From Robert Fleming's "The Rise and Fall of Papacy", 1701, 1848 edition, pages 69-70:
 
One thing only I shall further take notice of here, upon the occasion of the king of Spain's death---that God seems to mark out great things sometimes by very minute ones, such as names; for example, as the Spanish monarchy began with Charles V. (as to the Austrian family), so it has now expired in one of the same name: which I the rather observe because of many instances of the same kind; of which number take these following:  Darius the Mede, as Daniel calls him (though Xenophon calls him Cyaxares), the uncle of Cyrus, was the first Medo-Persian monarch after the destruction of the Babylonian; and Darius Codomanus was the last.  Ptolemeus Lagi began the Egyptian kingdom after Alexander's death, and Ptolemeus Dionysius was the last of that race.  Augustus fixed the Roman Empire, and it ended in Augustulus.  The Eastern Roman Empire was erected by Constantine the Great, and expired with Constantine Paleologus.  The Scots race come into England in a James, and has gone out again in another of that name.  And whether William, the third king of England of that name, as well as the third William Prince of Orange, be likely to be the last both these ways, is left to future time to unriddle; only I pray that God may long preserve him, and us by him; and that he may live to be a further scourge to France, and a terror to Romanists.
 
 
Two things come to mind.  Note the current Prince William of England.  Also note regarding America, George Washington and the current George W.
 
-Something to ponder.
 
-Shalom,
Ted Porter