a succession of 330 kings reigning so many generations, that is about
11000 years, before Sesostris. But the kings who reigned long before
Sesostris might reign over several little kingdoms in several parts of
Egypt before the rise of their monarchy, & by consequence before the
days of Eli & Samuel, & so are not under our consideration: & these
names may have been multiplied by corruption. And some of them, (as
Athothes or Thoth, the secretary of Osiris; Tosorthrus or Æsculapius
a physician who invented building with square stones; & Thuor or Polybus
the husband of Alcandra,) were only Princes of Ægypt. If with Hero-
dotus we omit the names of those Kings who did nothing memorable &
consider only those whose actions are recorded, & who left splendid
monuments of their having reigned over Egypt, (such as were tem-
ples, Statues, Pyramids, Obelisks, & palaces dedicated or ascribed to them)
these kings reduced into good order will give us all or almost all the
kings of Egypt from the days of the expulsion of the shepherds & founding
of the monarchy downwards to the conquest of Egypt by Cambyses. For
Sesostris reigned in the age of the Gods of Egypt being deified by the names
of Osiris, Hercules & Bacchus as above: & therefore Menes, Nitocris, &
Mœris are to be placed after him. Menes & his son Ramesses reigned
next after the Gods & therefore Nitocris & Mœris reigned after
Ramesses. Mœris is set down immediately before Cheops three times
in the Dynasty of the Kings of Egypt composed by Eratosthenes & once
in the Dynasties of Manetho: & in the same Dynasties Nitocris is set
after the \builders of the /three great pyramids, & according to Herodotus her brother
reigned before her & was slain & she revenged his death & according
to Syncellus she \built/ the third great Pyramid. \And the builders of the Pyramids reigned at Memphis, & by consequence after Mœris./ And from these things I
gather that the Kings of Egypt mentioned by Herodotus ought to
be placed in this order. Sesostris, Pheron, Proteus, Menes, Rhamp-
sinitus, Mœris, Cheops, Cephren, Mycerinus, Nitocris, Asychis, Any-
sis & Nechus Sabacon, Anysis again, Sethon, twelve contemporary
Kings, Psammitichus, Nechus, Psammis, Apries, Amosis, Psamminitus.

Pheron is by Herodotus said to be the son & successor of Sesostris.
He was deified by the name of Orus.

Proteus reigned in the lower Egypt when Paris sailed thither \ that is, at the end of the Trojan war, according to ^a 1 Herodotus./ And
at that time Amenophis was King of Egypt & Ethiopia. But \in his absence/ Proteus might
be governour of some part of the lower Egypt under him. For Homer
places Proteus upon the sea coasts &; makes him a sea God, & calls
him the servant of Neptune. And Herodotus saith that he rose up
from among the common people, & that Proteus was his name trans-
lated into Greek, & this name in Greek signifies only a Prince or
President. He succeeded [illeg] \Pheron/ & was succeeded by Rhamps\ini/itus according to Hero-
dotus; & so was contemporary to Amenophis.

Amenophis reigned next after Orus & Isis the last of the Gods.
He reigned at first over all Egypt & then over Memphis & the upper parts of Egypt.
And by conquering Osarsiphus who had revolted from him, became
king of all Egypt \again/, about 51 years after the death of Solomon. He built Memphis &
ordered the worship of the Gods of Egypt & built a palace at Abydus
& the Memnonia at This & Susa \& the magnificent temple of Vulcan at in Memphis,/ the building with square stones
being found out before by Tosorthrus the Æsculapius of Egypt. He is
by corruption of his name called Menes, Mines, Minæus, Mnevis,
Minies, Mineus, Enephes, Venephes, Phamenophis, Osimandes, Isman-
des, Imandes, Memnon, Arminon.

After Amenophis had built Memphis & the magnificent
temple of Vulcan, he was succeeded by his son called by Herodotus
Rhampsinitus & by others Ramses, Ramises, Rameses, Ramesses,
Ramestes, Rhampses, Remphis. Vpon an Obelisk erected by this king
in Heliopolis, & sent to Rome by the Emperor Constantius, was an
inscription interpreted by Hermapion an Egyptian priest, expressing that
the king was long lived, & reigned over a great part of the earth. And