about her grave: all of them slain fallen by the sword
w^ch are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of
the earth w^ch caused their terror in the land of y^e living
yet have they born their shame w^th them that go down
into y^e pit. –There is Meshech Tubal & all her multitude, her graves are ro [a] |u|nd about him all of them
uncircumcised slain by the sword as they caused their
terror in the land of the living. Ezek. 32.22, 24, 26.

By this passage it appears that y^e Persians were Lords
of their own country causing their terrour in the land
of the living untill the Medes conquered them & that
they were conquered w^th a great slaughter whereby
their power was broken & they were brought into sub-
jection by the Medes & remained so till the Prophesy
of Ezekiel & by consequence till the reign of Cyrus
who [rebelled &] set them above the Medes. < insertion from f 113r > Whence the Greeks & Latins reccon y^e second monarchy to be that of y^e Medes & y^e third to be that of y^e Persians founded by Cyrus. But Daniel reccons both to be one Monarchy successively governed by the Medes & Persians. | When Nebuchadonosor king of Assyria had war with Arph[axd] king of y^e Medes, the [E]lymais & Persia were subject to y^e Assy[rians] (Iudith 1.6, 7) but |but| Persia afterwards became free till Cyaxeres & Nebuchadnezzar [illeg] destroyed Nineve & [b] & divided the Assyrian Monarchy between them, & Cyaxeres conquered eastward[s] as Neb[u]chadnezza[r] did westward. And then I reccon it was that the Medes subdued all y^e nations of [Persia] \except Susa/ & made that \great/ slaughter of the Persians w^ch is [described] by Ezekiel. For it is not to be sup[po]sed that they [reigned] over the Persians in the days of Astyages when they themselves were in subjection to the Sy |c|ythians. | | [Ezekiel joyns the conquest of] the Assyr slaughter of the Assyrians, Persians, & Scy[thians] as [done] much [about] the same time| <f. 113v> |& Herodotus tells us that the Medes [subverting Nineve conq] taking Ninsur conquered the Assyrians
excepting that part w^ch appert[ained] [ to |of| ] Babylon, that is, excepting [Syria Mesopotamia] [Susiana] [& perhaps]
[Adiabene] that is they conquered eastward leaving the western regions of Syria Mesopotamis & Adiabene
& Susiana to y^e lot of Babylon. And Dionysius Halycarnassæus : the Empire of the Medes having
destroyed that of y^e Assyrians & thereby gained a greater power, did not retain it long. They \It/ retained
it |this| \ [power] / from the taking of Nineve to the taki by Cyaxeres to the taking of Babylon [ & ] Ecbatane by Cyrus
| w^ch was about 7[0] years| & was so considerable in that inter[v]al of time as to be counted in y^e second monarchy by the \ [ancient] / Greeks & Latins
who did not reccon the Kingdom of Babylon among the \principal/ Monarchies that |o| that grew up at the same
time \with the Medic/ by the fall of Nineve & became very considerable, & lasted as long within [illeg] [two] two years. | < text from f 113r resumes >

After the fall of Nineveh Cyaxa |e|res \who reigned 40 years/ made war upon
Alyattes king [of] Lydia five years together in y^e end of his
reign with various fortun[e | a] & in the sixt year of y^e war upon a total eclyps of the s |S|un w^ch was predicted by Tha[les]
& happened in y^e middle of a battel (Iul. 9 Anno Per. Iul. 4117) they parted & made peace. Tully, Pliny, Eusebius
& Solinus place this battl |e|l & E[c]lyps in the reign of Asty-
ages. Whence I reccon that Cyaxeres began the war &
Astyag [c] |e|s benig [sic] a peacefull Prince ended it by a treaty in
the beginning of his reign, & by consequence reigned 38
years or above. For so long it was from y^e eclips to y^e be-
ginning of y^e reign of Cyrus. Eusebius & S[y]ncellus make y^e reign of Astyages 38 years & a Canon among the Isagogical
canons published by Scaliger makes it 40. \He was succeeded by Cyaxeres his son & Darius his grandson as above. /

Astyages married his daughter [M]andane to Cambyses
a Persian & of them was born Cyrus who solliciting the
Persians to a defection overcame Astyages & succeeded him
in the Medeo-Persian kingdom. He founded no new
kingdom but only by a civil war set the Province of
the Persians above that of the Medes & therefore
well does Æschyl[u]s reccon Phraortes the founder of this monarchy.

Cyrus by the common consent of all Chronologers ancient
& modern began his reign in Persia \ (that is under the kings of Media) / an. 1 Olymp. 55 an. Iul.
Per 4155 in Spring & reigned full 30 years & died or
was slain in Spring an. I. P. 4185. Neare the beginning of
his reign h |H|e overcame Crœsus King of the Lydians \in the 16 or [in] |18| the [17] year of his reign an. 1 Olymp. 5 [8 | 9] | [8 | 9] | / &