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A69547	Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B.; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English. Selections	Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Beaumont, Henry, 1611 or 12-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1659; ESTC R8695	74,168	275

either to build new or repair old Churches And it was not long before the King himself much delighted with their purity of life and example of godly conversation and by their sweet promises which they prov'd to be true by working many Miracles believ'd and were baptiz'd Then the People daily more and more resorted to their Sermons and renouncing Heathenish Rites joyn'd themselves to the unity of the Holy Church The King also appointed them a place and Seat befitting their Calling in his head City of Canterbury giving them necessary possessions for thier maintenance Chap. 27. After this the man of God Augustine came to Arles where by Etherius Archbishop of that City he was ordain'd Archbishop of the English according as St. Gregory had commanded and returning into Britany he sent Laurence Priest and Peter Monk to Rome to make relation to St. Gregory that the English had receiv'd the Faith and he made their Bishop he also requir'd his Answer to certain Queries Pope Gregories answer to Augustines first demand For as much as you being brought up under Monasticall rule must not live apart from your Clergy in the Church of the English which is but newly entred upon the Faith of Christ you must follow the prescript and form of life which was us'd in the Primitive Church among the Fathers for there was none among them that said that to be his own which he possessed but all was in common And if there be any of the Clergy who having not yet receiv'd holy Orders cannot live chaste they may take Wives and have their stipend allowed them apart from the rest Augustines second Demand Whereas there is but one Faith why be there so many sundry customs of the Churches and one custome of Masses observ'd in the holy Roman Church and another in France Gregories Answer You knew the custome of the Church of Rome wherein you were brought up but if you have found any thing be it in the Church of Rome France or elswhere that may please God more I am content that you choose it planting in the English Church which is but lately come to the Faith the best orders you can gather from them all Augustines nineth question concerns illusions in Dreams whither such things hapning a Lay-man may receive the body of Christ or a Priest say Mass Another of his questions is whether and when Children are to be Baptiz'd Gregories Answer is that in necessity they are presently to be Baptized Chapter 28. nothing but a Letter from the Pope to the Archbishop of Arles to assist Augustine Chap. 29. The same Pope for as much as Augustine had advertized him that there was a great harvest and but few labourers sent him more Preachers of which the chiefest were Mellitus Rufinianus Justus Paulinus By these he sent such things as were necessary for the Purniture and Ministry of the Church as holy Vessels Altar-Cloths Church stuffe apparrell for Priests and Clergie with Reliques of the holy Apostles and Martyrs and Books He sent him a Pall and by letters instructed him what order to hold in making Bishops throughout Britany Gregories Letter To his most Reverend and holy Brother Augustine the servant of the servants of God Since by the goodnesse of God and your industry the new Church of the English is brought unto the Faith of Christ we grant unto you the use of the Pall to wear when you say Mass and we give way that you ordain Twelve Bishops under your jurisdiction but so that the Bishop of London be henceforth consecrated by his own Synod and receive his Pal● from this holy and Apostolike See wherein I by the Authority of God do now serve Also our will is that you send a Bishop to York to whom we intend to give a Pall To you shall be subject not onely the Bishops you make or he of Yorke but all the Priests of Britany to the end that by your manner of life they may receive a pattern both to believe and live well Note that the Pall wherewith the Pope invests Metropolitans is a shoulder-piece imbroidred with Crosses made not of fine linnen a● the High-Priests was Exod. 28. but of fine sheeps wool to minde them of Christs carrying the lost sheep on his Shoulders It was first laid on St. Peters shrine and given to them thence Chap. 30. The holy Father Gregory sent letters to Mellitus shewing how earnestly he thirsted the good of our Countrey Vnto his dearly beloved Son Mellitus Abbot Gregory the servant of the servants of God When God shall bring you to our Brother Augustine tell him with serious deliberation I thought fit that not the Temples but the Idols in them be broken that holy Water be made and sprinkled about the said Temples Altars erected Reliques plac'd It may be allow'd that in Dedications or Birth-dayes of Martyrs whose Reliques are there reserv'd the people make them bowers Feasting together after a good religious sort Chap. 31. About this time Gregory wrote to Augustine concerning such Miracles as he knew done by him wishing him not to run hazard of vain glory by the great number of them I know saith he dear brother it hath pleased God to shew by thee great Miracles among the people whom by thee he hath called to the Faith Thou hast cause to joy that by the means thereof the English mens souls are won to the Faith but thou oughtest to fear least by the said Miracles thou by outward praise be puffed up c. Chap. 32. Contains the Letter of Pope Gregory to King Ethelbert with Presents and the blessing of St. Peter Chap. 33. Augustine being now Bishop obtain'd an old Church antiently of the Romans and Dedicated it to the Name of our Saviour making it a perpetual Seat for him and his Successors Not far Eastward of the City he built a Monastery to the which King Ethelbert through his advice new built a Church to the honour of the Sts. Peter and Paul enriching it with sundry gifts Laurence his Successor consecrated it The first Abbot thereof was one Peter a Priest who being cast away at Sea and by the Inhabitants buried after a homely manner Our Lord intending to have it known how worthy a man he was caus'd to appear every night a light from Heaven over the place where he was buried The Inhabitants gathering hereby that he was some holy man remov'd his body thence burying it honourably in the town of Bullen in France In the 34. Chapter nothing but civil affairs The Second Book Chap. 1. IN the year 605. holy Pope Gregory having govern'd most gloriously the See of the Roman Apostolike Church departed this life to an everlasting seat in Heaven He converted our English Nation from the power of Sathan to the Faith of Christ whom we may well also must call our Apostle For as soon as

1. c. 4. did not pretend any cause of division from Augustines Doctrine about Mass use of the Crosse and Images worship of Saints and Relicks or any other point wherein we and Protestants differ A demonstrative argument that none of these things brought in by Augustine were contrary to what was delivered to the Britans not a full hundred years after the Apostles time So that as long as Augustines Religion was kept in England the Apostles Religion was kept Chap. 3. Augustine ordain'd two Bishops Mellitus Justus Mellitus he sent to preach to the Province of the East Saxons whose chief City is London As soon as the Province by Mellitus preaching had receiv'd the word of Truth King Ethelbert built St. Pauls Church in London where Mellitus and his successors ever after were to hold their Bishops Seat Justus was ordain'd by him Bishop of Rochester in Kent where Ethelbert built St. Andrew the Apostles Church After this the dearly beloved Father in God Augustine dyed and his body was laid by the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Canterbury which after it was finisht was brought in and honourably buried in the North-part thereof where also were interred the bodies of all the Archbishops following as long as there was room This Church hath an Altar in it dedicated to the honour of St. Gregory Pope at which Altar every Saturday the Commemoration of these departed Bishops is celebrated by the Priest of the place Upon St. Augustines Tomb is written Here resteth Augustine the first Archbishop of Canterbury who being sent hither by blessed Gregory Bishop and by working of Miracles supported by God brought King Ethelbert and his People from Idolatry to the Faith of Christ He dyed the 26. of May CHAP. 4. Laurence succeeded him in the Bishoprick whom Augustine yet living ordain'd least after his death the State of the Church rude as yet and newly converted might have wavered and faln if it had lackt a Pastour and guide never so little Wherein he followed the example of the first Pastour of the Church the most blessed Prince of the Apostles Peter who having laid at Rome the foundation of Christs Church consecrated Clement his Coadjutor and Successor Laurence seeing the ground-work of his Church to enlarge which was well and throughly laid endeavoured to raise the same to a perfect height by frequent exhortations and continual example of pious works He earnestly laboured as a true Shepheard not onely for the modern Church of the English but also for the Church of the old Inhabitants of Britany and Scots in Ireland whose profession as soon as h● knew to be lesse Ecclesiastical and not well ordered in many points especially about Easter they not celebrating it in due time He wrote unto them beseeching them to receive and keep the society of Catholike observance with the Church of Christ spread over the whole world To our dearest brethren the Bishops and Abbots in Scotland Laurence Mellitus c. When the See Apostolike according to the usuall manner of sending to all parts of the world directed us hither to preach the word of God We c. About this time Mellitus Bishop of London went to Rome for advice of the Apostolike Pope Boniface and for necessary causes of the English Church This Pope call'd a Councel of Bishops to appoint some order concerning the life of Monks Mellitus sate among them to the end that what there was legally decreed he confirming might bring with him to the English Church as precepts and rules to be observed He brought also letters from the Pope to Laurence Archbishop to the Clergy and the King This Pope cleansed the Temple Pantheon converting it into a Church in honour of our Lady and the Martyrs Chap. 5. In the year 613. Ethelbert King of Kent after he had raigned six and fifty years entred into eternal blisse the one and twentieth year after he had receiv'd the Faith and was interr'd in St. Martins Porch within the Church of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul Edbald his son much harm'd the tender sprigs of the Church but Gods scourge was not wanting for both an unclean spirit and a fr●nzie possest him Moreover the death of Sabereth King of the East Saxons and Nephew to Ethelbert much encreased the persecution of the Church who going hence to the everlasting kingdome left three sons who all fell to Idolatry These Princes seeing the Bishop in the Church after he had said Mass giving to the people the Sacrament said unto him Why doest thou not give us also of that white bread To whom he answered If you will be washt in that wholesome Font wherein your Father was you may also eat of this blessed bread but if you contemn the laver of life you may not tast● the bread of life Hereupon the King commanded Mellitus and all his company to depart the Realm so he and Justus went over into France Chap. 6. Laurence the Archbishop being now ready to forsake Britany and follow Mellitus and Justus commanded the night before he was to go that his bed should be laid in the Saints Peter and Paul● Church where after many prayers and tears powr'd out to God for the State of the Church the blessed Prince of the Apostles appearing in his sleep unto him scourged him a good while and with Apostolicall Authority asked him Why he meant to forsake the flock which he himself had committed unto him and to what Shepheard running now away he would leave the sheep of Christ beset with ravening Wolves By these stripes and the words of St. Peter Laurence the servant of God imboldned came and presented himself to the King and throwing open his garment shew'd him how pittifully he had been beaten When the King all amazed demanded who durst inflict such stripes upon a man of his dignity when he understood it was for his salvation and that by the Apostle of Christ he became afraid and abandoning the worship of Idols and his unlawfull wedlock embraced the Faith of Christ and was baptized promoting the good of the Church to the utmost of his power He call'd home Mellitus and Justus commanding them to return to their Churches and instruct their flock Thus the King with all his Subjects from that day that he was converted submitted himself to the Precepts of God He built a Church in honour of our Lady the blessed Mother of God within the Abbey of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles which Mellitus hollowed Chap. 7. Relates How the holy Archbishop Laurence departing hence to heaven his body was buried in the Abbey-Church of St. Peter the Apostle Mellitus of London succeeded in the See of Canterbury the third after Augustine who by birth was noble but nobler by his singular virtue It chanced that the City of Canterbury was set on fire and great part consum'd and the raging flames drew nigh

See for Paulin at whose request he built a large Cathedral enclosing that of Wood where he had been Baptiz'd Paulin henceforth preacht the word of God continually and they believ'd him and were Christ'ned And the fervour of Faith and desire of holy Baptism was so great that he was staid at Court 36. dayes busied in catechizing and instructing the people in the Faith of Christ In the Countrey of the Deiri he baptiz'd in the floud Swale for as yet there could not be built Oratories Fonts or Baptisteries Yet was there built a great Church in the planes called Downs which the Pagans that slew King Edwin burnt but the Altar escaped the fire being of stone and is kept in the Monastery of the reverend Abbot Trumvulse Chap. 15. King Edwins zeal and devotion was so great towards the Christian Faith that he perswaded Carpwell King of the East English to leave the vain superstition of Idols and with his whole Realm to embrace the true Faith and receive the Sacrament of Christs Church King Redwalls Carpwels Father was Christned before in Kent but he was quickly seduced again by his Wife He seem'd to serve both Christ and his false Gods for in one Temple he erected an Altar for the Sacrifice of Christ and another for his Idols Felix Bishop and a holy Preacher being sent by Honorius Archbishop to preach the Word of God to the East-English found plenty of fruit and encrease of Believers for he brought the whole Province unto the Faith Chap. 16. Relates How Paulin the Bishop preaching the word of God in the Province of Lindesi bulit a Church in the chief City where every year some miraculous Cures were wrought Chap. 17. Relates How Honorius Bonifacius his Successor was Bishop of Rome and sate in the See Apostolick who understanding that the King of Northumberland and all his Subjects were converted to the Faith by Paulinus his preaching sent him a Pall and Letters also to King Edwin exhorting him to go forward in the true Faith To the most Puissant and his most vertuous Son in our Lord Edwin King Honorius servant of the servants of God What are we better able to offer to God than by persisting in good works to worship and render him deserved praises We exhort you dearly beloved Son with Fatherly affection c. A little after he writeth Read St. Gregorie's your Apostles works and set his doctrine ever before your eyes that his prayers may advance your kingdome and people and represent you irreprehensible unto the Almighty We have provided those things which you wisht might be ordained for your Priests We have two Palls for the Primats Honorius and Paulinus commanding that when one of them is called out of this life the surviver substitute by this our Authority another in his place Chap. 18. About this time died Justus Archbishop and Honorius succeeding was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury by Pauline He was the Fifth after St. Augustine to whom Pope Honorius sent a Pall ordaining that when either the Bishop of Canterbury or Yorke died the surviver should have power to Consecrate another in the place of the deceased that so they should not need to travell and toile by Sea and Land to Rome as often as an Archbishop was to be ordained The Copy of the Popes letter to Honorius Labour in preaching the Gospel and follow the rule and steps of your Head and Master blessed Gregory c. As for the priviledges of your Churches we have not delay'd to grant you such things as We thought fit And now We in the place of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles grant unto you Authority c. Here followeth the grant specified in the beginning of this Chapter Dated An. 633. Chap. 19. Pope Honorius sent letters to the Scots whom he understood to erre in the observation of Easter exhorting them that they would not esteem their small number wiser than the Churches of Christ either antient or newly converted in celebrating any other Easter than after the common account and according to the Uniform Decrees of all the Bishops of the world assembled in Councel Chap. 20. Relates How King Edwin was slain his Army defeated his Kingdomes over-run by Penda the Idolater and Carduëlla so that there was no safety but in flight Then Bishop Paulin return'd to Kent bringing with him a fair golden Cross and Chalice consecrated to the use of the Altar which are to be seen in the Cathedral of Canterbury There he govern'd the See of Rochester and left his Pall which he had receiv'd from the Pope of Rome James the Deacon left by Paulin at York set up a School for Church Musick according to the fashion of Rome and Diocess of Canterbury The Third Book Chap. 1. RElates how the Kings Osrich and Eandfrid fell to Idolatry whereupon they deserved not to be accounted to our Kings but their years are numbred to holy King Oswald next following Chap. 2. The place is shew'd untill this day and had in great veneration where Oswald who slew Carduëlla before the battell set up the signe of the holy Cross beseeching God humbly on his knees to succour them in their distress Having with his own hands set up the Crosse he said to the Army Let us all kne●l down and pray the Almighty to help us In the place where he made his prayer many miraculous Cures are known to be done in token of his Faith Untill this day many doe usually cut chips from the wood of that holy Cross which casting into water and giving the sick thereof both men and beasts to drink or sprinkling them therewith they are restored to health The place is called Heavenfield signifying that in that place a heavenly memorial should be set up and heavenly miracles be wrought even till our daies The Religious of Hagulsden Church for a long time have us'd to come every year upon the Eve and Day that King Oswald was slain to keep Dirges for his soul and in the morning after Psalms solemnly to offer for him the Sacrifice of the holy Oblation By continuance of this custome the place is become more holy and is now honored by all for the Church dedicated in the same place We shal relate one of many miracles wrought at this Crosse One of the Religious of Hagulsden by name Bothelmus who liveth yet when by chance going on the Ice by a fall broke his Arm in so much that he could not lift it to his mouth prayed one of the brethren to bring him a piece of that blessed wood saying that by Gods grace he might finde help thereby He did so giving the party some of the Moss wherewith the wood was covered which putting into his bosome in the night he found himself soon after whole and sound Chap. 3. Relates how Aidan the Bishop being sent from the Scots to King Oswald the King himself became