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A10829	The admirable life of Saint VVenefride virgin, martyr, abbesse. Written in Latin aboue 500. yeares ago, by Robert, monke and priour of Shrewsbury, of the ven. Order of S. Benedict. Deuided into two bookes. And now translated into English, out of a very ancient and authenticall manuscript, for the edification and comfort of Catholikes. By I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, d. 1167.; Falconer, John, 1577-1656.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 21102; ESTC S115985	37,470	252

theues also themselues so plainely appeared that the owner his Neighbours the next morning missing the beast did very easily see which way she was driuen Whereupon they following the tracke with all speed came so neere to ouertake the Theeues that they were constreyned in great feare to fly away and leaue the Cow behind them to their pursuers VVho at better leasure afterwardes considering how the Cowes feet had miraculously made prints in the hard stones as she was driuen away but not as she returned percea ued it to be an euident miracle and for such to the honour of S. VVenefride by king-trade to abstayne likewise from theft especially out of any place neere to the Saintes Chappels CHAP. V. Of daily Cures done vpon sicke children throwne into the streame of S. VVenefrids VVell and of others also cured miraculously of agues hoat feauers by drinking of the same water IN processe of tyme this sacred Fountayne the Trophy and triumphant signe of S. VVenefrids Martyrdome became so famously renowned for miraculous cures done by the waters thereof that Mothers were vsually wont to throw their young children sicke of any disease into the streame running from the same who became presently cured by the touch of those waters Such also as had Agues or hoat burning Feauers in any part of the Country were wont for a certaine and present remedie therof either to drincke a draught of that pure fountaine-water or if they had it not at hand to put in some one of the blouddy stones taken out of the VVell into a draught of any other water and became thereby presently cured In like māner such as had any swelling or soare about them were accustomed to bath the part affected with the said water and found present remedy thereby The first vse of which remedies for all sorts of sores and diseases is said to haue ben taught by the holy Virgin-Martyr herselfe who visibly after her death CHAP. VI. How diuers thefts from places neere vnto the Well were by S. Wenefride miraculously punished and how the Authors became warned and penitent for the same THE streames of water breaketh out of Saint VVenefrides VVell in such abundance together as within one furlongs space it driueth a mill neuer standing still for want of water euen in the greatest drought of summer nor is euer hindred from grinding by any freezing of the streame by which it is driuen in winter This Mill● by certaine theeues was vpon a tyme robbed in the night and the Irons thereof were carried away to be put into another mill built not far frō thence by those that stole them but through the merits of S. VVenefride a strange euent hapned heer about for the Mill into which these Irons were put could neuer be made to turne or grind any thing therewith so as the stealers thereof mooued at length by the miracle more thē once experiēced broght them back againe and confessed their fault penitently in the Saintes Chappell warning others thereby not to commit the like theft in placesneere vnto it for feare of beeing by her prayers punished for it By this Miracle so diuulged many people also were moued the more to glorify God in those wonderous things which he did to testifie the great merits of this holy Virgin S. VVenefride ioyfully relating to one another how S Beuno's prediction of the innumerable Cures which should be done by those miraculous waters and by the Virgins owne prayers began to be now fulfilled when as humbly prostrate on her knees before her departure frō that place she besought her heauenly spouse corporally to blesse and spiritually to sanctifie those who in of his Court called Roger through his great piety and zeale to mantayne Gods seruants built in Shrewsbury a sumptuous faire Monastery and endowed the same with sufficient reuenewes to his owne great prayse and the benefit of that Citty which Monastery being ended Religious men with their Superiour placed therin they began piously to complayne that they wāted reliques in their Church whereas that Country of VValts in innumerable places was stored aboundantly with them by reason of so many great Saintes men women who formerly had flourished in great sanctity of life and miraculous testifications therof throughout that whole Kingdome Whereupon to haue their Church hallowed their new Monastery guarded with such sacred pledges munificētly placed duly honoured by thē they begā to inquire after some speciall Saint whose Reliques might happily be gotten for that purpose by them during which deliberation of theirs a Monke of this their Monastery fell very sicke in body and so distracted in mind withall that not only his Brethren there but in Chester and other places also hearing of his pittifull case ceased not to pray most hartily for him And as in Chester-Abbey the Subprior of that Monastery a godly man called Radulphus had one day ended his prayer for that end he fell into an vnusuall kind of sleepe to whome a woman the meane while in a very glorious habit appeared and said If you desire the sicke Monks health let some one of you goe say a Masse in the Chappell neere S. VVenefrids VVell for him and he shall presently recouer so she vanished The Moncke heerewith awaked durst not for some tyme impart this vision vnto any as fearing little credit would be giuen vnto it vntill at length the wise began to be singularly deuoted vnto her and labouted by all meanes possible to get some particle of her Virginall sacred Body vnto them CHAP. VIII Of the earnest desire which the Abbot Monkes of Shrewsbury had to get the body of S. VVenefride vnto them And how finally after many yeares very great difficulties they obteyned the same THe Abbot Monks of Shrewsbury for many yeares persisting in their holy desires of getting S. VVenefrides body obteyned at length in the peacefull reigne of King Henry the first a Grant therof but by reason of wars and many tumults happening in that Countrey after this Kings death it was not effected vntill the secōd yeare of King Stephens reigne when as the holy Abbot Herbert in a consultation of his Monkes ordeyned Robert his Prior togeather with one Richard a chiefe Monke of the same Monastery to go into VVales about it Before whose going the said Robert more solicitous then others in the businesse directed diuers letters vnto friends in VVales best likely therein to assist him who promised gladly their help wished him to hasten his cōming amōgst thē Wherfore beginning his iourney he first visitted the Bishop of Bangor in his way and was by him directed to a Principall Lord who ruled in that Country by him him very courteously receaued As soone as the Noble Man had vnderstood the that tould them how the Inhabitants therabout hauing heard of their comminge were exceedingly troubled thereat and absolutely resolued to hinder them in their pretence and not to suffer the chiefe Saint Patronesse of

of the Booke conteyning in it sundry strange and miraculous passages shall seeme ridiculous to Protestants chancing to read them it is not much to be wondred at sithence they will be their owne choosers euen in the very beliefe of sacred Verities themselues diuinely reuealed and sleight as fabulous Legends the Liues of Saintes written by S. Athanasius S. Ambrose S. Hierome S. Climachus S. Gregory and other holy Fathers It sufficed my Author and so it shall me that deuout Catholiques for whose instruction and comfort he penned first his Historie will piously and probably assent to that which heere is credibly proposed vnto them auoyding two extremes therein the one is of belieuing things ouerlightly the other of belieuing nothing at all but as fancies and selfe-opinions do guide them The which in Sectaries following commonly this latter extreme in their iudg-ment of Catholique writings is a kind of Infidelity and Impiety mixed togeather for if God be wonderfull in his Saintes as the Royall Prophet telleth vs Psal 67. and Christ in his Ascension towards heauen did so expresly promise that these signes should follow such as did belieue in him In my name said he they shall cast out Diuells they shall speake with new tongues c. why should we vpon probable testimonies refuse to belieue such wonders to haue ben done by Saintes as diuine testifications of their true Fayth and great graces heere obtayned The sacred body of this Virginall Blessed Saint was solemnly translated to Shrewsbury in this Authors tyme in the yeare of our Lord 1138. and raigne of K. Stephen and there in his owne Abbey magnificently interred that greater honour and veneration in so populous and Religious a Citty as that was then might be yielded vnto it where it continued for aboue 400. yeares till Heresie preuayled vtterly to ouerthrow in our Country the publique profession of Catholique Religion and deface the Venerable monuments thereof euery where almost then extant In which cōmon ruine calamity hapning the shrine of this great Saint with numbers of others became sacrilegiously defaced and her sacred Reliques lye since dispersed God knoweth where or how vntill by his omnipotency they shall come to be vnited againe most gloriously raysed For God sayth the same holy Prophet Psal 33. doth conserue all the bones of his seruants and it hath increased I doubt not their ioyes accidentall in heauen to haue had heere on earth for his sake their Reliques by the Churches enemies and haters of true Religion contemptuously abused after due Reuerence yeilded by deuout people vnto them and singular blessings receaued from Almighty God by their powerfull intercession Neither haue moderne Sectaries shewed in any one act more the little Communion which they haue in this world or are likely to haue in the other with the Saintes of Christs Church then in contemning scattering and destroying their Reliques of which in generall S. Ambrose writeth thus Serm. 93. de Sanctis Nazario Celso If thou aske me what I honour in their flesh and bones now dissolued and consumed I honour in the Martyrs flesh the scarres of those woundes which for Christ he susteyned I honour the memory of his vertue still liuing I honour in his ashes the seedes of Eternity I honour the body that taught me to loue Christ and not to feare the cruellest death for him Why should not faithfull soules honour that body which Diuells tremble at c. quod Christum honorauit in gladio quod cum Christo regnabit in caelo that body I say which honored Christ in the sword and which shall reigne with him in Heauen These sayth S. Basill speaking of the 40. Martyrs Reliques are those who protect our Countrey and like strong Towers guard vs from our enemies Wherefore I may vse of such as scattered and destroyed the holy reliques of S. Wenefride and many other Saintes in our Country S. Gregory Nazianzens words in his first Oration against Iulian the Apostata Thou hast not reuerenced the Hoastes slaine for Christ whose bodies yea very drops of their bloud or other small signes of their passions can worke the same effects which their soules themselues can doe to wit such sudaine cures of infirmities and diseases as S. Austin lib. 22. de Ciuitate Dei cap. 8. affirmeth by S. Stephens Reliques as they passed through Afrique towards Rome to haue byn done in his presence which Protestants will as little belieue as they do the miraculous passages of S. Wenefride recounted in this Historie amongst whome there is no one so straunge but the like may be found in other Saintes liues by holy ancient Fathers authentically written and in some of them far more straunge which piously read probably belieued by faithful soules for 1400. yeares since cannot but temerariously be reiected now and contemned by Protestants whose corrupt Iudgment as I regard not in this my translation so I hope good Catholiques will read it with edification and comfort For it may well delight them as it doth me to thinke that we haue anciently had such store of renowned Saintes liuing in our Country as besides this life D. Harpsfeld the English Martyrologe Prudentiall Ballance M. Broughton and other ancienter historians do witnesse though the Names and liues of the greatest part of them are only in the booke of life registred and will in the generall Iudgmēt be gloriously reuealed That S. Wenefride likewise should liue againe after her head cut off and do the things which heere are written of her in her Historie the chiefe blocke which incredulous Readers perhaps will stumble at is no more hard to be belieued then that Lazarus after he had ben dead and stinking in his graue should liue agayne sit at table with Christ and be Bishop of Marsills in France many yeares after And if it be obiected that Christ himselfe did worke that miracle able to do all things I may well answere that he promised his owne power and far greater wonders then himselfe had wrought to be done by his seruants extant now in authenticall Histories as certainely since performed Lastly I intreat my courteous Reader for a Conclusion of this my Preface to note mend with his penne these ensuing errours of my Translation committed in the printing by strangers wholy ignorant of our English tongue Faults escaped in the Printing PAg. 24. lin 7. dele that Pag. 45. lin 9. where read which Pag. 75. lin 1. as read or Pag. 82. lin 9. their read his Pag. 88. lin 5. dele so Pag. 94. lin vlt. his read this Pag. 103. lin 11. dele most Pag. 109. lin 16. saying read said Pag. 119. lin vlt. noble Virginity read Martyrdome for your Virginity Pag. 120. lin 1. dele of your Martyrdome Pag. 121. lin 14. dele he Pag. 128. lin 5. Charity read Clarity Pag. 146. lin 16. in read in a suddaine Pag. 148. lin 14. and to be dele to Pag. 165. lin 3. fall read fell Pag. 173. lin 10. Wales read that Countrey