subscribed to the Roman Councell vnder S. Syluester 481. 5. Constantine subscribed in the Councell of Arles 483. 3. Constantine did neuer call or confirmed any Councell as a supreame iudge or sentencer 541. 5. Constantine put out an Edict for the quiet of Christians in all places 486. 1. Constantine ouerthrows Licinius 487. 2. Constantine by publike Edicts ascribeth his victories to Christ 487. 4. Constantine honoreth the chast and virginall life 488. 7. Constantine exempted the Cleargy from secular Iudges 489. 7. Constantins donation and munificent enriching the Church of Rome 497. 1. l c. Constantine determined to place his Emperiall seat at Troy 500. 1. Constantine in a Vision commanded to build his Emperiall City at Bizantium 501. 1. Constantine cals his Emperiall Seat Constantinople 502. 2. or 495. 2. Constantine acknowledge the Primacy of the Church of Rome 506. 3. Constantine furdereth the Councell of Nice 507. 6. Constantine refuseth to sitt downe vntill the Councell had caused him so to doe ib. Constantine bannished Arrius 507. 7. Constantins humble reuerence to S. Anthony 522. 6. Constantine made peace with the Persians 531. 4. Constantine procureth quietnesse for the Christians in Persia 532. 6. Constantins greate deuotion at the feast of Easter 532. 5. Constantine frounded a famous Church to the 12. Apostles in Constantinople 532. 6. Constantine erected in the same stately Images of all the Apostles ib. Constantine held prayers and protection of Saincts and helpe to the dead by them and prayer for the dead by the liuing 533. 6. Constantine reuerenced Relikes ib. Constantine commanded S. Athanasius to be restored 531. 3. Constantins death 534. 8. Constantine died not so soone as some write 530. 1. Constantine liued vntill the yeare 339. or 340. 531. 3. Constantins dead body vsed with great Christian pompe 534. 8. Constantius dead body greatly reuerenced by the Christians 534. 8. Constantine worshipped in his picture after his death 535. 9. Constantine prayed for by Preists and others after his death ib. Constantins Reliques worke many miracles 535. 10. Constātins Image workes many miracles ib. Constantine enrowled among the Saints in the Greeke Meneologe 477. 5. S. Constantia Constantins daughter a Virgin and holy Nunne 535. 10. S. Constantia cured from a Leprosie by S. Agnes ib. S. Constantia erected a Nunnery by the place where she was cured 536. 10. Constantius not presently after his Father Constantins death infected with the Arrian Heresie 548. 1. Constantius consented to the recalling of S. Athanasius from exile ib. Constantius sent diuers friendly letters to S. Athanasius ib. Constantius falling into Heresie a great hurt to Catholike Religion in many places 544. 7. Constantius consented to the calling of the great Councell of Sardice 548. 1. Constantius laboureth to peruert the Councell of Ariminum 553. 4. Constantius persecuteth Catholikes 553. 5. Constantius commandeth Vrsatius to persecur the Bishops that would not subscribe to the Arrian Heresie ib. Constantius mallice against Liberius Pope ib. Constantius his Persecution came not into Britaine ib. Constantius by some excused to be no Heretike but a professed Catholike at his death 559. 6. Constantius confessed Christ to be the naturall sonne of God 561. 8. Constantius acknowledged three faults at his death and which they were 559. 6. Penitent for the same ib. Constantius his holy death 560. 6. An Angelicall harmony heard at his buriall 560. 7. Constantius baptized by Enzoius an Arrian ib. Constantius baptized with the true forme of Baptisme 561. 8. Constantius Age and time of death 561. 9. Constantius sent Iulian the Apostata to the dangerous warres of Gallia with intention to haue him slaine 562. 1. Constantius secretly incited Vadomarus King of the Frankes to take armes against Iulian. ib. S. Cornelius Pope maintained appeales to Rome 384. 12. or 395. 12. Sainct Cornelius his other Decrees ib. S. Cornelius Martyred 379. 5. Couche or rather Conche S. Martins Sister married in Britaine 577. 1. Couche S. Patrikes Mother ib. Couldeis men so called by the Scots and who they were 588. 4. Couldeis the principall instruments in conuerting the Scottish and Brittish Nations 389. 4 Couldeis chosen for Bishops ib. Generall Councells necessary 506. 3. No generall Councell to be gathered without the authority of the Church of Rome 540. 4. The first Councell of Anthioch ordained that in euery Prouince their should be a Metropolitan 188. 3. A Councell of Bishops in Cornewall 388. 4. A Councell gathered by S. Syluester at Rome 480. 4. This Councells Decrees concer-cerning Orders the Primacie c. 481. 5. The first Councell at Arles in France consisting of 600. Bishops 482. 1. The Legats of the Pope their present ib. This Councels Decrees 482. 2. The Councell of Nice gathered 505. 1. c. The Popes Legats subscribed first in the same 506. 2. The Councell of Nice desireth the Confirmation of the Pope 509. 12. The Councell of Sardice confirmed the Nicen faith 548. 1. The Coūcell of Sardice Orthodoxall 550. 3. The generall Councell of Sardice quite different from an hereticall Conciliable of the same name ib. The Councell of Ariminum gathered 551. 1. The number of Bishops there both Catholike and Arrian 552. 2. The Councell of Ariminum subscribed to a Materiall error 553. 4. The Councell of Ariminum dissolued ib. Crathlint King of the Scots builded S. Amphibalus a Church in the I le of Man 430. 2. Crathlint his great zeale and deuotion ib. Creete an Iland in the Adriatike Sea 142. 4. Creete aunciently knowne by the name of Hecatompolis 143. 4. 210. 3. The Metropolis of Creete Metropolis to the adiacent Ilands 143. 4. Crosses made and worshipped 138. 5. 328. 5. c. Crosses and Images certaine tokens of Christianity 323. 2. or 321. 2. The Crosse of our Sauiour found out by S. Helen 515. 8. c. The Crosse of our Sauiour knowne by a miracle 520. 22. The Crosse of our Sauiour diminished not for being cut and carried away 520. 21. Crucifying neuer vsed by Britans 45. 3. Curia a City in Rhetia when builded 348. 5. Curia when first a Bishops seat ib. A custome amongst the Romans to haue all strange euents related to the Emperour at Rome 3. 3. D. S. Damasus Author of the Pontificall 174. 2 S. Damasus an aduancer of that Religion which Protestants call Papistry 576. 8. S. Damianus and Fugatianus appointed by S. Eleutherius for his Legats into Britaine 260. 1. S. Damianus and Fugatianus their Power and Commission 260. 2. c. S. Damianus and Fugatianus planted Christian Religion in Britaine 263. 5. c. S. Damianus and Fugatianus were both Bishops 265. 7. S. Damianus and Fugatianus preaching in Britaine and many conuerted by them 266. 1. c. A Protestant confuted for affirming them to haue preuailed litle in preaching 267. 2. S. Damianus and Fugatianus conuerteth vniuersities 269. 4. Sainct Damianus and Fugatianus change the Pagan Temples into Christian Churches 304. 1. S. Damianus and S. Fugatianus returned to Rome for the
Cornhill in King Lucius time are witnes So we euer kept vnuiolably with honor the memories of S. Ioseph of Aramathia S. Amphibalus sainct Alban S. Aaron Iulius and others Martyrol Rom. 28. die Octobr. Ado. Et Vsuard eodem die Engl. Martyrologe 28. Octobr. Beda Martyrol 28. Octob. all auncient CaleÌ„d Breuia Rom. in festo S. Simonis Chan. 28. die Octobr Protestant CoÌ„m booke die 28. Octobr in the seru of S. Simon and in Calendar 28. Octobr. Menolog Graec. 6. Id. Maij. Baron annot in Martyrol Rom. 28. Octobr. Venantius Fortunat l. 8. c. 4. Magdeburgen Centur. 1. col 586. l. 2. Crato in vita S. Simonis Iudae Abdias certain Apost lib. 6. Ant. part 1. tit 6. cap. 14. Pert. de Nat. l. 9. c. 115. Eutropius Persa l. de vit S. Simonis Iudae Anton. part 1. titul 6. ca. 28. §. 3. Petr. de Natal l. 4. c. 105. Guliel Eisengr Centen 1. part 6. dist 6. Vincent in specul Sabellic En. 7. lib. 4. Magdeburg Cenrur 1. supr l. 2. c. 10. col 584. Isidor lib. de vita morte Sanctorum Hartin Sâ—hedel Chron. fol. 107. S. Dorothaeus l. de 12. Apostolis 4. But all our historians of Antiquitie printed Manuscripts which I haue seene many both of our Brittans and Saxons agree with the whole Latine Church with all Martyrologes that be auncient as that of the Romans Ado Vsuardus and others that Natalis Beatorum Apostolorum Simonis Chananaei Thadaei qui Iudas dicitur Quorum Simon in Aegypto Thadaeüs in Mesopotamia Euangelium praedicauit deinde in Presidem simul ingressi cum innumeram gentis illius multitudinem Christi subdidissent martyrium consummarunt The natiuitie so the Church nameth the happy Martyrdome and death of Saints of the blessed Apostles Simon of Chananee and Thadaeus who is called Iudas the 28. day of October of the which Simon preached the ghospell in Egypt Thadaeus in Mesopotamia then entering together into Persia when they had made an innumerable multitude of that Nation subiect to Christ they consummated martyrdome So hath S. Bede in his Martyrologe so haue all auncient Calenders of Britans and Saxons So hath the whole Latine Church in the festiuitie of this holy Apostle to bind all English Christians as well Catholiks by the Rules before as Protestants by the commaunding squares of their Religion the Parlament and their CoÌ„munion Booke they all celebrate with the Latine Church the festiuitie of this glorious Apostle vpon the 28. of October when he suffered martyrdome as before with S. Iudas in Persia When they which hold he came into Britaine keepe his day vpon the sixt of the Ides of May the tenth day of that moneth 5. And this is the auncient opinion of the fathers concerning this holy Apostle that he with S. Iude was martyred in Persia among whom Venantius Fortunatus so renowned among our Protestants for S. Pauls preaching heare hath made it publike to the world thus testifying that he was martyred in Persia with S. Iudas neuer bringing him neare vnto this Nation Hinc Simonem ac Iudam lumen Persida gemellum Laeta relaxato mittit ad astra sinu And to ioyne forraing Protestants with these of EnglaÌ„d in this busines The Mardeburgians say plainely that if Nicephorus doth say that S. Simon preached the ghospell to the OccideÌ„tall Ocean Brittish Ilands he doth it without any certaine testimony Narrat sed sine certo testimonio Nicephorus EuangeliuÌ„ Simonem propagasse per regiones ad Occidentalem OceanuÌ„ sitas Insulas Britannicas Where they be so farre from allowing his coming to these Ilands that they accompt his preaching in the Contryes neare the west Ocean vnprobable and make him to be liuing in the East Countries and preaching there ending his life 50. yeares after this Iland had receaued the faith of Christ by these Protestants before And Crato the Disciple of these two Apostles S. Simon and Iudas followed them throughout 12. Prouinces of Persia writing all they did and suffered there by the space of 13. yeares the like hath Abdias The like hath Antoninus Petrus de Natalibus Eisengrenius and others Their liues also in the same manner were writteÌ„ by Eutropius a Persian sonne of Adimundus Xerxes King of Babylon both in the Chaldy and Greeke tonges To these I add Vincentius Sabellicus the Magdeburgian Protestants of Germany in their Centuries S. Isidor or whosoeuer the auncient author of the booke of the life and death of the Apostles who saith besides iacet in Bosphoro that he is buried in Bosphorus And died many yeares after his supposed death in Britaine The like hath also Hartmannus Schedel teaching that he both preached and suffered martyrdome in Persia also Dorotheus that auncieÌ„t Greeke father himselfe that is alledged to say that S. Simon the Apostle was crucified killed and buried in Britaine in Britannia crucifixus occisus ac sepultus est the greatest authoritie for his being heare is coÌ„trary to himselfe if so he should meane of this our Britaine for in the same place he maketh S. SimoÌ„ the Apostle to haue bene crucified in the East CouÌ„try in or neare Egypt cruci alligatus occisus est in Ostracina ciuitate Aegypti maketh S. Simon the Apostle Bishop of Hierusalem so neuer to come neare vnto Britaine So small is his Authoritie in the matter The Authour of Fasciculus temporum saith he was martyred in Persia Fasciculus temp an 74. with S. Iude. Simon Iudas martyrisati sunt in regionibus Persidis The auncient Anonymus that writeth the liues of the Apostles published by Frediricus Nausea Bishop of Vienna saith that S. Simon Iudas were sent by reuelation into Anonymus in vit passione SS Apostolorum Apostolorum Simonis Iude. Persia to confouÌ„d the wicked Sorcerers Zaroes and Arfaxard which had fled thither from S. Matthew the Apostle in Ethiopia and the Prince of Persia was then named Baradach that they had many Disciples there of which they ordeyned Preists DeacoÌ„s and other Clergy men that in one yeare they baptized aboue fourty thousands besides children and the King himselfe that they ordeined Abdias Bishop of Babilon that came with them from iury That Craton their Disciple wrote their liues which Iulius Africanus translated into Latine and after many miracles there wrought they were there martyred togeather with S. Sennes by whome they were harboured So that if we will beleeue either auncient or later Greeke or Latine or the Persians themselues Catholiks or Protestants or any thinge that can be preteÌ„ded for authoritie worthie to be followed in this matter S. Simon the Apostle was neither crucified killed buried or preached in or neare vnto this Nation 6. Wherefore I cannot in any wise giue allowance vnto him who not onely placeth him among the saints and Apostles of Britaine but citeth diuers auncient writers as he saith for this his relation In Persia the Passion of the gloroius Apostle S. Simon surnamed
Zelotes who according to diuers auncient writers among The Authour of the English Marty rologe printed ann 1608. 28. Octobr his greate mistaking authorities other his PeregrinatioÌ„s came into our IlaÌ„d of Britany about the yeare of Christ fourty and sixe and there preached the Christian faith baptized ordeined Preists DeacoÌ„s erected Churches and the like whereby we may worthely call him our Apostle and with greater solemnitie celebrate his feast by whom we receaued so singular graces benefites He afterward went into Persia with S. Iude to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the infidels of that Country where at last he receaued the reward of his labours by martyrdome Nicephor l. 2. c. 40. Pol. Vir. l. 7. hist West ann 636. 652. Dor. in Synopsi Matth. Westm an 125. being nayled to a crosse though Dorotheus writeth that he suffered and was buried in Britany Hitherto this Authour and he citeth for his warrant as I haue placed theÌ„ in the Margin Nicephorus Polidor Virgil Matthew Westminster Dorotheus Of all which not any one affirmeth these things Matthew Westminster Poildor Vergil doe not so much as name S. Simon the Apostle except Matthew Westminster saith he was Bishop of Hierusalem next after S. Iames. Dorotheus doth not say that S. Simon the Apostle was either crucified or at all in Persia neither doth Nicephorus neither doth any of these or any other say that S. SimoÌ„ was heare about the yeare of Christ 46. neither caÌ„ that possibly be true by any coÌ„putation for by the vndeniable testimonies of many auncieÌ„t Fathers he was preseÌ„t with other of the Apostles at the death of the blessed Virgin in the same yeare or 45. yet by Nicephorus all that seeme to thinke Matth. Westm an 45. Dorotheus in Synop. Niceph. l. 2. c. 40. loc cit he was in Britaine he preached both through Mauritania all Afrike therefore noe being for him in Britaine at that time Nicephorus maketh it more vnpossible saying he trauailed through Egypt and Africk theÌ„ through Mauritania and all Lybia preaching the ghospell And the same doctrine he brought to the Occidâ—ntall Ocean Which all Cosmographers know not to be that part of the Otean which is next vnto vs vpoÌ„ the coste of Afrike for Britaine froÌ„ thence is in the Boreale North Ocean the Occidentall OceaÌ„ of Afrike is that which is next to the Asores Chanary Ilands others exteÌ„ding towards America Which seemeth to haue bene that which deceaued Nicephorus if he though Abrah Ortel in typo Orbis Africae descript Ptolom Bilibald Pirckeymher lij in Afric Stephan v. Brit. Isac in Lymphr S. SimoÌ„ came froÌ„ the west Ocean to the Brittish IlaÌ„ds taking perhaps all those IlaÌ„ds to be coÌ„prehended vnder that name But more probable it is that the Britannia to which S. Simon went if to any or was put to death in is the Britannia in the East Country neare vnto Persia For Isacius is witnes that of ould there were three Britaines this which we inhabit a second about Thyle now Island a third in the Easte which is most like to be that which Dorotheus Nicephorus meane in this matter Or if we will say that S. SimoÌ„ went froÌ„ the west coast Ocean of Afrike vnto Persia if he passed by the MediterreÌ„ Adriake sea which was his easiest iorney going by Iury as he did he passed by Britannis or Britannia an Iland in the Adriacke Sea called by some Elaphusa Stephanus v. Brettotia Brettannis or Elaphites 12. myles from Malta by Pliny And that there was an other Britania or BritaÌ„nis in the same passadge betweene Afrike Italy is testified by our English Protestants in their Theater who cite Polybius for Authour that Speed Theater l. 5. c. 4. Polyb. Eglog l. 10. 11. 42. Camden in Brit. Theater l. 5. c. 1. §. 11. Claudius Ptolomaeus in Geograph Sebast Munster in Cosmograph Bilibald Pirck-emher in Ptolom Abrah Ortelius in Theatro Orbis Rich. Hackluyt trauails of English c. Isidor l. de viâ—a morte Sanctoâ—um in S. Simone Harris Hist Ecc. of Britaine to 1. M. S. HaÌ„nibal was inclosed within the streights of Britaine which must needs be about Italy neare Afrike not out of his iorney by Sea to Iury Persia wheÌ„ if he had come by our Britaine to goe thither he should either haue returned the same way againe or compassed the greatest part of the whole coÌ„tinent passed the frozen seas by the North pole which way no man is remeÌ„bred and knowne to haue gone at that time yet vncertaine whether passable or no after his laÌ„ding he had most vast and Barbarous CouÌ„tries to trauaile through where no man writeth he euer was before he could come to Persia as all Cosmographers auncient late are witnesses wheÌ„ passing by the other Britaine or British IlaÌ„ds he had a short ready Iorney by sea by laÌ„d to trauaile onely through Iury or Syria to Persia those CouÌ„tries there where these ProtestaÌ„ts others tell vs he preached liued loÌ„g was put to death This was his trauaile by laÌ„d as we haue heard before froÌ„ such as wrote the life of that holy Apostle And that was the part which fell vnto him as S. Isidore others affirme when the Apostles diuided the world among theÌ„ to preach the Ghospell in 7. An other late writer there is who in his Manuscript History neuer printed would bring him hither after S. Paul which also some Protestants haue vrged before But I haue answeared this in theÌ„ already long before that time Britaine had by these protestaÌ„ts receaued the faith of christ The like I say to those Protestants which would haue S. Philip the Apostle to send S. Ioseph of Aramathia hither out of Fraunce in or about the yeare of Christ 63. many ChristiaÌ„s being heare by there owne coÌ„fession loÌ„g before that time yet wheÌ„ I come S. Philip the Apostle neuer came into Gallia Fraunâ—â— ly Britaine nor neare vnto it to the dayes of S Iosephs coming into this Iland I will proue at large that S. Philip the Apostle neuer came into this Gallia or neare vnto it For this place it will suffice that both by ProtestaÌ„ts Catholiks S. Philip the Apostle was crucified in Hierapolis in Phrygia many yeares before this his supposed sending S. Ioseph hither from this our Fraunce or Gallia So there is no place or possibilitie Protestant Author of the historie l'estat de l'Eglise printed an 1556. Euseb in Chronic. an 54. Philip. Borgom an 52. left for any Apostle but S. Peter to haue bene our first Father Master in Christian Religion Which I shall more plainely directly make this manifest hereafter In the meane time I am to set downe some former labours and proceedings of this holy Apostle S. Peter yet onely such as haue connection with our Ecclesiasticall Historie of Britaine THE XI CHAPTER
before haue a relation of this to be proued from the Greeke Antiquities I will asceÌ„d much higher then the dayes of Nicephorus euen to the time of our greate Emperour King and Cuontryman Constantine in whose age and Empire about thirteene hundred yeares since that greate glory of learned men in Greece Eusebius as an auncient learned sainct of that Nation testifieth hath written that S. Peter preached Euseb Pamphili apud S. Sim. Metaphrast die 29. Iunij and longe time as it appeareth by him in this our Britaine and the neare adioyning westerne Nations Eusebius Pamphili dicit Petrum duodecim annos esse versatum in Oriente vigint autem tres annos transegisse Romae in Britannia in ciuitatibus quae sunt in Occidente adeo vt sit totum tempus praedicationis Petri triginta quinque anni Eusebius Pamphylus saith that Peter conuersed in the East twelue yeares and spent three and twenty at Rome and in Britaine and in the cities which be in the west So that the whole time of the preaching of Peter is thirtie and fiue yeares Where he speaketh of the compleate yeares of S. Peters preaching in the west omitting the parts of yeares or taking S. Peters going to Hierusalem againe at the death of our blessed Lady out of the 25. yeares of his abode in the west Which accompt our English Protestants in their Fasti of the Kings and Bishops of England confirme Let no man obiect that his testimony is not sufficient he being an holy learned saint liuing in Constantinople the cheife Citie of Greece where Eusebius works were then most famous knowne to all men of learning and hauing so constantly auouched it when all Greece could argue him of vntruth if it had â—ene otherwise Who but extraordinarily wicked will once imagine that so worthy an Authour would to his owne eternall shame and confusion haue once inuented such a forgery what Grecian since that time or before by some numbers of yeares hath so much fauoured the Church of Rome as to honour it with vntruthes when they haue rather endeuoured the contrary as many haue written Neyther Fasti Regum Episcoporum Angliae vsque ad Gul. seniorem doe those workes of Eusebius which be now commonly extant contradict but rather confirme that which is cited from him before of S. Peter his spending much time in preaching in Britaine For although Eusebius both in his History and Cronicle saith with the generall opinion of historians that S. Peter was Bishop of Rome 24. or 25. yeares yet this is so farre from keeping him from Britaine that it maketh it a matter almost incredible but in some part of that time he was in Britaine And first all those renowned Authours Greeke and Latine which affirme that S. Peter preached heare in Britaine affirme also that he was so longe Bishop of Rome And seeing the world was euen by Christ and the Apostles themselues so diuided among them to preach the ghospell in and conuerte it to the faith what other Apostle did make any Residence so neare vnto vs by many huÌ„dreds of miles as Rome the See of S. Peter all histories of their liues and deaths be constant in this And I haue proued before that no other of the 12. Apostles amoÌ„g whom this diuision was made except S. Peter preached either in or neare to this kingdome 8. And all those Authors before haue proued that S. Peter preached in all these westerne Nations during that time when he is saide to haue had his cheife Residencie at Rome as the same Eusebius with the holy Scriptures and all historians affirmeth that during his first named Residency of Antioch in ponto Galatia Bithinia Cappadiocia Asia praedicauit he preached in Pontus Galatia Bithynia Cappadocia and Asia Some of those places fully Euseb in Chron. Euseb hist Eccl. l. 3. c. 1. Godwyn Conu of Brit. c. 1. pag. 5. Act. Apost c. 15. v. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. or allmoste as remote from Antioch as Britaine is from Rome And our Protestants themselues with the Scriptures and many historians testifie that after S. Peter his settling at Rome he went againe from thence to Hierusalem and Antioch also farre more distant from Rome then Britaine is And if S. Peter had not preached heare it is euident before that none of the twelue Apostles to whose preaching the world was first by Christ committed had performed it And so we should perhaps haue in that respect bene the most vnhappie kingdome in the knowne world at that time not any on of so greate extension greatnes and honour being to be reckoned but probably as appeareth by former Relations one Apostle or other preached the ghospell in it 9. An other also a GreciaÌ„ an holy Sainct as is set downe in the Menologe Menol. Graecor in S. Sim. Metaphr Sur. Et Lippom die 27. Nou. in festo eius Ioh. Molan in addit ad Vsuard 27. Nou. Conrad Gesner in Bibl. in Io. Psell of the Grecians and dyuers Latine Martyrologes as Surius Lippomannus and Molanus and his holy life written by Ioannes Psellus much commended by the Protestants CoÌ„radus Gesnerus Iosius Simlerus IoaÌ„nes Iacobus Frisius and others setteth downe all the circumstances of S. Peters coming hither by what contries the time of his staying heare what he performed in this kingdome how he was heare admonished by an Angell from heauen to returne againe to Rome to suffer Martyrdome and other matters of such consequence in so greate a busines that there is not more certaine and particular Relation left in any Antiquitie we haue for any historicall truth and veritie concerning this Nation which any Antiquarie Catholik or Protestant giueth the most vndoubted credit and assent vnto then for this preacing of S. Peter and his plaÌ„ting the Church of Christ in this Iland Thus this holy Saint liuing 800. yeares past setteth downe the holy Iorney of that blessed Apostle our first father in Christ S. Peter Cum non diu mansisset apud Romanos sancto Sim. Metaphrast die 29. Iunij baptismate multos regenerasset Ecclesiam constituisset Linum Episcopum ordinasset venit Tarracinam in qua cum Epaphroditum ordinasset Episcopum venit Sirmium ciuitateÌ„ Hispaniae Quo in loco cum Epinaetum coÌ„stituisset Episcopum venit in Aegiptum cum Thebis quae septem habet portas Rufum Alexandriae auteÌ„ Marcum Euangelistam eorum qui se in disciplinam tradiderunt Episcopatui praefecisset rursus venit Hierosolymam ex reuelatione propter Deiparae Mariae migrationem Deinde reuersus est in Aegiptum per Africam rursus Romam redijt Ex qua venit Mediolanum Photicen quae sunt ciuitates in continente in quibus cuÌ„ constituisset Episcopos presbyteros venit in Britanniam quo in loco cum longo tempore fuisset moratus multas gentes non nominatas attraxisset ad fidem Christi angelicam aspexit visionem quae
the Edict of Claudius if it had concerned him but was ready to die rather as he did in the time of Nero then to forsake the sheepe of Christ so carefully cōmitted vnto him yet to make all sure in this kind that which these Protestants would make their ground to keepe S. Peter from Rome these parts in that time doth ouerthrowe thē in their owne deuising for it is as the Magdeburg cēt 1. l. 2. col 26. Oros l. 7. c. 6. Suein vit Claudij Magdeburgian Protestants acknowledge frō their constructiō of the saying of Orosius in his seuenth booke and Suetonius in the life of Claudius Claudium Iudaeos impulsore Christo assiduè tumultiuantes Roma expulisse That Claudius did expell from Rome the Iewes dayly making tumults Christ so they reade being the mouer Therefore seeing the Iewes were expelled for tumults they made and we are assured that the Christians were in no wise Agents in these tumults Claudius could not expell them vnder that pretence And where they reade Christo impulsore Christ being the impeller if we apply it to Christ our Sauiour either it must be vnderstood that Christ moued to the tumults which is blasphemous or that he moued Claudius to expell the Iewes and so the Christians were not expelled for Christ neither did would or could moue to expell the Christans his holy Seruants 4. And Orosius himself hauing with Gregorius Turonensis and others Orosius l. 7. c. 6. Greg. Turon l. 1. hist cap. 25. ascribed the conuersion of the first Christians in Rome in the beginning of the Reigne of Claudius vnto S. Peter he addeth Anno eiusdem nono expulsos per Claudium vrbe Iudaeos Iosephus resert Sed me magis Suetonius mouet qui ait hoc modo Claudius Iudaeos Impulsore Christo assiduè tumultuantes Roma expulit Quod vtrum contra Christum tumultuantes Iudaeos coerceri comprimi iusserit an etiam Christianos simul velut cognatae religionis homines voluerit expelli nequaquam discernitur Iosephus relateth that Claudius expelled the Iewes out of the citie in the ninth yeare of his Reigne But Suetonius moueth me more who saith in this manner Claudius expelled forth of Rome the Iewes dayly making tumults Christ mouing Which is not decerned whether he commanded the Iewes that made tumults against Christ to be corrected and suppressed or would also haue the Christians men in Religion some what like the Iewes to be also expelled This is all he saith and which others ground vpon and this later construction as I haue proued before most needs giue place to the former which keepeth the Christians in fauour with Claudius and free from Banishment which is confirmed by Suidas and others he writeth in Claudius in this manner Cum sub eo Iudaei seditionem contra Suidas in Claudio Christianos mouissent Claudius Faelicem eis praefecit cosque punire iussit When vnder Claudius the Iewes did raise sedition against the Christians Claudius oppointed Felix Gouernour ouer them and caused him to punish them Whereby it is manifest that Claudius was then rather a friend then enemy to Christians And they which reade Christo impulsore Christ being the mouer are mistaken for it was Chresto impulsore Chrestus being the mouer hereof Which Chrestus was a wicked Pagan then liuing in Rome as many Pagans themselues are witnesses Zosimus a Pagan together with Xiphilinus Dio Sextus Aurelius victor and others witnesse that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrestus was then a Consul in great credit in Zosim Com. hist Graec. l. 1. in Alexand. Seuer Ioh. Xiphilin in Epitom Dionis in eodem Sext. Aurel. Victor hist Aug. Oros supr Ado in Chronic. aetat 6. Suetonius in Claudio Sueton. in Nerone Aelius Lamprid. in Alexand. Seu. Rome and being by Latine translators translated Christus after the māner of many Grecians pronoūcing ◠or ita as ◠in Latine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being the Greeke to Christus and written with ◠iota and not ◠eta or ita was the occasion of this mistaking to write Christo Impulsore for Chresto impulsore as Orosius and Ado and perhaps some others did citing Suetonius for their Authour which is euidēt by Suetonius himself who in the place cited from him readeth Chresto and not Christo. His words be these Iudaeos Impulsore Chresto assiduè tumultuantes Roma expulit Claudius expelled the Iewes out of Rome because they dayly made tumults Chrestus being the mouer thereof And the same Suetonius calleth Christians by their name Christians and not Chrestians so doth Flauius Vopiscus in his epistle to Adrian the Emperor call Christ our Sauiour and Christians beleuing in him Christum and Christianos Christ and Christians so doth Aelius Lampridius and other Pagan Authours And that Chrestus which was Impulsor a mouer in those affaires and occasion of the Edict of Claudius being a Pagan was so wicked a man that I may not describe him being so impious that Martial the Poet liuing in those dayes and stayned also with the tinctures of greate sinns yet speaking of him and his behauiour concludeth pudet fari Martial Epigr. l. 7. Epigram 54. lib. 9. Epigr. 28 he is ashamed to speake it Therefore to followe this so warranted opinion that S. Peter was no bannished man from Rome by that Edict of Claudius but voluntarily ex reuelatione by reuelation as the other Apostles dispersed also did at that time went to Hierusalem to celebrate the Assumption of the blessed virgin and to be present at the Councell of the Apostles we shall leaue time enough for S. Peter to returne againe to Rome and visit also this kingdome and these westerne parts in the time of Claudius For our Protestants agree that Councell to haue bene kept about the fourteenth yeare of the Ascension of Christ building vpon S. Paul who saith fourteene yeares Sutcliffe Subu pag. 3. Godwyn Conuers p. 5. c. 1. Gal. 2. v. 1. Protest Fasti Reg. Episcop Angl. after I went vp againe to Hierusalē with Barnabas and tooke Titus with mee Which was the time of this Councell of the Apostles the last Act of note at which these Protestants say S. Peter was present at Hierusalem from which vnto the death of S. Peter they tell vs in their Chronologie of Kings Bishops of this Nation there were twenty yeares time enough to haue preached heare in the time of Claudius if he were not heare before his going from Rome to Hierusalem 5. If we should harken to their opinion that would haue S. Peter bannished from Rome by that Edict of Claudius and so to haue therevpon gone to Hierusalem seeing they tell vs before he staied not there longer then the 14. or 15. yeare after Christs Ascension but by all men returned then againe into the west parts where he had his Residency 24. yeares if in the life of Claudius he did not returne to Rome what Nation in the westerne world shall we finde more
he addeth of him Cum non diu mansisset apud Romanos sancto baptismate multos regenerasset Ecclesiam constituisset Linum Episcopum ordinasset when he had stayed not long with the Romans and baptized many and founded the Church and ordained Linus a Bishop he went into Spaine then into Egipt and so to Hierusalem by reuelation for the Transmigration of the mother of God then returned into Egipt and through Africk returned to Rome from whence he came to Millan and Photice and so into Britaine Which time being truely calculated will teach vs that he came hither in or about the 54. yeare of Christ when in the way hither he made so many Bishops in Fraunce long before S. Paule came although as a prisoner first to Rome or any other Apostle thither or to any westerne Nation For as I haue proued before S. Peter going vp to Hierusalem by Reuelation at the death of the blessed virgin did staye but a short time there and in the Easterne parts in that Iorney but the chardge of the westerne world being more peculiarly committed vnto him before he returned vnto it to dischardge this dutie heare and allthough S. Simon Metaphrastes bringeth him back againe by Rome yet he speaketh of no stay he made there at this time but presently bringeth him into Britaine THE XVII CHAPTER WHEREIN IS PROVED BY THE BEST ENglish Protestant writers their Bishops and others that S. Peter founding the Church of Britaine ordained in it an Archbishop Bishops and Preists 1. THat we may without contradiction of any Catholik or Protestant except willfully erring in their owne proceedings be assured that S. Peter performed heare all Pastorall duties in foūding vnto our predecessors in this our Britaine the true vndoubted Church of Christ and so left it to posteritie because I stand assured my pen shall still in all things carry with it an vndoubted Assent of Catholiks seeing this matter of the true Church founding thereof professing the doctrine which it teacheth to all her childrē and they ought to followe concerneth vs all so much that the Protestants of this Nation agree there is no saluatiō to be had or expected out of this holy societie I will set downe by their warrant both what this Church is and how it was first in all things essentiall and by them needfull to saluation founded heare by Saint Peter the Apostle 2. Concerning the first the Canon or decree of the Protestant Religion in their Synodicall and Parlament Articles to which all Protestant Bishops and Ministers of England haue sworne and subscribed is this The visible Church Articl of Religion an 1562. ar 19. of Christ is a Congregation of faithfull men in the which the puer word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duely ministred according to Christs ordinance in all those things that of necessitie are requisite to the same Hitherto this publik Protestant Article of Religion Therefore seeing it is allowed and proued before by these men that S. Peter first founded the Church of Christ in this kingdome to insist still in their owne allowances I must shew by them how he performed these things which by these Protestants must needs be in euery true Church to wit true and lawfull Ministers to preach the word of God and duely minister the Sacraments So there be three things essentiall true Ministers the puer word of God preached and Sacraments duely ministred among which the two last depend vpon the first true and lawfull Ministers For where true and Orthodoxall Ministers are and accordingly preach the word and Minister the Sacraments there the puer word must needs be preached and Sacraments duely ministred And contrariewise where such Ministers are not there these things cannot be possibly by such performed Which this Protestant Rule of Religiō confirmeth in an other Article in these words It is not lawfull for any man to take vpon him the office of publick preaching Articul 23. or ministring of the Sacraments in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same And those we ought to Iudge lawfully called and sent which be chosen and called to this worke by men who haue publick authoritie giuen vnto them in the Congregation to call and send Ministers into the Lords vyneyard And in their Article intituled of Consecratiō of Bishops and Ministers they set downe these orders degrees in such men Archbishops Bishops Preists and Deacons and haue set forth a booke both by the Regall Authoritie of King Edward the Sixt Q. Elizabeth and King Iames our present Soueraigne and their Parlaments for the particular consecration of all those degrees and in that so highly authorized Booke assuer vs that all these degrees and Orders haue euer bene in the Church of Christ from the dayes of him and his Apostles And all particular writers among these Protestants as they are bound by subscription to these Articles so they plainely testifie in their writings among whom the publick and approued Protestant comment vpon these Articles Intituled The Catholick doctrine of the Church of England With greate priuiledge Rogers in Artic. 36. setteth downe in this manner It is ageeable to the word of God and practise of the primatiue Church that there should be Archbishops Bishops and such like differences and inequalities of Ecclesiasticall Ministers and addeth The proofe from the word of God Albeit the termes and Titles of Archbishops we finde not yet the superioritie which they haue and authoritie which Bishops and Archbishops doe exercise in ordering and consecrating Bishops and Ecclesiasticall Ministers is grownded vpon the word And againe from the Apostles dayes hitherto there neuer wāted a Succession of Bishops neither in the Easte nor westerne Churches This is the generall and common opinion of all the English Protestant Bishops against their Puritans Thus their Archbishops whitgitf Bancroft their Bishops Bilson Barlow Bridges Doctors Fild Hooker Couell Downame Barlow Serm. before King Iames 21. Septembr an 1604. and others Whereof one writeth Episcopall function is an ordinance Apostolicall Christ hath acted it for succeeding posteritie and so it is thesis Pneumatichi a Canon or constitution of the whole Trinitie Thus a Protestant Bishop before our King with both his and the allowance of the Protestant Bishops as the Puritans themselues thus acknowledge The callings of Prelates be of diuine ordinance Offer of Conference as Bishop Barlowe auoucheth in his last Sermon The Bishop of Rochester with the consent and by the direction no doubt of some of the cheifest Prelates hath now lately published his Sermon preached in September before the King at Hampton Court the maine drift whereof is to proue that the office and calling of a Diocesan Bishop is a diuine and Apostolicall ordinance The same besides so many their Bishops and doctors before is remembred in their publick Apology intituled of the Consecration of the Bishops in the Church of England masked vnder the name of
right hand and appointed his freind Ioseph of Aramathia to be cheife of theÌ„ These came into Britaine in the yeare of our Lords Incarnation 65. and of the Assumption of blessed Mary the 15. where we finde no mention at all of those pretended motiues concerning the Druids and other circumstances related before by these Protestants and vntruely fathered vpon these Authours but truely though illegittimate and Bastards onely begotten and brought forth by the false pens of these Protestant Relators And the time of S. Iosephs coming hither to differ also so much by these alledged Authorities from that which some of them cite from their concealed Gildas as I haue before related And the very substance of the narration itselfe of S. Philips sending S. Ioseph hither out of France grounded vpon the Authoritie of Freculphus very suspitious that the true originall Manuscript of Gulielmus Malmes buriensis though some Transcripts which I haue seene doe warranteth no such thing For this William Monke of Malmesbury himself in his second booke De gestis Ponfiticum Anglorum which was written after his booke of the Antiquitie of Glastenbury doth take plaine exception to the History of S. Patrike his buriall there whereon this narration is grounded saying Iacet ibi Patricius si eredere dignum Natione Britto â—eati Germani Antisiodorensis Discipulus quem a Papa Caelestino ordinatum Episcopum Hyberniensibus misit Apostolum So doe two English Protestant Bishops Godâ—in supr Bal. l. de Script cent 1. in Patric Gaufrid Abb. Bâ—â—ton in vit S. Moduenae M. S. one cited before thinking this was a second Patrike which the Abbot of Burton saith Pope Leo sent into Ireland and was also a Saint And the same William of Malmesbury doth in the same Manuscript History of Glastenbury soone after the first pretended citation from him set downe the Authoritie of Freculphus onely to proue that S. Philip preached in Gallia his words be these Freculphus Historiae libro 2. cap. 4. testatur Philippum Gulielm Malm. l. de Antiq. Glaston M. S. Paulo post initium Apostolum Gullis verbum dei praedicasse Freculphus in the seconde booke and fourth Chapter of his History doth witnes that Philip the Apostle did preach the word of God to the Gaules Neuer writing one word that Freculphus affirmed S. Philip to haue sent S. Ioseph from thence into Britaine Which Freculphus doth not teach in that or any other place his words in the place alledged be onely Freculphus Episcopus LexouieÌ„ Chron. to 2. l. 2. c. 4. p. 448. these Philippus a Bethsaida ciuitate hic Gallis praedicat Christum Barbarasque gentes vicinasque tenebris tumenti Oceano coniunctas ad scientiae lumen fideique portum perducit Deinde in Hierapoli phrygiae Prouinciae vrbe crucifixus lapidatusque obijt rectoque sepultus Cadauere ibidem requiescit Philip of the citye Bethsaida preacheth Christ to the Gaules and brought Brabarous Nations and neare to Darkenes and Ioyned to the swelling Ocean to the light of knowledge and the hauen of faith And afterward crucified and stoned died in Hierapolis a citic of the Prouince of Phrygia and there resteth his body being buried vpright Which be the Author l. d. vit mort Sanct. inter opera S. Isid in S. Philipp Apostol words also of the Authour of the booke of the life and death of Saints de vita morte Sanctorum among the works of S. Isidor And Freculphus hath not any word of S. Ioseph of Aramathia at all neither speaketh more of S. Philip but a little after setting downe breifely as likewise the sayed Authour of the life and death of Saints doth where euery Apostle preached he saith of S. Philip Gallias accepit he tooke the Countries Gallia Which as I will demonstrate Freculph supr l. 2. p. 45 1. in the next Chapter were not ment of this Gallia or France next vnto vs whether S. Philip the Apostle neuer came 5. And to refute the grosse error and ignorance of them that cite S. Isidor or other Authour of the booke of the life and death of Saints for S. Philips sending S. Ioseph out of France into Britaine besides the negatiue testimonie Io. Bal. l. de Scritorib cent 1. in S. Ioseph Aramat Franc. Godwin Conu of Britaine p. 11. of both those Authours which haue no such thing at all the Protestant Bishop Ihon Bale and others so much acknowledge among whome Francis Godwin the Protestant Bishop must needes be one who bringeth the auncient Antiquitie of Glastenbury engraued in brasse which saith he had seene and alledgeth it word by word for the coming of S. Ioseph and his companions hither with the time and other circumstances and yet hath not one word that they were sent hither by S. Philip out of France or that he was at any time in this Gallia The same I affirme of all FreÌ„ch writers both late auncient not any one among so many which to my reading and memory teacheth that either S. Philip the Apostle sent S. Ioseph of Aramathia into Britaine out of France or that he himself euer preached there or sent any preachers thither which will more manifestly be proued in the next Chapter â—ollowing But the Gallia where S. Philip the Apostle is by some supposed to haue preached is farre distant from this our neighbouring Gallia or France And so the similitude or IdeÌ„titie of one and the same name for diuers Countries gaue accasion of Error vnto some few such as reading that S. Philip the Apostle was in a Country called Gallia and S. Ioseph of Aramathia liued and died heare in Britaine to make this false and Ignorant collection That S. Ioseph was sent hither by S. Philip out of this next Gallia where he neuer Acta per Legat. Antiquit. Glast Manuscr Tabul Fix was And it is euident by our old Antiquities of Glastenbury that S. Philip neyther did nor could send S. Ioseph or any hither from our next France which had not that name vntill some hundreds of yeares after when the Frankes of Sicambria came first into some parts of that kingdome thus it testifieth from the old Acts of the first Christians at GlasteÌ„bury in S. Iosephs time In antiquis scriptis inuenerunt qualiter sanctis Apostolis per vniuersum orbem dispersis Sanctus Philippus Apostolus cum multitudine Discipulorum in Franciam veniens duodecim ex ipsis in Britanniam misit ad praedicandum S. Damianus and Phaganus sent hyther by Pope Eleutherius did finde in an old writing how when the Apostles were dispersed into all the world S. Philip the Apostle with a multitude of Disciples coming into Francia sent twelue of them into Britayne to preach This Manuscript Antiquitie first written in S. Iosephs time and after founde in the dayes of King Lucius long before any Frankes gaue name vnto our next France or came thither giueth demonstrance that S. Philip was among the Frankes of Sicambria which many others also
testifie and if he sent S. Ioseph hither out of Francia it was that and no other Francia from whence he sent him The Antiquities of Glastenbury from the testimony of an auncient Monke of S. Denis in France to one Godfridus a Monke of Glastenbury relateth that the Church of Glastenbury was consecrated by the highest greate Bishop meaning as it seemeth S. Peter the Apostle the highest greate Bishop in that time and that it was called the second Rome for the multitude of Epist Godefrid Monachi Glast Antiquitates Glaston Manus tab Affix Saints buried there of the which S. Ioseph was the first Haec gloriosissimi Martyris Dionisij Ecclesia illa Glastoniensis de qua te asseris eandem priuilegij dignitatem habent Ista in Gallia illa in Britannia vno eodem tempore exortae à summo magno Pontifice consecratae Vno tamen gradu illa supereminet Roma etenim secunda vocatur hoc propter multitudinem Sanctorum inibi requiescentium quorum primus fuit Ioseph ab Aramathia ille nobilis Decurio qui Dominum sepeliuit pro cuius sepultura Dominus locum illum elegit atque benedixit THE XXIV CHAPTER FVRTHER PROVING THAT S. PHILIP the Apostle was not in that Gallia France next to Britayne neyther were S. Ioseph and his Associates there or came from thence into Britayne 1. BESIDES the recited Authorities of S. Isidor or the Authour of the booke of the life and death of Saints among his workes and the learned Bishop Freculpbus of which I haue spoken before for their opinion that held S. Philip the Apostle preached Ordo officij Muzarabici in festo S. Iacobi Apostoli fratris S. Ioannâ—s Apostoli Euangelistae in hymno in the next France or Gallia I finde the like mention in the auncient Muzaraban publike Church office receaued in the fourth Toletan Councell at wbich S. Isidor Archbishop of Hispalis for all Spaine was President In this Councell mention being made where the Apostles preached it is said Philippus Gallias That S. Philip preached in the Countries called Galliae Which although I doe not finde alledged by any Protestant to confirme this opinion of S. Philips being in this next France yet because I seeke the truth and am vnwilling to conceale any thing that may either help or hinder the finding fourth thereof I heare produce it and the rather because it giueth more countenance to that booke de vita morte Sanctorum to haue bene written by S. Isidor President in that Councell and taking as it seemeth that Muzaraban Office as warrant for his writing that S. Philip the Apostle was in Gallia as also Freculphus followed the steps of S. Isidor in the same Assertion for better deciding whereof because the Muzaraban Office is so breife as I haue related in this matter and I haue set downe the words of Freculphus before I will and what S. Isidor or other Authour of that booke hath written of this busines which is as followeth Philippus à Bethsaida ciuitate Isidor Hispal Episcopus l. de vita morte Sanctorum cap. 75. vnde Petrus Gallis praedicat Christum Barbarasque gentes vicinasque tenebris tumenti Oceano coniunctas ad scientiae lumen fideique portum deducit Deinde in Hierapoli Phrygiae Prouinciae Vrbe crucifixus lapidatusque obijt Philip of the citie Bethsaida from whence also Peter was preacheth Christ to the Gaules and bringeth Barbarous Nations and neare to darknes and ioyned to the swelling Ocean to the light of knowledge and tbe heauen of faith and after dyed crucifixed and stoned in Hierapolis a citie of the Prouince of Phrygia The very words of Freculphus before so that it is euident the one of these receaued them from the other and after these Hartmanus Schedel vseth the same phrase Philippus Hartm Sched Chronic. chron f. 202. p. 1. Gallias accepit that S. Philip had the Countryes Galliae Yet neither he nor any of the others make him the Apostle of this next Gallia or France neyther doe any of the Historians of France or Antiquities thereof best to be credited in such causes make mention of S. Philip or any other Apostle besides S. Peter and S. Paule to haue preached in that kingdome neyther any others but such as were Disciples vnto them and not to S. Philip or any other of the Apostles to haue taught the faith of Christ in that Nation 2. Neyther doth any of our French Historians once alledge or interpret M. Pniel I Tigeon M. Clem. Merch. M. I. le Frere de Leual in hist Andre Chesne hist general d'Angleterre d'Escosse d'Irland pag. 152. Bed Martyrol cal Maij. Martyr Rom. 1. die Maij. Vsuard Martyrol cod die Dorotheus in Synopsi in S. Phil. Magdeb. cent 1. in S. Philip Apost Prot. comm Booke in F. S. Philippi Calend. 1. Maij. eyther S. Isidor or Freculphus to vnderstand this next France by any Gallia or place where they write S. Philip preached But expound them both as they onely ment he preached in Scythia and CouÌ„tries farre remote from this France And so they expounde Freculphus himselfe in the place alledged Vincentius Abdias Nicephorus Sabellicus Eusebius Simeon Metaphrastes Clement of Alexandria and Policrates are of that minde So likewise teacheth S. Bede the Roman Martyrologe Vsuardus Dorotheus the Magdeburgian Protestants and the Protestants of England in their most authorised publike Church seruice booke Calenders and others And this is sufficiently testified and expressed in the words of S. Isidor and Freculphus before both of them plainely auouching that the Gaules and people to whome S. Philip preached were Barbarae gentes vicinae tenebris tumenti Oceano coniunctae Barbarous Nations neare Inhabitants vnto Countries of darkenes and conioyned to the swelling Ocean which haue no resemblance at all to this our Gallia but quite contrary or different For this Gallia is farre remote from either of the Poles Artike or Antartike and so by many degrees remoued from all Nations liuing in darknes Neither is the sea which is next to this Gallia tumens Oceanus that Ocean which is termed the swelling but Oceanus Scythicus the Ocean of Scythia where S. Philip by all Antiquities preached Neither was this Gallia at that time or any other euer esteemed a Barbarous Nation by any credible writer late or auncient Christian or Pagan Catholike Protestant or other but as a Protestant Cosmographer with others testifieth Fuit Gallia ab antiquis temporibus semper culta tam in vrbibus Sebastian MuÌ„st Cosmograph l. 2 cap. 38. quam in oppidis quam in agris hortis pratis Et vt strabo scribit qui tempore Incarnationis Christi vixit nullus tunc fuit angulus in Gallia incultus praeter lacus nemora quae culturam non admittunt Gallia was euer from auncient times repleniâ—â—â—d as well with cities as with Townes as with Feilds Orchards and Medowes and as Strabo writeth who liued in
amissam se recuperare posse sine Gallica virtute arbitrarentur The youth of the Gaules at that time was so plentifull that they filled as it were with a swarme all Asia finally neither did the Kings of the East make warre without an army of Gaules neither did Kings driuen froÌ„ their seats fly vnto others for succour then to the Gaules The Terrour of the Gaulish name was so greate and their vnuincible felicitie in armes such that they thought they could not keepe their maiesty in safetie nor recouer it being lost without the Gaulish puissance And our CouÌ„try Historian Matthew of Westminster relating the same Matt. Westm hist aetate 5. Stowe Howes hist in Belin. and BreÌ„nus Galfrid Monum histor Briton l. 3. Pont. Virun hist Brit. l. 3. Hâ—er Gebuin l. de libert Germ. cap. 12. Sebast Munster Cosm lib. 1. History of Brennus Leader of the Gaules being three hundred thowsands affirmeth sua prole totam Asiam repleuâ—runt they filled all Asia with their Issue And so gaue the name of Gallia or Gallatia vnto their posteritie 5. The like haue other English Historians Stowe Howes and the Brittish History with Ponticus Virunnius doe not differ of which this last writeth Exercitus eius adhuc Galatae nominantur his army or the posterity of it are called Galathians to this day Which name Galathians is the same with Gaules as also Galatia and Gallia are Onely with this difference that the Greekes more vsually called both the Gaules of Asia those next to vs in Europe Galathians and Galathia as their first auncient denomination was for as both Hieronymus Gebuinus and Sebastian Munster a Protestant with many others well proue this next Gallia was first called Galatia a Galate Rege of their King of that name and they were the Romans which altered it taking a sillable away and naming it for breuitie Gallia Romani autem dementes vnam syllabam pro Gallatia Galliam appellarunt And the old Greeke writer as Dion Cassius Dion Epitom p. 252. in Caio Calig Dion in Caesare Aug. p. 214. p. 313. in Vitellio Eutrop. l. 9. p. 122. Zosimus l. 4. in Gratiano Theodos Theoret in Epist Pauli in Id. Cresc in Galatia Godw. conu of Britaine p. 2. Eutropius Zosimus and S. Paul himself as both Theoderet and a Protestant English Bishop with others expownde him did call this our next Gallia by the first name Gallatia and these Gaules Galathians So doth Ammianus Mercellinus with others which a Protestant Bishop shall thus confirme Ammianus Mercellinus saith Gallos sermone Graeco Galatas dici solere That in the Greeke languadge the Gaules were vsed to be called Gallathians and thereof we haue a plaine testomony in Theodoret that writing of that place of the Apostle CresceÌ„s into Galatia c. sic Gallias appellauit saith he By which testimonyes it is made inuinciblye euident that S. Isidor Freculphus being Latine Authours followed the phrase of speach of the Romans and Latins and called the Asian Gallatia or Gallia plainely Gallia as the Latins vsually did and that they onely ment that S. Philip the Apostle preached in that Asiaticall Gallia and not in this of Europe neare vnto vs where or neare vnto it he neuer was 6. And yet to giue the greatest credit we may to them that would haue In what sence S. Philip the Apostle may be named the Apostle of the Frenchmen descending from Sicambria where he preached S. Philip to be named also the Apostle of these next Gaules and FraÌ„kes though he was neuer in that Nation whereas it is the common opinion of French and other Antiquaries that they came from Sicambria the Sicambers or Frankes by the Maeotides paludes betweene Scythia of Europe and Asia our Countriman Ingulphus Abbot of Crowland solueth this difficultie vnto vs in this manner Beatus Christi Apostolus Philippus cum Scythis verbum dei praedicasset plurimos eorum ad fidem Christi conuertisset rediens in Asiam per Sicambros viam fecit ac illis Christi nomen primus annunciauit De quibus exeuntes Ingulphus in Hist Croland Franci vt plures eorum Hierochronographi testantur beatum Philippum Apostolum suum specialem Protodoctorem Neopostolum adhuc tenent Philip the blessed Apostle of Christ hauing preached the word of God to the Scythians and conuerted very many of them to the faith of Christ returning into Asia passed by the Sicambers and first preached the name of Christ vnto them From which the Frankes or Frenchmen being descended as many of their holy Chronographers doe witnesse they accompt S. Philip the Apostle for their speciall first doctor and new Apostle So we haue credibly fownde how S. Philip the Apostle might in a lardge manner of speach be called the Apostle of those Frankes or Frenchmen which came from Sicambria but not of the auncient Gaules of this Gallia which came not from thence S. Philip the Apostle could not diâ—ectly send S. Ioseph hither from Sâ—â—aÌ„bria or any other place 7. Neither could S. Philip send S. Ioseph from Sicambria directly into this our Britaine for the time when he preached in Sicambria was by this authoritie long before his death and yet he was as I haue allready proued Martyred many yeares before S. Ioseph came into Britaine yet doe I not deny but S. Ioseph might be some time with S. Philip the Apostle when he was among the Gaules of Asia and other Nations there and that when he Hector Boeth hist Scot lib. 4. Holinsh. Hist of Scotl. Stow. Hist in Marius Galfrid Monu Hist Reg. Brit. l. 4. c. 17. Pont. Virun Hist Brit. lib. 4. Matth. Westm anno 75. came hither he came though long after S. Philips death from parts not farre remote from thence For we reade in our Scottish and other Histories that about this time greate numbers of those Countries arriued and setled in our Ilands and Northren parts among whome Hector Boethius speaking of this time of S. Iosephs landing heare saith sub id tempus populus quidam Morauiae vt nostris Annalibus est prodituÌ„ Romanis armis profligati suisque pulsi sedibus dispalatim ad Rheni Ostia deuenere Vndâ— conglobati nauibus vtcunque comparatis nouas sedes quaerendi gratia per vastos incognitosque maris tractus errauere prohibiti tandem Gallicis Britanicis Oris ab â—arum Incolis in Fortheam sunt delati About that time a certaine people of Morauia as our Annales doe testifie being driuen away by the Romans and expelled from their Seats came wandering to the mouth of Rhyne where gathered together and getting shipping as well as they could did roue through the vaste and vnknowne passadges of the Sea and being forbidden landing either on the French or Brittish Coastes by their Inhabitants they came to Forth by Pictland Where we see the time when place from whence this people came and where they landed and other circumstances agree with the Iorney of S. Ioseph
South west and Easte Quid saccr ille simul Paulus tuba gentibus ampla Per mare per terras Christi praeconia fundens Europam Asiam Lybiam sale dogmata complens Et qua sol radijs tendit stylus ille cucurrit Arctus Meridies hic plenus vesper ortus Which cannot literally be verified of S. Paule or any man that euer was and then immediately followe the two before cited verses Transijt Oceanum quasque Britannus habet terras To testifie they were to be taken in the same sense Britaine being called by some an other wolde and Thule the vtmost end of the then commonly knowne globe of the earth which is further proued by the next and immediate words hauing reference in construction with his verse of Britaine for he maketh a distinction and stay at the and of the first verse Transijt Oceanum To testifie he ment not Britaine but all Ilands by the words Vel qua facit Insula portâ—m And then addeth as a narration of an other different thing Quasque Britannus habet terras atque vltima Thyle Buccina concrepuit Regiones vna per omnes That S. Paule sounded forth the doctrine of Christ through all Regions which either the Britans or they of Thule did possesse And then further reckoneth all other Nations conuerted by S. Peter and S. Paule and how they both preached in all the world Ambo triumphantes spargunt noua dona per orbem The like Hiperbolicall speach he vseth of S. Paule in an other place saying Venant Fortun. Libell ad Iustin Iunior Imperatorem SophiaÌ„ Aug. the wheele of his tongue did runne about the Poles of the world and to thowsands of Nations be preached Quod cecinit Paulus passim tuba millibus vna Gentibus stupidis fudit ab ore salem Cuius quadratum linguae rota circuit exem And plainely saith that both S. Peter and S. Paule preached through out Venant Fortun. in vita S. Martin the vniuersall world Dogmata quae Christi totum sparsere per orbem Theodoret cited by Protestants doth not in any place affirme that S. Paul preached in Britaine And thus concerning venantius Fortunatus 4. Now let vs come to Theodoret and Sophronius The first place which our Protestants alledge from Theodoret for S. Pauls preaching heare is in his 9. booke de curandis Graecorum affectionibus and thus vrged as also Sophronius by these men Sophronius Patriarke of Hierusalem and Theodoret an auncient Doctor of the Church doe affirme and approue saying that Fishers Publicans and Theater of great Britaine l. 6. c. 9. Sophron. serm of the Natiuitie of the Apostle Theodoret. de Curand Graec. affect l. 9. the Tentmaker meaning S. Paule which brought the Euangelicall light vnto all Nations reuealed the same vnto the Britans But if this were so testified by these Fathers it no more proueth that S. Paule brought the EuaÌ„gelicall light hither then all the other Apostles which no man will affirme for it is spoken equally of them all meaning as the words be plaine that the whole company of the Apostles ioyned together and some preaching in one Nation some in others both preached in Britaine and the other Nations as the words of Theodoret being these which follow are manifest nostri illi Piscatores ac Publicani Theodoret. l. 9. contra Graecos Sutorque ille noster cunctis Nationibus legem Euangelicam detulerunt Neque solum Romanos quique sub Romano degunt Imperio sed Scythas quoque ac Sauromatas Indos praeterea Aethiopes Persas Setas Hircanos Britannos Timerios Germanos vtque semel dicatur omne hominum genus Nationesque omnes induxerunt Crucifixi leges accipere Which by no possibilitie can be verified or vnderstood to be spoken onely of S. Paule but all the Apostles together of which some one at the least as S. Peter before did preach to the Britans and caused them to receaue the Lawe of Christ crucified And to manifest this more fully the same Author Theodoret speaking in an other place of the trauailes and preaching of S. Paul in particular neuer bringerh him nearer to Britaine then Rome or Spaine thus he writeth of that holy Apostle Beatus Paulus Theodoret. in ps 116. breuiter docet quot gentibus salutaria praeconia attulit inquiens ita vt ab Hierusalem per circuitum vsque ad Illericum repleuerim Euangelium Christi postea igitur in Italiam venit in Hispanias peruenit Insulis quae in mari iacent vtilitatem attulit Romanis quidem scribens ait spero enim cum in Hispanias proficisci caepero quod praeteriens videam vos à vobis deducar illuc Et admirabili Tito scribens inquit huius rei gratia reliqui te Cretae vt coÌ„stituas per Ciuitates Presbyteros sicut ego disposui tibi Where we are fully told and assured that Theodoret doth not write that S. Paul came nearrer vnto Britaine then Rome or Spaine for he expoundeth himself what Ilands he meaneth S. Paul brought Saluation vnto when he exemplifieth in Crete and the Ilands in the Adriake sea where he ordained S. Titus Bishop and it was Metropolitane to the others Ptolomaeus Geogr Munster in Creta Abraham Ortel alij Ioannes Leuncl de ordine Ecclesiarum Constantinopoli subiect Prouincial Roman Hier. Catal in Titus Doroth Synops in eod Theodoret. epist Act. cap. 27. cap. 28. c. 13. c. 20. Godwin Conu p. 7. Tree Conuers part 1. p. 21. Magdeburg cent 1. l. 2. cap. 10 col 595. aunciently knowne by the name Ecatompolis the Iland of an hundred Cities hauing so many in it and the Metropolis of it was Metropolis and Archiepiscopall See to the adiacent Ilands as we are assured by Ioannes Leunclauius Prouincialis Romanus antiquus and others more auncient as S. Hierome and Dorothaeus and Theodoret in his defensory Epistle where he testifieth that being Bishop of Cyprus he had 800. Churches vnder him Octingentis Ecclesijs Pastor essem And the Scripture itselfe telleth vs of diuers Ilands in that Sea onely where S. Paule was as Cyprus Crete itselfe where he ordayned S. Titus Bishop Clauda Melita and others And absurd it is which the same Protestant Bishop before cited from N. D. the Authour of the Three Conuersions that Theodoret saith plainely and expressely vpon the 116. Psalme that S. Paule preached in Britaine that Authour affirming no such thing but speaking in the name of the Magdeburgian Protestants who if they so teach they are mistaken therein as I haue proued before Theodoret hauing no such saying there or in any other place and there not so much as naming Britaine or Britans and the Magdeburgian Protestans seeme also to be of opinion that S. Paul was neuer in Britaine for dilating at lardge the Trauailes of that holy Apostle and teaching how a litle before his death he preached in Italy Spaine France and other parts of the west In Italia Gallia Hispania alijs Occidentis
partibus docuit Euangelium they name not Britaine except coniecturally Sophronius teacheth not that S. Paul preached in Britaine they include it in that clause and other parts of the west 5. Now to come to their other Authour Sophronius Patriarke of Hierusalem who as some Protestants before and some Catholiks also write doth teach in his Sermon of S. Peter and Paul and as a Protestant Doctor affirmeth 3. CoÌ„uers part 1. Engl. Martyr in S. Paul Sutcliffe subuers pag. 4. Sophron. l. aut Serm. de Petro Paulo in his Sermon of the Natiuitie of Christ that S. Paule preached in Britaine there is no such thing or the like in any of those Sermons Onely I finde in his Sermon or Booke of S. Peter and Paule how he writeth of S. Peter in this manner illi mundi procuratio committitur traduntur caelestium the saurorum claues Super caetum Apostolorum constitutus est vbique seminando verbum vitae the chardge of the world is committed to S. Peter and the keyes of the celestiall treasures The charge of the world committed to S. Peter are deliuered vnto him sowing the worde of life euery where Therefore these Authorities so magnified by Protestants for S. Pauls preaching heare cannot warraÌ„t vs in that behalfe Which some of their best Protestant Antiquaries haue both obserued and plainely confessed One of them thus writeth of the cheifest Harrison descrition of Britaine p. 22. 23. Authoritie some repose greate assurance vpon Theodoret that Paul the Apostle should preach the word of saluation heare after his deliuery out of Captiuitie But sith I cannot verefy the same by the words of Theodoret to be spoken more of Paul then Peter or the rest I will passe ouer this coniecture And their greate first Protestant Archbishop seeing the weaknes of the proofes for this opinion doth Matth. Parker Antiquit. BritaÌ„nic p. 2. 3. plainely say that S. Paul was not heare in parson at all And is coÌ„tent to acknowledge it for an vncredible vnpossible thing also that S. Paul was heare either parsonally by him himselfe in presence which he vtterly disableth or by sending Protestants confesse S. Paul was nâ—uer in Britaine any others hither except he conuerted Claudia Rufina our Brittish Lady at Rome the contrary whereof is euident and she sent the Christian faith to her freinds in Britaine hoc quod Pontificij incredibile atque adeo impossibile statuunt cum vero cohaeret maximè Quanquam enim ipse ad hanc Insulam profectus S. Claudia a Brittish Lady a Christian before S. Paul his first coming to Rome non sit tameÌ„ Claudiae Rufinae nobilissimae Britannae Graecis Latinisque literis instructae Christianam Religionem suasisse perspicuum est Hanc itaque iam ad Christum conuersam non minus est verisimile Christiana dogmata ad Britannos misisse suos quam ante acceptam fidem Epigrammata Martialis What a chimericall conceipted vntruth this is will more appeare when I come to this our Noble British Lady a Christian in Rome long before S. Pauls first coming thither An other a Protestant Bishop among them is witnes that it is so farre from a common and allowable opinion that S. Paul was in Britaine that diuers auncient and worthie Authours exclude him from Spaine itselfe and all other Westerne Nations except Italy whither he was brought a Prisoner to Rome Innocentius the first Bishop of Rome saith plainely that non of the Apostles Godwin Conu of Brit. p. 6. except Peter taught either in Spaine or in any other part of the west And Thomas Aquinas grounding himselfe vpon the Iudgment of Gelasius deliuered by Gratian vtterly denieth the repaire of S. Paul into Spaine So doth Dominicus Soto yeelding for his opinion that no auncient writer euer mentioned that voyadge And the French Historians Nicholas vignier and Francis Burgoing make it Nichol. Vignier Biblioth historial an 61. FraÌ„cis Burgoing l. 2. c. 1. l. 3. c. 2. Rom. cap. 15. very doubtfull the first saith it is not found by any certaine and trustiâ— Authours The other saith S. Paule did promise to goe into Spaine but it is not certaine that he was there THE XXX CHAPTER HOW IT IS VERY PROBABLE THAT S. Paule preached heare in Britayne allthough not vntill long after that S. Peter and his Disciples had first heare founded the Church of Christ 1. BVT although I may not be so confident as these our Protestants haue ben vpon so weake and slender foundations to builde an vndeniable and vnquestionable certaintie of S. Paules being preaching heare in Britayne Yet I doe not doubt but standing vpon other grounds then they haue done I may both publish it for a morally warrantable historicall truth that S. Paul preached heare that we may honour him for one of our holy Apostles sette downe a prefixed time though neare his death of his coming hither as also some few things which in morall Iudgment he performed heare And to S. Paul preached in Britaine begin with his coming hither we haue diuers both auncient and later Authorities to settle vs in that opinion First Eusebius himselfe bringeth him into our Neighboring Countries Italy Spaine and France to preach the Ghospell Dicitur peregre profectus in Hispaniam Italiam Christi Praeco verbum Eusebius Hist Eccl. l. 2. disseminasse Therefore coming of purpose to these parts to preach and to parts farre from Rome peregre profectus Christi Praeco and to sowe the word round about verbum disseminasse we may not exclude his labours out of this Nation S. Hierome speaketh more plainely and vrgeth the testimonie of S. Paule himselfe to intitle our Britaine so greate a part of the western world to be partaker of the preaching of S. Paul and speaketh as though God had ordayned his libertie from Prison to that end Sciendum Paulum â— Nerone dimissum Hieron in Catal. Scrip. in S. Paulo Apostolo vt Euangelium Christi in Occidentis quoque partibus praedicaret sicut ipse scribit in secunda Epistola ad Timotheum eo tempore quo passus est de vinculis dictans Epistolam In prima mea satisfactione nemo mihi affuit sed omnes me dereliquerunt non eis imputetur Dominus autem mihi affuit confortauit me vt per me praedicatio compleretur vt audirent omnes gentes Thus S. Hierome contendeth to proue by S. Pauls owne words and testimonie that he preached in these parts and his words vt per me praedicatio compleretur vt audirent omnes gentes that by mee the preaching might be fully knowne and that all the Gentiles 2. Tim. 4. v. 17. might heare as our Protestants translate doe proue no lesse For it is euident by S. Paul himselfe and all others that after his returne into the Eastern parts he preached vnto those he had instructed before and not fulfilled all his preaching there nor all the Gentils did or could heare him
in the later end of the twelfth yeare of Nero as S. Simeon Metaphrastes noteth and the next yeare coming to Rome preached there some time and was Martyred in the beginning of the 14. and last yeare of Nero allthough Matthew of Westminster and some others set downe the death of S. Peter in the 13. yeare of Nero differing from those that say Nero killed S. Peter S. Paul and himselfe the 14. and last yeare of his Empire Nero Petrum se interfecit 2. By this we see the exceeding greate Pastorall and Fatherly care and S. Petâ—rs Pastorall â—are of Britaine â—â—nding Châ—ists Church in it loue of this greatest Apostle S. Peter to this kingdome that allthough he was so extraordinarily admonished by the holy Angel to returne to Rome yet he neither would nor did forsake this Nation vntill he had perfectly settled such an Hierarchicall Order and holy gouernement heare as I haue described and was needfull in the first founding of the Church of Christ among so many Countries and Prouinces of this Western world And the loue and dutie of many Britans especially such as were not so perfectly intructed in the faith cannot be thought but to haue bene reciprocall to that supreame Pastor How it is pâ—obable diuâ—rs Britans went with S. Peter from hence to Râ—me in so greate degree that it moued many of them to attend him in his returne to Rome to be better instructed in true Religion as diuers also after his departure hence did vndertake that Iorney to that end such as S. Beatus and his Associate were And S. Peter being now come to Rome immediately from this kingdome without staying in that Iorney as may be sufficiently gathered out of the words and admonition of the Angel vnto him before his going hence and both hauing in his company diuers Britans and at Rome finding yet aliue as appeareth by S. Paul writing to S. Timothie before diuers Christian Baron Tom. 2. Annal. Ann. 165. S. Iustin apud â—und supr Britans in that house which as is shewed before and Baronius from S. Iustine and others proueth was both his and other Christians common lodging patebat domus Pudentis ab initio Petri Romam aduentus hospitio Christianorum we are sufficiently allowed to be of that opinion that he was entertained now at this his coming againe to Rome froÌ„ Britaine in the same house as at S. Pâ—ter at 〈…〉 to Râ—m◠〈…〉 recâ—auâ—d againe in our Bâ—â—â—â—ns â—ouse with many â—â—herâ— his first coming and vsually in the time of his continuance and residence there And in this Noble Christian Britans house it seemeth S. Peter among other his Apostolicall labours and designments for the Church of God wrote his second Epistle wherein he maketh memory of some memorable things that chanced vnto him by all probable Iudgment in this Nation as of the Angells appearing vnto him the forewarning of his death at hand and that S. Peter in his 2. 〈◊〉 sâ—â—meth to 〈◊〉 â—f the visioÌ„ 〈…〉 â—râ—taâ—â—e it should be in Rome Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewâ—d mee As our English Protestants translatâ— which words of the holy Apostle doe seeme to haue reference vnto that Apparition and admonition to him of his death at hand of which I haue spoken 2. 〈◊〉 1. vers 14. before For we doe not finde in Histories more then two warnings heareof giuen by Christ to S. Peter the first and most euident in Britaine and the other more obscure at Rome recorded by S. Linus Egesippus S. Bede and Linus l. de Pass Apost Egesipp de excid Hieros l. 3. c. 2. Beda Sermone de S. Petro Paulo Tom. 7. others when S. Peter a litle before his death being sought for by Nero and willed by the Christians to forsake Rome to auoide the fury of the persecuting Tyrant being come to the gate of the Citie Christ appeared vnto him and being demanded by S. Peter whether he went Domine quo vadis Christ answered Iterum veniâ— crucifigi Which S. Peter interpreted to be spoken of his Passion because Christ who suffereth in all his members was also to suffer with S. Peter Intellexit Petrus de sua dictum passione quod in ea Christus passurus videretur qui patitur in singulis non vtique corporis dolore sed quadam misericordiae compassione aut gloriae celebritate And this cannot be well construed to be that admonition of his death which S. Peter wrote off in his Epistle being both obscure and in all probable Iudgment after the writing of that his Epistle and immediatly before his apprehension and death as appeareth by those Authours affirming S. Peter was presently taken and martyred conuâ—rsus in vrbem redijt captusque à persecutoribus cruci adiudicatus Therefore seeing besides this so obscure admonition giuen to S. Peter by Christ of his death we finde no other but that most cleare and manifest foretelling thereof to S. Peter by an holy Angel in Britaine we must needs conclude that the holy Apostle in that passadge of his Epistle how he should shortly leaue the Tabernacle and dwelling place of his soule his mortall body as our Lord Iesus Christ had shewed vnto him did this Nation that honour to remember in his holy writings that foresight and admonition of his end approaching made vnto him by the heauenly vision and Instruction thereof which he had in Britaine And signifiing in the first words of this his laste Epistle that he wrote it to all beleeuing Christians at that time saying Simon Peter a Seruant and an Apostle 2. Petr. 1. v. 1. 2. of Iesus Christ to them that haue obtayned like pretious faith with vs grace and peace S. Peters care and loue to Britaine to his death and after in heauen by his owne promise be multiplied We must needs acknowledge that coming then immediately from the Christians in this Nation whome he had so lately conuerted he most fatherly remembred them with others in those words and the whole Epistle following especially where he writeth I thinke it meete as long as I am in this Tabernacle to stirre you vp by putting you in remembrance Knowing that Vers 13. 14. 15. shortly I must pute of this my Tabernacle euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed mee Moreouer I will endeuour that you may be able after my decease to haue these things allwayes in remembrance In which wordes this our kingdome of Britaine doth most iustly claime that S. Peter remembred it and rather then any other citing there the admonition which he receaued by the holy Angell heare and there protesteth his greate care he had of this CouÌ„try that it might not onely during his life but after his death remaine constant in the profession of Christian Religion And by Oecumenius and diuers others both the Greeke and Latine Text giuing way to that exposition S. Peter did there promise
litle before his Passiō he said vnto him I haue asked for thee that thy faith faile not That is the faith of the Church which I haue commited to thee And Peter when he knew his passion to be at hand tooke S. Clement whome he had conuerted and baptized and ordained him Bishop and committed to his gouernment his See and Church which he had gouerned and so he was made the successor of S. Peter in that See For where we reade that Linus and Cletus were the successors of S. Peter we must so vndestand it that while he liued they were his Coadiutors in gouerning the people of God at Rome and for that end they were ordained Bishops as an auntient Pope writeth to the Bishops of Germanie and France which must needs be this Epistle of Pope Ihon the third before mentioned both the subiect being the same this auncient Authour related and written to the Bishops of Germany and France as the beginning of that verie Epistle is thus an able testimonie Ioannes Episcopus vniuersis Germaniae Galliae prouincias constitutis in Domino salutē So we haue besids a world of other witnesses the Decretall Epistles of two aunciēt Popes Io. Pap. 3. in fine Epist Marian. Scot. Florent Wigor supr Bed in Martyr Manuscript an t in Bibliotheca publ Cantabrigiae volum 28. tract 9. Sabellicus l. 9. Ennead 7. Henticus Hunting hist l. 3. this of Pope Ihon aboue a thowsād yeares since who in the end of this Epistle calleth it his Decree and the other of S. Leo so named by S. Marianus Florentius Wigorniensis and others Leo secundus in sua decretali Epistola To these I may add S. Damasus Pope commonly esteemed Authour of the Pontificall cited by S. Bede before Anastasius time to whom Bellarmin asscribeth it and directly said in an old Manuscript in Cambridge to be written by Damasus Gesta Romanorum Pontificium Authore Damaso 3. So writeth Sabellicus saying S. Damasus was authour of it and gaue it to S. Ierome to peruse Damasus omnium qui antese fuerant Pontificum vitas monumentis tradidit deditque id opus Hyeronimo cognoscendū and it is euery where approued by our best Historians Florentius Wigorniensis William of Malmesbury Henry of Huntington and others among which this last saith plainely for this matter that S. Augustine did ordayne S. Laurence his Successour at Canterbury in his life time as S. Peter did S. Clement at Rome Laurentium vero adhuc viuens ordinauerat Augustinus in Archiepiscopum exemplo S. Petri qui Clementē similiter ordinauerat I haue cited Florentius Wigorniensis sor the same opinion before S. Damasus saith plainely that S. Peter consecrated S. Clement Bishop and committed his See and the Church to his chardge leauing vnto him that highest spirituall Pontificall power which Christ committed vnto him Petrus beatum Clementem Episcopum consecrauit cui Cathedram vel Ecclesiam omnino disponendam commisit dicens sicut mihi gubernandi tradita est à Domino meo Iesu Christo potestas ligandi soluendique ita ego tibi committo And if I should grant vnto Bellarmin which truth of History will not permit mee that Anastasius who liued 800. yeares since was Authour of this worke his allowance is that I haue him a publikely approued witnes for this matter so many hundred yeares auncient Which he confirmeth also in the life of S. Clement as also this Epistle to 8. Iames testifying from the same Epistle that S. Peter committed the Papall dignitie and chardge of the Church to him and that Linus and Cletus are numbred before him onely because S. Peter made them Bishops before that time Clemens ex praecepto beati Petri suscepit Damasus in S. Clemente Ecclesiae Pontificatum gubernandum sicut ei fuerat à Domino Iesu Christo Cathedra tradita vel commissa Tamen in Epistola quae ad Iacobum scripta est qualiter ei commissa est à beato Petro Ecclesia reperies Ideo Linus Cletus ante cum scribuntur quia ab ipso Principe Apostolorum ad ministerium Sacerdotale exhibendum sunt Episcopi ordinati The like is testified by S. Clement in his third Epistle not subiect to that censure some taxe this with in that it is written to S. Iames Bishop of Hierusalem thought to be dead at this time where he plainely calleth S. Peter his Ordinator beatus Petrus Instructor Ordinator noster The Clemens Rom. Epist 3. l. Recognit Gelasius Catal. Illustr Vir. in Rufino like he doth in those bookes which with Gelasius and Rufinus who translated them out of Greeke allmost 1300. yeares since by common agreemcnt all acknowledge to be S. Clements vndoubted works And the mayne obiection against this Epistle of S. Iames the Apostle his death before S. Peter is not worthie recitall For Nichephorus Marianus Florentius Wigorniensis Martinus Polonus and others which acknowledge that yet approue this Epistle and S. Clement to haue bene chosen Successour to S. Peter by that testimony And S. Dorotheus that auncient Father and many others are witnesses S. Dorothaeus li. de 72. Discip l. de 12. Apostolis that the next Successour to the first S. Iames first Bishop of Hierusalem was besides his other name Simon or Simeon called also Iames and by the Hebrew phrase of speaking calling neare kinsmen Brothers named the Brother of our Lord as the first Iames his Brother was by that custome 4. Therefore I may now boldly say with our holy and learned auncient Marian. Scotus l. 2. aetate 6. in Adriano S. Aldelmus l. de laudib Virginitatis c. 12. Bishop Saint Aldelmus conuerted by S. Gregory the greate as he himselfe writeth à quo rudimenta fidci baptismi Sacramenta suscepimus that S. Clement was the first Successour of S. Peter and the second Gouernour of the Roman Church allthough some in vaine and without cause preferre Linus and Cletus before him Clemens caelestis Clauicularij primus Successor secundus Romanae Ecclesiae dispensator quanquam nonnulli Linum Anacletum in Pontificatus Regimine nequaquam S. Clement yeelded the Papacy to S. Linus soone after S. Peters death sine causa praeferant Yet I doe freely and willingly yeeld to saue the honour and manner of speaking of the Roman Martyrologe and some auncient Fathers for the Canon of the Masse naming S. Linus and Cletus before S. Clement hath onely meaning of prioritie in time that as Baronius interpreteth S. Epiphanius and Rufinus and might haue added many more S. Clement gaue place to these to execute the Apostolike dignitie before him and vpon Baron Annal. Tom. 1. an Christi 69. Henric. Spondan p. 124. Epiph. haer 27. Rufin Praefat. in Clem. Wern Rolwink Fascic temp an 94. this motiue as some haue written least by accepting the chardge imposed one him by S. Peter in his life he might leaue an example of daunger to other Prelates to substitute Successours whome they
of S. Ioseph is too manifest a mistaking for I haue proued in the first Age that S. Ioseph and all of that company or Schoole as this Authour termeth it were dead within the first huÌ„dred yeares of Christ long before Eluanus was borne Neyther is it credible with mee that any of the immediate Disciples for he speaketh in the plurall number ab ipsis Apostolorum Discipulis of the Apostles were liuing heare in Britaine in the Papacie of Eleutherius when this man was but a Catechumen by them that hold he was first sent to Rome from King Lucius after Eleutherius was now Pope or by those which as before assigne his going to Rome twenty yeares sooner for betweene this and the death of the Apostles S. Peter and S. Paule are 87. yeares at the least and whosoeuer were or could be accompted their Disciples in proper sense were so old at the Apostles death that if now liuing and heare in Britaine they were an hundred yeares of age Of which age in this Country I dare not take vpon mee to finde Disciples of the Apostles Onely I graunt as I haue done before that by the greate prouidence of God one of this Nation and S. Peters Disciple S. Mansuetus was probably then liuing but he was but one and liued most at Tullum or Treuers where he was Bishop farre from Glastenbury or any part of Britaine 8. And if there had bene any probable Authoritie that these men had bene borne in that part I would haue thought my phrase harsh in History if I had termed the one of them an Aualonian and the other a Belgian for the I le of Aualon is hard by welles Glastenbury itselfe but three English miles from welles and part of Belgia aswell as welles and so euery Aualonian was a Belgian and a Belgian borne about welles in ea circa welliam parte was not vnproperly an Aualonian the I le of Aualon there circuiting about it no Christian was probably in that part of the Country but in Aualonia the onely Residency of S. Ioseph and his holy company and onely alloted and enfranchised for Christians by the donation and priuiledge of our Kings then Aruiragus Marius and Coillus And Eluanus brought vp and instructed where S. Ioseph liued as this Authour our Protestants before haue written if it were so could not possibly be ignorant of that very place where he liued and was instructed in the Christian faith neyther so neare a neighbour and companion vnto him as Meduuinus was by these writers could be without all knowledge thereof yet by all the Antiquities of Glastenbury before neytheâ— of them knew this Mansion of S. Ioseph the most memorable and reuerenced place of this kingdome then with Christians Therefore we must trauaile further then any part of Belgia to finde but with probabilitie where these Ambassadours were borne and instructed in the Christian faith in Britaine before they were sent to Rome Cambridge hath pleaded for them before with more congruitie and lesse inconuenience then any part of the Belgae inhabitants can doe so perhaps might Stamford Burton where the Cambridge Schollers are thought to haue bene baptised so might diuers Schooles of the Druids where were many learned men such as Eluanus and Meduuinus are described vnto vs so farre remote froÌ„ the Belgae and Glastenbury and lately instructed in the faith of Christ that they might pleade Ignorance without sinne or shame of S. Ioseph his Chappell and Eremiticall habitation I may likewise so say of the Court itselfe of King Lâ—cius where so many learned Christians and Catechumens were now and 〈◊〉 whence these were sent as the custome and vsadge of Kings is to send 〈◊〉 Ambassadours such as be in grace in Court with them In all which places many learned men then liued but no such no Schoole or place of learning at this time for any thing I finde in Antiquities was about or neare to welles or Aualon then it being a Desart From whence in particular they were I dare â—ot yet for want of sufficient warrant certainely determine THE XV. CHAPTER THE MISSION OF THE HOLY LEGATS S. Damianus Fugatianus Bishops and diuers others from S. Eleutherius Pope of Rome at the request of S. Lucius King heare in Britaine by Authoritie to plant and setle heare the true Christian Religion 1. THese renowned Brittish Ambassadours of King Lucius being now arriued at Rome with letters Commission and Instructions for their proceeding in so greate and important busines presented themselues with their Kings humble and earnest petition to the holy Pope Eleutherius Whether they came now immediately from Britaine as most seeme to affirme or had bene for some and no short time before in Rome and in studies there and Instruction in Christian Religion to enable them for such Ecclesiasticall Degrees and functions as they were now shortly to receaue as our Cambridge Antiquaries and others assisted with no contemptible reasons haue allready deliuered and now receaued these letters and Commission from King Lucius about our generall Conuersion I referre my Readers to that I haue written before of this matter But howsoeuer that is to be resolued it is generally agreed vpon among Antiquaries that vpon the deliuery of this Ambassadge the holy Pope Eleutherius appointed for his Legats S. Damianus and Fugatianus with power and Instructions to come hither to effect that happy busines And some say that among others designed for worthie labourers in this renowned worke these Ambassadours of King Lucius were presently employed about it The old Brittish Manuscript Antiquitie of the auncient Church of Landaffe thus relateth it Eleutherius gratias agens Deo suo quod illa gens quae à primo Antiquit. Eccles Landau Manuscript Peruetust Regionis inhabitatore Bruto gentilis fuerat tam ardenter ad fidem Christi festinabat consilio senioris vrbis Romae placuit eosdem Legatos baptizari Catholica fide suscepta ordinari Eluanum in Episcopum Meduuinum autem in Doctorem Et propter eloquentiam scientiam quam habebant in sacris Scripturis Praedicatores ad Lucium in Britanniam reuersi sunt Pope Eleutheriâ—s giuing thanks to God that the Nation which from Brutus the first Inhabiter of the Country had bene euer Pagan did so feruently hasten to the faith of Christ it was agreed vpon by the Counsaile of the elder Rome that the same Ambassadours should be baptized and hauing receaued the Catholike faith Eluan should be consecrated a Bishop and Medwin made a Doctour or Teacher And in respect of the eloquence and knowledge which they had in holy Scripturs they returned Preachers vnto King Lucius in Britaine The old Manuscript History of the life of S. Dubricius and Capgraue following it Manuscrip Antiq de Vit. S. Dubrâ—cij Capgrau Catal. in S. Dubricio haue the verie same words of that Antiquitie so farre as it concerneth this narration 2. I finde few others that be auncient which write of the consecrating any of
old Latine Manuscript History mortuus est Lucius sepultus in Claudiocestria The old Manuscript of S. Peters Church in Cornhill at London auoucheth from diuers Antiquities that he was buried at Gloucester where the Church of S. Francis was after builded being at the time of his death the Cathedrall and Episcopall Church of that Citie as I haue remembred Ihon Harding also witnesseth of this Kings death and bury all at Glocester At Cairglowe buried after his dignitie 6. And not to exclude the testimony of our Protestant Antiquaries in this Relation in their Theater of great Britaine written and coÌ„posed by diuers of their best Historians and published with their common applause and Approbation they make this History of King Lucius his death in Britaine a matter without question true and thus scoffingly condemne those writers Which would carry him to end his dayes in Germanye That this Lucius should be the Apostle to the Bauarians or that his Sister Emerita was crowned with the Flames of Martyrdome fifteene yeares after his death I leaue to the credit of Aegedius Schudus and Hermannus Scedelius the Reporters Others of them plainely say Lucius was buried at Glocester Yet this generall consent of Antiquitie for his first buriall at Glocester doth nothing hinder but as the kuowne deuotion both of the Britans and Saxons after them towards holy Reliks did often and with greate reuerence and solemnitie remoue the bodyes of holy Saints or parts of them for their greater honour So it might or did after fall out with the whole body of this renowned King or some part thereof And the Tradition of Winchester is that the whole body of King Lucius or a greate part thereof being once remoued before was the second time Translated thither there lieth in the bodie of the greate Church vnder a marble stone eleuated about two foote froÌ„ the pauement the same stone being now broken in two places hauing vpon â—t and those holy Reliks a Crosse of 7. greate brasse buttons whereof 5. are set downe in length and the other two making the perfect figure and forme of the Crosse one on each side of the others making the length And this reuerent Translation of King Lucius body to diuers places in Britaine is sufficiently insinuated by the old Authour of the French Manuscript History I Manuscr Gallic sup c. 9. haue cited before who allthough he confidently affirmeth that King Lucius died at Glocester deuia a Gloucestre yet he addeth that he was afterward buried in the cheife See in the Citie of Caerlegion En Leglise del Primer See cest assauoir en la cittie de Legions estoit enterres and this he saith was in the 196. yeare of Christs Incarnation l'an de l'Incartion 196. 4. or 5. yeares sooner then others before haue set downe his death except the forenamed Manuscript Compilation which hath the same Computation of his death saying sepultus Compilatio M. S. de gest Brit. Angl. in Lucio est Anno Incarnationis Dominicae 196. herede carens THE III. CHAPTER HOW NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEATH of King Lucius without Heire to succeede in the gouerment of the kingdome the Brittans perseuered constantly in the Christian faith and the Scots by Preachers sent from Sainct Victor Pope of Rome at the entreatie of their King Donalde receaued the faith and as the Brittans continued in it vntill the Protestants time euen by their owne confessions 1. AND both to assure vs further of the vndoubted truth of those Histories which testifie the death and buriall of King Lucius to haue bene in Britaine and not in any forreine The greate losse Britaine had of King Lucius his death Region as also to giue vs better notice and triall what honour peace and quiet spirituall and temporall with other happines this kingdome enioyed by King Lucius blessed life and loste them by the losse of him it is the constant agreement of Antiquities Galfr. Monum Hist Reg. Brit. l. 5. c. 1. Virun l. 5. Histor Matth. Westm An. 201. Holinshed Hist of Engl. l. 4. c. 19. Compilatio M. S. de gest Brit. Angl. in Lucio that Britaine now made by his death destitute not onely of so worthie a King but also of any certaine Heire or Successor of that Regall Race fell to intestine discord and variance by which it was miserably afflicted long time vpon that occasion Caruerat ille sobole oritur seditio inter Britones de successuro in Regnum Romana potestas infirmata est A Protestant Historian thus writeth in generall of this matter King Lucius dyed without issue by reason whereof after his decease the Brittans fell at variance which continued about the space of fiftene yeares as Fabian thinketh howbe it the old English Cronicle affirmeth that the contention betwixt them remained fifty yeares though Harding affirmeth but foure yeares Which his words of Hardings opinion that this variance among the Brittans continued but 4. yeares are to be ameÌ„ded for Harding setteth downe Matth. Westm An. 205. Florent Wigor in Chro. Marianus Scotus Martin Polon in Seuero Harding Chronic c. 51. f. 44. the dissentions of the Brittans as other Historians doe and maketh them of as long continuance onely he saith that Seuerus the Emperour came hither foure yeares after the death of King Lucius to seeke to appease things so doth Matthew of Westminster Florentius and others as farre as Harding doth his words be these of King Lucius death For cause he had non heire to keepe the land Through all Britaine the Barons gan discord Vnto the time that Romans tooke on hand To chose a Prince by their stedfast accord But 4. yere were gone or then they could accorde In which then Seuer the Senatour Hether came to be their Gouernour Where Harding doth limit the foure yeares onely to the Romans to take notice and deliberate of these things and conclude to send Seuerus hither saying But foure yeares were gone or then they could accorde Meaning the Romans about this matter for it is euident both by Harding and all other Antiquaries that Seuerus did not accord the Britans but the variance continued heare during his whole life and he was slaine at Yorke in the same contention as both Harding and all others testifie Harding saith But King Fulgen of Pightes and Scots againe Harding Chron. c. 53. s 45. With hoost full great seiged Ebranke citee Which Seuer rescowed and was slaine And Fulgen also for beten there did die And he continueth the Brittans warrs and tumults heare long time after Seuerus his death and his sonnes after him as other Antiquaries likewise Christians in Britaine quiet for Religion vntill the Persecution of Dioclesian doe finding litle quiet heare vntill the later end of Constantius Father of Constantiue the Greate Emperour Which will more appeare hereafter so farre as it carrieth any connexion with our Ecclesiasticall History 2. And yet notwithstanding such a worlde of vnquietnes heare
conqu Brit. c. 7. ad Persecutionem Diocletioni Tiranni And not onely in the time of Dioclesian his Persecutiō following in this Age we finde euen whole Cities Townes as Verolamium and others vtterly destitute of Christians but long before and about this time we are assured that there were very many Britans and not of meane estate but such as were publikly employed about the affaires of S. Mello a Britan Archbishop of Roan in Normādy the kingdome and sent from hence to Rome about it that eyther were fallen from Christianitie or neuer forsooke their Pagan Religion For we reade both in auncient Manuscripts and other Authours in the life of S. Mello a Britan and after Archbishop of Roan in Normandy sent thither by S. Stephen Pope not onely that he and his Brittish Companions which were then sent to Rome to paye the Tribute of Britaine there were Pagans and sacrificed in the Temple of Mars but it was then the custome of the Britans comming thither about that office so to doe which to be a custome could not be Manuscr antiq in Vita S. Mellonis Episc Confessoris Io. Capgrau Catalog in eod younger then these dayes time short enough betweene this and that time to make a custome Tempore Valeriani Imperatoris Mello quidam de maiori Britannia oriundus Romam venit vt Patriae suae Tributū solueret Imperatori seruiret Ibique sicut mos erat cum socijs suis ad templum Martis ductus est vt sacrificaret And it seemeth this custome had bene from the first submission of the Britans to the Romans for both Protestants and others affirme that in Octauius Augustus time Ambassadours came from Britaine to Rome swearing Fealtie in the Stowe Howes Hist in Octauius Augustus Temple of Mars offering gifts in the Capitall to the Gods of the Romans And we haue Testimonie in our Histories that after King Lucius death and this very time which we haue now in hand it was the vse and custome of our Britans heare when any of their Nobilitie or Gentry were to obtayne the dignitie of Knighthood to send them to Rome to receaue that honour there and after such Pagan Rites and ceremonies that Christians could not in conscience so accept thereof And yet such multitudes euen in this time flocked thither from hence so to be created that in this time when S. Amphibalus was conuerted Iacob Genuen Episc in Catal. Sanctor in S. Amphabel and Alban to the faith by Pope S. Zepherine as Iacobus Genuensis a learned Bishop writeth 15. hundred were so created Of all which we finde no memory that any more were Christians then S. Amphibalus and S. Alban and yet both these conuerted after they had thus professed Paganisme S. Amphibalus by Pope Zepherine who after made him Preist at Rome and S. Alban S. Alban descēded of the Romans long after his returne from Rome by the same holy Saint Amphibalus sent hither by Pope Zepherine in Britaine And yet as the old Brittish Writer of Author Britan. Antiq. in Vita S. Albani Capgr in eod S. Alban his life Capgraue and others witnesse S. Alban was rather discended of Noble Roman then Brittish Parentage Albanus ex illustri Romanorum Prosapia originem ducens probably both of Roman and Brittish Auncestours 4. And it seemeth the condition of many of others was not vnlike and thereby a greate allurement for them to continue in the Romans Religion of whose blood they were discended in whose municipall and priuiledged Townes many of them liued and from whome they hoped and expected to receaue terreane honours and Aduancements The Britans generally or for the most part professing the holy Christian Religion preferring heauenly before earthly honours Yet it is euident by this is saide that in this short tract of time after the death of King Lucius many of the Britans by the continuall trobles of that time and conuersation with Pagans were either fallen from Christianitie or as holy Gildas saith professed it but coldly tepidè in respect of that zeale and feruour which was vsed in the dayes of Saint Lucius And yet Seuerus of himselfe was not so much giuen to wicked life but renowned Martin Polon Supput in Seuero not onely for warlike affaires but for learning and studyes Praeter bellicam gloriam ciuilibus studijs scientia Philosophiae clarus fuit And so greate an enemy to Incontinēcy that he puished Adultery by Lawe with death with such seueritie that Dio writeth that whē he was Consul he foūde by Records Dio in Seuero Herodianus in Seuero Herodianus l. 3. that 3000. had bene put to death for that offence Ego cum Consul essem inueni scriptum in Tabulis tria millia Maechorum morte fuisse mulctata And was after his death made a God among the Pagans And Herodianus saith he died rather of greefe for his childrens wickednes then of sicknes Maerore magis quam morbo consumptus vita functus est Which greefe for the sinns of his sonnes as also Galfr. Mon. l. 5. c. 2. F. or Wigorn. An. 195. 217. Mat. Westm an 205. Harding Cron. c. 53. f. 44. Galfr. Mon. Hist l. 5. c. 2. Matth. Westm an 206. Hard. sup Pont. Virunn l. 5. Dio Hist l. 55. of his owne in permitting the Christians in many places to be greuiously persecuted I would not deny but that he died of any such greefe is vntrue being most certaine that he after so many Conquests in other Countryes when he came to fight against his Country Christians he was enforced dishonorably to make a Wall and Trench of aboue 130. miles in lenght to keepe his Enemyes back from inuading him and slaine in battaile by Fulgenius others call him Fulgentius brother by some before to his first lawfull true wife the Empresse Martia a Briton Interfectus est Seuerus Imperator In acri certamine interficitur Seuerus And by the Roman Writers themselues he was at this time when he was so slaine at Yorke 65. yeares old And allthough he left 32. Legions as Dio writeth to defend that his temporall Empire which had so persecuted the Church of Christ yet that temporall Empire with all those propes began to stagger and notwithstanding so greate Persecution the kingdome of Christ as Tertullian then liuing witnesseth was adored and ruled in all places Cum Romani tot Legionibus suum Imperium muniant nec trans istas gentes Tertullian aduers Iudaeos c. 7. porrigere vires regni sui possint Christi autem Regnum nomen vbique porrigitur vbique creditur ab omnibus gentibus supranominatis colitur vbique regnat vbique adoratur And particularly heare in Britaine as he hath said before Christianitie reigned whether the Pagan Romans could not nor durst come but walled and trenched in themselues for feare 5. He left behinde him two sonnes Bassianus his eldest by his lawfull wife of Britaine before remembred and Geta by
Episcopor Curien Ecclesiae Germans was borne of the Regall Race among the Britans and to propagate the faith of Christ came out of Britaine into Germany and preached first at Salisburge then at Ausburge from whence he was cast out by the Infidels there and then went with his sister S. Emerita to the Cytie of Chur where preaching againe both he and his Sister Emerita were Martyred by the Pagans S. Lucius at Chur in the castle of Mars and S. Emerita at Trine-castle And that there is without the walls of Chur a very old Monastery called S. Lucius which was begun by him and was his Oratory Lucium hunc aliqui regio stemmate apud Britannos ortum natum esse affirmant venisse autem illum amore propagandae doctrinae de filio Dei Iesu Christo ex Britannia in Germaniam vt Christum Germanis etiam adhuc Idololatris concionaretur eos ad Christum conuerteret Id aiunt illum primum fecisse Salisburgi postea Augustae Vindelicorum vbi cum eijceretur ab Infidelibus dicitur Churam cum sorore S. Emerita cessisse vbi cum itidem Idololatricas opiniones reprehenderet aliquamdiu concionaretur Christum liberatorem ab Infidelibus tum Rhetis caesi Martyrio coronati sunt S. Lucius S. Emerita S. Lucius Churae in Martis Castro S. Emerta apud Trimontium Est Churae extra vrbis muros Caenobium S. Lucij preuetustum in vitifero colle situm quod ab eo caeptum Oratorij loco conditum aiunt And he vtterly disliketh their opinion which hold that this was our first Christian King S. Lucius And that onely Tradition that the S. Lucius which was the Apostle of that people was Martyred Curae in Martis Castro at Chur in the Castle of Sebast Munster Cosmogr l. 3. ca. 214. de Episcopatu Curiensi Aegyd Schud in descript Rhaetiae Alpinae c. 15. alij Mars doe make it vnpossible to be our King Lucius so doth their Tradition that this S. Lucius which first preached vnto them was their first Bishop of Chur for both Sebastian Munster Egidius Schudus and others doe demonstrate that the Citie of Chur was not builded vntill after King Lucius time so he could neither be Bishop of nor Martyred in that Citie then not extant 3. And how would or in conscience could so wise and Religious a King as Lucius hauing no child or Heire fitt or able to gouerne Britaine or which the Romans would allowe forsake his owne kingdome to leaue it in such certaine distresse and troble both temporall and spirituall as after his death ensued and could not but be morally foreseene in his prudence with the Apostacy of so many Britans his subiects to aduenture vpon vncertaine successe to preach in forraine Countries or what Antiquitie doth proue that he was either Bishop Preist or Cleargie man all our Historians sett downe the time and place of his death and buryall in Britaine making him onely a glorious King Lay parson and Confessour no Cleargie man nor Martyr And those forreine Writers which inclyne to hold he went out of Britaine into Germany either for the most part mistake their Authours or grounde vpon heare-sayes and vnsound reports Nicholas Viginier vseth S. Bede for witnesse which Nich. Vign Biblioth Hâ—st pag. 765. Naucler Chron. Genera 6. p. 565. Petr. Merssaeus in Episc Treuer in Episcop TuÌ„gar in S. Marcelio Henric. Patal de Vir. Illust Germ. part 1. p. 110. Magdeb. cent 2. c. 2. col 9. hath no such thing And he himselfe beleeueth it not rather teaching the contrary Nauclerus saith fertur it is onely reported and setteth downe King Lucius death as our Historians doe Petrus Merssaeus writeth doubtfully some times saying S. Lucius of Britaine that preached in Germany was a King otherwhiles onely a Prince as Constantius and S. Helens sonne was Henry Pantaleon the Annals of Chur as he citeth them and Stumphius onely say that S. Lucius the Apostle of Chur was borne of the Regall Race among the Britans ex Regio Britannorum sanguine prognatus which is true of the second S. Lucius The Magdeburgian Protestants terme it a very fable to thinke that King Lucius left his Country and kingdome to preach in Germany fabulam omnino resipiunt quod Lucius Rex Imperio suo sponte abdicato factus sit Concionator qui in Gallijs in Germania nempe Augustae in Sueuia passim praedicarit Christum ac denique Curiensis Ecclesiae Doctor effectus Martyrio occubuerit And they say it is one of the fables with which the Deuill defiled the Church of Christ His fabulis Diabolus conspurcauit Ecclesiam Christi when and where King Lucius dyed was honorably interred in Britaine in the Cathedrall Church of Glocester I haue set downe in his time before 4. And a very greate mistaking it is of Auentine Feuardentius Gaspar Bruchius and Sebastian Munster if they incline to thinke that this Apostle Auentin apud Magdeb. cent 1. l. 2. c. 10. Feuardentius Annot. in Irenaeum l. 1. Har. c. 3. Gaspar Bruch Cata og Episc Curien Augustano Martyrol Rom. die 3. Decembr Annal. Ecclesiae ChurieÌ„ Breu. Eccl ChurieÌ„ die 3. 4. Decembr in festo S. Lucij Emeritae Martyrol Rom. die 6. Maij. Bed Vsuard Ado eod die Sebastia Munster l. 3. cap. 217. Act. Apost c. 13. Naucler gener 6. Volum 2. pag. 565. Bishop and Martyr of Chur and the Rhetians named Lucius was Lucius Cyrenensis S. Paules Kinsman and mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles For besides all those Authours named before the old Roman Martyrologe the Annals of Chur and their publike Church office one the Feasts of S. Lucius and his Sister S. Emerita with others doe fully assure vs that S. Lucius the Apostle there was borne in Britaine of the Regall Race there brother to S. Emerita a Martyr and Martyred at Chur. Of which not any one agreeth with S. Lucius CyreneÌ„sis for he was borne at Cyrena in Lybia poore by birth sonne of S. Simon Cyrenaeus that bore the Crosse of Christ Bishop of Cyrena where he was borne no Martyr and died the 6 day of May on which his Feast is kept when they of Chur celebrate their Apostles solemnitie vpon the third day of DeceÌ„ber And it is proued before Sebastian MuÌ„ster himself vrging it that the Citie of Chur was not builded vntill loÌ„g time after the death of S. Lucius CireneÌ„sis No other S. Lucius though many of that name is remeÌ„bred in any Martyrologe or other MonumeÌ„t to haue preached suffered Martyrdome in or neare that place or this time nor any other a Britan borne or of such Noble Parentadge but this our renowned S. Lucius sonne of Constantius and S. Helen therefore of necessitie we must yeeld as his due this honour onely to him And glorifie God that so greate a Prince of this Nation eldest Sonne to an Emperour our King and Empresse our Queene and by iust discent Heire both
cum quotidiè à credentibus terra tollatur nihilominus manet eandemque adhuc speciem veluti impressis signatam vestigijs seruat 12. And they further witnesse that the Roofe of the Church by which Christ ascended could not be couered Interior domus propter Dominici corporis meatum camerari tegi non potuit By which passage euery yeare vpon the Festiuitie of Christs Ascension when the Sacrifice of Masse is ended a storme of greate winde vseth to discend and enforceth all that be in the Church to lye prostrate one the grounde In die Ascensionis Dominicae per annos singulos Missa peracta validi flaminis procella desursum venire consueuit omnes qui in Ecclesia adfuerint terrae prosternere Sacrifice of Masse and prayer for the dead at an especiall Altar of such foundation 13. They affirme that in these Churches there were many holy Altars and among the rest in the Church of Golgotha there was an Altare one which Sacrifice was specially offered for noble parsons newly dead their bodies remayning in the streete during the time of Masse Infra locum Dominicae Crucis excisa in petra Crypta est in qua super Altare pro defunctis honoratis Sacrificium solet offerri positis interim in platea corporibus 14. She builded also at Hierusalem but after the building of these and other Churches in other places presently to be related a most ample and spatious Church both for breadth and lenght in Mount Syon Within the Niceph. Callist Eccles Hist l. 8. c. 30. Portch thereof she inclosed round about the house in which the dores being shut the Disciples of Christ were gathered together for feare of the Iewes in which Christs his laste supper washing his Apostles feete and the comming of the holy Ghost was and in which S. Iames was ordayned first Bishop of Hierusalem In that Church also was the Marble Piller to which our Sauiour was bound when he was whipped One the left side whereof the Sepulchre of the Prophet Dauid was magnificently seated in an high place In vrbem sanctam reuersa in Sion amplissimum longè latèque construxit Templum in cuius Postico domum conclusit in qua foribus clausis propter metum Iudaeorum Discipuli fuerunt congregati In qua etiam sacra caena peracta sacraque pedum lotio nec non Spiritus sancti in caenaculo aduentus in qua primus quoque Hierarcha Episcopus Iacobus renuntiatus est In eo Templo Marmorea quoque fuit Columna ad quam cum flagellis caederetur alligatus est Seruator In cuius parte sinistra diui Prophetae Dauidis sepulchrum magnificè in sublimi collocatum 15. She founded an other Church to S. Peter Prince of the Apostles in the Palace of Caiphas In Palatio Caiphae Petro Apostolorum Principi Templum aliud constituit She builded also Churches dedicated to the holy Infants which were putt to death for Christ and where the Angell brought the gladd tydings of Christs Natiuitie vnto the Shephards and to the Mother of God and an other to S. Ioseph her Husband Sanctis itidem infantibus vbi Angelus Pastoribus laetum attulit nuntium in eis ipsis locis sacras extruxit aedes Infantibus videlicet ipsis verbi puerperae necnon aliam quoque sponso Iosepho aedem 16. And going to Bethania where Christ raysed Lazarus from death to life she builded a fayre Church to Lazarus the friend of Christ Lazaro Christiamico insigne aedificauit delubrum About the Denne where S. Ihon Baptist sometime had a dwelling place she erected vnto him a very beutifull Church And an other at the Cliffe of the Mountayne to Helias Thesbites In the place where Christ miraculously fedd fiue thowsand men she made a Church of twelue Thrones duodecim thronorum Templum statuit In the places where the miracle was shewed in the Centurian where the man sicke of the Palsey let downe by the roofe of the house was healed where the miracle by seuen loues of bread and a few fishes was wrought where Mary Magdalen was cured in euery of these places she founded diuers Churches to the Apostles Et quouis loco diuersa Apostolis construxit Templa 17. In the Citie of Tiberiadis in the house of S. Peter his Mother in Lawe where she was restored to health she builded a fayre Church to S. Peter So she did in Mount Thabor where Melchizedech is said to haue blessed Abraham and an other most bewtifull Church in the place of Christs Trāsfiguratiō there to those three Apostles which were then present and beholded it and left much money there for the Inhabitants Then she went to Nazareth and in the house where the Angell saluted the blessed Virgin she erected a very pleasant Church to the Mother of God Dei genitrici peramaenum excitauit Templum And builded an other in Chana of Galilie where at the Matriage Christ did miraculously change water into wine She founded an other at the Tree of Mambre where as certaine fame and Tradition teach Abraham mett the Angels going to the destruction of Sodome and Isaac and Christ also were foretolde to come this Church was most adorned ornatissimum Templum and all the horrible Sacrifices and Ceremonies of the Gentils there practized were quite abandoned 18. The like she did at Aphaca at the foote of Mount Libanus So in Cilicia and other holy places she builded other Churches aboue thirtie in number Quin plures Ecclesias alias in sanctis illis locis supra triginta amantissima Dei faemina Imperatoris Mater condidit And that she might dayly whether soeuer she wēt euen in the Wildernes itselfe haue allwayes a Church to serue God and haue the sacred Mysteries therein celebrated dayly she caused a Church to be made of diuers linen clothes and carryed about with her as Moyses did the Tabernacle non tantum Ecclesias è fundamentis terrae extruxit verumetiam pro suo erga Christum flagranti desiderio amore vt in solitudine quoque sancta haberet Symbola aedem sacram ◠varijs linteis fieri curauit eamque veluti priscus Moyses secum circumtulit 19. Thus doth Nicephorus and other Easterne Greeke Writers recompt the Niceph. Histor Eccles l. 8. c. 29. 3. Socrat. Hist l. 2. cap. 13. Sozom. Hist Eccl. l. 2. c. 1. 2. Euseb l. 3. de Vit. Constantini Religeous labours and Foundations of this our renowned Queene and Empresse assisted by the Authoritie and help of her glorious sonne and how she also made other maruaylous workes in the pitt of Hieremias and the well Siloe in fouea Hieremiae ad fontem qui Siloe dicitur mirifica construxit opera And in all places she destroyed the Idols and Superstitions of the Gentils And caused the Potters feilde mētioned in Scripture to be prepared for the buriall of strangers and Pilgryms Postremò agrum figuli apparari curauit in aduenarum peregrinorum sepulturam 20. But our
annorum multorum curriculis ob infestationem Barbarorum Paganorum gens Britannica magnâ ex parte hinc inde dispersa relictis sedibus per orbem diffusa est Hinc fratres assuÌ„pto corpore sancto mare transeuntes Franciam adeunt apud Clarum montem in Monasterio Blandinion locum perpetuae reliquiarum sanctarum quietis eligunt It is agreed by all that he died on the sixt day of Iune sexto Idus Iunij A Engl. Martyr 6. Iunij late writer saith in one place he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and three Through forgetting himselfe or mistaken by his printer in an other place he writeth full of venerable olde Age in greate sanctitie and Febr. 22. holines of life he rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ three hundred and fourtie and was one of the first of our Iland that preached the Christian faith in Flanders But by all this Age is the time of his holy life 12. We finde also in the authenticall life of S. Dauid vsed in his Ecclesiasticall Breuiar Eccles Sarisb in Festo S. Dauidis lect 6. Office in the Brittish and English Church that Eluueus was Bishop of Meneuia after called S. Dauids before S. Dauid was borne and had the honor to baptise that renowned man when he was new borne and for his performing Elueus Bishop of Meneuia in this Age. that holy office a most cleare Well neuer appearing before sprang vp to baptise him in ad ipsius baptizandi ministerium fons limpidissimae aquae emanauit qui nunquam antea visus fuit And this Bishop at that time was newly returned out of Ireland cum baptizaretur ab Eluueo Meneuensi Episcopo redeunte de Hibernia And so had gone thither as it seemeth about some Episcopall busines belonging Menâ—uia probably an Episcopall See before S. Dauids time vnto his chardge and office there Which approued testimony sufficiently proueth vnto vs that Meneuia was an Episcopall See longe before S. Dauid his setling the Archiepiscopall See there And if this Bishop S. Eluueus had then charge in Ireland that it was euen then the See Episcopall the Archbishop some time resideÌ„t there some time at Caerlegion I shall speake more of more both of this our other Archiepiscopall Sees of other Bishops heareafter And heare now also may I probably place S. Liephard a Brittish Bishop S. Liephard a Bishop of Britaine a Martyr in this Age. Saint and Martyr glorious euen in forreine Countries For it is reade of him that being borne heare in Britaine and consecrated Bishop in our Primatiue Church and going on Pilgrimage to Rome in his returne from thence in the Territory of Cambray in Hennalt at a place called HuÌ„court foure miles from the named Citie was put to death by Pagan theeues and his Feast is celebrated in the Church of Cambray on the fourth day of February That he was a Molan addit ad vsuardum Index SS Belgij Hereb in fastis SS Engl. Martyrolog 4. Febr. Bishop in our Primatiue Church of Britaine and put to death by Pagans in that Prouince where Pagans will not easily be founde in later times will giue some warrant to place him in this Age. THE XXVI CHAPTER OF THE HONORABLE TRANSLATION OF the Relicks of S. Andrew Apostle from Achaia to Britaine by S. Regulus The greate reuerence both Princes and others heare gaue vnto them and such and professed in other matters the Religion which Catholiks now doe 1. AS this our Britaine was made happy in the time of the Apostles with the presence and preaching of the cheife Apostles S. Peter and S. Paule So now in this Age and time so longe after their deaths and the rest of those chosen disciples of Christ to teach vs that they which be happily deceesed out of this mortall and entered into the heauenly life and triumphant Church may and doe by many meanes help assist and comforte his militant Seruants and Souldiars in this worlde it pleased his diuine Maiestie Miraculously as our Antiquaries and Arguments vndeniable proue vnto vs to honor this Nation and greate Iland with Epiphan Haeres 51. the sacred Relicks of that glorious Martyr and Apostle S. Andrew by naturall birth elder brother to S. Peter 2. And to testifie how greate a Iewell they and such are he caused theÌ„ to be transported so farre and longe a space and distance as betweene the place of Euseb l. 4. vitae Constant Socr. l. 1. cap. vlt. Hier. de Script Eccles in Luc. aduers Vigil in Chron. Chrysost Or. quod Christus sit Deus Veremun Hect. Boeth Scot. Hist l. 6. Hollin Hist of Scotl. in Fethelmacus his Martyrdome in Achaia to the remote parts of this Kingdome and in this order Constantine the greate Emperour fouÌ„ding at ConstaÌ„tinople the Church of the 12. Apostles with their Images and memoryes and his owne place of buriall betweene them as Eusebius Socrates S. Hierome and others are worthie witnesses and prouiding to translate many of their holy Relicks thither hoping thereby to procure greate profit to his soule quamplurimum vtilitatis illorum memoriam animae suae conciliaturam existimans Neque voâ—a eius expectationemque fefellit Deus AmoÌ„g others employed in this Religious worke S. Regulus an holy Abbot and Father of many vertuous Monkes at Patras in Achaia where S. Andrew was Martyred multorum verae pietati addictoruÌ„ in Patris ciuitate Pater atque Praeceptor and his sacred Relicks kept with greate reuerence who watching and praying at S. Andrewes Shrine thâ—re being the cheifest man which by the Edict of the Emperour were sent to worship those Relikâ— Relicks of Saints reuerenced of the Apostle which the Emperour himselfe meruailously reuerenced ex illâ—â— praecipâ—us qui Imperatoris Edicto diui Andreae Apostoli Reliquâ—â—s venerationiâ—â—â—â— sain quos ipse mira dâ—cebatur pietate assisterent fuerant destinati was â—dmonished from heauen to take parte of those holy Reliks a bone of the arme three fingers and three Toes of that Apostle bring them decently into the Iland of Albion in the remote parte of the world that the people there deuotely reuerencing saint Andrew might by the goodnes of God by his Ietercession obtaine both earthly and heauenly blessings Cum sacras ad Scriniolum ageret vigilias superne monitus est vt accepto sacrati brachij ossâ— tribus digitis totidemque alterius pedis articulis ac in vasculum decenter repositis Albionem Insulam in extremo orbis recessu sitam peteret futurum enim vt illie aliquando populus pia veneratione in diuum Andream ductus Dei beneuolentiâ terrena caelestia eius suffragio assequeretur charismata 3. By which direction S. Regulus taking the holy Reliks with diuers other very holy men for his Associats tooke this long Iorney in hand and after many dangers landed with these holy Relicks and his companions in that part of this
Reliques 588. 3. Heirgustus builded a Church to S. Andrew ib. S. Helena borne of noble Parents in Britaine 392. 2. S. Helena the sole heire and daughter to King Coel. ib. S. Helena was not borne in Bithinia 392. 3. S. Helena but younge when she married Constantius 377. 6. S. Helena the lawfull wife of Constantius 392. 3. From whence it came that she was called Concubine 393. 1. 397. 6 S. Helens sumptuous pallace 395. 4. S. Helenas lands about Treuers probably descended to her by her Mother 395. 5. S. Helenas Sanctitie of life 395. 4. S. Helenas beauty learning and other qualities 398. 8. Whence first called Stabularia 400. 9. S. Helena in some sort may be called and Inholdresse 397. 6. S. Helena the Mother of 4. Children 401. 1. S. Helena alwaies a Christian 406. 1. c. S. Helenas guifts to the City of Treuers 407. 2 S. Helena not baptized by S. Syluester 408. 3. S. Helena compelled to depart from Constantius 414. 2. S. Helena perswades Constantine to persecute the Iewes 478. 1. S. Helena neuer a Iew or corrupted by such 478. 2. S. Helena departed not out of Britaine with her sonne Constantine 478. 2. c. S. Helena present at Rome at the Roman Councell consented to it 480. 4. S. Helena visiteth the holy lande 513. 1. S. Helenas great labours in finding out the holy Crosse 515. 8. c. The time she found the Crosse 463. 2. S. Helena sent part of the Crosse and the Nailes to her sonne 519. 20. S. Helena builded a new City called Hierusalem 521. 1. S. Helena buildeth a sumptuous Church at our Sauiours sepulcher 521. 1. S. Helena waites on two Nunnes in Hierusalem 522. 5. S. Helena founded a Religeous house of Nunnes 527. 23. S. Helena builded a Tēple where she found the holy Crosse 522. 7. S. Helena founded diuerse other Churches 522. 7. sequent S. Helena turned the Potters fielde into a buriall place for strangers 525. 19. S. Helenas happy death 527. 23. The yeare of the same 527. 26. Two Cities builded in her name 527. 25. S. Helenas body carried from Rome to Constantinople 528. 24. The day of her festiuity 528. 25. Heliogabalus Bassianus sonne chosen Emperour 372. 3. Heliogabalus name and linadge ib. Heliogabalus trew heire to Britaine but neuer enioyed it 373. 2. Heluius S. Ioseph of Aramathias nephew 124. 1. Heluius came in S. Iosephs company into Britaine ib. Hengistus his murders 600. 4. Hengistus destroies Monasteries ib. Heraclius a Souldiar conuerted and how 440. 3. 442. 1. Heraclius his desire of Martyrdome 442. 1. Heraclius beaten and cruelly brused 443. 2. Heraclius cured by touching S. Albans head ib. Heraclius buried S. Alban ib. Heraclius martyred ib. Hermes the cheife Prefect of Rome conuerted by S. Alexander Pope 197. 3. Herod declared by the Senat King of the Iewes 5. 5. Herod builded Cesarea in honour of Augustus ib. Hiberia a Country so called in Armenia 28. 5. A Hierarchy acknowledged by Protestants in the Church 93. 1. c. The Hierarchy of Archbishops Bishops c. setled in Britaine by the Popes Authority 272. 1. c. The Hierarchy of the Church of Britaine deriued from S. Aristobulus 93. 2. The Hierarchy instituted by S. Peter in Britaine did continue without interruption vntill Queene Elizabeths Protestant Persecution 41. 1. S. Higinius Successor in the Papacy to Sainct Telesphorus 208. 2. S. Higinius his Religeon by English Protestants testimony in thinges now questioned by them ib. S. Higinius carefull of the conuersion of England 209. 3. S. Higinius sent a letter to King Lucius to further his conuersion 211. 5. S. Higinius Martyred 219. 1. Hildebertus the learned Tutor of Coelius Sedulius probably Archbishop of Yorke 590. 1. or 560. 1. Historians deputed vnto the Emperours reigne the yeare werein he died 201. 1. Historians mistooke in setting donne the time of King Lucius conuersion 220. 3. Historians often mistaking the name of Pope Eleutherius 221. 3. Hugh Earle of Shrewsbury dieth a miserable death and why 567. 5. I. S. Iames the Apostle preached not in Ireland 25. 1. S. Iames preached in Spaine 26. 2. S. Iames preched only to the Iewes in Spaine 27. 5. S. Iames cōuerted according to some but 9. persons in Spaine 26. 2. Idolaters sacrificed in Groues and woodes 241. 1. All Idols fell to the Ground at the entry of our Sauiour into Egipte 6. 7. S. Ioseph of Aramathia inclosed by the Iewes in a close Prison 136. 1. S. Ioseph watched by the high Preists themselues ib. S. Ioseph Miraculously deliuered from them 136. 2. S. Ioseph came into Britaine and when 22. 6. 106. 1. S. Ioseph the first foūder of a Monasticall life in Britaine 110. 4. S. Ioseph the most auncient of any Regular Abbot in the schoole of Christ 331. 8. S. Iosephs comming made doubtfull by some others wholy denie it ib. S. Ioseph was not sent hither out of France by S. Philip the Apostle 111. 1. S. Ioseph with S. Philip amongst the Gaules of Asia 120. 7. S. Ioseph came from parts not farre distant from where S. Philip preached ib. S. Ioseph landed about the North part of Britaine 121. 7. S. Ioseph probably directed into Britaine by S. Peter 121. 9. S. Ioseph was present at the Assumption of our Lady ib. All S. Iosephs Associats vowed chastitie vntill their arriuall in Britaine 124. 1. Diuers of S. Iosephs companions Noble personadges and some of our Brittish kings descended from them ib. S. Ioseph imprisoned in Venodocia 125. 2. 127. 1. S. Ioseph sett at libertie by a Noble man whome he conuerted to the faith 125. 2. S. Ioseph extreamly persecuted by the Iewes 126. 2. S. Ioseph with his associats preached litle 128. 2. S. Ioseph and his companions at the first gaue themselues to a Monasticall and eremiticall life 128. 2. c. S. Ioseph admonished by an Angle builded a Church to our Lady 109. 2. 128. 2. 129. 3. 136. 2. S. Ioseph releiued in his necessities by our B. Lady 329. 4. S. Ioseph did not actually conuert to the faith of Christ either King Aruiragus Coillus or Marius 131. 1. S. Ioseph how named an Apostle 135. 1. S. Ioseps praiers and duties to our B. Lady 136. 2. S. Ioseph makes Crosses and other pictures 138. 5 S. Ioseph brought hither reuerenced Relickes ib. S. Ioseph his death 170. 3. S. Ioseph buried and where ib. S. Ioseph his sonne a Bishop in Britaine 97. 9. S. Iosephs sonne consecrated Bishop by S. Peter or his Disciples ib. King Iosinas ouerthrew Idolatry 10. 3. Iouinian created Emperour 570. 1. Iouinian refused to be Emperor ouer Infidels ib. Iouinian made choise rather to leaue the warre then sacrifice to Idols ib. Iouinian allwaies a constant Catholike 571. 3. Iouinians short raigne 371. 2. Ireland named Ierna 28. 7. Irelands other names ib. Ireland by Britaine not conuerted in Constantins time 503. 6. c. In Ireland no Christian to be named before S. Patritius his time 26. 2. The
ib. S. Mello conuerted by S. Stephen Pope 387. 2. or 397. 2. S. Mellos Christian life ib. S. Mello made Preist and Bishop ib. S. Mello Archbishop of Rohan in Normandie 367. 3. 387. 2. or 397. 2. S. Mello Miraculously sent to that See 387. 2. 3. or 397. 2. 3. S. Mello cured a wounded man 388. 3. S. Mello died and was buried at Rhoan ib. S. Melorus sonne and heire of Mellianus Duke of Cornewaile 389. 4. S. Melorus brought vp in a Monastery of Cornewaile 388. 4. 390. 5. S. Melorus his hand and foote cut of 390. 5. S. Melorus Miraculous hand ib. S. Melorus murdered ib. S. Melorus buried by the Bishops and Cleargy ib. Meneuia probably an Episcopall See before S. Dauids time 586. 12. Metallanus King of the Scots 1. 1. Metallanus sends giftes to Augustus Caesar 2. 3. Metallanus dieth after a peaceble reigne ib. S. Metropolos Archbishop of Treuers 198. 5. Miracles wrought 136. 2. 327. 5. or 328. 5. There were Monasteries of Religious men in Britaine in all Ages 311. 9. A Monasterie dedicated to S. Iulius 603. 9. A Monasterie at Meneuia founded by S. Patrike ib. A Monasterie at Naucaruan in Wales 604. 9. A Monastery called Mancari Monasterium 603. 9. A Monastery of Nunnes in Northwales ib. Monkes holines and austoritie of life 328. 2. c. Monkes continued night and day in praiers 330. 6. The Monkes of Britaine conuerted many Nations 331. 7. The Morauians setled in our Northren partes 120. 7. Mordraius setteth S. Ioseph at libertie 125. 2. Mordraius conuerted by S. Ioseph ib. Mordraius King of the I le of Mā ib. Morgret Abbot of Glastenbury 602. 7. Doctor Mountagues entertainment of Queene Anne 110. 4. N. S. Nathaniel probably preached in Britaine 97. 8. S. Nathaniel succeeded S. Aphrodisius in the See of Burdges in France ib. Nennius Helius brother to King Lud and Cassibelam 131. 1. Nennius Helius time of death ib. Neophits not admitted to Episcopall and Priestly functions 207. 8. Nero put S. Peter and S. Paule to death 165. 1. Nero murdered himselfe ib. Nerua reuockes all Domitians Edictes 170. 2. Nerua recalled all whome Domitian had banished ib. The time he kepte the Empire 171. 4. S. Nicasius first Bishop of Rhoan 95. 5. S. Nicasius preached in Britaine according to some ib. S. Ninian a Noble Britan by birth 357. 3. When borne and who his parents 579. 3. S. Ninians pilgrimage to Rome 580. 4. S. Ninian brought vp at Rome in the time of S. Syluester 583. 6. S. Ninian consecrated Bishop and sent vnto the Picts ib. S. Ninian visiteth his vncle S. Martine ib. S. Ninian ioyfully receiued in Britaine 580. 5. 584. 7. S. Ninians Miracles 58◠5. S. Ninian preached also to his Country Britans 583. 7. S. Ninians Episcopall Church called Candida casa and why 584. 8. S. Nouatus S. Claudias eldest sonne 199. 6. S. Nouatus instructed in the faith by S. Peter and S. Paule 226. 3. S. Nouatus furthers the Conuersion of Britaine ib. S. Nouatus house a harbor for Saints at Rome 229. 3. S. Nouatus death 225. 3. S. Nouatus was a sacrificing massing Priest 225. 3. S. Nouatus lefte all his worldly welth to relieue Christians 226. 3. S. Nouatus house turned into a Church 224. 1. 229. 3. S. Nouatus Church made a Roman Title ib. S. Nouatus Church decaied with oldnes ib. S. Nouatus Church decently renewed by Cardinal Caietan ib. Numa Pompilius ordained the order of Flamens 277. 6. Nunneries renewed in Britaine 310. 9. O. OCtauian recorded to haue slaine the Roman Proconsuls in Britaine 542. 3. Diuers difficulties concerning this Octauius 543. 4. Octauius doubtfull whether he were euer King in Britaine 543. 5. c. King Offa restored S. Albans Church and Monastery destroied by the Saxons 600. 5. S. Onesimus S. Timothies successor in Ephesus 215. 4. or 216. 4 Oracles silent at the birth of our Sauiour 16. 7. The Orcades subiect to the Archbishop of Yorke 283. 4. Orders and degrees acknowloged by Protestants to haue bene in the Church of God euen from Christ 91. 4. 180. 4. Orders a Sacrament 382. 10. or 392. 10. Orders not to be iterated ib. The honour and dignitie of this Sacrament in the Church of Rome in Pope Cornelius time 328. 11. Inferior Orders were to assist at Masse euen in he Apostles time 189. 4. Orders giuen with imposing of handes euen in the Apostles time 190. 5. Osees Prophecy of our Sauiours comming 7. 7. Otho ouerthrew Vitellius in three Battals 165. 1. Otho ouerthrowne in the 4. battaile ib. Otho impatient of disgrace killeth him selfe ib. Otho Emperour but three Monthes ib. Oxford builded by King Ebrancus 287. 3. Oxfords diuers names 287. 3. P. THe Pagans confesse the miraculous Stare at our Sauiours berth to haue shewed the comming of Christ into the world 6. 6. S. Palladius the Scots first Bishop 336. 5. S. Palladius sentinto Scotland by the authority of the See of Rome 336. 5. 357. 3. Pamachius Gouernour of Treuers Martyred 407. 2. Paternus a defender of Arianisme excommunicated 563. 2. S. Patrikes birth time 594. 5. S. Patrike descended of a Noble linadge 595. 6. S. Patrikes parents ib. S. Patrikes birth-place ib. S. Patrike carried out of Britaine by Pirates ib. S. Patrike sold to Miluc named a King in the North of Ireland 595. 5. S. Patrike set to keep cattaile 595. 6. S. Patriks extraordinary deuotion ib. S. Patrike in 4. thinges compared to Moyses and what they are ib. S. Patrike three times taken Prisoner 596. 7. The second time Miraculously restored to his Countrie ib. S. Patrike liued at Glastenbury and when 328. 2. 596. 7. S. Patrikes strange calling to be the Apostle of Ireland 597. 8. S. Patrike consecrated Bishop where and by whome 598 8. S. Patrike sent into Ireland by S. Celestine Pope 25. 2. S. Paule excluded from any part in the ordinary partition of the world among the Apostles 39. 5. S. Paule accustomed to write to none but Christians 158. 9. S. Paule preached in Italy Spaine and France 144. 1. S. Paule preached in Britaine ib. S. Paule could not be the first that preached in Britaine 41. 2. S. Paule came not into Britaine in the 4. yeare of Nero. 147. 1. c. S. Paule came not into Britaine presently after the returne of Claudius the Emperour vnto Rome 148. 1. S. Paule came not into Britaine vntill he had performed his promise of going to Spaine 148. 2. S. Paule a long time Prisoner at Rome 150. 4. S. Paule after his first imprisonment went into the East 149. 3. S. Paule made but a short stay in Britaine 150. 5. c. No sure ground of any memorable thing performed by S. Paule in Britaine 151. 6. S. Paule ordeined Prists only where the other Apostles came not 152. 6. S. Paule put to death 150. 4. The yeare of his Martyrdome 151. 6. S. Paulinus the first Arch-bishop of Yorke in the Saxons time 332. 9. S. Paulinus liued
aetate in multa veneratione habitus 6. If we will informe our selues when and about what time he first preached and what was the doctrine in particular which he learned and was so soundly and perfectly instructed in at Rome brought from thence and preached heare we cannot better be secured in them but to finde out so neare as we can by Antiquities when the Picts heare were first conuerted to Christ because we haue bene assuredly warranted before that he was the first which preached Christ vnto them conuerted them to him and thereby is honored by the name of their Apostle His Religion which he professed and preached heare must needs be the same which by all Authors he learned at Rome and had his commission from the Pope there to publish it heare in The Picts heare conuerted in this Age and how soone Britaine the same which I haue before proued to be the knowne Christian Religion of the Popes and Church of Rome in those dayes Which did not in any point agree with that Protestant new learning which is now practised in England or any so termed Protestant Country which will more plainely appeare hereafter by the publikly professed Religion of all of this kingdome Britans Scots or Picts in those dayes I haue insinuated before that both Heirgustus King of the Picts and his Pictish people and subiects were Christians and publikly professed that Religion This is plainely and inuincibly proued both by our Scottish and English Historians as also that in the yeare of Christ Veremund Hist Scot. Hector Boeth Scot. Hist l. 6. Hollinsh Hist of Scotl. 369. fuit annus virginei partus nonus supra trecentesimum sexagesimum at what time Heirgistus King of the Picts was obseruantissimus a perfect most obseruant Christian Prince a sufficient signe and Argument that he was no young Scholler in the Schoole of Christ but had made greate progresse and much profited therein so likewise had all the Inhabitants of those Northren parts whether Picts Scots or Britans for the Historians of those places and others also assure vs that not onely Britans but Scots and Picts had many Monkes And first for Scots when Maximus had both conquered and quite bannished them from this Iland both Scottish and English Catholike and Protestant Historians thus speake of them The same time the Scottish Bishops and Preists Boeth supr Hollinsh Histor of Scotl. in Eugen. Bucan Histor Scot. l. 4. in Reg. 39. being bannished as well as the other sort of the Scottish people a number of their Mōks got them into the I le of Iona now called Colmkill where they erected a Monasterie for their owne habitation the worthinesse whereof hath bene right famous euen to these our dayes as that which was afterward endowed with many faire reuenewes by diuers of the Scottish Kings who had their burials there after the returne of the Scots into Albanie This was in the time of Maximus his being King heare and before he assumed the Empire by all Antiquaries This was in the yeare of Christ 379. Annus à Christi aduentu in carnem trecentesimus septuagesimus nonus Hect. Boeth l. 6. Histor Georg. Buchan Rer. Scot. l. 4. in Reg 39. And at that time as their Historians proue the Picts were generally and publikely instructed and professed Christians nec à Sacerdotibus Monachis qui tum in summo erant honore Picti etsi publicè Christianis institutis imbuti Iniuriam abstinuerunt And tenne yeares before this time both the Picts and their King were professed Christians as is shewed before and professed the same Religion in the most strict Order of Monkes and otherwise as the Roman Catholiks now doe Among those that were famous then in this Profession diuers of their names be these with honour preserued Inter nostros Damianus Presbyter Gelasius Thebaculus Merinatus Damiani Germanus Diaconi Nerius Hect. Boeth l. 6. Hist fol. 108. Boeth supr Buchan l. 4. in Reg. 35. Holinsh. Hist of Irel. Elusenius Merinus Machabaeus Syluerius Monachi And yet long before this time also in the dayes of King Fincomarke of Scotlād who reigned 47. yeares died multis virtutibus nobilis noble for many vertues in the yeare of Christ 358 Salutis humanae āno trecētesimo quinquagesimo octauo the Picts had receaued the faith of Christ before that time for whilst King Fincomarke reigned Fincomarco Rege Scotis adhuc Imperante by diuers Writers diuers of the Irish Annal. Scotic Hect. Boeth sup l. 6. fol. 104. Hollinsh Hist of Ireland people receaued the Lawe of Christ by meanes of a worthie Christian womā of the Picts as the Scottish other Histories testifie Per id tempus mulier Christianae pietatis cultrix Pictici eam fuisse sanguinis Scotici asseuerant Annales Regina insinuata Christi nomen illi mirifice praedicauit reuerendumque effecit This or the like memorable History I haue placed before in the dayes of Constantine the Greate for other parts by auncient Writers of greate authoritie But our Scottish and English Historians applying it to these parts and in the time of King Fincomarke must needs hold their Picts Conuersion very auncient in the time of King Fincomarke as I haue related making his Reigne 47. yeares Hect. Boeth l. 6. Scotor Hist fo 101. Hollinsh Histor of Scotl. in Finkomarke and yet affirming that he began to Reigne in the first yeare of the Empire of Constantine the Greate and was immediate Successor to King Crathlint which so religiously entertained our Brittish Christians flying to the Scots for succour and releife in the greate Persecution of Dioclesian before mentioned and this King Crathlint reigning but 24. yeares decessit Crathlintus postquam rei Scotieae praefuisset annos viginti quatuor Some say he Georg. Buchan l. 4. rer Scot. in Reg. 34. Hector Boeth Histor Scot. l. 6. f. 102. reigned not compleate 24. yeares but died in that last yeare nor compleate and Fincomarke was not onely by him choasen his Successor but by publike applause and acclamation presently accepted and crowned King Crathlinthus vicesimo quarto sui principatus anno fato concessit Quo anno Fincomarcus eius Patruelis Cormacho Crathlinti Patruo prognatus regno per manus morientis accepto cunctis conclamantibus vt faustum faelixque foret fatali Marmori progenitorum more insidens Rex ab omnibus est salutatus Therefore ioyning these receaued opinions of Historians together that the Picts were so timely and perfectly conuerted to the faith that in King Fincomarke his Reigne they had euen their women so learned and excellent in Christian Religion that they were so singularly powerable and honorable therein that the like instance is not founde in Histories and that S. Ninian by so many S. Ninian Apostle of the Picts brought vp at Rome in the times of S. Siluester Pope and Constantine the Greate Emperor Authorities was the first Apostle and Conuerter of that Nation we
must needs make him no lesse auncient then I haue before remeÌ„bred him to haue bene borne in Britaine brought vp at Rome in the dayes of saint Syluester Pope and greate CoÌ„stantine Emperor Which the time of his death by all accouÌ„pts will also confirme if we consider the long liues of our holy men as saint Patrik Dauid Kentigerne and others in those neare succeeding dayes this worthie man is remembred particularly in Histories to haue liued vntill he was very old ad senium vsque plenus dierum aetate maturus and yet some place Io. Bal. cent 1. in Ninian Pits aetat 5. in eodem S. Alred Capgrau in vit eius him for his death with S. Ambrose and others in this Age others to haue dyed in the yeare 422. and they which make his death latest say it was in the yeare of Christ 431. or 432. which is farre from making him an extraordinary old maÌ„ for those dayes from that time I suppose his birth to haue bene in And by all reckenings in Historians saint Palladius and saint Patrike were sent hither from Rome in those yeares 431. 432. when the longest accoumpt setteth Hect. Boeth l. 7. Anton. Fitzharbert l. Ant. Rel. Cath. in Ang. pag. 17. Bal. cent 1. in Nin. Pits in eodem downe the death of saint Ninian And yet no Historian writing of their comming hither either maketh saint Ninian then liuing or lately dead which could not haue bene omitted in so singular and rare a man as S. Ninian was sent from the same place and authoritie of Rome and preaching in the same Countries and parts whether they came and where they preached by Commission from the same Apostolike Roman See if he had not bene dead some time before neither had their sending thither bene so needfull as it is made in Histories if his death had not bene knowne at Rome before their coÌ„ming sending from thence to performe the same Apostolike office and dutie in the same Prouinces which and where saint Ninian in his life time so nobly and gloriously supplied and executed by the same Legatine Power and authorite from Rome 7. Therefore I must needs set downe this renowned Britan Apostle of the Picts and most of his holy labors with the Conuersion of that people to Christ to haue bene in this Age and before the Empire of Maximus And yet it appeareth S. Ninian preached also to his Country Britans hy the old Writer of saint Ninian his life that although he was principally sent by the Pope to be their Apostle he preached vnto others in Britaine before he conuerted the Picts for at his first comming as I haue insinuated from that Author before S. Ninian was receaued heare as a Prophet sicut Prophetam eum habebant Greate coÌ„curse of people came vnto him greate ioy with all meruaylous deuotion and prayse of Christ euery where Magnus populorum fit concursus ingens cunctis laetitia mira deuotio laus quoque vbique resonat Christi all of these are sufficient Arguments that these first eâ—tertainers of S. Ninian heare were our Christian Britans and not the PagaÌ„ Picts Which is made more manifest by that which immediatly followeth capit mox malè plantata enellere male collecta dispergere malè aedificaâ—a destruere Purgatis ab omni errore fidelium mentibus omnia quae fidelibus agenda verbo docuit operibus exemplo monstrauit multis miraculis confirmauit He began to pâ—ll vp things ill planted scatter things ill gathered and destroye things ill builded and purging the mindes of the faithfull from all error whatsoeuer he taught by word the beleeuers to doe he shewed it in deeds and example and confirmed it with many miracles Where it is euident that they were beleeuing Christians although by neare cohabitation or conuerse with Pagans defiled with some Heresies or errors to whom he thus first preached and people different and distinguished from the vnbeleeuing Picts as they are expressely thus set downe and his preaching to these was afterward as thus it is remembred diuers from the other in the same History Interea Sanctus Ninianus Australes Pictos quibus adhuc error Gentilis inhaerens Idola venerari ac colere compellebat aggrediens Euangelij veritatem sequentibus signis praedicabat caeci vident claudi ambulant leprosi mundantur surdi audiunt mortui resurgunt oppressi à daemonibus liberantur Sicque fides suscipitur error abdicatur distructis templis Ecclesiae eriguntur currunt ad salutis lauachrum diuites pauperes gratias Deo agunt in Insulis quae procul sunt habitantes Ordinauit Presbyteros Episcopos consecrauit totam terram per certaâ— Parochias diuisit In the meane time S. NiniaÌ„ going to the Picts which yet were PagaÌ„s and worshipped Idols preached the truth of the Ghospell vnto theÌ„ with these signes following The blynde seâ— the lame walke lepers are cleÌ„nsed the dead are raysed and they which were oppressed with deuils are deliuered And so the faith is receaued error abandoned Pagan temples are destroyed Christian Churches erected Ritch and poore are baptized those that inhabited the Ilands a farre off giue thanks to God He ordayned Preists consecrated Bishops and diuided the whole land by certaine Parishes 8. And hauing thus conuerted and confirmed this people vnto and in the faith of Christ being the cheifest end of his Mission and comming hither he returned to his Church confirmatis in fide omnibus ad Ecclesiam suam est regressus This house Episcopall Church which he now returned vnto was the same which he had builded before of stone called for the rarenes of such building in Britaine that being the first as our Histories say thereby named Candida Bed Hist lib. 3. cap. 4. Capgrau in S. Niniano Guliel Malmes lib. 4. de gest Pont. Angl. Casa the White House or Church at a place called Witerne betweene Scotland and England as they are now termed vpon the Sea coast allmost quite enuironed with the Sea excepting the passadge on the North side thereof Candida Casa vocatur locus in extremis Angliae iuxta Scotiam finibus vbi beatus Confessor Nima requiescit Natione Brito qui primus ibidem Christi praedicationem Euangelizauit Nomen loco ex opere inditum quod Ecclesiam ibi ex lapide polito Britâ—nibus miraculum fecerit This Church saint Ninian dedicated to S. Martine of Tours so soone as he vnderstood he was dead which was in the end of this or beginning of the next Age by all accompts this Church being quite finished before that time Quoniam iam Sanctum Martinum quem miro semper venerabatur affectu à terriâ— ad caelos migrasse didicerat ipsam Ecclesiam in eius honore dedicauit By the Scottish Histories thus related Inter nostros Ninianus Episcopus sanctitate Hector Boeth Hist l. 7. Bal. cent 1. in Nin. Bernic miraculis clarissimus ac Casae Candidae Pontificalis in Galdia