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A61091	The history and fate of sacrilege discover'd by examples of scripture, of heathens, and of Christians; from the beginning of the world continually to this day / by Sir Henry Spelman ...	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.	1698 (1698)	Wing S4927; ESTC R16984	116,597	303

miserable Fugitives saith the Story pa. 79 80. Dom. Touching their Issue I find that Fitz-Vrs fled into Ireland and I heard there that the Wild-Irish and Rebellious Family of Mac-Mahunde in the North Parts is of that Lineage The Family of another of them is at this Day prosecuted with a Fable if it be so that continueth the Memory of this Impiety for in Gloucestershire it is yet reported that wheresoever any of them Travelleth the Wind is commonly in their Faces The Quadripartite History call'd Quadrilogus printed at Paris An. 1495. saith The Murderers after this Horrible Fact rode that Night to a Manour of the Archbishops named there corruptly Sumantingues forty Miles Leucas distant from Canterbury lib. 3. c. 20. and that being Men of great Possessions active Soldiers and in the strength of their Age yet now they became like Men beside themselves stupid amaz'd and distracted repenting entirely of what they had done and for Penance took their way to the Holy-Land But Sir Will. Tracy being come to the City of Cossantia in Sicily and lingring there fell into an horrible Disease so that the parts of his Body rotted whilst he lived and his Flesh being dissolved by the Putrefaction himself did by piece-meal pull it off and cast it away leaving the Sinews and Bones apparent In this misery this wretched Murderer as it was testified by the Bishop of that City who was then his Confessor ended his Days but very penitently His other Complices lived not long after for all the four Murderers were taken away within three Years after the Fact committed Dicti Libri lib. 4. c. 71. RICHARD I. IT appeareth by a MS. Copy of Mat. Paris which I have wanting much of that which is Published and having much which the Published wanteth that King Richard I. had spoiled some Church of the Chalice and Treasure and that it was thereupon conceived that the revengeful Hand of God pursued him to his Death First by tickling his covetous Mind with the report of hidden Treasure found by one Vidomer a Viscount of Britain in France which he the King claim'd to belong to him by his Prerogative And then in stirring him to raise War against the Viscount for it and to besiege him in the Castle and Town of Chalus in the Countrey of Limosin whither the Viscount was fled and had carried the Treasure as it were to train the King to that fatal place importing the name of a Chalice But here it so fell out that the King being repelled in his Assault and surveying the Ground for undermining the Town-Walls one Peter Basil struck him in the left Arm or about the Shoulder with a Quarrel from a Cross-Bow out of the Castle The King little regarding his Wound pursued the Siege so as within twelve Days he took the Town and found little Treasure in it But his Wound in the mean time ●estering deprived him of his Life April 9. in the tenth Year of his Reign being about 44 Years old Hereupon a Satyrist of that time wrote this tart Dystichon related in the MS. Mat. Par. Christe tui Chalicis praedo fit praeda Chalucis Aere brevi rejicis qui tulit aera Crucis i. e. He that did prey upon thy Chalices Is now a prey unto the Chaluces And thou O Christ rejectest him as Dross That robb'd thee of the Treasure of thy Cross. King Edward I. Anno Regni 23. took all the Priories Aliens and their Goods into his Hands allowing every Monk 18 d. a Week reserving the overplus to his Treasury and Wars And in Anno 1295. Regni ejusdem caused all the Monasteries in England to be search'd and the Money in them to be brought up to London He also seiz'd into his Hands all the Lay-Fees because they refused to pay to him such a Tax as he demanded Stow in dicto An. p. 317. Mat. Westm. in An. 1296. saith it was a fifth part of their Revenues And for that being prohibited by the Council of Lions upon pain of ... they refused he seiz'd all their Lands and Goods as well of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Robert Winchelsea as other and put them out of his Protection c. Godwin p. 148. Presently after this the King's Forces were overthrown in Gascony Mat. Westm. p. 408. And tho' he prosper'd in his Wars against Scotland and wholly subdued it yet shortly after Rob. le Bruce recovered it from him and overthrew his Son Edward II. with a mighty Army at Burnocksbourne from whence escaping by flight he after suffer'd great Afflictions and Calamities by means of his own Wife and Barons and was at last Deposed Imprisoned and Murther'd Giraldus Cambrensis a good Author reporteth that one Hur Chaplain to William de Bruce a great Lord in Wales in the time of King John of his Chapel of St. Nicholas in the Castle of Aberhodni did Dream in a Night that one bid him tell his Lord that had taken away the Land given in Alms to that Chapel and presumed to detain it that Hoc aufert fiscus quod non accipit Christus Dabis impio Militi quod non vis dare Sacerdoti The King's Exchequer shall take that from thee that thou wilt not suffer Christ to enjoy and the impious Soldier that which thou wilt not permit unto the Priest The Words are St. Austin's in Serm. de Temp. spoken against them that invade Tithes and Church Rights and that which is there threatned against them saith Giraldus hapned most certainly in a very short time to this With-holder Vidimus quippe nostris diebus c. For we have seen saith he in our own Days and found certainly by undoubted verity that Princes and great Men Usurpers of Ecclesiastical Possessions and chiefly by name King H. II. Reigning in our time and tainted above others with this Vice a little Leven corrupting the whole Lump and new Evils falling thereby daily upon them to have consum'd all their whole Treasure giving that unto the hired Soldiers which they ought to have given unto the Priest He mentioneth not what it was particularly that hapned to Bruce but commiserating him as a singular good Man runneth out into a long Commendation both of him and his Wife The rest therefore of this Tragedy I must supply out of Mat. Par. who in An. 1209. reporteth thus That King John doubting the Fidelity of his Nobles sent a Troop of Soldiers to require of them their Sons or Nephews or near Kinsmen for Hostages Coming to Will Bruce's and demanding his Sons the Lady Maud his Wife in the humor of a Woman preventing her Husband said I will deliver no Sons of mine to your King John for that he beastly Murdered his Nephew Arthur whom he ought to have preserved Honourably Her Husband reproved her and offer'd to submit himself to the Tryal of his Peers if he had offended the King but that would not serve The King understanding it sent his Soldiers in all haste a privily as he could to

no it is said he died within nine Days and the truth is that he died indeed at his Age of thirty seven Years when he had Reigned sixteen Years and two Months Rog. Higd. Chr. p. 161. col 1. lib. 60. King Edgar understanding that the Welshmen were in Rebellion invaded the Countrey of Glamorgan with an Army and in spoiling of it the Bell of St. Ellutus was taken away and hang'd about an Horse's Neck Therefore in Vndertyde while King Edgar lay on his Bed to rest him saith the Chronicle one appeared to him and smote him on the Breast with a Spear Then when the King was waken he bad restore again all that was taken But the King died after nine Days or as Fabian saith within ten Days Ranulph Cestrens out of the British History This King Edgar was buried at Glastenbury and when Ayleward the Abbot there had unworthily digged open his Grave he the Abbot fell Mad and going out of Church brake his Neck and died Ibidem immediatè supra Griffith the Valiant and Victorious King of North-Wales in aid of Algar Earl of Chester whom King Edward the Confessor had expelled and banished invadeth Herefordshire putteth to flight Radulf Earl thereof and Son of Goda the Confessors Sister with his whole Army and taking the City of Hereford fired the Cathedral Church slew Leogar the Bishop and seven of the Canons that defended it burnt also the Monastery built by Bishop Aethelstane carried away the Spoil thereof and of the City with slaughter of the Citizens and fully restored Algar the Earl both now and a second time Upon this King Edward sent Harald against him who upon his second Voyage into North-Wales burnt his Palace and Ships After this Griffith raising an Army for Revenge and going to meet Harald was by his own People traiterously Murdered and his Head brought to Harald Alfgarus Stalhere that is Constable of the Army to Edward the Confessor invaded the Town of Estre otherwise called Plassie and pulling it from the Monastery of Ely converted it to his own use The Abbot and Monks there besought him by all fair means to restore it but prevailing not they proceeded to denounce daily Curses and Imprecations against him and at last altho' he were so great a Person in the Kingdom to excommunicate him Hereupon the King reproving him sharply and the People shunning his Company he at last sought to be reconciled to the Church and for obtaining thereof granted by his Deed and ratified it by his Oath that the Town after his decease should again return to the Monastery Yet after the Death of Edward the Confessor and Harald the Usurper he was by the Conqueror cast into Prison and there among others in Fetters of Iron ended his Life Jordan Prince of Capua hearing that the Bishop of Rosella had brought and laid up a good Sum of Money in the Monastery of Cassin in Italy sent his Soldiers and by force took it out of the Treasury of the Church but was shortly after strucken Blind Leo. Marsic lib. 3. cap. 45. Upon this Gregory the Seventh calleth a Council and maketh a Canon against Sacrilege and writing to Jordan reproveth him for this and other Offences admonishing him to amend them Baron An. 1078. 24. The Prince touch'd with Remorse granteth in Recompence the next Year after to the Monastery of Cassin divers great Territories and Privileges with a Penalty of 5000 l. of Gold upon the Violaters thereof Leo. Marsic in Chron. Cassin lib. 3. cap. 46. RIchard Robert and Anesgot Sons of William Sorenge in the time of William Duke of Normandy wasting the Countrey about Say invaded the Church of St. Gervase lodging their Soldiers there and making it a Stable for their Horses God deferred not the Revenge for Richard escaping on a Night out of a Cottage where he was beset with his Enemies a Boor whom he had fettered a little before light upon him and with an Hatchet clave his Head asunder Robert having taken a Prey about Soucer was pursued by the Peasants and slain Anesgot entring and sacking of Cambray was struck in the Head with a Dart thrown downward on him and so died Lo saith Gemeticensis we have here seen that truly perform'd which we have heard If any man shall violate the Temple of God God shall destroy him 1 Cor. 3. 17. And admonishing such as spoil Churches to look about them and not to sooth themselves in their Sin for that God often deferreth the Punishment he concludeth with these Verses of another Mans Lib. 6. cap. 13 14. Vos male gaudetis quia tandem suscipietis Nequitiae fructum tenebras incendia luctum Nam pius indultor justusque tamen Deus ultor Quae sua sunt munit quae sunt hostilia punit Dear bought for thou must one Day undergo The price of this Hell Darkness Fire and Woe God's Threats are sure tho' Mercy be among them He guards his Rights and pays them home that wrong them William the Conqueror in making the Forest of Ytene commonly called the New-Forest is reported to have destroy'd twenty six Towns with as many Parish-Churches and to have banished both Men and Religion for thirty Miles in length to make room for his Deer He had ruined also some other Churches in France upon occasion of War and in Lent-time in the fourth Year of his Reign he rifled all the Monasteries of England of the Gold and Silver which was laid up there by the richer of the People to be protected by the Sanctity of the Places from Spoil and Rapine and of that also which belonged to the Monasteries themselves not sparing either the Chalices or Shrines But he that in the like Attempt met with Heliodorus in the second of Machab. 3. met with him also grievously both in his Person and Posterity Touching his Person as God raised Absalom against David so raised he Robert Duke of Normandy against his Father the Conqueror and fought a Battle with him by the Castle of Gerborie in France where the Conqueror himself was unhorst his Son William wounded and many of their Family slain Hereupon the Conqueror as casting Oyl into the Fire of God's Wrath that was kindled to consume his own Family cursed his Son Robert which to his dying Day wrought fearfully upon him as shall by and by appear But to proceed with the Conqueror himself it is very Remarkable that being so great and renowned a King he was no sooner Dead but his Corps was forsaken of his Children Brethren Friends Servants and Followers and wickedly left saith Jo. Stow as a barbarous Person not one of his Knights being found to take care of his Exequies So that a Countrey Knight out of Charity was moved to take care thereof and conveying the Corps to Caen in Normandy the Abbots and Monks of St. Stephens there with the rest of the Clergy and Laity of the Town met it reverently but in conducting it to the Church a