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A08886	A short relation, of the life, virtues, and miracles, of S. Elizabeth called the peacemaker. Queen of Portugall Of the third rule of S. Francis. Canonised by Pope Vrban the VIII. the 25. of May. Anno 1625. Translated out of Dutch; by Sister Catharine Francis, Abbess of the English Monasterie of S. Francis third rule in Bruxelles.; Leven van de H. Elizabeth van Portugael. English	Paludanus, François, d. 1631.; Greenbury, Catharine, 1596-1642.	1628 (1628)	STC 19167; ESTC S120727	20,106	84

might be incited to follovv his leud life The children vvhich he had by other vvomen she did not hate like à step mother but brought them vp with tender care and motherly loue instructing them in all virtue as if they had bene her ovvne at vvhich the king did very much vvonder and therby was moued to amend his life and not any more to wrong his mariage estate yet ther vvere still malitious mindes vvhich sought to auert his loue from this his virtuous Queene by raising à newe slander against her innocencie it was in this maner Ther vvas à yong courtier that bare great hatred vnto another courtier of good and orderly life and one vvhom this vertuous Queene did much employ to carry almes to poore folkes and such like seruice it came to pass that the enuious yong man taking in à vvrong sence the charitable endeavors of this pious Queene did accuse her to be disloyall to the king her husband with this yong man the king being thus incensed sought by all meanes to put the yong man to death and there vpon cōmanded secretly the men that kepte his lime kelles to take the first man he should send to them and bind him and cast him in to the burning fornace So the king sent the innocent yong man to be burnt vvho vvent not mistrusting any such matter and as he was going on the way he heard the bell ring to the eleuation of the B. Sacrament in the mass and according to the custome vvent in to the church to pray as he had bene vvarned by his father to do at such times and being there vvere more masses to be said he stayed still to keepe his deuotion The king desirous to heare of his death sent the false accuser to the men of the lime ●elle to knowe if they had performed his command they taking him for the man they should destroy ansvvered that they had not yet but novv they would and so they tooke him presently and cast him headlong into the burning fornace vvhen the nevves vvas brought to the king by the first messager he stoode amazed at this vvonderfull and righteous vvorke of God seeing evill counsel alwaies to fall heaviest vpon the counseller and that the innocent Queen vvas thus preserued from the slander Of her children THE IX CHAPTER IT pleased God that her first child vvas à daughter vvhom she named Constancia after her grand-mother this daughter was after vvard maried to Ferdinandus the 3. of that name king of Castile vvith great ioye but it vvas soone turned into sorrovve by the nevves of her sodain and vnexpected death for as this Queene Elizabeth with the king her husband vvent from Scalabi to Arambuiam ther came an hermite in great sorrovv and desired to speake vvith the Queene she gaue him audience vvho sayed vnto her I shall declare vnto your highness most sad and heavie nevves your daughter is sodainly departed this life and her sorrowfull soule hath appeared openly to me in my chappell and prayed me to giue you to vnderstand that she is in purgatory and she desired the holy sacrifice of the mass might be offered a vvholl year for her release The pious mother fulfilled the desire of her daughter and the yeare being accomplished her daughter appeared to her in Conymbria in her sleep clothed in white and seeming to be full of ioy called her mother by her name saying mother Elizabeth almighty God vvill revvard you in heauen vvhither novv I goe released from all paine Heervpon the Queen vvaked and smiling vvith ioy vvent presently to the pastor and vnderstood by him that her daughters apparition vvas vpon the masses concluding at vvhich she vvas much comforted The 17. year of her age she bare her daughter Constancia and the 20. year of her age she bare her sonne Alphonsus at Conimbria and he reigned after the death of his father Of her pious workes shewed in the building of many holy places THE X. CHAPTER THis holy Queene vvas very milde and benigne to all sortes of people but espetially shee had regard vnto the commun good and publike profit for vvhen she vnderstood of any decayed churches or hospitalles she presently tooke order to haue them repaired at her ovvne cost and charges Her piety in this kind vvas so greate that à Gentilvvoman dvvelling at Almosterium not farr from Scalabi began to build à cloyster for Nunnes of S. Bernards order and being preuented by death could not make an end of it but left her begun vvorke to this holy Elizabeth who did most willingly vndertake to finish it to performe the last will and testament of the decessed hauing finished this good worke she left it richly prouided of rentes leauing the name and honor thereof vnto her vvho did first begin the vvorke The like to this she did also at Scalabi for the Bishop of that cittie began an almes house for found-linges but being preuented by death could not finish it and in his last vvil he commended his vvork to the holy Queen Elizabeth much desiring that she vvould not by any meanes leaue it vndone the Queene did not only accomplish his desire in this but also made the vvork much greater and augmented the rents and gaue good order for the gouernment of the house her selfe did giue the children to eate out of motherly loue and vvhen they vvere grovvne bigg she put them to learne such trades as they vvere found capable of This holy Queenes virtue vvas seen in the vvillingnes vvhervvith she vndertooke to finish vvorkes begun by others vvherin she knew there was more labour and charges for her then any applause of the vvorld for she sought nothing but the honor of God in all her actions and the saluation of soules and commun vvealths good There vvas à Cloister of S. Clares order in Conimbria very little both church and house in regard it was begun by à Gentilvvoman that could not finish it for vvant of meanes and this holy Elizabeth bought houses and grovvnd ioyning to the Cloister to inlarge it she made an hospital by her pallace vvherin she maintained 15. poore men and as many poore women she builded also à house in the Citty of Nouarium for vvomen that having prostituted theyr honestie were converted from theyr lewd life to good Of the death and buriall of her husband and how she liued after his death THE XI CHAPTER THe loue and loyalty this holy Queene bare to her husband vvas most espetially manifested in his sicknes in and after his death for first she offered many prayers and good vvorkes for his conuersion humbly imploring the diuine mercy for him and seeking by all meanes to purge his soule from sinn that he might vvithout spot depart this life for that effect she gaue very much almes with desire that his life might be prolonged if it vvere the diuine vvill But it pleased God so to dispose that the king her husband dyed at that time and although she were left