. I {had} \And this is confirmed by the rapture of Io the daughter of Inachus a little w^ch Herodotus places a little before the rapture < insertion from f 22r > of Europa & w^ch was consequent to y^e trafic of the Phenicians in Grece occasioned by the expulsion of the shepherds & victories of David over Edom. < text from f 21v resumes > / So that there is scarce any memory of things done in Europe older then the expulsion of these shepherds \or the shutting them up in Avaris./ |For \For the Greeks know nothing older then Inachus & {illeg}/ before Cadmus brought letters into Europe there nothing could be long remembered.|

After the Egyptians had expelled these strangers they seem \for some time/ to have treated \with/ severel|it|y such strangers as end remained in Egypt or endeavoured to enter it. And hence came the story of Busiris {illeg} & For Busiris reigned in Egypt in the days of Cadmus \or immediately before when Proteus fled from him \Busiris/ |him| into Phœnicia/ as you heard above. His sacrificing strangers seems a story \story/ <22r> feigned by the shepherds & Isocates absolves him from the crime.

The Arundelian Marbles place Cecrops

Cecrops is recconed the first Egyptian who came into Greece & the Arundelian Marbles begin \place/ his reign there\coming thither/ 64 years before the coming of Cadmus, & 72 years before the coming of Danaus. So {illeg} that he seems to have fled fled from Egypt so that he seems to have fled from Egypt in y^e days of Samuel upon y^e \upon y^e very/ first expulsion of the Shepherds \suppose in the days of Samuel/ For I take him to be one of y^e Shepherds because he brought into Greece \Cyprus/ the sacrificin|es|g of men an impiety the Egyptians were free from. 'For there a man was yearly sacrificed to Agraulos the daughter of Cecrops And b|B|y the Colonies w^ch came \came w^th him/ \& others brought/ from Egypt & Phenicia, the sacrificing of men seems \also/ to have been brought into Europe. But we do not read that any of them attempted to bring circumcision into Grece as it's probable some of them would have done had they been true Egyptians.

^a[10] Castor & \some/ others speak of a Ninus King of Assyria after the time that \wherein/ Ctesias & his followers {illeg} place y^e reign of Sardanapalus & that is about the days of Tiglathpilasser & Vsser calls him Ninus junior & takes him for the same king with Tiglathpileser Whence I reccon that Tiglathpilasser {illeg} was the Ninus who built Nineveh & {illeg} not the first for that is fortified it & built it magnificently \& suitable to his conquests/ & that the Ninus & Semiramis of Herodotus was the wife of this king.

Alexander Polyistor (Apud Euseb Chron. Gr)takes Sardanapalus for Nap|b|opolasser the Father of \\{the k}ing of B./who sent his son/ Nebuchadnezzar who beseiged Troy against Nineve, & gives the name of Saracus to y^e king of Nineve. He places Sardanapalus in the right age but shoud have make him king of Nineve.

\^a[11] Africanus relates that/ Polemo, in libro Græcarum Historiarum primo, said expresly that in the time of Apis the son of Phoroneus part of y^e Egyptian army withdrew it self from Egypt & seated it self in Palestine not far from Arabia. And a|A|fricanus takes these for y^e Israelites led out of Egypt by Moses. And Appion the Grammarian \relates out of Ptolemy Priest \of maedes// saith y^t Amosis |a| \king of Egypt/ who was contemporary to Inachus king of Argos ruined Avaris & in his reign the Iews came out of Egypt under Moses. By Amosis he means Tethmosis\hummosis/ the son of Misphragmuthosis.

Diodorus in his 40^th book \(p. 736)/ saith that In Egypt there were formerly multitudes of strangers of several nations who used forreign rites & ceremonies in worshipping the Gods for w^ch they were expelled Egypt & under \Danaus, Cadmus & other/ skilful commanders after great hardships came into Grece & other places, but the greatest part of them came into Iudea \a country then Desaet & uninhabited/ not far from Egypt \a country the{illeg}/n\ Desart & uninhabited, being conducted by thither by/ under one Moses a wise & valiant man who after he had possessed the city amo himself of the country among other {illeg} cities built Ierusalem & the Temple, {illeg} & gave laws to the people.

Busiris, the king or viceroy who reigned in Egypt next after the expulsion of the shepherds, sent after \&/ was cruel to all strangers on their acc^t.

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To the R^t Hon^ble the Lords of the Committee of Councill appointed to consider of his Maj^s Coronation

May it please yo^r Lord ^ps

In obedience to yo^r Lord ^ps Order of Reference

& the end of the first Mesenian war And these years being counted backwards place the end of the first Messenian
the interval between the end of the first Messenian war & the sixt year of Xerxes. Confirm the beginning of this intervall count backwards \190 or/ 200 years to y^e return of the Heraclides \into Peloponnesus/ & from the end thereof count forwards 139 years to y^e 20^th year of Philip An. 4 Olymp 109; & the whole recconing will make almost 4{illeg}|80| years from the return of the Heraclides {illeg} P{illeg} unto the 20^th year of Philip: whereas Ephorus &c

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To the R^tthe interval between the end of the first Messenian war & the sixt year of Xerxes. Hon^ble the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your Lord^p
In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps order of the Reference of May 6^th (brought to us Iune 30^th) upon the annexed Proposal of M^r W^m Morgan & others \brought to us by the Proposer Iune 30^th/ for taking in the old copper money & coyning a thousand Tunns of better copper money in its stead in \within the term of/ seven years, provided the loss w^ch they may sustain by changing the old money for the new & the interest of forty thousand pounds dead stock may be allowed them over & above the price of the new metal & charges of coynage: We have considered the same & are humbly of the opinion that the loss w^ch the nation would \be/ sustein by melting down the old copper money & the interest of the dead stock would amount to above eighty thousand pounds & are an unnecessary charge, & that the coynage of a thousand Tunns would make a \very/ great clamour, six hundred Tunns being sufficient to stock the nation. And we further humbly represent that a \constant/ coynage of about eight or ten Tunns per an̄ may be sufficient to supply the yearly wast of the present copper money, that such a small coynage is safest but not yet wanting, that it may be above ten or twelve years before the coynage of an hundred Tunns shall be wanting & that a greater coinage will not be advisable untill there be a great & general complaint of the want of copper money.

All w^ch is most humbly submitted to your Lord^ps great wisdome

In deifying the dead it was usual to give them a new name|s|, So Sesach was deified by y^e name of Sirius {illeg} |as by calling Sesak Sirius, Ino Leucothea, Melicerta Palæmon Alcæus Hercules &c| & the Greeks deified several of their nation by the names of the Gods of Egypt as the son of Semele by the name of Bacchus, the son of Penelope by the name of Pan the son of Alcmena by the name of Hercules, the mother of Achilles by the name of Thetis, the son of Maia by the name of Her{illeg} Mercury, the {illeg} Erechtheus & Æolus by the name of Neptune, the father of Alcippe by the name of Mars, & Minos by the name of Iupiter {illeg}. And thus the \thus/ by worshipping their p own people by the names & with y^e ceremonies of the Gods of Egypt the Greeks {illeg} Idolatry of y^e Greeks was Egyptians was brought into Europe Greeks introduced the Idolatry of the Egyptians into Europe. [And after the exam- of the Oracle of Iupiter Ammon set up in Li{illeg}|b|ya upon the conquest of that country by Ammon, the {illeg} Egyptians people who came from Egypt & Libya into Greece set up there the Oracles of Iupiter Dodonæas at Dodona, Delphos,]

& lasted 10 years. These are the was famous wars between Iupiter & the Titans \of/ w^ch the Scholiast upon Æschylus (in Prometheo v. 351) saith la that they lasted ten years. Sesostris therefore.

In the end of the reigns of Orus the \Arabic/ Ethiopians under Hercules se

The Ethiopians under Hercules, after they had rescued Egypt from the invasion & retired of Typhon & retired into their own seats, seem to have come down into Egypt, drowned Orus & invaded his kingdom.

The Titans who drowned Orus, seem to be Hercules & his associates who after they had rescued Egypt from Typhon, retired into their own seats for a time, but in the end of the after a while returned & invaded Egypt For Pliny tells us

Thoas \lay w^th his own daughter Smy\r/na & of her begot Adonis. He is promiscuously \{called}/ Thoas Theias & Cinyras He/ left his daughter Hypsipyla in Lemnos & gave her a purple cloak w^ch he had received of Bacchus \& when the weomen of Lemnos slew their husbands, she became Queen of the Island. ✝/ Apollodorus represents him contemporary to Pigmaleon king of Cyprus. \& therefore the Trojan war & the building of Carthage was in one & the same age as above/ Some call him By his skill in metalls & his being placed in Lemnos by Rhadamanthus he seems to have been a Cretan & most probably he & his workmen were so & most probably one of the \he & his workmen were/ \some of the/ Curetes. For the sacred rites & ceremonies institutes in Lemnos were like those instituted by the Curetes in Samt|o|thrace & other places                      & enterteined the Argonauts.

✝ He{illeg} was so much favoured by Bacchus as to be reputed his son by Ariadne. Antonius Liberalis \saith/ that \Theias/ the father of Smyrna & Adonis was the son of Belus & Apollonius that \Thoas/ the father of Hypsipyla was the son of Bacchus. for Belus & Bacchus are b{illeg} & Panyasis that Thoas the father of Smyrna was king of y^e Assyrians & Hyginus that Cinyras the father of Smyrna was king of the Assyrians. Belus So that Thoas or Theias \{illeg}/ the father of Smyrna Theias the father of Smyrna Cynyras the father of Smyrna & Thoas the father of Hypsipyla are one & the same man. BBy his skill in metals       & other places And to y^e same purpose it is that {illeg} the Poets call Vulcan y^e son of Iupiter, that is of Iupiter Belus or Bacchus. From his great age the Latines seem to have called him Ba\a/l some V{illeg}\l/canus. {illeg}. The Phenicians called him {Belus} Baal the smith worshipped him by the name of Iupiter diamichius the th or Belus the smith \Artist/ Artificer \called him Baal Michius/ & {illeg} from his great age the Latines seem to have called him \might call him old Baal,/ Ba{illeg}\a/l canus, Volcan, Apollodorus represents him contemporary to Pigmaleon king of Cyprus & therefore the Trojan war & \was in one & the same age with/ the building of Carthage, was in one and the same age as above.

Belus Baal The Phenician. The names of the great men of Phenicia were frequently compounded of Baal, & from the great age of Cinyras the Latines

Altars might begin to be erected before the days of Cadmus, & Temples \began/ a little after. for Æacus is|w|ho was two generations older then the Trojan wars is recconed the first or one of the first who built a Temple in Greece

This is that Thoas of whom Pliny saith Argentum invenit Erechthonius Atheniensis, ut alij Æacus: auri metalla et conflaturam Cadmus Phœnix ad Pangæum montem, ut alij Thoas et Æacus.

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And Selden {illeg} The Babylonians had a feast w^ch \{they cal}led Sacea &/ began upon the 16 day of y^e month Lous & lasted 5 days ,{illeg} i|I|n w^ch \this feast/ the sevants {sic} {illeg} ruled & the masters served as in the Saturnalia. T The ceremony imports that it was instituted in memory of a conquest & the name may relate to the conqueror & from the God to whom this feast to whom \as a God/ this feast was dedicated as a God of \by/ the Babylonians. And from this God of the ^a[12] some think that Babylon was called Sesach Ier. 25.26 & 51.41.

H{illeg}|y|psiphila the Queen of Lemnos who entertained the Argonauts was the daughter \of Thoas/ & this Thoas was the favorite of Bacchus & by consequence the husband {illeg} Vulcan of the ancients For Apollonius tells us that Bacchus left his purple cloak to his son Thoas & he left it to his daughter Hypsipyla. [Argonaut l. 4 v. 426] But Thoas this Thoas was too old to be the son S{illeg} [As Thoas the {illeg} \the father of Hypsiphyla/ is here called the son of Bacchus, so Theias the s|f|ather of Hy Smyrna that is Cy|i|nyras is by Antonius Liberalis said to be the son of Belus. Because he was the favorite of Bacchus or Belus the called him his son] By the age of Hypsipyla \& the friendship of Bac/ you may know that her father \Thoas/ reigned in Lemnos in the time of when Sesostris \Bacchus/ invaded Greece & by consequence was {illeg} the Thoas husband of his mistress Venus that is & so that is at the same time with Thoas or Theias the husband of Venus & father of Adonis \& loved lay with Venus/ & by consequence that Venus was his wife. He \was/ called the son of Bacch b|B|ecause he was the favorite of Bacchus his is feigned to be his son & in the same Theyas or Thoas the father of Smyrna, that is Cy|i|nyras, is \was/ called the {illeg} son of Belus.

Cy|i|nyras is by Panyasis \Panyasis/ called Thoas king of the Assyrians, that |is| \is/, of y^e Syrians. & by Antonius Liberalis calls him Theias the son of Belus [& father of Smyrna, & saith that Smyria was born in Libanus. {illeg} Hyginus calls him the son of Phapus & saith that he built the city Smyrna so called from his daughter. Whence it should seem that Smyrna was born before he left Lemnus: for Lemnus has but two cities Hephestia & Smyrna was a city of Lemnus.] Apollodorus saith that he was born in Cilicia & went from thence to Cyprus & there bult Paphus.

Apollodorus saith that Cynyras was born in Cilicia, & went from thence to Cyprus & there built Paphos & that hi|e| maried \Metharne/ the daughter of Pygmaleon king of Cyprus & the & by whom he had Adonis & the he his \three/ daughters \who/ flying \from/ y^e anger of Venus married forreigners & died in Egypt. By his living till the times of the Trojan war & being contemporary to Pygmaleon may be gathered that the Trojan was|r| was in\was in/ the same age w^th the reign of Pygmaleon & \same age with the/ \the/ building of Carthage by Dido, but that Adonis was the grandchild of Pygmaleon may be doubted. \is not certain \probable/ certain/ Hesiod calls him \Adonis/ the son of Apollodorus |He is {illeg} usually reputed the son of {illeg}thers say he was the son of Smyrna by her own father Cynyras the daughter of Cy|i|nyras.| Panyasis saith that he was the son of Thoas king of y^e Assyrians & of Smyrna \who was/ the daughter of Thoas, {illeg}by Thoas in {caring} Cinyras. For And Higynus tells that he was the son of Cinyras king of the Assyrians & of Smyrna, \who was/ the daughter of Cy||nyras, & {illeg} the nymph Cenchreis [& of the nymph Cenchreis] b|B|y the Assyrans \they/ meanin|t|g the Syrians. And Antonius Liberalis, \saith/ that Smy\r/na wa the mother of Adonis was the daughter of Theias \& y^t Theias was/ the son of Belus. So This |is| that Thoas who was succeeded in Lemnos by his daughter Hypsipyla. who {illeg} For by her [enterteining the Argonauts you may know that she] reigned|ing| there in the time of tha|e|t \Argonautic/ expedition you may know that her father reigned there \one generation earlier that is/ in the days of Sesostris {illeg} {&c} or Bacchus & Apollonius \lets us know that he was the great favorite of Sesostris/ tells|i||ng| us that Bacchus left his purple cloak to his son Thoas & Thoas left it to his daughter Hypsipyla. As Antonius Liberalis calls Theias But tho he is \sometimes b/ called the son of Belus or Bacchus yet since he was placed in Lemnos before by Rhadamanthus before the exped Bacchus invaded \took/ tho|e|se Islands of the Hellespont from the Cretans, its more probable that he was a Cretan & by his skill in metals & the sa that he & his workmen were some of the Curetes. For the sacred rites & \religious/ institutions of Lemnus were the \of the same kind with those of Samothrace & other places/ instituted by the Curetes, or \& therefore/ instituted by the Curetes of the same kind w^th those instituted by the Curetes in Samothrace & other places.

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