%l\ The Natural Hi [lory 



tempt ores, flolidi, amentes, inert es, inhofpitales,immanes . In which 

 very aft yet 1 think he proves nothing, but that mod of thofe 

 Epithets rather belong to himfelf. 



21. If it be objefted that Jcfeph did not fo hxpatrirare, but 

 that hefpake Honorably of fome of the Englifl\ fuch as Wcttcn, 

 Savil, Camden ? , Reynolds q : it muft be anfwered, That thefe 

 touched not the apple of his eye, nor endeavored the ruin of 

 his great Diana, the Julian Period, of which he conceited him- 

 felf the Inventor : which yet fince by an indifferent, and that a 

 competent judge, is given to Robert Lorringe an Englift Biflop of 

 Hereford, who lived $00 years before Scaligers invention r . 'lis 

 true, he fitted it to Chronological ufes ; but whil'ft in the midft 

 of his glorious attempts, behold him (liaken by meek, and modeft 

 Lydiat, the happy Inventor of a more accurat period, whereby 

 hefo difturbed and confounded all his fupputations, that (if we 

 may believe the moft Learned of the Age) he laid his angry Rival 

 flat upon his back. 



22. And fo much concerning the Lydiatean Period, of which, 

 becaufe fo much already in Print, I ft) all not add more, only in 

 what years of as many ottbem, as have already been (which pof- 

 fibly may not be unacceptable to the Reader} the moft confiderable 

 /Era's of the world have happen'd. 



Tears of the World. Tears of the Lydiatean Periods. 



The flood. 1^57' 



Birth cflfazc. 2109. 



Exodus. 2509. 



The Temple. 2988. 



Empire 0/Nebuchadn. 3401. 



Empire of Cyrus. 347 1 . 

 Empire of Alexander? , 



the Great. \ 5 75 ' 



Empire of Jul. C sefar . 3956. 



Baptifm of Chrift. 4<>33' 



7^eDionyfianv^ro/? > 



r j / C 5^ 2 4- 

 our Lord, 16 20. 3 



The year of our Lor d,i6y 6. 5680. 



Jul-Cafar.Scal. ?oetica,liB. ^.cap. i6- ' JofScnlig.Epiftol. U 

 446. c In Trafat. in Annate t Jac. Vjjini, Archiep. Armachan. 



