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A14395	The memorable and tragical history, of the persecution in Africke: vnder Gensericke and Hunricke, Arrian kinges of the Vandals. Written in Latin by the blessed Bishop Victor of Vtica, who personallie (as also S. Augustine the famous doctor) endured his part thereof. With a briefe accomplishment of the same history, out of best authors: togither vvith the life and acts of the holy Bishop Fulgentius, and his conflicts vvith the same nation; Historia persecutionum, quas in Aphrica olim circa D. Augustini tempora, Christiani perpessi sub Censerycho et Hunerycho Vandalorum regibus. English	Victor, Saint, Bishop of Vita, d. ca. 505.; Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1605 (1605)	STC 24714; ESTC S119124	68,537	182

of all semblable entire and full of resolution of dying for Christ semblable floudes of teares trickling from their eyes For our Lord nowe permitted them to be fed with the bread of teares and to drinke their measure of teares if not teares without measure And if there were of Rauens some prone to destruction which departing forth of the arke stayed eger vpon the dead carkases greater yet was the number of happie Doues persisting in the name of the Trinity How many noble excelleÌ„t persons Lords of ample large demayn exchaÌ„ged land for heaueÌ„ reÌ„dring vp both body and goods and how many tender and noble Gentle-women were contrary to naturall honesty whipt with rods in face of all the people and excruciated with sundry torments euer bare away triumphant monuments of victorie How many yong children deriding the inhuman edictes first despised the world ere they entred the inticing pathes thereof CHAP. III. IN those daies were also seauen as coÌ„cerning association of our Lords feruice brethren who dwelt with one hart and CHAP. 4. SOONE came this to the Tyrantes eares who drunken with furie willed them yet more to be constrained by vnheard-of torments loaded with more plensant shackles TheÌ„ gaue charge that a shippe should be filled with bundles of dry fewell them to be fast bound in the same vessell so fire to bee applied in the midst of the sea whereby they should be burnt to death As they were brought forth out of the prison the multitude of Gods people accompanied those warriars of the Trinity who as innocent lambes were led to be sacrificed contemplating the weighty and horrid yrons no lesse then as rare iewels For bonds these were not indeed to bee reputed but rather ornaments of brauery With cheerefull alacritie went they toward execution as if they had hastned vnto a banquet singing through the passages of the streetes with one voice vnto our Lord Glory in the highest to God and in the earth peace to men of good will This is our desired day more festifull then any festiuity Now behould is the acceptable time now behold is the day of saluations when for the faith of our Lord God we endure addressed death that wee may not lose the garment of obtained faith The people also with common voice cryed Feare not O seruaÌ„ts of God nor dread the threats and terrors of tribulations present dye we rather for Christ as he died for vs redeeming vs with the price of his sauing blood One neuerthelesse by name Maximus a child of their coÌ„pany laboured those authors of euil with vehement endeuour to disioyne from society of the Saints saying Why hastnest thou prety boy vnto death let them goe they are mad heare thou our counsaile that thou mayst obtaine thy life goe to the great Kings court Whervnto he though a child in yeares yet cried with mature grauity no man gets me from my holy Father that Liberatus and from my brethren who bred mee vp in the monastery with them I liued in the feare of God with them I desire to dye with whom also I trust that I shal attaine the glory to come Thinke not that you can seduce my childhood seauen soules sith our Lord would assemble vs hee will in like sorte vouchsafe to crowne vs all with one martirdome As none perished of the seauen Machabees so the number of seauen shall church of Celebrina Thus in confession of the Trinity suffered the thrise-blessed Martirs accomplishing a glorious prosecution of their combate and receiuing crownes of our Lord. To whome is honor glory world without end Amen The end of B. Victors historie of the Arrian persecution in Africa against the Catholikes Plame 146. Our Lord reedifying Ierusalem shal gather togither the scatterlings of Israel hee who healeth the crushed in heart and bindeth vp their bruises COncerning processe of the persecution after the good hound King Huneric had yelped vp his last not much is extant in authors albeit that it continued outright not at all times indeed with tenor of equall terrour some 90. yeares space as witnesseth Iustinian in his lawes But good estimat thereof may be gathered by the life of S. Fulgentius most authentically written by one of his owne disciples vnto his successour Foelicianus THE LIFE OF SAINT FulgentiÌ„us Bishop of Rulp HVNERIC the Arrian King of Vandals after that Carthage had beene by them subdued exiled all the Senators into Italy one of whom was Gordian Grand-father to Fulgentius Which Gordian being deceased his sonne Claudius returning to Carthage although their house had beene giuen to Arrian Priests yet recouering great parte of his heritage by fauor which he found at the Kings haÌ„ds and departing to Lepte there established his habitation Fulgentius there borne was by the diligence of his carefull mother Mariana For soone was his Father taken from the life of this mortality trained vp in learning and caused to be instructed in Greeke before hee tooke ni hand Latin that thereby he might attaine to greater perfection skill in that strange tongue So highly profited he in all good partes togither with encreasing yeares that his mother exceedingly reioyced in his wisdome and towardnes greatly easing by his presence the discomfort of her lost husband and permitting to his gouernment the ordring of her houshold In which charge he bare himselfe pleasurable to his friends reasonable to his â—llwillers to the seruants aswell milde in direction as seuere in correction diligently vphold his patrimony Being at leÌ„gth instituted the Kings collector and prescribed to bee rigourous in exacting of the rated payments heauy to his soule began the burden of worldly busines to wax And vaine flattering felicity yeelding disgust by litle and litle the loue of spirituall life seemed to take roote in his hart first encreased a desire of reading praying then cast he in mind to frequent monasteries and beheld by experience the sweet conuersation of Gods seruants WhoÌ„ perceiuing as they had no worldly solace so to haue no wearines as no temporall ioyes so no vexation of spirit and withal discerning with what cheerefulnes and alacrity sundry persons yea yong-men walked the straight vvay of perfection in perpetuall continency he brake out vvith himselfe in these vvords Why trauâ—ile I in the world which shall yeelde me no future lasting reward Although better it be to weepe well then ioy ill yet if to ioy be our desire howe much excelleth their ioy who haue a good conscience towards God who dread nothing but sinne doe nothing but accomplish the commandements Change we labours and as I before endeuoured among my noble friendes to appeare more noble so now let my imployment and solicitude bee among the humble and poore seruants of the Highest to become more poore and humble turning by Saint Mathevves example from a Publican to a Disciple Resolued to renouÌ„ce terrene delights and to render himselfe partaker of that kind of life vvhich in vpright

according to their desire yee may ordayne Bishoppe whome you will vnder this condition that in like sort the Bishoppes of our religion that are at Constantinople or in any other Prouinces of the East may by his commaundement haue free liberty to preach to the people and exercise Christian religion in what language they will in their owne Churches in such sort as you here or in other Churches of Africke haue free arbitrement to say Masse or preach in your Churches For if this be not obserued towards them not only the Bishop that shal be created and his Clarkes but all other Bishops also with their Clergy ouer the African Prouinces shal be commanded to the Moores As soone as this edict was in my owne hearing read before the whole congregation the 14. Calendes of Iune wee beganne sorrowfully to murmur amongst our selues for that by this politike pretext a persecution vvas like to followe and it is well knowne that to the Ambassador we made this answere If the matter goe thus and stand vpon such pernitious conditions the Church delightes not to haue a Bishop let Christ gouerne it who at all times hath vouchsafed to guide it Which information the Ambassador neglected to admitte and with all the people burned with desire to haue present dispatch vvhose crie vvas intollerable and could by no means bee appeased Eugenius therefore a holy man and one acceptable to God was chosen Bishop of vvhose election the Church of God was greatly recomforted people Catholike liuing vnder a barbarous gouernement triumphed to see the auncient creation of their chiefe Bishop againe renued The greatest number of young men and women by their vniuersall joy well witnessing that they had neuer seene a Bishoppe sitting in his Pontificall Throne This man of God that blessed Priest Eugenius beganne by vertuous conuersation to be reuerently esteemed euen of those without and to be so louing to al that he would gladly haue left his life if it might be for euery of them Such great almes also our Lord did by his meanes exhibit that it seemed incredible how so much could be bestowed where the Barbarous possessed all the Church hauing not the value of on penny His humility charity and piety wherewith he was endued from heauen who so would attempt to expresse he should faile of his purpose It is for certaine that mony neuer stayed with him except perhaps it had beene offered when the Sunne hauing ended his course gaue place to darknesse and then only he reserued what might serue for a day not what couetousnesse might haue vvished our Lord daylie sending him greater store But his fame waxing euery where glorious and manifest the Arrian Bishops especially Cyrill beganne to be tormented with sore enuy and pursued him with daylie quarrels To be short they put into the Kings head not to suffer him to sit in his Pontificall Throne nor preach after his accustomed manner Further to forbidde him that any men or women attyred after the Vandall manner should be seene in the church The Bishop answered as became him The house of God is free for all those which enter no man may driue forth and the rather for that an exceeding multitude of our Catholikes vvent after their guise by reason of seruice in the Kings Court. CHAP. III. The terrible vsage practised vpon Courtiers resorting to the Catholike seruice SVCH answere as soone as the King had receiued from the man of God he ordeyned torturers at the Church-gates who when they espied man or woman clad like one of the Vandall nation forthwith clapping on their heads flesh-hooks and writhing about the same their lockes of haire with a strong twitch pulled away both haire and scalpe withall from the head some being thus serued lost therewith their eyes certayne also dyed outright The women after this torment endured were carried through the streets to the gaze of the City with a Cryer before them which they who suffered it made reckoning of as a great gaine many of whom we knewe but any one of them to haue for the paine forsaken their straight way I neuer knew When by this meanes he could not infringe the constancy of any one of the faithfull he determined that none of our religion being of his Court should receiue their prouision of corne or accustomed penfions He proceeded also to trie them with rurall labours sent men of good calling delicately brought vp to the Country of Vtica there vnder the seruent parching of the Sun to delue for tillage whither all of them cheerefully going forwardes rejoyced in our Lord. AmoÌ„gst whome one of the company had a withered hand which for many yeares stood him in no steede who therefore not vntruly alleadged that he could not work yet was he so much the more violently pressed forth But as soone as they came to the place and that all falling to their prayers mourned principally for him through the mercy of God that dry hand of the Confessor became hole This was the entrance of Hunrickes persecution and now began our griefe and trauailing CHAP. II. The horrible tyranny of Hunricke toward his owne linage HE who had nowe begonne to shewe himselfe desirous although it otherwise fell out to leaue his Kingdome to his children after his death persecuted cruelly his brother Theodoricke with his sonnes and the sons likewise of his brother Genton of whome not one should haue escaped had not death interupted his designment First for asmuch as he knew the wife of Theodoricke to be a politike woman he slewe her vpon pretended ruine least by some witty wile she should as I suppose arme her husbaÌ„ds eldest sonne against the tyrant as she that was both wise and sage After whom was also slayne her eldest sonne who had beene brought vp in learning and by the constitution of Gensericke should first of all his nephewes enjoye the Kingdome being the eldest of them all Proceeding yet farther he resolued vpon more cruelty and caused Iocundus a Bishop of his owne sect whome also they called Patriarch to be buried in the market-place before the staires of the newe streete in face of all the people for no other cause but that he was held very deare in the house of Theodoricke the Kings brother by whose assent it may be that the said familie might haue obtayned the Kingdome Which impious villainy gaue vs to foresee the mischiefe that hung ouer our owne heads saying one to another he that sheweth such cruelty to his owne Priest when will this fellowe spare vs and our religion Next he banished with inhumane exile Godagis the elder of Gentons sonnes and his wife without permitting the solace of seruant or hand-maide His brother Theodoricke likewise his wife and sonne being before slayne he sent packing naked and in distresse after whose death he set his litle infant two daughters of ripe yeares on Asse backes and to their great

blinde man receiued sight whome hee there retayned by him as long as the baptising endured least by reason of this so great a miracle the people should oppresse the man with great concourse about him Then was it manifested to the whole Church and the blinde man went with Eugenius to the Altar as the manner is to make an offering to our Lord for his health receiued which the Bishop tooke and laide vpon the Altar and the people through extreame joy gaue an vnappeasable shout Straight way went one with hasty report hereof to the King Foelix is featch away examined what had passed and how he receiued his sight He vttered the whole in order the Arrian Bishops said that Eugenius had wrought by sorcery And because oppressed with the clearnesse of the thing so that they could not shadowe it they were greatly confounded for Foelix was a man wel knowne to the whole City if it had beene lawfull they would therefore haue slayne him as the Iewes sought to put Lazarus to death after he was raised to life CHAP. X. The impudent and vnreasonable proceeding of the Arrians about their chalenge of disputation NOWE drewe neare that quarrelling day appointed the Calends of February there assembled Bishops not only of Africke but of many Islandes also wearyed with affliction and sorrowe Many dayes togither there was no mention of disputing vntill in the meane-space he had singled out the skilfullest and learnedst persons to the intent that by sondry calumniations he make them away For one of that learned crewe named Laetus a stout most learned man after long imprisonment he consumed by fire thinking by so doing to strike a feare into the rest bleamish the cause At last yet beganne the conflict of disputation at the place which the aduersaries had chosen Our Diuines therefore eschewing all tumultuous clamour least the Arrians should after say that they had by some of ours beene ouer-ruled chose certayne amongst their owne company to answere for all Cyrill placed aloft for himself and his attendants a most stately throne we standing on our feete whervpon our Bishops beganne to say Conference is there alway to be taken in hand where not proud superiority of power beareth swaye but where an assembly is by common consent made that the disputers debating the controuersie and each part doing their endeauour the truth may come to light But nowe who shall be the disputer who the defender which with vpright ballance may eyther confirme that which is rightly auouched or refell vnreasonable assertions When they vsed these and such like words the Kings secretary answered The Patriarke Cyril saith that some of you arrogantly and vnlawfullie vsurpe to themselues the name of Catholiks Our company then with protestation of the same sayd let it be read vnto vs by whose authority Cyril taketh vpon him this title Thereat our aduersaries making a great stirre beganne to cauill And forasmuch as our side requested that if the wiser people might not examine the matter at least they might be lookers on all the sonnes of the Catholike Church there present were coÌ„manded to haue a hundred stroks with a cudgell Then beganne Blessed Eugenius to say aloude God behold the violence which we suffer and consider the tribulation which we sustayne of our persecutors With this our men turning to Cyril said propound that which you intend Cyril excused himselfe that he vnderstood not Latin Our Bishoppes replyed that they alwayes knewe him to haue spoken Latin that therefore he ought not nowe to drawe backe especially seing he was the kindler of those coales But he perceiuing the Catholike Bishops to be ready for to joyne with him would needs by diuers illusions and shifts auoyde audience which our part fore-seing had composed a Pamphlet concerning faith very seemely and sufficiently compiled this they nowe exhibited with protestation If yee be desirous to knowe our beliefe the faith which we holde is herein comprised The exhibited booke here mentioned is omitted For though P. S. erroneously entitle it Victors yet Victor himselfe hath already testified the contrary and Gennadius noteth the Author thereof to haue beene Eugenius THE THIRD BOOKE CHAPTRR I. The Churches are closed the Catholike Bishops by Proclamation depriued of their Seas and their goods giuen to Arrian Ministers OVR booke being put vp and perused yet could not they with their bleare eyes behold the light of truth but wood for anger and storming vvith outragious language they tooke it very ill that we called our selues by our name of Catholikes And forthwith they falsly suggest to the King that with clamorous noyse we auoyded audience of the matter who giuing credit to their lyes kindled at that present with choler hastened to fulfill that which he had in his hart And during the abode of the Bishops at Carthage he sent his messengers secretly with an edict through the Prouinces by force whereof in one day he closed all the Churches of Africke and gaue vnto his Bishops for a gift all the substance of the Bishops and of the Churches And more then this not knowing himself what he said or of what he spake the lawe which our Christian Emperors had long before decreed against them and other Heretikes for the honourable maintenaÌ„ce of the catholike Church the same they blushed not to set forth against vs. Adding much of their owne heades as seemed best to their tyrannicall power For this is the forme of the proclaymed lawe A PROCLAMATION HVNRICKE King of the Vandals and Alanes to all subiectes of our Realme It is the part of triumphant vertue and a thing worthy our royall maiesty to recoile euill deuises astainst their Authors For whosoeuer inuenteth any wickednesse let him impute it to his owne follie if he fall into mischiefe In which thing our Grace following the ayme of Gods iudgement hath assigned vnto all persons as their desertes good or badde require Prouoked therefore by such as haue thought meete to resist the commandement of our Father of famous memory or of our owne clemency we doe nowe take vpon vs at length the censure of seuerity For whereas by our authority we haue proclaymed amongst all our people that in the shieres of the Vandals the Priests of the Consubstantials should not haue their assemblies nor take vpon them any of their mysteries which indeede doe rather contaminate then other wise This when we sawe to be neglected and that very many were found which affirmed they kept and retayned the vncorrupted rule of faith it is well enough knowne that they were all cited vnder nine moneths warning that they should with out any feare assemble togither for disputation sake if at least they had any thing to say for their purpose at the Calends of Febr. the 8th yeare of our Raigne To whome after their meeting at the City of Carthage when delay of the time prescribed was expired we are knowne to haue granted

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