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A85971	Edovardus Confessor redivivus. The piety and vertues of holy Edward the Confessor reviv'd in the sacred Majesty of King James the II. Being a relation of the admirable and unexpected finding of a sacred relique, (viz. the crucifix) of that pious prince; which was found in Westminster-Abby, (the place of his interrment) 622 years succeeding; and is since worn sometimes by his present Majesty. With a comment thereon. Previous to which relation, are recited many wonderful casual discoveries; all of them being presagious, or very effective.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.	1688 (1688)	Wing G649; Thomason E1963_13; ESTC R225399	23,999	46

His Palace there to receive my Cure if so be He vouchsafes to do it Oh wonderful Humility The King takes him on His Shoulders and carries him the Man stretches out his Leggs his Hams being become Flexible and is Cured Thus is the Story related by my Author who Dedicated his Book to Pope Sixtus Quintus God Blessed these his admirable Vertues with the wonderful Gift of Healing the King's-Evil The Author of the Book called Vita Edovarde says thus This King Edward of Famous Memory before the Day of His Nativity was Elected of God wherefore as we have known produced by good and sufficient Witnesses God greatly Glorified Him in His life-Life-time with wonderful Signs among the which this that follows was one A Young-Woman Married but without Children c. had a Disease about her Jaws and under her Cheeks like Kernels and this Disease so Corrupted her Face with Stench that without great shame she could not speak to any body This Woman was admonished in her Sleep To go to King Edward and procure Him to Wash her Face with Water and she should be Cured To the Court she came and the King Informed of the Matter disdained not to make Tryal having therefore a Bason of Water brought unto Him He dipped His hands therein and washed the Womans Face oft-times rubbing the Diseased place sometimes also signing it with the Sign of the Cross Now after He had thus Washed it the hard Crustation or Swelling was softned and dissolved and the King pressing with His hand the Tumors out of them came little Worms of which they were full as also much Corrupt Matter and Blood The King still persevered with His hands to bring forth the Corruption This done He commanded her a sufficient Allowance every day for all things necessary until she had received perfect Health which was within a Week after And whereas she was before Barren she had a Child by her Husband Ex libro cui Titulus Vita Edovardi Again Authors affirm That a certain Man named Vlfunius Spillcorne when he had hewn Timber in a certain Wood laid him down to Sleep after his sore Labour Now the Blood and Humors of his Head so settled about his Eyes that he was thereof Blind for Nineteen Years But admonish'd in his Sleep he went in Pilgrimage to many Churches to implore the help of God for his Blindness and last of all he came to Court where he stood at the Entry of the King's Chamber an earnest Suitor for his Royal Help At length the King being Informed of the Poor Man's Dream He said By Our Lady Saint Mary I would do any thing with a good Will if it would please God by Me to have Mercy upon this Poor Wretch So being also much put on by His Attendants He call'd for Water and washed the Blind-Man's Eyes and strait-ways the Blood dropped plentifully out and the Man being Healed cryed out with a chearful Voice I see Thee O King Thus having recovered his Sight he kept the King's Palace at Windsor a long Season for there he was Healed after King Edward was Dead and Deceased in the Reign of William the Conqueror Now although these things seem strange yet the Normans ever averred That He often did the like in His Youth while He remained in Normandy in Exile How much more then when He came to be a King in Possession actually a Vicegerent of the Omnipotent God that by what means soever pleases himself works Wonders I have been the more large in the Recital of these Two remarkable Passages because our Kings of England deduce their Gifts and Faculties of Curing the King's-Evil called in Latin Struma in French Les Escroueles from Edward the Confessor upon these Two Cures And because Cured by Our Kings we call it the King's-Evil and in our Modern Latin Morbus Regius And to this will I make particular Application at the End of my Discourse Neither will I omit from the Recitals aforesaid to speak something in savour of Dreams Johannes Spondanus in his Comment upon Penelopes Dream Lib. 14. Hom. Odys says Re vera hic testor c. I do avow which also I have heard made good by Persons of undoubted Credit as to themselves nothing considerable either Good or Ill ever happened to me but I foresaw it in my Dreams He Dedicated his Book to Henry the Third King of Navarre which was after King of France and known by the Name of Henry le Grand and to whom he durst not have uttered any thing but Truth Nam Sacra est Reverentia Regnum I could say something as to my own particular very patt to the purpose But I esteem it fitter for Private Discourse than Publick Edition and return to the Matter in hand These before-recited were the Vertues Qualifications and Endowments of the Prince whose Crucifix was so strangely preserved which being so secretly found and not known of before might easily have been detain'd But as the Vision of St. Brightwald sometimes Monk of Glastenbury and after Bishop of Wilton assured him The Kingdom of England was the Kingdom of God and He would give it to whom He pleased So this Regium Cimelium this Royal Rarity was ordained for One Elect of God whom though the Numerous and Powerful Exclusive Party in England and a Malevolent Party in Scotland would have put by yet maugre all He is become Saint Edward the Confessor's Successor to His Crown Scepter and This Religious Relique so wonderfully preserved Which is the more Remarkable in that the Massy Silver Head belonging to the Royal Image covered all over with Silver Plate guilded which Queen Catharine caused to be laid upon the Tomb of Henry the Fifth was at the Suppression in Henry the Eighth's Time when the battering Hammers of Destruction made havock almost in every Church Sacrilegiously purloined forth Westminster-Abby though one would think it being so manisest and obvious a thing it should have Incited and Commanded the Care of the Church Officers to its Security and Preservation from Sacriledge No doubt the having of this Pious Symbole and Badge so auspiciously come by is an evident Omen and Presage our Soveraign as was its Pristine Owner will be Blessed with an happy Hand in the Cure of the King's-Evil Be as sparing of heavy Taxes as may be A great Conservator of the Laws of he Land A Pattern of Piety A Mirrour of Mercy A Fountain of Pity and Liberality towards the Poor Gentle and Just towards all Men In a word an Exchecquer of all Vertue as was the former Bearer thereof I have mentioned before That Wardner says of St. Edward That He set His Kingdom free from all Wrongs and Foes Serlo of Paris says of Him to the same Effect Hic bello sic pace suos exterruit Hostes Praesumpsit pacem rumpere nemo suam In Peace and War He so o're aw'd His Foes None dare His Peace and Quiet discompose Hear Old Robert of Glocester speaking to the same effect

took the Suit in ill part and commanded the Stones to be carried to the use aforesaid viz. to build the Baths called Constantiana So great is the force of Destiny and Fate Read Cuspinian in the Life of Valens and the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus lib. 4. ch 8. Translated out of Greek by Meredith Hanmer D. D. who recites the Prophesie in English Verse of fourteen Feet not well relishing to our Poetical Palate at this day or as Camden phrases it Apolline minus plenas In the sixth Year of Justine the Great Edessa that Noble and Blessed City of the Osroenians was over flown with the Streams of the River Scirtus that glided by i insomuch as many Houses were carried away with the violence thereof and multitudes of Men were drowned with the Water See Evagrius's Ecclesiastical History lib. 4. chap. 8. And Cedrenus reports That at the same time in the Bank of the River a Table of Stone was found whereon was Written in Egyptian Letters to this effect Scirtus the Stream shall Leap and Dance And cause Edessas great mischance If my Reader be Inquisitive why Evagrius calls Edessa that Blessed City let him know 't was because King Agabarus that so much desired to see our Saviour lived there Of which matter see Eusebius lib. 1. chap. 14. who discourses at large of Agabarus his Letter to our Saviour and the Answer thereunto the sending of Thadeus to Him who Cured his Disease and Converted him and his People Rodericus Toletanus writes That before the Coming of the Saracens into Spain King Roderick upon hope of some Treasure did open a part of the Palace long being forbidden to be touched but found nothing but Pictures which resembled the Moors with a Prophecy That whensoever that part of the Palace was opened the People there resembled should overcome Spain and so it happened See Heylen after his Catalogue of the Gothish Kings of Spain In the Time of Ferdinand the First King of Arragon the City of Naples was in a most Flourishing condition and the Kingdom free from all Calamity Now 't is manifest That one Cataldus about 1000 Years before that Time had been Bishop at Tarentinum the Citizens whereof did Worship him as their Patron In the mid'st of the Night he again and again appeared to a Minister who had lately taken the Order of Priest-hood having been Educated under the Vow of Chastity charging him That he should without delay take out of a certain place a little Book which he in his life-Life-time had Wrote and privately hid containing some Divine Writings and bring it to the King. The Priest gave little Credit to the Dream although he saw Cataldus in his Sleep very often and always of the same shape and form After that he appeared unto him being all alone in the Temple early in a Morning Apparell'd in such Bishops Weeds as he used in his Life-time and Adorned with a Mitre advising him as he desired to avoid great Punishment That the next day without further delay he should digg for the Book which he had Written and Hidden as he had formerly shewn him by Visions and bring it to the King. The Priest and People went the next day to the place wherein for many Years this little Book had been hidden and found it Bound with a Leaden Cover and Clasped wherein it appeared that the Destruction of the Kingdom Miserable Calamities and Most Sad Times were at hand whereof the King was warned We have found by Experience says my Author That this Prophecy was fully Executed and shew'd it self to be so Divine that not long after Ferdinand himself either by the justly incensed Wrath of God Almighty or other inscrutable Causes of his Divine Will could not avoid what he was so fully admonish'd of but in the very first appearance of War departed this Life and Charles the Eighth of France with a strong Hand Invaded the Kingdom And Alphonsus the Heir of Ferdinand having but newly entred the Kingdoms Government was thereof deprived basely running away and dying in Flight as a Banish'd Man. Then the Second Son of Ferdinand the hopefulness of whose Youth had indeared him to all Men to whom the Kingdom fell was intangled with a miserable and fatal War and died in the Flower of his Age and afterward the French and Spaniards dividing the Kingdom made Havock of all with deplorable Devastations Alexander ab Alexandro cap. 15. The Discourse of Policy and Religion by Mr. Fitz-Herbert mentions this Matter We read in the Persian History of one Emande Daule a great Persian Prince that resting in the House of Tacut a Prince whom he had Vanquished he began to be careful for the Payment of his Souldiers being without Money and seeing their Insolence to be great and that they would Mutiny if they were delay'd Being very Pensive he laid him down upon a Bed studying what course to take where lifting up his Eyes he espyed an ugly Snake at an hole which did often put forth her Head and draw it up again Daule being amazed thereat commanded they should presently break up the top of the House and Kill the Snake which was done and in doing of it they discovered a great Treasure which Yacut had hidden there and which was sufficient to Pay the Souldiers Soon after there happened another Accident to Daule which was both Pleasant and Profitable Having an intent to make some Apparrel he caus'd a Taylor to be brought unto him who being before him instead of a Measure he call'd for a Cudgel the Taylor who had served Yacut fearing to be Bastinado'd besought him to Pardon him and without any Exhortation of the Cudgel would confess the Truth which was That he had seventeen Coffers in his House which Yacut had committed to his Custody Daule was joyful of this Discovery and having sent for the Coffers they were found full of Cloth of Gold and all sorts of Silk of great value whereof the Taylor had his share Jornandes writes That Attila relied much upon the Sword of Mars kept along time among the Kings of the Scythians and discovered at first upon this occasion A certain Neat-herd seeing one of his Beasts halting and not knowing how it came followed the Tract of the Blood at the end whereof he finds a Sword upon which the Beast had trod in Feeding This Sword he takes out of the Ground and brings it to Attila who joyful of such a Present for which he rewarded the Neat-herd being a Man of a lofty Courage conceived in his Mind the Monarchy of the World was designed for him and that Mars's Sword would bear him out to make War with every one Camerarius lib. 4. I will not say any thing of Alis's Cimitar so renowned among the Turks but come to Joan of Arc and her Sword so strangely discovered I will Epitomize it out of Belleforest She was Born of very mean Parentage in the Country of Barrois It pleased God by means of her to