difficultyes that in the reading therof may happily occurre vnto thee 1. First then I would haue thee to vnderstand that what I haue heere set downe in this ensuing Martyrologe concerning the liues and miracles of these glorious and renowned Saintes of our Great-Britany and of the Ilands belonging therunto I haue done the same with all truth sincerity conscience to my knowledge not contenting my selfe with bare wordes and relations only but haue in the margents quoted also the bookes and places of the Authors out of whome I haue gathered al that is heere alleaged Neyther haue I vsed any other Authors herin but such as are approued by the Sea Apostolick or at leastwise permitted by the same reiecting all Apocryphall Legends or other fabulous Historyes that may be any way suspected of the least note of falsity or errour whatsoeuer 2 Secondly I haue not taken vpon me in this Catalogue or Calendar to make an vniuersall Martyrologe but haue gathered togeather only the ancient Saintes Martyrs Confessours Virgins of our three Kingdomes England Scotland Ireland Yet for that besides these of our owne there are some others also of foraine Nations by whome our said Countreys haue receyued some notable or peculiar benefit either publicke or priuate as hauing byn our Apostles or Patrons eyther by way of preaching teaching protection or otherwise in the cooperation to our Conuersion and consequently to be by vs honoured and reuerenced for such as all our Cath. Ancestours and forfathers haue done before vs and as we see all other Catholicke Countreys round about vs to do the like in the same case These I say I haue thought good to accompt as our owne togeather with our owne to place thē on their proper festiuall dayes to the end we may as well with due honour obserue their Memoryes and Solemnityes as also therby auoyd the vngratefull obliuion of so great inestimable benefits receyued by them and their merits 3. The third Aduertisement may be that wheras it hath pleased God to giue vnto our little Dominions so many glorious Saintes both Martyrs Cōfessours Virgins besides these later of our dayes whose Names I haue also put downe in a Catalogue a part by thēselues in the later end of this booke who may be more then sufficient to make a whole and complete Calendar throughout euery Moneth placing on euery day one yet for that a great number of our ancient Saintes haue no proper festiuityes in our English Catholicke Church and many of them forgotten and almost out of memory by this vnfortunate fall of our Countrey frō the true and ancient Catholicke faith and vnion of the Sea Apostolicke I haue thought it most conuenient for the more full accomplishing and perfecting of a Martyrologe that where any day falleth out to be altogeather voyd there to place one or more of the forsaid ancient Saintes whose publicke celebrity hath not byn hitherto kept therof to make a Commemoration only which in the Roman other Martyrologes is often vsed noting the same with the signe of an Asteriske or Starre in the Margent to the end it may be knowne and obserued of the Reader And where none of these forsaid Markes so noted is to be found then vpon that day is put the true festiuity of the Saint whome there thou shalt find placed 4. And lastly I do not meane by this ensuing Martyrologe to introduce any other publicke obseruation or festiuity of any of the Saintes heerin by me set downe then that which the Catholicke Church of England hath in formertymes and doth also at this present celebrate but only my intention is to lay forth the summe of their liues and miracles as briefly as I may for the increase of deuotion in the Catholicke people and for the duty and reuerenced owe vnto them both leauing the rest to euery mans pri 〈…〉 re and particular deuotion as he shall by reading the same be affected to their glorious veneration Wi 〈…〉 ing hartily all such Catholickes of our said Coūtreys to whose hands this little worke may chance to come that if they haue any other notes concerning these our ancient Saintes lying by them they would vouchsafe eyther to impart the same vnto me or be pleased themselues by reuiewing this small labour of myne to publish the same anew and a 〈…〉 end my imperfections heerin if any shal be found as well for the honour of the glorious Saintes themselues as the publike vtility of these our Kingdoms and Countreys Farewell I. W. ERRATA Pag. 140 Monassery lege Monastery 294 Eaetta Eatta 295 venetion veneration 326 Roall Royall THE MONETH OF IANVARY A The first Day AT Glastenbury-Abbey in Somersetshire the Commemoration of the Sayntes Midwyne and Eluane Confessors who being two noble auncient Britans by byrth were sent by King Lucius of Britany to Rome to Pope Elutherius to treat of his Conuersion to Christian faith and being there both baptized by the said Pope S. Eluane made a Bishop they were sent backe againe into Britany togeather with Fugatius and Damianus who baptized the King and the greatest part of his Nation in the yeare of our Lord 183. And after they had much laboured in teaching and instructing the new flocke of Christ in our Iland for many yeares full of sanctity of life and venerable old age they both ended their happy dayes about the yeare of Christ an hundred nynty and eight were buried at Glastenbury as the ancient Records of that Abbey do witnesse And in other places of many holy Martyrs Confessors and Virgins to whose prayers and merits we humbly commend our selues This last clause is alwayes thus to be repeated in the end of euery day B The second Day AT Lichfield in Staffordshire the Commemoration of A thousand holy Martyrs of the British Nation who newly conuerted to the faith of Christ and being Disciples and followers of S. Amphibale Priest that suffered in the persecution of Dioclesian Emperour and present at his Martyrdome neere vnto the towne of S. Albanes in Hartfordshire fled thence for feare of like torments but being ouertaken at Lichfield they were all in hatred of Christian Religion there most cruelly put to death by commandement of the President of Brittany about the yeare of Christ three hundred and foure The place where they suffered was afterward called Cadauerum campus which is as much to say as Lich-field in English where the forsaid Citty is now built and therof taketh his auncient name and denomination And in other places of many holy Martyrs Confessors and Virgins c. C The third Day IN Cornwall the Cōmemoration of S. Meliorus Martyr sonne to Melianus Duke of that Prouince who being his Fathers only sonne and heyre and secretly made a Christian was by a brother-in-law of his called Rinaldus a pagan cruelly murdered partly in hatred of his faith and Religion and partly to inioy his inheritance He first cut of his
in the Iland of Hoy in Scotland was ordayned Bishop of Lindisferne where for many yeares hauing instructed his flocke in all vertue and good learning finally in great sanctity of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nynty and in the raigne of Osred King of Northumberland F The thirtith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Deusdedit Bishop and Confessor surnamed Frithona who being an English Saxon by birth succeeded S. Honorius in the Sea of Canterbury being consecrated therto by Ithimar Bishop of Rochester wherin when he had spent nyne yeares in continuall preaching and instructing his flocke famous for learning and sanctity of life he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure and was buryed in the Church of S. Augustines in Canterbury with his predecessors at whose body in confirmation of the innocency of his life it pleased God to worke many miracles THE MONETH OF IVLY G The first Day AT Carleon vpon Vske in South-wales the passion of the Saintes Iulius and Aaron Martyrs who being two noble ancieÌ„t Britans of the same Citty were in the persecution of the Roman Emperour Dioclesian with many others in our British primitiue Church most cruelly put to death for the Confession of Christ about the yeare of our Lord three hundred and foure There was an ancient goodly Church erected dedicated in their honour in the forsaid Citty of Carleon where also their bodyes haue in tymes past byn kept with great veneration of the old Britans of South-VVales THE same day in little Britany the deposition of S. Goluin Bishop and Conâ—essour borne in our Iland of great Britany of very honourable parents who going ouer into little Britany and there leading an Eremiticall life for many yeares was at last against his will elected and vpon obedience consecrated Bishop about the yeare of Christ six hundred In which function dignity he excelled in all kind of sanctity and holines of life working many miracles among the Frenchmen both aliue and dead A The second Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the deposition of S. Suâ—ithin Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose rare life togeather with his working of miracles is very famous to all posterity through the Christian world Whensoeuer he was to consecrate any new Church though it were neuer so far of yet would he go thither on foote It chanced on a Market day at VVinchester that a womaÌ„ passing ouer the bridg with a basket of egges where the holy man was sitting to see the workmen labour about mending of the bridge and one of the said labourers offering to iest with the woman and she resisting brake all her egges which thing the good Bishop seeing and lamenting the womans losse made the signe of the Crosse ouer the said broken egges and immediatly they all became whos 's againe He died about the yeare of Christ eight huÌ„dred threescore and two and was buryed at VVinchester THE same day at Landaffa in Clamorganshire of VVales the deposition of S. Oudocke Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being descended of a noble bloud in Britany was famous for holines of life and working of miracles both aliue and dead He was the third Bishop of Landaffa and succeeded S. Telean in the same Sea about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty B The third Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Lanfranke Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being Abbot of Cane in Normandy was thence at the suite of K. VVilliam the Conquerour promoted to the Sea of Canterbury where in great holines of life he gouerned the same most laudably for nineteene yeares togeather and at last desceased the third yeare of the raigne of K. VVilliam Rusus and yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nyne Vpon this day his body being taken vp afterward was with great solemnity tranâ—lated to a more emineÌ„t place of the Church of CaÌ„terbury wherat it is recorded many miracles haue byn wrought THE same day at Oostkerke in Flanders the deposition of S. Guthagon Confessour Sonne to a king of Scotland who taking vpon him a voluntary pouerty for the loue of Christ went ouer into Flanders and there became a pilgrimâ— or Eremite in the territory of Tornay where in great sanctity holinesse of life he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward taken vp by Gerrard Bishop of Tornay and set in a more eminent place of the Church of Oostkâ—rke in the yeare of Christ one thousand â—â—ty and nyne where the same is kept with great honour and veneration of the inhabitants and is yet to be seene there through iron grates placed in a wall of the same Church C The fourth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Odo Conâ—essour Archbishop of the same Sea Who being a man of excellent learning wisdome was first made Bishop of VVelles after of Canterbury In which dignity in great sanctity of life spirit of prophesy he ended his venerable old dayes in the yeare oâ— Christ nyne hundred fâ—fty and eight and was buried at Canterbury Matthew a Monke of VVestminster recounteth a dreadfull exaÌ„ple of reuenge taken vpon his successour in that Bishopricke Ealysine who so soone as S. Odo was dead and procuring himselâ—e to be elected in his roome by Symony the very first day oâ— his induction to that Sea he most coÌ„temptuously trode him vnder his feete in his graue With which fact God being highly offended soone after reuenged the same in the behalfe of S. Odo For Ealssine going to Rome for his Pall perished most miserablâ— through hungar and cold in the Alpes which thing was â—ortould also by S. Odo being forced before his death to put those his feete in the warme dung of horses with which he had so insolently troden vpon the others body in his graue D The fifth Day AT Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire the festiuity of S. Moduâ—ene Virgin and Abbesle daughter to Nangâ—â—ee King of Ireland who after infinite miracles wrought in that Kingdome came into England there by the help of K. Ethelnulse whose sonne she by her prayers had cured of a dangerous sicknesse builded two famous Monasteryes neere to the forrest of Arden in VVaruickshire the one at Polesbury the other by the forrest side of which later she her selfe was Abbesse first and then of another Monastery at the forsaid Burton in Staffordshire And after this she went into Scotland to King Conwall her kinsman and thence backe againe into Ireland where in all kind of rare sanctimony of life and miracles she finally ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty bequeathing her body to the forsaid Monastery of Burton whither it was brought and kept with great reuerence and veneration euen vntill our dayes Among her many miracles one is recorded that by
of the Britans resigned the said Sea to S. Dauid became an Eremite leading a very strict seuere kind of life in the mouÌ„taynes of VVales vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and twenty His body was first buryed in the Iland of Bardsey afterward on this day translated to Landaâ—â—a about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and twenty A The seauenth Day AT Beuerlâ—â— in Yorkeshire the festiuity of S. â—ohâ— Bishop and Confessour commonly called 〈…〉 Iohn of Beuerley who after he had gouerned the Sea of Yorke in great sanctity and holines of life for the space of three and thirty yeares famous for miracles he ended his venerable old dayes in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and one His body was first buryed at Yorke but afterward with great honour and solemnity translated to Beuerlâ—y by Bishop Alred his successour and there interred in the Monastery which himselfe had built where with great veneration the same was preserued euen vntill our dayes and visited of many especially for the great miracles that it hath pleased God to worke therat by his merits The forsaid Monastery of Beuerley was afterward by licence of the Pope made a Sanctuary in the raigne of King Ethelstane who placed a certaine Chayre of stone in the Church neere vnto S. Io 〈…〉 s body vpon which this insâ—ription was engrauen Haeâ— sedes lapidea di 〈…〉 ur Freed-stoole id est Pacis Cathedra ad quam reus sugiendo perueâ—iens o 〈…〉 odam â—â—beâ— securitate This festiuall day of his was afterward in a Councell of Bishops held at London in the yeare 1416. appointed to be kept holy-day in his memory throughout England B The eight Day AT Musâ—â—iâ—ht in the Territory of Liege the â—â—â—tiuâ—ty of S. Wyre CoÌ„fessour dâ—scâ—ded of a noble bloud in Scotland who being ordayned Bishop of the Deiri in the Kingdome of the Northumbers went ouer into the lower Germany where he became CoÌ„fessor to Duke Pepin of Brabant labouring incessantly in teaching and preaching the Christian faith And finally in great sanctity and venerable old yeares he departed this life at the Monastery of S. Odilia neere Ruremond vpon the Riuer of Mosa about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and one His body was translated afterward to Maestricht and there with great veneration of the Inhabitants is kept in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty C The ninth Day AT Vindecine among the Zwitzers in the higher Germany the deposition of S. Beatus Confessour and Apostle of Zuizerland who being sonne to a nobleman of Britany weÌ„t to Rome in the primitiue Church partly on pilgrimage partly to be better instructed in the Christian faith And as he returned backe he began to preach to the Zwitzzers in Heluetia and conuerted many of them to the saith of Christ wherby he became their first Apostle He died there in an Oratory which himselfe had built where also his body was buryed and many miracles wrought therat about the yeare of Christ one hundred and eleuen and was the first Saint of our Nation we read of that died out of Britany D The tenth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the Translation of the venerable Body of S. Bede â—riâ— and Confessour by whose wrytings the Christian world hath byn much illustrated When he was but seauen yeares old he was committed for his education to S. Benedict Abbot of the Monastery of VVyremund and afterward became a moÌ„ke in the same place seruing God therin all the dayes of his life as himselfe testifieth in the end of his fifth booke of the history of England And being at last admonished of his death by an Angell when the tyme drew neere which was on the feast of our Sauiours Ascension kneeling downe vpon the pauement of his Cell and singing Gloria patri silio spiritui sancto c. haue vp the ghost about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threscore and six His body was afterward on this day translated to Durham and there with great veneration placed in the Tombe togeather with S. Cuthbert with this old inscription or Epitaph Beda Dei famulus Monachorum nobile sydus Finibus è terrae profuit Ecclesiae Soles iste Patrum scrutando per omnia sensum Eloquio viguit plurima composuit Annos in hac vita ter duxit vitae triginta Presbyter officio vtilis ingenio Iunij septenis viduatus carne Kalendis Angligena Angelicam commeruit patriam His principall festiuity is kept in our English Catholicke Church vpon the 27. of this moneth according to the vse of Sarum on which day he died E The eleuenth Day IN the Marches of VVales the passion of S. Fremund King and Martyr sonne to Ossa King oâ— the Mercians of Middle 〈…〉 glishmen who after a yâ—are and a halfe that he had ruled his Kingdome left the same and for the loue of Christ became an I remite in the Marches of VVales in a lâ—ttle Iland there called in the Britâ—sh tongue 〈◊〉 sage where togeather with two vertuous priests he liued a very holy and exemplar kind of life vntill King Osâ—â—ay that was fallen from the Christian saith in hatred therof secretly killed him in the yeare of Christ seauen huÌ„dred threescore nyne He was afterward canonized for a Saint in the yeare one thousand two hundred fifty and seauen and raigne of King Henry the third of England whose memory in Catholicke tymes hath byn very famous in our Iland especially among the ancient Britans of North-VVales F The tweluth Day AT Lincolne the deposition of S. Remigius Confessour and Bishop of that Sea faâ—ouâ— for sanctity of life and learning He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 world in the yeare of Christ 〈◊〉 thousand fourscore and eleuen whose 〈◊〉 being on this day interred with great 〈◊〉 and veneration in his Cathe 〈…〉 Church of Lincoine it pleased God in 〈…〉 ony of his holynes to worke wonderous signes â—nerat especially in the raigne of King Henry the third when as all England went on pilgrimage thither for the great miracles that were theÌ„ dayly wrought He built two famous Monasteryes by the help of King VVilliam the CoÌ„querour the one at Battaile in Sussex the other at Cane in Normandy which later he consecrated to S. Stephen the Protomartyr And was the first that traÌ„slated the Bishopricke of Dorchester to Lincolne where he built a goodly Cathedrall Church and adorned the same saith Stow with Clarkes that were approued both in learning and manners G The thirteenth Day AT the Monastery of Ramsey in the I le of Ely in the Prouince of the Eastangies the Commemoration of S. Merwyne Virgin who being a womaÌ„ of great sanctimony holinesse of life was by King Edgar of blessed memory constituted Abbesse of a new Monastery which by the help of Alwyn Earle of the Eastangles S. Oswald Bishop of Yorke had newly â—ounded at Ramsey where in all vertuous
principall feast be celebrated throughout the Diocesse vpon the first of Iuly with a double office as chiefe Patrone of that Citty He was canonized by Pope Alexander the 4. A The fiue twentith Day AT Verolamium now called S. Albans in Hartfordshire the Passion of S. Amphibale Priest and Martyr who being a noble yong man of Britany going to Rome with Bassianus Sonne to Seuerus Viceroy of the Britans was there by Pope Zepherinus instructed secretly in the Christan faith baptized made Priest and sent backe into Britany there to preach vnto others where he conuerted and baptized S. Alban then high Steward of the Britans for the Roman Emperour And being at last accused for teaching the doctrine of Christ had by the persecutours a hole made in his side and one of his guttes being taken out of his belly fastened to a stake was driuen about the same vntill all the rest were pulled out and woone about the said stake And when he was ready to giue vp the ghost two angells were seene to descend carry his soule vp to heauen There was a fayre Church dedicated in his honour in VVinchester where many miracles haue byn wrought at his Reliques And amoÌ„g others it is recorded that one that had byn dead foure dayes was raised againe to life He suffered about the yeare of Christ 304. being aboue an hundred yeares of age THE same day at Egmond in Holland the deposition of S. Adalbert Priest and Confessour nephew to Oswald King of Northumberland and sonne to K. Edilbald of the South saxons who going ouer into the lower Germany with S. VVillebrord and his fellowes to preach the Christian faith conuerted infinite soules in Holland and is therfore worthily called their Apostle Count Theodore of that Prouince built a goodly Monastery neere vnto Harlem in honour of him whose sonne was afterward cured of a dangerous feuer by the meritts of S. Adalbert He died about the yeare of Christ 705. THE same day in like manner at Dauentry in Gelderland the TranslatioÌ„ of S. Lebuine Priest and Confessour borne of a noble family in England who going ouer also into the Low-Countreyes to preach and instruct the new-made ChristiaÌ„s of those Prouinces after many labours much fruite wrought in that kind he ended there his venerable old dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore His body was afterward on this day translated to Dauentry and there kept with great veneration as chiefe Patrone of that Citty and Diocesse B The six and twentith Day AT Benchor in Ireland the Commemoration of Nine hundred holy Monkes Martyrs who being oppressed by certaine PagaÌ„ Pirates that landed in that Iland were in hatred of Christian Religion slayne and their Monastery robbed and defaced to the great lamentation of all Ireland for that it was in those dayes a common store-house as it were of all good learning and vertue out of which came the Apostles of diuers Prouinces of France Flanders and Germany who reduced them to the Christian faith and true worship of one God Many Authors of forrayne Nations especially do often tymes confound this Monastery of Benchor in Ireland with that of Bangor in Caerneruanshire of North-wales thinking them to haue byn all one wheras they were different and situated in two seuerall Kingdomes C The seauen twentith Day AT Cayon in the Diocesse of Towers in France the deposition of S. Iohn Priest Confessour who being a noble Brytan by birth and refusing all worldly and temporall honors in his Countrey went ouer into France and there built himselfe a little Oratory for his owne priuate deuotion in a solitary place neere vnto Towers where he was very famous for sanctity of life working many miracles both aliue and dead His body was buryed in the same Oratory after his descease about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred thirty and seauen There is a story recorded of a certaine Bay tres that this S. Iohn had there somtymes planted which when after many yeares it withered with age and was cut downe being laid two yeares vnder a wall and serued for a seate â—o sit on was againe put into the ground and through his merits sprong and budded forth a fresh to the admiration of all France THE same day at Gaunt in Flanders the Translation of S. Leuine Bishop and Martyr an Irishman by byrth and disciple to S. Augustine our English Apostle who leauing his Bishopricke which was in Scotland went ouer into Flanders with S. 〈◊〉 and his fellowés where preaching the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the infidels of those partes was by them apprehended and had his tongue cut out of his mouth which being by a miracle immediatly restored him againe he was finally beheaded about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and twelue His body being first interred in a Village of the same Prouince was afterward on this day with great soleÌ„nity translated to Gaunt where being placed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty is there yet preserued with great Veneration of the inhabitants D The eight twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Columbane Monke and Confessour who borne in the same Kingdome of an honourable family contemned the world a 〈…〉 became a monke of the Venerable Order oâ— S. Benedict in Scotland where in great sanctitâ— of life and other vertues therto agreable he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare oâ— Christ six hundred and fourty where also his memory hath byn famous in tymes past hauing had many Chappell 's altars dedicated in his honour This man is differenâ— from the other S. Columbane of Ireland surnamed the Great somtymes Abbot and foundeâ— of the Monastery of Bobia in Lombardy whosâ— feast is celebrated vpon the one twentiâ— day of Nouember E The nine twentith Day AT Rome the Passion of the glorious Apostles S. Peter S. Paul who in the persecution of Nero the Emperour were on one and the selfesame day put to death S. Peter being fastened to a Crosse with his head down ward and S. Paul beheaded Of these two Apostles it is recorded by diuers very ancient wryters that about the yeare of Christ threscore and seauen they came both personally into our iland of great Britany and there preached the Christian faith founded Churches ordayned Priests and Deacons and therfore may worthily be called our Apostles of whome we haue receyued so great benefitts There are very many Churches in our Countrey dedicated in their honour as speciall Patrons of our Iland And in the tyme of King Edward the Confessor S. Peter appearing to a very holy man shewed him that himselfe had sometymes preached in Britany and consequently the speciall care he had of that Church and Countrey THE same day at Lindisferne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Ethelwyne Bishop and Confessour who of a Monke of S. Benedicts Order in S. Columbes Monastery
of his brother S. Willebald where the same is preserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants B The fiue twentith Day AT Langres in France the Deposition of 〈◊〉 Câ—olâ—â—id Conâ—esâ—our and Abbot of the ancient Monastery of S. Peter and S. Paul vpon the Riuer banke of VVyre in the Kingdome of the Northumbers now cailed VVyre 〈…〉 and Maâ—â—â—er to our famous S. Bede who going to Rome to obtayne Priuiledges for his saâ—d Monastery died in his iorney homward at Langres in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred seauenteene and there being most honourably interred in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty his body is kept vntill this day with great veneration There is a Letter of this holy mans yet extant in S. Bedes History which he wrote to Nâ—ionus King of the Piâ—â—es or Redshankes about the â—â—ue obseruation of the feast of Easter as also for the Reformation of his Clergy To whome in like manner saith the Story he sent cunning Carpenters workemen to buâ—d him a Câ—urch after the fashion of those in Norâ—humberland C The six and twentith Day AT VVestminster by LondoÌ„ the depositioÌ„ of S. VVuâ—â—y Abbot and Con 〈…〉 our who being a man of great vertue and innocency of life was by S. Dunstan created the first Abbot of VVestminster where in all kind of exemplar good life full of sanctity and miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and threescore His body was buryed in the same Monastery and there was wont to be kept with great veneration of the Citizens of Londâ—n Tâ—E same day in Scoâ—land the Commemoration of S. 〈…〉 us Monâ—e and Confâ—ssour who borne in Ireland and descended of a worthy parentage in that Kingdome came thence into Scotland in company of S. Co 〈…〉 e the great of that Nation whose d 〈…〉 ple he was aâ—d afterward his coadiutour impreaching the Christian â—aith to the Pictes After whose Coâ—â—ersion full of sanctity and miracleâ— he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ â—â—ue hundred and fourscore D The seauen twentith Day AT Knobhersburge in the Prouince of the Eastangles the Commemoration of S. Sigeâ—ert King of the same Prouince and Martyr who inflamed with the loue of God left the administration of his Kingdome to his Cosyn Egricke and tooke a Religious habit in a monastery which himselfe had newly erected called Knobhersburge but a little after Penda the Pagan King of Mercia inuading his dominions he was by his Subiectes drawne by force out of his Monastery into the field where vnarmed hauing only a little rod in his hand was slayne togeather with his Cosyn Egriâ—ke by the forsaid Penda in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and two and the seauenteenth of his raigne and was afterward declared a Martyr It is recorded by diuers Historiograpâ—ers that he first founded the Vniuersity of Cambridge in his owne Prouince for the education and instruction of youth in all kind of good learning and liberall sciences E The eight twentith Day AT Fulda in tho higher Germany the deposition of S. Lioba Virgin and Abbesse who being first a Religious woman in the Monastery of Wimborne in Dorcetshire was called thence togeather with S. Teâ—la S. Agatha and diuers others into Germany by S. Boniface an Englishman and Archbishop of Mentz and there made Abbesse of a new Monastery which he had erected at a place called Biscopssen where after she had led a most Saintly life full of miracles she went at last to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and seauen and was buryed at Fulda where her body is yet kept togeather with the venerable body of S. Boniface with great veneration of that Countrey round about F The nine twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Cogan Abbot and Confessour who borne in the same Kingdome of a very honourable parentage became there a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and after Abbot of the whole Monastery whose name being famous throughout our whole Iland of Great-Briâ—any â—or sanctity of life and learâ—ning he gaue vp his soule to rest in our Lord about the yeare of Christ 700. thrâ—â—score At whose body it pleased God in coÌ„firmatioÌ„ of his holines to worke many miracles In which Kingdome also there haue byn in tymes past many Chappell 's and altars dedicated in his honour but now all vtterly ruined by the vâ—fortunate change of Religâ—on in that Countrey to the lamentation of the Christian world G The thirtith Day AT Canterbury the Deposition S. Honorius Archbishop of the same Sea and Confessour who comming from Rome into England with S. Augustine our Apostle succeeded him afterward in his Office and was the fiâ—th Archbishop oâ— Canterbury Wâ—ich Sea when he had gouerned in all kind of sanctity and holy example of vertuous life full of Venerable old age he reposed happily in our Lord in the yeare of Christ six hundred fiâ—ty and three and was buryed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty with his predecessours where his body was kept euen vntill our dayes with great honor and veneration due to so glorious a Confessour THE MONETH OF OCTOBER A The first Day AT London the deposition of S. Roger Confessour and Bishop of the same Sâ—a whose admirable vertues and sanctity of life wittnesse the Miracles that haue byn wrought at his body He died at Stepney a mile from London in a house belonging to that Bishops Sea in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fourty whose body being brought to London was with all honour and veneration interred in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul the Apostle in a faire tombe by the North-wall a little aboue the Quire with this Epithaph which is there yet remayning to be read Ecclesiae quondam Praesul praesentis in anno M. bis C. quater X. iacet his Rogerus humatus Huius erat manibus Domino locus iste dicatus Christe suis precibuâ— veniam des tolle reatus The people of Parma in Italy haue chosen him for one of the chiefe Patrons of their Citty by reason of a meruaylous victory they obtayned against Fredericke the Empeperour by the prayers of S. Roger whose body at that tyme shined with miracles in England THE same day at Oostkerke in Flanders the Translation of S. Guthagon Confessour Sonne to the King of Scotland who taking vpon him a voluntary pouerty for the loue of God went ouer into Flanders and there became a pilgrime or Eremite where in great sanctity of life he finally reposed in our Lord. Nicolas Bishop of Tornay on this day caused his body to be reuerently eleuated and placed more decently in the forsaid Church of Oostkerke in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fourty and foure where the same is yet preserued with great veneration whose feast in like manner in there on this day