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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47042	Saint Patricks purgatory containing the description, originall, progresse, and demolition of that superstitious place / by Henry Jones ...	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1647 (1647)	Wing J946; ESTC R16600	121,914	152

world is the middle of these the two extremes are to each other contrary and by no fellowship to be joyned for what fellowship can light have with darknesse or Christ with Belial but the middle hath some similitude with both extremes c. for in this world there is a mixture of good and bad but in the Kingdome of God are no bad but all good in Hell no good but all bad and both these places are supplyed by the middle for of the men of this world some ascend up into Heaven others are cast downe into Hell like are joyned to like that is to say good to good and bad to bad just men to just Angels and transgressing men to transgressing Angels the servants of God to God the servants of the devill to the devill The blessed are called to a Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world The cursed are driven out into the fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels In all which you see there is not any mention of this suppose his or any other Purgatory Neither I confesse is it necessary that all Writers of that no more than of the after ages should mention this Purgatory perhaps it not being sutable to their subject treated off yet surely may it well be expected at their hands who have proposed to themselvs to write of S. Patricks life and who doe observe the memorable passages thereof How this should escape their pens it may well be wondred The first Author we finde in this kinde is Probus an Irishman an author in the Iudgement of all men most worthy credit if we credit Messingham He as it seemed flourished about the time of Be●…e anno 731. being 299. yeares after S. Patrick and did write the life of S. Patrick the Apostle of the Irish I might well make a stand and not pawn my credit with Messingham upon the truth of all that Probus doth set down in that Treatise and how little cause I had to doe it I doe referre to the Iudgement of the Reader certainely he that shall peruse that his book may well imagine the whole endeavour of the man to be not to passe by any thing although never so triviall and triviall matters to set forth to the best sometimes beyond all bounds Yet of this Purgatory although as was said one principall meanes of the conversion of the people it also exhibiting so many and wonderfull things to be seene and heard being flocked unto from farre and neare and so strangely made or found that also by S. Patrick himselfe Yet of this Purgatory I say we finde not in Probus so much as one word it is not once mentioned by him no not so much as by Heresay Neither is this observation mine alone but we finde it as a marginall Annotation to Antoninus Archbishop of Florence in the life of S. Patrick The Historie so common concerning S. Patricks Purgatorie is not in the Author that is joyned to Bede he meaneth this Probus whose work we finde in the Volumes of Venerable Bede in whose dayes if this History had been so common as in after ages no man I thinke that readeth him will judge it likely to slip his pen or to be passed over in that deep silence that it is But that which may seem above all others most strange is that Iocelin esteemed a most exact writer Writing of the life of S. Patrick from his infancie even to his death and that most exactly yet of this hath not one word any where saith Roth and yet lived this Iocelin anno 1183. being 751. yeares after S. Patrick and after Probus 452. yeares whose works whosoever shall take the paines to peruse will perceive it impossible that a Relation of this consequence should drop by especially so many leaves being stuffed with such matters as will be there met withall This so great an omission hath been and not without good cause much taken into consideration by later Writers the earnest defenders of this Purgatory who contend so much for the Antiquitie thereof as may appeare by the Apollogies made for Iocelin in this respect And yet we finde all of them to come short of helping the matter although some have practised to insert more than enough of it into Iocelins works As for the later in a Manuscript copie of Iocelin which I have seen in The now most learned Primate's Librarie I doe finde two Chapters of this Subject viz. Cap. 198. 199. The words are these p While S. Patrick preached through Ireland and had found but small fruit of his labours he did beseech the Lord to shew some signe by which although by terrour they might be brought to repentance By the command therefore of the Lord with the staffe of Iesus a Rod like that of Moses for doing Miracles he did make a great Circle in a certaine place And behold the earth within the Circle did open of it selfe and there appeared a great and most deep pit in that place It was also revealed to S. Patrick that a certaine place of Purgatorie was there into which who so would descend needed no other repentance for his sinne neither should he feele any other Purgatory whence many were never to returne and they that did must first continue there from morning to the morning of the next day many therefore went in that never came backe This is the 198. Chapter and in the next there is a Relation of one that did goe into S. Patrick's Purgatory telling what there hapned unto him after which within 30 dayes he dyed what can be more plain could there any thing be more fully said who then can say that in Iocelin we reade nothing of S. Patrick's Purgatorie But great cause have we to suspect that these two Chapters are but a patch pieced in out of the Gold● Legend and Petrus de Natalibus in both which books treating of the life of S. Patrick we have that discourse word for word Besides that in the printed Iocelins these two last Chapters are altogether omitted as acknowledged to be A new piece added to an old garment which hath made the rent worse for in the printed editions there are but 196. Chapters Neither doth Roth in his Elucidations upon Iocelin added unto Messinghams Florilegium mention any more Chapters he shutting up the Booke with the 196. Chapter containing S. Patrick's buriall in Downe but this was perhaps but forgotten or rather put off untill the next Edition of Iocelin in the meane time trying whether that manuscript might passe for Authenticall and unexamined It is true indeed and cannot be denyed that in the 172. Chapter of the printed Booke there is mention made of S. Patrick's Purgatory but it is as true and most apparant that it is not the same but farre different from this which we now looke after as also from that other Purgatory belonging to S. Brendan of which I have before spoken Iocelins Words are

Viscount to that Purgatory to be purged with him But this is not all For secondly after the decease of Charles the fourth King of France there succeeded in the yeare 1328. Phillip of Valois to whom in England Edward the third was Contemporary this Edward began his Reigne anno 1326. two yeares before and dyed in the fifty first yeare of his Reigne To him succeeded Richard the second here spoken off And in a Parliament held anno 1385. which was the ninth year of Richards Reigne was Roger Mortimer Earle of March proclaimed Heire apparant to the Crowne Shortly after which this Roger sailed into Ireland where he was Deputy at which time this pilgrimage was said to be for from the French King he brought letters to Richard and from Richard to the Earle of March then Deputy But deducting two yeares from the fifty and one yeares of Edward the third the remaine is fortie nine to which adde nine yeares of Richards Reigne at which time the Earle of March was Deputy it maketh up fifty and eight yeares so that by this computation this Pilgrimage must have beene 58. yeares before this yeare of Richard and as many before the Earle of March for so long is there between the yeare 1328. 1386. The time of his being Deputy and how these things will hang together I see not Neither can this be supposed to be such a mistake as that the figures might be mis printed 1328. for 1386. for in the Margent of that Legend the figures are 1328. but in the body of the Discourse it is thus at large I did set forward in the yeare after the birth of our Lord One thousand three hundred twenty and eight And the same Author in another booke set out since relating the same story hath it in the same words at large In the yeare one thousand three hundred twenty and eight not in figures But it is yet more inconsistent For Richard King of England is said to be Sonne in Law to the then French King unto whom Letters recommendatory are brought by the Viscount from his Father in Law True it is that Richard was affianced unto Isabell daughter of Charles the sixt of France but that was so farre from being in the yeare One thousand three hundred twentie and eight that is was in the year one thousand three hundred ninty six that is sixty and eight years after Neither could it be when the Earle of March was Deputie of Ireland which was about the yeare One thousand three hundred eightie and five nine or ten yeares before so that either Richard was not Son in Law to the French King or the Earle of March was not Deputy when the Viscount came into Ireland Neither is it lesse absurd which is added That the Earle of March the Deputy having received the King and Queene of Englands letters did honourably receive him For what Letters could the Queen write shee was but seven years old when he was as I said affianced to Richard and not full twelve when by the Lord Henry Piercy she was brought backe into France after Richards death Neither could she write to the Earle of March being Deputy of Ireland unlesse we should suppose her to have written three or foure yeares before she was borne And as foolishly is the Earle of March made to be Richards brothers Sonne Richard having no Brother he being the sole surviving Sonne of Edward the black Prince And Roger Mortimer being the great grandchild of Edward the Third descended from Philip daughter of Lionell third sonne of Edward the Third which Lionell was brother to that Edward the black Prince and Uncle to Richard So that considering this Masse of absurdities from first to last any one I suppose may well guesse how false this Legend is and this Imposture may give just cause to suspect this and all others of the like Fables But I much wonder that the translator O Sullevan whose faculty was singular that way did not helpe out the matter better than he hath done but either he saw it not or if he did he thought it dangerous to stirre in it and to raise up any doubts supposing it might as well passe after as hitherto it had without discovery thinking it may be that none would so farre question it Neither could O Sullevan be so simple as to conceive such a childish dreame could passe without some observation therefore to prevent it he laboureth to cast a mist before his Readers eyes If this History saith he be in any thing which we have shewed in many things if not in all hard to be beleeved what then Let him that desireth to be satisfied reade Dionysius Carthusianus who reporteth like Histories of others who returned from this Purgatory But what are like Histories to this what if they be as false as this But Dionysius saith he doth prosecute the matter at large answering all Arguments and doubts that can be made against it This indeed is to some purpose if so it prove but I rather suspect this to be O Sullevans cunning to direct the Reader and take him off from prying too neare into that of the Viscount yet least we may seeme to prejudicate him let us heare what Dionysius doth say to this purpose First saith he Dionysius confirmeth this by the like Relations He indeed among other Histories proving that Soules departed are purged in such flames giveth us one of Tondall an Irish Knight who lived about Henry of Saltry's dayes He Balaeus speaking of that Henry flourished then when Tondall the Carthusian in Ireland being revived returned to his owne from Purgatory reporting visions calling him a Carthusian whom in others we reade a Knight it may be as Owen the Knight putting himselfe into the Cistercian Order so he into the Carthusians Neither were they farre distant from each other both Owen and Tondall being in K. Stevens dayes this last being about the twelfth yeare of his Reigne both which administred abundant matter for Henry to write The Legend of Tondall is this in effect that his Soule was separated from his bodie three dayes like that which we before did reade of Tymarchus whose Soule was sent on the like errand two dayes and one night In this differing from that of Owen whose body also went along This Soule of Tondall is by an Angell conducted into Purgatory where it saw many strange things among the rest a beast of incredible greatnesse which may easily be believed whose mouth seemed capable of nine thousand armed men just nine thousand within whom were many thousands of men and women grievously tormented this was a thing not observed by Owen the Knight or that our Viscount for this Purgatory is beholding to these great Titles of Viscounts and Knights for the upholding of the credit of it but to goe on This Soule of Tondall is brought to a place where over a lake there was a bridge two miles long and but one palme broad full