OCR Text |
Show To the Reader: He ufe ofChronologicall Tables'ts needfull ‘to all Hiftories, thise teach to any length oftime; and moff ofall, to thofe that are moft generall : fiace they cannot,like Annales, yeerely [et downe all Occerrences not coherent, This heere following, may (tree as an Index to the prefent Part ofthis Worke ; pointing. unto the. fewcrall matters, tbat baxing follen out at one time, arefarre dif-toyned smthe Relation. Certainely st #3 not perfett : neither doe I thinke, that any canbe, For how/oemerthe Jeeres ofthe firft Patréarchs may feeme to baue béerewell neere com= leat, yet in the reignes ofthe Kings of luda and I{racl, wee finde waiay frathions, andthelaf? yeere,or yeeres of one King veckonedalfe ai the formost ofanother. The [ame is moff likely to haxe fallen. out in many othershongh not foprecifely recorded. Hecrero may be addedthedimerle and imperfetlformes of theyeere, which were in ule among fandty Nations: canfing the * Summer Moneths, in Proceffe of[ome ages, to ‘jall* into the Winter ;_ and [o breeding extreameconfulion in the reckonsag of theirtimes, Neither # it a (mallpart ‘ of trouble, to chu[e out of (0 many, andfo viterly difagreeing computatious, as hawse already gotven authority, what may probably be heldfortrath. cAllthis,anda greatdegle more, is tu be alledged,inexcn(2 of{ich er= ronr, as ausore intestine andperfett Caleslatorfball happen to finde beerein, It may ferue tofree the Booke, and likewife the Reader (ifbut of meane indgement) from any notortons Anachronicifine; which ought to faffice. The Booke indeed will needit,enen sn that regard;notoncly for fome errours of the preffe,in the mumbring ofyeeres, but far[ome baftie mi|-reckonings of mine owne; which I defreto hawe besreby reformed, in bope that the printing ofthis Table/ball net want carefull diligence. T he Reader; ifhee be not offended with thereft, Shallfindereafonto be pleafed with this, as tending wholly to bis owne eafe. The Titles overthe Columnes, hawe refercxce to that which fellowes under them; as willreadily be comceined, | there dee the numbers underneath anfwer proportio. Waeretwo Titles or msore,are onter the besd,as| uably, the higher to the higher, the lower tothe lower. For example : The walls of lerufalem were finfhed in the 31.9.yeere from the burlding ofRome, and in the 31.4.from Nabonaflar. Jn hike manner it 1s tobe uaderfrood, That Ichofaphat begannehis reigne ms vbe 37.74. of the Lulian Ara, in the 3092. of the World, and in the 99. yeere of the Temple. This needs not more illuftration ; nor indeed [0 wauch,to thofe that Ate ACQHAIti= ted with workes ofthis kinde. To auotdprolixitie, I haue forborne to inert thofeyeerss, which J finde nor figned withfomeregardable accident : as with the birth or death offome Patriarch; the beginning of [ ime Kings Reigne ;(ome change ofGowernement ; fome Battatle fought ; or the hike, So,of the 1 3.yeeres wherein Syluius Capetus reigned onerthe Latines, I note onely thefirst; that 45, omitting allberweene the 4. of Iehofapha ci wherein Capetus began, vntethe 17. whereis Syluius Auentinus /#ccce led, and wherdin Iehoramfirft 12. lines of idle cys reigned with Lehofaphat bis father. For I thought it vaine to bamefilledup a page with phers; numbring forth 2.3.4.5. and fo ftsll onwards, tik [had come tothe firft of Aue ntinus, and the 17, of Tehofaphat. Infetting downe the Kings, there is noted oner the bead of ewery one what place bee held in order in ranks, of thofe that reigned im ie offacceffion : as whether be were the firft, fecond, fift,fenenth, or fa forth, ofbis resgne ; at the bit fw fs Me Country, without notable interruption: Before the nameis the firSt yeere of yecres in which hereigned, 1" the paces f cow, under= wame (as the [pacegines leans ) ts the whole number or wi the ee of neath are thofeyeeres of biswhich were concurrent withtac beg mning of fome other King, before one Kings name, there it a oo ar any remarkeable accident. Where two numbers,or more,Ar Hood, that the [ame-yeere belonge A, not onely tot King the beginning, but an lewe - ar or of - Se me with the feeond of bis rane saaia 1 ~ 5 tie Boers : asthe firft yeere of tehoram Ksxg of [frael be the 22.0f bis father Ahab, So, where two or three names ave found imone {pace ; as in the 3 _ psd - fare ea World, Zimri, Tibni, and Omri: it is meant that ener) one of them rege 4 ™ es Lee t ‘ pene of be spy rs which is reckoned thefecond of Ela, and tbe ft of Or ti Particularly, s wh Gre let downe the yeeres ofthofe Dynalties which it was shought mete ese okte berm ae f a the moneth upon which Nabonaffars 7. e bow s# variedf Tom other yecres, may be found th place last abouecited. , b to f . vinpl Rome baile from Concerning the Hxa, or accompt ofyeeressfrom Iphitus;whobegan the Oly mpiads; ) from Re 4 a Book, inthe ° > L Nabonaflar, ad the like ; as much as was tho »bt conuentent hath been (aid,where due place was, firft the numwherber 9 of be firft di fer downe 1s i u fer ) Olympiads a cle: fo as it remainethonly to note, that vader t he titleof ? ps iat 1: as that Cyrus began bis reigne in Perfia, im the Olympiad, axd beneaththe yeereofcof that Olympiad 55,0lympiad, and the fir/t yeerethereof. iads, of Reme of Nabona v4 other, had not be ] rorld,of smpiads, of ey Rome,oe efabout Navon Mid{ummer, and = New,for that the yeeres ofthe World,of the Oly mpiads, fome at other simning in one moner,but fome of themin Marchome in ee 4 slovers bane diss +d them proportin times: the better to expreffe their fenerall beginnings, ome pare WwllC brono 0 Es - ck han bik "iui " d a5 see ve topart of the other : not | be ure onably intheir fewerall Colwmsnes ; oppofing part 6} eeee SO onded it one tame, Bur-this labour baue I is if all Baa Deg is Pos : one freightt deat more part would not bane apprebended the weaning, and , Spared, as more trowblefamse than vfefwll ; face the foe Cutt;ing all ouerthwart with * |