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B08095	The life of the most honourable and vertuous lady the Lady Magdalen Viscountesse Montague written ... by Richard Smith. And now translated into English, by C. F[ursdon]..; Vita illustrissimae Dominae Magdalenae Montis Acuti in Anglia vicecomitissae. English	Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.; Fursdon, Cuthbert.	1627 (1627)	STC 22811; ESTC S95235	39,355	62

two thirds of mine estate I will ioyfully liue with the rest and I thank God who hath permitted me to enjoy it hitherto and now permitteth that it be taken from me for profession of his fayth When there was danger of searching her house she was more sollicitous of her Priests then of herselfe and when in the time of that notorious powder-treasō she was terrifyed with extreme Her manly courage in present perill and imminent dangers that she should not be able to keep a Priest in her house she did not yet giue way thervnto but dismissing the aduertiser with a manly courage and full of confidence in God she sayd to her Confessor Let vs say the litanies and commit this matter to God And as well at other times often as when she lay in her extreme infirmity She reduceth two of her neerest kinred vnto the Church she strictly commaunded her children encouraged her seruants and importunatly exhorted all persons to neglect the wealth of the world constantly to retaine the Catholike fayth and to repose their hopes in God At which time Almighty God gaue vnto her this consolation that by her example and admonitions she reduced two of her neerest kinred into the lap of the church And certainly it is to be much attributed to her Piety that wheras she left liuing aboue thirty of her children Nephewes She desireth her children might suffer death for the Catholike fayth and Neeces she left them all constant professors of the Catholike fayth And albeit she most tenderly affected her children yet she so much preferred fayth before nature that she would often say she should exceedingly reioyce to see any of them to dye for the Catholike fayth Neither do I doubt but if Almighty God had tryed her we should haue seene in her the courage of the Mother of the Machabees Of her notable Piety towards God CHAP. XII THe nurse of all Vertue is piety deuotion towards God which in the Lady Magdalen was very remarkeable For she was euery day present at the morning and euening seruice which by her Priests was daily sayd The deuotion of the La. Mag. vnto the Masse in her chappell For the most part she did euery day heare three Masses more would willingly haue heard if she might and such was her affection to this diuine sacrifice that when vpon any occasion in the winter it was sayd before day she in that cold and vnseasonable time could not contayne herselfe in her bed but rising endured not to be absent from that heauenly Sacrifice In her priuate deuotions she did euery day say three offices Her daily priuate prayers that is of the B. Virgin of the Holy Ghost and of the Holy Crosse wherto she added at least three Rosaries the Iesus Psalter the 50. prayers of S. Brigit which because they beginne with O are commonly called her 15. Oes and the common Litanyes and finally sometymes the office of the dead Which prayers when in her infirmity she could not say her selfe she procured to be sayd by others distributing to euery one a part And that I may What time she spent in prayer comprehend much in few words she spent a very great part of the day and much of the night in prayer For rising early in the morning she for the most part emploied the rest of the tyme euen till the houre of dinner in prayer and sometymes she would retyre her selfe alone after dinner into the chappell to pray as also before supper she spent an houre or often two houres in prayer and before she went to bed she omitted not the Litanyes and the examen of her conscience And I haue some tymes obserued that on Christmas Eue at night from an houre before midnight till a litle before dinner she neuer went out of the Chappell but only a little to attire herselfe but was al that tyme watchfully employed in prayers and deuout actions She was often found in her chamber prostrate on the ground in prayer albeyt she accustomed when the heat of deuotiō did moue her to shut the dores In the night also when others tooke their sleepe she was heard of her women to say her Beads which to that end did alwayes hang at her beds syde And as S. Hierome writeth of S. Lea She instructed her family more by example then by word with her piety induced all to deuotion And although Epist 24. she was by priuiledge of her age exempted from fasting yet did she piously obserue all the fasts of the Lent the She did often fast Ember dayes and whatsoeuer other eyther commaunded by the Church or introduced by the pious custome of the Country as are the fasts of Fridayes and some others to all which of her owne deuotiō she added some wednesdayes O right pious woman and imitating that holy widdow which did not depart from the Temple seruing Luc. 1. God day and night in fasting and prayer And she was so moued with loue vnto prayer and deuotion that the care of worldly estate was tedious vnto her which she would willingly haue imposed vpon some other did sometymes cōferre with me of that matter that she might wholy deuote her self vnto God but that there were some impediments which her selfe could not remoue She shewed a respectiue reuerence to her Priests for the honour of Her exceding reuerence to her Priests God and did most humbly on her knees morning and euening aske their benediction which she did also obserue towards other Priests at their comming going Which honour exhibited to our Priests from the beginning of the English Church as testifyeth S. Bede in the third booke of his History and 26. Chap. but long tyme intermitted their frequent deathes for the Catholyke fayth hath reduced for within 30. yeares aboue 120. secular Priests haue bin crowned with Martyrdome in England Euery Sunday and festiuall day besides she did purge her sinnes by holy Confession which she performed She frequently confessed with great contrition with great preparation of mynd and discussion of her conscience She opened her sinnes with exceeding sincerity and bewayled them with such abundance of teares that whosoeuer had seene thē would haue thoght her another sinfull Magdalen but the hearer of her sinnes thought of the innocency of S. Iohn going into the wildernes least he should maculate his life with the least idle word For what she confessed were sometimes so small that I thought it necessary to aduise her to accuse herselfe of some former sinnes fearing least otherwise there might want matter of absolution And yet as I sayd she did so bitterly lament them that she forced me to teares for which cause I desired to heare her confession before I confessed my owne sinnes For in her as S. Hierome writeth of S. Paula Thou wouldest beleiue to be fountaines of teares the so bewailed sleight sinnes as thou wouldest think her to be guilty In vita