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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

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-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

Sooth our Lord nourished his Meekness and yat him great Grase that Men should be addrade of him that routh not be Wrath and though Men trowed him to be Slow he had such Subjects under him that at his hest daunted his Enemies as Syward Earl of Northumberland and Leofricus of Hereford c. Our Legists tell us Qui facit per alium facit per se King Edward did His Enemies business by others But our Prince JAMES the Good and Just is able to be His own Conduct to be Immensi tremor Oceani Terrarum Arbiter the Terror of the Ocean the Ballance and Arbiter of Nations Who shall dare to raise up this Lyon of England Gen. 49.9 Day-Fatality Edit 2. P. 1. tells us Normandy was Conquered from Duke Robert that Day Forty Years the Normans had won England Edward the Confessor came from Normandy to Reign in England His Father's Kingdom unjustly detained by His Maternal Brother Why may not our Dread Soveraign the Possessor of the Holy Confessor's Religious Badge so strangely and ominously Recovered go out of England Si fas sit ita loqui into Normandy and Recover and Annex it to its Pristine Union being His rightly descended Dukedome Nihil loquor de Andegavia de Comit ' Pontino Aquitania c. He being a Prince certainly Born for Great Actions and Blessed with a continuation of Lucky Omens Vnanimes cuncti quae semper habeto precemur How Benignly and Courteously by His Means and Incouragement are the Exiled French Received by Us A Royal Brief being granted by His Majesty for a Liberal Collection towards Their Relief I have by me an Antient Book written at first in the German Tongue by Sebastian Brandt Doctor of both Laws and Profest Orator and Poet and Stiled by him the Ship of Fools laying open the Folly and Frailty of all sorts and conditions of Men a Book very expedient and necessary to the Reader This Book Jacobus Locherus Translated into Latin Verse and from him one Alexander Barcklay Canon of St. Mary Ottry having Perused it in Three Languages Latin French and Dutch as he Solemnly Professes in his Epistle Translated into English Meetre In his Chapter of the Ruine of the Holy Catholick Faith and Diminution of the Empire by the Turks he Exhorts all Christian Princes and Potentates to joyn Hand in Hand against the Incroaching Infidels Now whereas Brandt and Locher place all their hope in Maximilian King of the Romans as a most fit Leader Our English Canon transfers it by a Poetical Digression and Diversion to the Famous King James the IV. of Scotland Let us hear first the Latin and after the English Poetry of that Age and first for Lecher Maxmilianus adest quo major Tempore nullo Rex fuit à digno Stemmate Sceptra gerens Invideat quicunque velit non justior illo Principe non Heros clarior ullus erat Caesareum vultum praefert inque ore nitescit Majestas mores Nobilitatis habet Fraudibus attentat nihil hic nihil ille Dolosum Concipit at plano Tramite vita meat Hunc non insani fastus sed Candida virtus Elevat Hic solus faedera pacis amat Hoc duce crescet Honos terris c. Hoc duce Sarmaticas gentes superabimus atque Euxinum Pelagus Bistonicosque lares Now comes in Barcklay whose Translation is Paraphrastical and from whom we gather what an Opinion the World had of James the IV. aforesaid Predecessor to His Present Majesty But ye Christian Princes whosoever ye be If ye be destitute of a Noble Captain Take James of Scotland for His Audacity And proved Manhood if ye will Laud attain Let Him have the forward have ye no Disdain Nor Indignation for never King was Born That is of War so much a Unicorn For if He take once His Spear in Hand Against these Turks strongly with it to Ride None shall be able His Prowess to withstand Nor before His Face so hardy to abide Yet this His Manhood Increases not His Pride But ever shews His Meekness and Humility In Word or Deed to high and low Degree In Prudence peerless is this most comely King And as for His Strength and Magnanimity Concerning His Noble Deeds in every thing One found on Ground like Him there cannot be By Birth born to Boldness and Audacity Vnder the bold Planet of Mars the Champion Surely to Subdue His Enemies each one Let Him be foremost then doubt ye not at all For only His Look so Bold is His Courage The Turks Pride shall make Decay and Fall. Like to a Lyon in Deeds He shall Rage Thus He being Guide the Fury shall asswage Of the false Turks so that they shall be fain Our Christian Lands to Vs to yield again If the English Lyon His Wisdom and Riches Conjoyn with True Love Peace and Fidelity With the Scotch Unicorn's Might and Hardiness There is no doubt but then all Christianity Shall Live in Peace Wealth and Tranquility And the Holy Land come in Christian hand is This our Poet concluded his Translation 1508.23 Henry the VII as he says Pag. 259. But I perceive by some Marginal Notes 't was not Printed till Henry the VIII began His Reign And I cannot but take notice of his Heraldical Allusion expressing the two Kings of England and Scotland the First by His Arms and Supporters and the Last by the Last which accidently I imitated in a Distich I composed when an over-confident Report was of the French King's Death in Aug. 85. Lilia Flaccescunt fit Carbunculus ater Mars Moeret summus ejus Alumnus obit French Lilies hang their Head and Navarrs Radiant Stone Grows dark Mars grieves his dearest and chief Pupil's gone Now as to the Vnicorn of Scotland and the Poets Allusion aforesaid read Numb 23.22 and 24.8 and Job 39.9 and 10. Verses But I return to James the IV. He was as well as very Valiant a Wise and Politick Leader for at the Battle of Flodden Field observing the great number of English Horse and those of large and strong size the Scotch Horse being small He told His Nobles and Commanders We shall do no good with our Horses We are as Valiant and Strong as to our Persons as our Enemies We must make Foot work of it Stow describes the Battle at large and says The Scotch Spears did twice sore indanger the English Forces that the King himself even in the foremost Rank Fought right Valiantly encouraging His People as well by Example as Perswasions to do their best In fine the Lord Dacres with his Horse was the cause of the Scotch Defeat and the King most Valiantly Fighting was unfortunately Slain See Weaver Pag. 394. We have heard Barcklays Elogiums of this most Heroick Prince and Stow's Testimony of His Valour let us hear what others say John Johnston in his Historical Description of the Scottish Kings concludes one of his Stanza's thus to his Eternal Praise Quod si animis ortisque tuis sors aequa fuisset Imperii fines