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nes AntecefTores Rex unus unice cordatus,, pietatiq; deditus. Sed nondubium quin Numen obftetit, ut quemadmodum Solomoni David, idSeptimus Octavo miffum faceret. Primus itaque Richardus haud hic e ftprætereundus, qui Rebus bellicis nulli Regum Anglorum fecundus erat,hifqj præfèrtim contra Thurchas & Agarenos non improbe peractis :Fuit enim is filis propemodum Anglis, qualis & Britonibus Arthums : Si verafint quæ feribuntur -, Huic, cum contra Ciprum &c Aconem Arma moveret,longiorifqj moræ pertæfûm effet, dum mira Solicitudine traheretur ob-fidio ; tandem illâbente per divi Georgiì (ut opinatum eft) interventumSpiritu, venit in Mentem, ut quorundam Electorum militum Cruribuscoreaceum Subfibulum, quale ad manus tunc folum habebat, induceret :quo futuræ Glorix memores, ex Condióto fi vincerent, ad rem fortiterp. 14. ac ftrenue gerendam expergefierent-, ad Romanorum, inftar, apud quos illaCoronarum Varietas, quibus variis de Caufis donati flint & IntignitiMilites, ut hiis velut Irritamentis excuflà Vecordia, Virtus animi fortitu-doque Pectoris fervidior exurgeret atque exiliret. Data Caftrenfis feuVallaris illi, qui in Caftra primus irruiffet. Muralis ei qui Murumfubiens in Urbes hoftium primus afeenderat. Civica, quam Servatorifuo Civis in prælio parabat, Salutis & Vitæ teftem haud inidonei! m.Obfidionalis, quam ab Obfidione liberati liberatori fuo donabant. Na-valis, quæ Navium exornata roftris ipfis defignata eft, qui bellis mari-timis primus in Naves hoftium vi tranfiliiifet : Ovalis Imperatori Civi-tatem,

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cere and religious King of all his Anceßors. And without Doubt as Provi-dence did not permit David to build the Temple of God, but left it to be corn-pleated by his Son Solomon ; fo Henry the Seventh left it to the Eighth tofiniß vuhat he had fo glorioufiy begun. Nor are voe here to pafs by Rich-ard the firß, inferior to none of our Kings for his warlike Exploits, thofeefpecially which he carried on with fo much Succefs againß the Turks andHagarenes ; and was among his Englifhmen the fame almoß, as Arthurwas to his Britons : If we may give any Credit to what our Hißorians re-late, when he lay with his Army againß Cyprus and Aeon, and waswearied with the Length of the Siege, which was carried on with a great dealof Difficulty and Danger, the holy Spirit infpiring him {as ’tis thought) bymeans of an Apparition of St. George, it came into his Mind to pit on the Legsof fome feleB Knights, a leather with a Buckle -, being what they had then in Rea -dinefs : By which being mindful of their future Glory, they might befined up tobehave themfelves bravely and valiantly, fo as to obtain the Victory : After theManner of the Romans, among whom that Diverßty of Crowns with which, forvarious Caufes, Soldiers were pefented and honoured, that as it were by thefeIncitements, their Sluggißnefs being drove away, the Bravery of their Mind,and Stoutnefs of Heart might be raffed, and ßew it felf with greater Lußre. ACorona Caßrenßs or Vallaris was decreed to him who ßould firß break into theEnemies Camp : A Mural to him who firß fealed the Walls of an Enemies Town. Acivick Crown was that which a Citizen pefented, as a proper Teflimony of his hav-ing his Lifepreferved, to him who had faved him in Battle. The Corona Obfidiona-lis was prefented by the Befieged, to him who freed and delivered them from the

Siege,