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A15506	The English martyrologe conteyning a summary of the liues of the glorious and renowned saintes of the three kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Collected and distributed into moneths, after the forme of a calendar, according to euery saintes festiuity. VVherunto is annexed in the end a catalogue of those, who haue suffered death in England for defence of the Catholicke cause, since King Henry the 8. his breach with the Sea Apostolicke, vnto this day. By a Catholicke priest.	Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1608 (1608)	STC 25771; ESTC S120085	181,492	404

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 anciēt 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 Con●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. Su●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 womā 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 hūdred 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 tran●lated to a more eminēt place of the Church of Cāterbury 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 pilgrim● 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 Oostk●rke in the yeare of Christ one thousand ●●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 Con●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 o● Christ nyne hundred f●fty and eight and was buried at Canterbury Matthew a Monke of VVestminster recounteth a dreadfull exāple of reuenge taken vpon his successour in that Bishopricke Ealysine who so soone as S. Odo was dead and procuring himsel●e to be elected in his roome by Symony the very first day o● his induction to that Sea he most cōtemptuously 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 miserabl● through hungar and cold in the Alpes which thing was ●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. Modu●ene Virgin and Abbesle daughter to Nang●●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

and was buryed in the same place C The thirteenth Day IN North VVales the Commemoration of S. Elerius Abbot and Confessour who borne of a noble British parentage and setting aside the vayne pleasures of the world built with the goods of his owne inheritance a Monastery in the North-west part of our Iland now called North-wales where he gathering togeather many deuout persons lead a Monasticall life directing them in all kind of vertue and discipline vntill his dying day He liued in the tyme of S. VVenefrid about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and foure of whome she receyued the holy veyle of Chastity and was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery which S. Beno her maister and tutour had erected in her Fathers territory as also wrote the whole story of her life which is yet extant in wryttē-hand to be read in diuers libraryes of England The bone of one of his armes is yet in the custody of a Catholicke Gentleman of our Countrey who preserueth the same with great deuotion and veneration as beseemeth so pretious a Relique D The fourteenth Day IN Scotland the Translation of S. Brandan Abbot Confessour borne in the same Kingdome whose godly life and doctrine togeather with his manifold miracles are yet famous throughout the Christiā world especially in our Iland of Great-Britany His principall festiuity in our Catholicke Church of England is celebrated vpon the sixteenth day of May where also we haue made mention of him There was a goodly Church as also a towne builded in his honour in one of the Ilands of Orcades which vntill this day is commonly called by the name of S. Brandans He died about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and seauenty E The fifteenth Day AT VVilton in VViltshire the deposition of S. Eadburge Virgin daughter to King Edward the elder who refusing all worldly honours and preferments tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of VVilton and became a mirrour and rare example to the Nobility of England where she so excelled in all manner of vertue but especially humility that she euer thought herselfe the most contemptiblest of all the Monastery Which thing how acceptable it was to God it pleased him to manifest to the world by the manifold miracles he wrought by her both aliue dead She desceased about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and fourteene and was buryed at Wilton THE same day at Huis in the Diocesse of L 〈…〉 ge the Translation of S. Menigold Martyr who borne in England of a great parentage became first a Captaine in the French and German warres and after an Erem●te vnto whome 〈◊〉 the Emperour gaue a ●●ttle Territory 〈◊〉 to the riuer 〈…〉 o● Mosa where ●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Oratory for ●●s priuate deuotio 〈…〉 as he was one day going to Church was ●●a●●e by ce●tain● 〈◊〉 〈…〉 diers in hatred of his sanc●●ty about 〈◊〉 eare of Christ ●●ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body was afterward on this day with great solemnity tran●●ated to Huis where the same is yet kept with due honour veneration o● the Inhabitants THE same day also in little Britany the deposition of S. Maine Abbot and Confeuour who borne in our Iland of Great Britany and kinsma to S. Samp●on went ouer with him into little Britany to preach the Christian saith where he fist lead a Monasticall life at Dole vnder the forsaid S. Sāpson and afterward being made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist in the same Countrey after many yeare of labour and toyle taken in the seruice of Christ and conuersion of many soules to him famous for miracles he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and nynty His body was buryed in the same Monastery which at this day of his name is commonly called S. Maines and there is kept with great honour and veneration F The sixteenth Day AT Chichester in Sussex the Translation of S. Richard Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who hauing studied seaue yeares in the Vniuersity of Bologna in Italy and returning home was first made Chancelour of Oxford and thē Bishop of Chichester which Sea when he had gouerned for nyne yeares in great sanctity holinesse of life he died at Douer in Kent in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three His body being brought to Chichester was afterward on this day taken vp and put into a goodly siluer shrine and translated to a more eminent place of that Cathedrall Church wherat so many miracles were dayly wrought that infinite people made concourse thither from all partes of Englād This Translation was made in the yeare one thousand two hundred threescore and sixteene THE same day at Hereford the passion of S. Leofgar Bishop and Martyr who being Chaplyn to Duke Harold su●ceeded Ethelstane in that Sea where in all kind of vertue and good workes exercising his Pastorall functiō he was by K. Griffin of VVales that violently and vniustly assaulted that Citty slayne togeather with seauen of his Chanons that denied him entrance into the Church which when the said Griffin had spoyled robbed of all the reliques iewels and other ornaments that were portable he lastly fired both it and the whole Citty in the yeare of Christ one thousand fifty and six G The seauenteenth Day AT Hecknam in Normandy the deposition of S. Botulph Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and going ouer into France became there a monke and afterward was made the first Abbot of a new Monastery called Hecknam in Normandy which himselfe had caused to be built at his owne charges where in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure There is yet remayning a faire parish Church dedicated in his honour without Aldgate in the Citty of London besides many other ancient monumēts of him in the Realme of England And among the rest there was a goodly ancient Church Monastery of Blackefriers erected in his honour in Lincolnshire neere to the sea side which in processe of tyme growing to a fayre Market-towne was called therof Botulphs-towne and now by the corruption of our language is vulgarly knowne by the name of Boston which said Church and Monastery were both in the raigne of King Edward the first consumed by fire in the yeare one thousand two hundred fourscore and seauen A The eighteenth Day IN Scotland the Cōmemoratiō of S. Dunstan Abbot Confessour borne in that Kingdome and descended there of a great parentage who contemning the vanities of the world in the flower of his youth tooke a Religious habit and became first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict in Scotland and afterward was ordained Abbot of the whole Monastery where in great sanctity of life famous for his learning and workes of piety in a good old age finally rested in our Lord

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 amōg 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 Translatiō 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 Christiās 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 Pagā 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 ●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 Christiā 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 solēnity 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 o● S. Benedict in Scotland where in great sanctit● of life and other vertues therto agreable he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare o● 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 differen● from the other S. Columbane of Ireland surnamed the Great somtymes Abbot and founde● of the Monastery of Bobia in Lombardy whos● feast is celebrated vpon the one twenti● 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