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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68037	A world of vvonders: or An introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and moderne wonders or a preparatiue treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. The argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus written in Latine by Henrie Stephen, and continued here by the author himselfe. Translated out of the best corrected French copie.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; Carew, Richard, 1555-1620, attributed name.; R. C., fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 10553; ESTC S121359	476,675	374

And at Ai● in 〈◊〉 they were accustomed to shew his breeches together with the virgin● Maries smocke by the same token that the smocke was big enough 〈◊〉 giant whereas the breeches were scarce big enough for a boy or a dwarfe It 〈…〉 said that the pots and spoones which belonged to certaine Saints haue bene elsewhere reckoned in the number of holy relikes Nay there is not so much as the taile of the Asse vpon which our Sauiour rode but it is at Genoua accounted for a relike And seeing I haue made mention of the Asse we are further to note that the holy hay that is the hay which was found in the cratch where our Sauiour was layed as soone as he was borne hath bene very famous in some countries of Lorraine as I remember But what shall we say to a more strange dotage of those wise woodcocks which caused men to worship stones as being the very same wherewith Saint Stephen was stoned to death As at the black Friers in Arles at Vigand in Languedoc and at Florence As also of those wise maisters which caused men to worship the arrowes wherewith they affirmed Saint Sebastian was wounded to death one of which was kept at the Augustine Friers in Poytiers another at Lambesk in Prouince and others elsewhere And surely if these stones wherewith Saint Steuen was stoned ought to be worshipped how much more then they that stoned him And if the arrowes were worthy of this honour how much more worthy were they which shot them 4 But lest the Reader should wonder too much at this foolery or rather brutishnesse I will here relate a certaine story by which we may perceiue that the poore people silly soules in the matter of relikes had neither sense nor reason so that their estate and condition was worse then that of poore blind men who dare trust those that leade them The story is this for we will do them this fauour to call it so When Nicodemus tooke our Sauiour downe from the crosse he gathered some of his bloud and put it in one of the fingers of his gloue note here that Nicodemus wore gloues as well as we with the which bloud he wrought many wonders for which cause being persecuted by the Iewes he was glad to rid his hands of it by a strange deuice which was this He tooke a peece of parchment in which he writ all the miracles and all that appertained to this secret and closed vp the bloud together with the parchment in a great birds bill the historian hath forgotten her name which when he had bound vp and setled as well as he could he cast it into the sea commēding it to the prouidence of God whose pleasure was as the story saith that a thousand or twelue hundred yeares after or thereabout this holy Bill hauing trauersed all the seas from East to West should arriue in Normandie in the very same place where the Abbey of Becke is now situate where being cast vp by the violence of the sea into certain shrubs it so fortuned that a good Duke of Normandy one of the famous founders of religious houses in those dayes hunting a Stagge neare to the place when the huntsmen were at a losse not knowing what was become either of the stag or of the dogs at last they found him in a bush kneeling vpon his knees and the dogs by him all very quiet and vpon their knees also some write that they were saying their Pater noster Which spectacle did so stirre vp the deuotion of this good Duke that he caused the wood where this precious Beake and the iewel therein contained was found to be disparked incontinently and there founded an Abbey which for this cause is called the Abbey of Becke where they haue this goodly miracle yet to be seene being so rich that it may truly be said that this Beake fed many bellies Now if this one relike or some remnant and remainder thereof did keep and maintaine so many idle bellies yea fed these lubbers so fat that they were nothing but belly and not so onely but so inriched them let the Reader iudge what abundance of riches the rabble of other relikes hath brought vnto them being so many that hitherto they could neuer be comprehended in any Inuentory And we may well coniecture how great they were by the shrines in which they were wont to be kept For the ditches in which these carcasses were layd were of earth to speake more plainly of these pence which came by kissing and adoring of them or adoration to speake more properly they bought for them fine siluer houses gilt ouer with gold And though all relikes neither haue bin nor are at this day enchased in siluer or gold yet I perswade my selfe that there haue bene few of them at least of those which haue had the better hap which haue not brought to these hucksters the value of a shrine or very neare Now because all relikes haue not bene equally gainfull and commodious vnto them in that some had not the lucke to light in a country so addicted to miracles let vs value the best sort of them but at an hundred thousand crownes though some perhaps haue bene worth many millions the meaner sort but at threescore thousand the worst sort but at twelue thousand and then gathering the entire summe of them all and yet of none but of those that are in fresh memory we may calculate how many thousand crownes these relikes haue gained them 5 Which account neuerthelesse doth not in any sort comprehend particular relikes which these pedlers or their mates caried with them vp and downe the countrey for these were often disclaimed euen by cleargymen themselues residing in those parts through which the foresaid pedlers passed Which open disclaiming of them proceeded partly from enuy partly from feare lest the simple people should haue perceiued their iuggling in such open and palpable knauerie and so should haue begun to haue suspected all the rest And it is to be noted that the foresaid knauish companions did so openly mocke and impudently abuse these simple soules in causing them to worship reliques that if they had bene let alone their trade in the end would not haue bene worth a blewe button either to themselues or vnto others For they were not content in opening their packes to say that I may omit common matters Behold here in this viall is Christs blood gathered from vnder the crosse by the virgine Marie Item see here in this other viall the teares of Christ. Item behold here the swadling bands wherewith the virgine Mary swadled him in Aegypt Item see here the milke of the virgine Marie Item behold here the haires of the virgine Marie They were not I say herewith content but grew to that height of impudency that they made no bones to say In this box but it must in no case be opened is contained the breath of Christ carefully kept by his mother from his very