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A37229 The ancient rite and monuments of the monastical, & cathedral church of Durham collected out of ancient manuscripts, about the time of the suppression / published by J.D. Davies, John, 1625-1693. 1672 (1672) Wing D392; ESTC R24290 63,356 175

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the Frontsteed for which Fact she was complained upon and so she laid those stones without the door which before were made well fast within her House Thus were the godly things intended for God's Service in the Church converted to prophane uses There was in the Centry-garth under the South-end of the Church called the South-end of the Nine Altars betwixt two Pillars adjoyning to the Nine Altars door a Song-School built for six Children to be learnt to sing for the maintenance of Gods Divine Service in the Abbey-Church which Children had their meat and drink at the Housecharge amongst the Children of the Ambrie The said School was built time out of mind before the suppression of the House and was neatly boarded within round about a man's height above the Walls and a long Desk from one end of the School to the other to lay their Books upon and all the floor was boarded for warmness and long Forms about it set fast for the Children to sit on And the place where the Master did sit and teach was all close boarded both behind and on either side And the said Master was to teach those six Children to sing and to play on the Organs every principal day when the Monks did sing their high Mass and at Even-song And the said Master was bound to play on the Organs every principal day when the Monks did sing their high Mass and likewise at Even-song but the Monks when they were at Mattins and Service at Mid-night then one of the said Monks did play on the Organs so that the Master play'd only upon principal dayes in the high Mass time and at Even-song as aforesaid Also the said Master had his Chamber adjoyning to the said School where he lodg'd having his meat and drink in the Prior's Hall among the Prior's Gentlemen and all his other necessaries were found at the charge of the Prior and the House till such time as the House was suppress'd And shortly after because there was no teaching in that School any longer but in another place or School appointed for that purpose the aforesaid School in the Centry-garth fell to decay and was pull'd down so clearly that one cannot tell almost in what place it stood Of St. Cuthbert's Death and the Translation of his body to Durham The 20. of the Calends of March in the year of Christ 587. St. Cuthbert ended his Life and was buried in Holy Island where he was Bishop three years in St. Peter's Church by the Altar on the East-side in a Grave of stone purposely made for him Being thus buried in St. Peter's Church in Holy Island and having lain there for the space of eleven years he was taken out of the ground the 20. of the Calends of March in the same Calends he had dyed in entire lying like a man asleep being found safe uncorrupted flexible and leath-wake and all his Mass-cloaths safe and fresh as they were the first hour they were put on him at which time they enshrined him in a new Sepulchre or Feretory a little above the pavement of the Church and there he stood many a day she is said to be descended from the Blood-Royal of the Kings of Ireland being Son of one Muriardach and Sabina his Wife who was Daughter to a King there He was brought up in the Abbey of Mailrose first under his Predecessor Eata and afterwards under Boisil who succeeded Eata After the death of Boisil he was made Abbot of that Monastery which he govern'd with great care and sincerity He was Anchorite thirteen years He was Monk thirty seven years and Abbot fourteen years Also in the year 55. Eardulf was Bishop at which time certain Danes and Pagans Infidels of sundry other Nations invaded and destroyed the Realm of England in divers places And after a certain space Halden King of the Danes with a great part of the Navy and Army of the Infidels arrived in Tinmouth-Haven intending to sojourn there all the Winter following and the next Spring he meant with all his power to invade spoil and destroy the County of Northumberland Whereof when Eardulf the Bishop had intelligence with all his Clergy and people after long consultation had amongst themselves what course was to be taken in that extremity to prevent the barbarous cruelty of the Savage and merciless Infidels they in the end called to mind the words and monition deliver'd by St. Cuthbert to his Brethren The said Holy man before his departure out of this Life amongst other wholsom counsels and godly admonitions then delivered uttered these or the like words If you my Brethren shall be at any time hereafter urged or constrained unto one of the two extremitics following I do much rather choose and wish that you should take my Bones up and flye from those places and take your place of abode and stay wheresoever Almighty God shall provide for you then that you should by any means submit your selves to the yoak and servitude of wicked Schismaticks Which words he then spake by the spirit of Prophesie foreseeing the perillousness of the time to come Bishop Eardulf and Abbot Edred did take and carry away the Body of St. Cuthbert from Holy Island Southward and fled seven years from Town to Town by reason of the great Persecution and slaughter of the Painims and Danes And when the Inhabitants of the Island saw that St. Cuthbert's Body was gone they left their Lands and Goods and followed after him Whereupon the Bishop the Abbot and the rest being wearied with Travelling thought to have stollen away and carried St. Cuthbert's Body into Ireland for its better safety Being upon the Sea in a Ship three Waves were miraculously turned into blood and the Ship was driven back by tempest and forc'd upon the shore Nay the said Ship wherein they were by the greatness of the Storm and the rage of the Waves was turned on the one side and the Book of the Holy Evangelists fell out of the Ship into the bottom of the Sea The said Book was most curiously written and all adorned with gold and precious stones on the out-side Now while they were all troubled and in great perplexity for the loss of the said Book St. Cuthbert being loath to see his honourers in such sorrow did appear in a Vision to one Hundredus a Monk and commanded him that they should diligently seek for the Book upon the Coasts thereabouts where they did find it three miles from the Sea-shore cast as it seemed by the force of some Wave and carried thither by the violence of some happy gale of Wind or by some divine power They found the book much more beautiful than before both in Letters and Leaves and excelling in the outer beautifulness of the cover being nothing blemished by the salt water but polished rather by some Heavenly hand which did not a little increase their joy But being wearied with seeking the book and with carrying about St. Cllthbert's body he presented to