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in English
A parcel of papers regularly number'd from No 1 to No 37.
the same manner as the Chronology, this M wou'd sfourscore
On the first Folio page of this Ms, is written
Chapter II.
The Original
Of the Kingdom of Egypt and Chronology of the first ages
It is to be observed that a line is drawn thro' the last six words: as here.
It is also observable that the words 'The Original' seem to be inserted after the rest
of the title was written.
By the words Chapter II, it is plain that this Ms was designed to make part of a
larger work: probably of the of
are among the loose papers, two that relate.
One of a sheet, being a kind of plan of the three first Chapters. Chapter 1st the
Original of Monarchies (suppos'd in general). Chapter 2. Phœnicians & their Colonies: Chapter 3. Of
the Monarchy of Egypt.
The other of a sheet & an half being the first Chapter more at length: but imperfect
the Ms breaking off in the middle of a sentence at the words - for Bochethes.
N.B. In relation to the second or Phœnician Chapter; it is
imperfect & confused notes among the loose papers.
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to have placed in its stead, the Original of the Kingdome of Egypt, which accordingly we
find in the Ms mark'd Chapter 2: tho' in the plan-sheet it is laid down as Chapter 3.
Notwithstanding this, this
it seems to comprise the history of Egypt from the remotest antiquity down to the
final overthrow of that kingdom by the conquest of the Persians.
Eygpt called in scripture Misor, Misraim & the land of Ham is a long &
broad valley or meadow on both sides the Nile between Mountains & deserts,
running North & South from Syene to the Mediterranean. It consisted of two
regions &c
The three first folio pages contain a & of
the Course of the Nile
The fourth folio page contains a description of the kingdom of Pharaoh in the times
of Iacob and Moses.
The fifth (marked No 3.) contains reflexions on the 17 first Dynasties of Manetho
In the sixth is a paragraph relative to the Canon of Eratosthenes.
In The seventh (marked No 4) tends to prove sometime
Kings were after Israel's going out of Egypt.
The eighth gives some
The ninth (mark'd 5) tends to prove that these Shepherds were Phœnicians or Canaanites.
The tenth Continues the same argument.
The eleventh (mark'd 6) tends to prove that the Expulsion of the Shepherds was before
the reign of Solomon & Saul
The twelfth
The thirteenth (mark'd 7) tends to prove that the Shepherds came in the
The fourteenth enforces the same from some observations on the Tyrian history.
The fifteenth (mark'd 8) the sixteenth, & most part of the 17th (mark'd 9)
relate to the conquest of Edom by David, & the junction of the fugitive Edomites & with
the Phœnicians.
The remainder of the 17th & most part of the 18th seems to enforce the truth (of the Shepherds
coming out of Eygpt in the reign of Saul) from some arguments drawn from the history of Argos.
Zephar wrong quoted.
these times st (marked 11) & most of the
The remainder of the 18th Folio page, the 19th (mark'd 10)
Athenian history; particularly r
of those Shepherds; several parallel arguments
the histories
Towards the bottom of the twenty second Folio r
relative to the Shepherds of Eygpt from the above arguments drawn from the Grecian
Phœnician, & also
The 23rd (mark'd 12) by long deductions lead to
Eygpt.
The 24th contains
The 25th (mark'd 13) mostly related to the Kingdom of Sicyon.
The upper part of the 26th relates to the Kings of Argos. — The lower part
Caphus was also one of the Egyptian shepherds residing at Ioppa.
The 27 (mark'd 14) begins with the same argument. The remainder of the page is a
interpretation proving that Sesostris & Sesac were the same persons.
The 28th relates Chiefly to ages
The 29th (mark'd 15) gives a catalogue of the Kings of Egypt, beginning with Sesostris
Here the Ms is divided. this first part concludes with these words
These (i:e: the Kings at Thebes) were deified & became the Gods of
Eygpt, & next after the Gods reigned Menes. The history of the deified Kings
The first folio page of the 2d part relates to the conquests of Sesostris
The second chiefly relates to the magnificent publick works
The third first
The lower part of the same page & the whole of the 4th relate to the identity of Sesostris Osiris
The same argument is continued in the fifth, — / Mem. the leaf of these
The sixth folio pages
The seventh Heathen Gods
/ particularly Hercules Atlas, Neptune
The 9th tends to prove that Osiris & the other Gods of Egypt were princes of Eygpt
in the times of Ammon & Sesostris
The 10th speaks of the death of Sesostris. — N.B. Sesostris brother to Solomon's Queen.
& of the consequential civil war in Eygpt, which by the Poets is described as the war of the Titans.
The eleventh speaks of the reign of Orus, son & succesor of Sesostris, in whose reign Isis &
Mercury made laws for Eygpt.
The 12th 13th & 14 & 15 contain a dissertation on the Antient length of the year,
deducing from thence as a consequence that the beginning of Astronomy is to be placed in the
times of Osyres
In the 16th ye after the death of Asa
in the times of Asa.
The 17th speaks of the consequences of the power of Eygpt being now broken viz the flourishing
state of Asa & Iehosaphat, & the return of the Philistines from Caphtor near Caucasus
— Death of Orus — Amenophis or Osymandaes suceeds him.
The th
probably the same with Zesah the Ethiopian, or his ally. — (In this chapter is an argument in
of the time of the Shepherds coming into Eygpt) — Great structures of Amenophis in Eygpt.
19. Description of his library
was an Emblem of the Eygptian Year; of which Amenophis was the perfecter.
20. Dissertation on the Egyptian year; tending to
21.
22 The same dissertation continued.
23. Begins with some reflections with the story of Atlas & Saturn. The remaining part of
this page, the 24th 25th tend to fix the æra of the taking of Troy about Threescore years after
the death of Solomon.
26. Parallel between the generations of Hesiod, & those of the Eygptians. The fourth of each
ends about the siege of Troy.
27. Tends to prove that Proteus who govern'd lower Eygpt in the time of the Trojan war was
Viceroy of Amenophis. —
28. Riches & power of Ramesses, & of his succesors Mæris, & Cheops the builder of the
29. Begins with some account of Cheops, & proceeds to the other Pyramid-Builders, his succesor
Cephrenus, Mycerinus, Asychis.
30. Begins with a
Anysis the successor of Asychis — Conquests of Sabacon; at which time Egypt was
divided into several kingdoms; Kings of Thebais, Tanis, Sais, Memphis.
31. Reign of Boccharis at Memphisth chapter of Isaia relates to
these times of confusion & division in Eygpt
32. The Reign of the Ethiopians over Eygpt: contemporary with Hosea & Hezekiah & the
Destruction of Sennacheril's army marching against Tirhakah the Ethiopian king of
— Conquest of Eygpt (during the reign of the sucessor of Tirhakah) by the Assyrians;
contemporary with the conquest of the Iews, & captivity of Manassea — Eygpt shakes
off the Assyrian yoke — Interregnum — twelve kings
33. Psammiticus king of all Eygpt. — Pharao Necho. — Psammis. — Asmis — Amasis. &
Psammenitus, who reigned only six months.
The Ms concludes with these words.
— Amasis died in the winter before Cambyses enter'd Eygpt, & Psamminitus
was conquer'd & slain by him in the Summer following, & Eygpt has continued
almost ever since in servitude.
P.S.
It does not appear &c
It does not appear, that r
Origin of Kingdoms: —— But in his Chronology, (which book he prepar'd
for the press towards the conclusion of his life) several passages are
inserted, copied with but small alterations from this his on the
Original of Kingdoms.
Such being the case, it is submitted to the proper judges,
whether or no it wou'd be proper that these papers shou'd be