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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49552	An introduction to the history of England comprising the principal affairs of this land, from its first planting, to the coming of the English Saxons : together with a catalogue of the British and Pictish kings / by Daniel Langhorne.	Langhorne, Daniel, d. 1681.	1676 (1676)	Wing L395; ESTC R13965	103,983	214

tenth day of May for his Martyrdome Thomas Dempster a Scotch Historian Hist Eccles Scot. lib. 2. num 159. saith that St. Barnabas came into the North part of Britain now called Scotland and there Baptized Beatus the Apostle of the Helvetians Aristobulus Brother to St. Barnabas mentioned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans is by the same Dorothaeus recorded to have been Bishop of Britain which is confirmed by the Suffrage of the Greek Menologies who assign the fifteenth day of March for his Martyrdom which here he suffered in the second year of Nero according to the Fragment of Helecas Caesar Augustanus Venantius Fortunatus and Sophronius Patriarch of Jerusalem Comment de Petro Paulo ad diem Jun. 39. say that St Paul was in Britain and Simeon Metaphrastes affirms as much of St. Peter adding that he tarried here a long time and converted many Nations settled their Churches and ordained Bishops Priests and Deacons Isidore and Freeulphus say that St. Philip the Apostle came into Gaul and preached there from whence he sent over hither in the year Sixty three twelve Disciples of whom Joseph of Arimathea was of greatest note to whom Arviragus gave a certain place named Inis witrin called also Avalon and Glastonbury where they are said to have led an Eremitical life and to have built a Church in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and to have had other Lands bestowed upon them by Marius and Coelus This is accounted the ancientest Church of Britain and was afterwards much reverenced and enriched by many Kings and Princes as appears by William of Malmesburie's History of the Antiquities of Glastonbury and by King Henry the Second's Charter granted to the new Church there in the year one Thousand one Hundred and eighty five which was termed Magnum Privilegium and is to be seen among the Archiva in the Tower of London and by many other Writers Pudens and Claudia mentioned by St. Paul in the end of his second Epistle to Timothy are credibly thought to be the same with Aulus Pudens and Claudia Rufina whom the Poet Martial celebrates which Claudia was a British Lady and by some Writers thought to be King Caradock's Daughter mentioned by Tacitus and Linus the first Bishop of Rome mentioned also in the same Epistle is by Clemens in his seventh book of the Apostles Constitutions said to be their Son Chap. 47. and Petrus Equilinus gives them two other Sons Timotheus and Novatus and to Pudens by another wife named Sabinella he gives two Daughters Potentiana or Pudentiana and Praxedis This Timotheus converted Lucius a Brittish Prince and suffered Martyrdom when the first Antoninus was Emperour and Pius Bishop of Rome Lucius being Baptized by Timotheus about the end of Evaristus his Papacy leaving his Principality and taking with him his Sister Emerita preached to the Rhaetians and Bavarians became Bishop of Chur where he was Martyred under Aurelius Antoninus as his Sister was at a neighbouring place called Trimontium In Hartmannus Schedelius his Chronicle we find among those that flourished under Trajan Taurinus Episcopus Eboracensis and Eutropius Episcopus Cantu which some of the Hagiocleptae or Steal-Saints taking hold of have endeavoured to perswade the world that the one was Bishop of York and the other of Canterbury whereas it is evident from other Authors that Eboracensis is through mistake put for Ebroicensis and Cantu for Santu the one being Bishop of Eureux in Normandy the other of Sainctes in Xaintoigne But Britain was not so barren of Saints that it should need to steal any from other Countreys and it is justly famous for receiving and preserving the Christian Faith from the very times of the Apostles Eusebius Pamphilus in his third Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 affirms that some of the Apostles went beyond the Ocean to the Isles that are called British Theodoret likewise in his Ninth Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reckons the Britans express●● among those Nations to whom the Apostles themselves had preached Before these Tertullian tells us That those places among the Britans which yielded the Romans no access were now subdued unto Christ Lib. adversus Judaeos c. 7. And Origen in his Fourth Homily upon Ezekiel and in his Sixth Homily upon the first Chapter of St. Luke confirms the Antiquity of Christianity in Britain Gildas after reciting Boadicia's insurrection whom he calls the Deceitful Lioness and the quelling of it by the Romans informs us That between the latter end of the Reign of the Emperour Tiberius and the victory of Suetonius Paulinus which was obtained about the year of Christ Sixty one the Christian Religion began to take footing in Britain in the mean time saith he Christ the true Sun spreading forth not from the Temporal Firmament but from the Castle and Court of Heaven which exceedeth all Times throughout the whole world his most glorious Light in the latter end as we know of Tiberius Caesar's Reign whereas in regard that the Emperour against the will of the Senate threatned death to the Disturbers thereof Religion was largely propagated without any hinderance did first cast on this Island starving with frozen Cold and in a far remote Climate from the visible Sun his gladsome Beams to wit his most holy Laws which although they were received of the inhabitants but with Luke-warm minds remained notwithstanding fully and entirely in the minds of some and in others less untill the nine years Persecution of the Tyrant Dioclesian What he saith of Caesar's threatning death to the Disturbers or Accusers of the Christians we also find in the fifth Chapter of Tertullian's Apologeticus and in the Chronicle of Eusebius at the last year or last but one of the Reign of Tiberius Thus early did Christianity enter into this Land where it was never since totally extinct though sometimes shrewdly eclipsed Some stirs there were in Britain in Trajan's time who being engaged in war with the Dacians and other remote Nations the Northern people with the help of the Picts and their King Roderick hoped to recover their ancient Bounds and revenge the overthrows they had received from Agricola Hereupon they invade the Province but with ill success for the Caledonians are beaten by the Romans and driven to their old Shelters and the Picts are at Stanmore in Westmorland vanquished by Marius who was now leagued with the Romans and Roderick slain in memory of which victory the British King erected Rerecross as some conceive Berenchus is said to have succeeded Roderick who finding himself unable to cope with Marius retired into Cathnesse and there seated himself and his followers The Scottish Writers pretend that both their own Nation and the Picts were settled in Britain long before and that these people were Moravians of Germany but how falsely is known to any one that is never so little versed in History seeing those Moravians were never heard of before the dayes of the Emperour Lewis the Debonaire Neither did Moravia in