A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government, Regnal history 18
The beginning of THE RAIGNE OF KING Charles.
KING Iames being deceased on the 27 day of March in the forenoon, the same day in the afternoone, Charles Prince of Wales His only son, then living, was Proclaimed King of Great-Brittain, France and Ireland, with the Generall acclamation of all sorts of People, as being a Prince of admirable endowments both of mind and body. He was now about the age of 25 yeares, whereof, the most part of one he had spent in Spaine; where, although he was frustrated of the end for which he went, yet it gave him a tincture of Travaile and Expe…ience, more worth perhaps, then the end he went for: For by this meanes he attain… to a greater degree of that, which made Ulysses so famous:
Quod mores hominum multorum vidit & urbes.
The first thing he did after his Coronation, was to proceed in the marriage agreed upon in His Fathers time, with the beautiful & vertuous Lady Henrieta Maria, yonger daughter of the Great Henry the 4… K. of France; after which marriage, we have only to say, that he was happy in the Wife of His bosome: Happy in His hopefull Issue: Happy in the love of His people: Happy in the Peace and tranquility of his Kingdomes… and Happy in the continu…nce of all these Happinesses, for 15 years together, and might have so continued still, if it had not been for,
Discordia Demens Viperiu…s crinem vitti… innexa cruentis.
But of that which happened afterward, I dare not take upon me to be a Register: Neither is it indeed safe to begin a Narration, which I must be faine to breake off in amaz…ment, as having nothing left me to say, but Omnia in malu… …ere; and so far from any apparance of humane remedy; that our only Anchor must be this: In te D…in… sper…m…, non confundamur in aeternum: Quid enim nisi v…a supersunt … Yet our hope is, It will be but a fit, and the storme once past, faire weather again, and fairer perhaps than it was before, and then with Ioy we shall resume our stile.
Laetumque choro Poeana canemus:
In the meane time comforting our selves with the words of the Prophet David; Many are the troubles of the Righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Carolus en Rex magnus in armis, major in ermis.
Quid mirum? Imperio magnus, amore magis.
FINIS.
End of the text · Sir Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government (1643)