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The first two partes of the actes or vnchast examples of the Englysh votaryes gathered out of their owne legenades and chronycles by Johan Bale ...; Actes of Englysh votaryes. Pt. 2. 1551
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Bale, John, 1495-1563.
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the gyuynge of spirytuall promocyons in Englande for the losse of his crowne as thou hast sayd here Know thou tâ—ys determynatly I speake it here afore God that he shall not obtayne it at my hande though he wolde also gyue his heade and all O arrogaunt Antichrist ful ryghtly shewest thy selfe This hath Mathew Paris li iij. Anglorum historiae and Iohan Capgraue Whan Anselme was about to haue pleaded hys owne cause there thynkynge to haue had therin the assistence of Richarde the pryour of Helye whyche was a man that tyme both wyttie and learned he vtterly fell from hym and toke the kynges part very earnestly confutynge all hys false accusacyons and malycyouse detrectyons for the whyche in hys returne the kynge shewed hym muche fauer as Radulphus de Diceto reporteth Anon after Anselme intreated for hys dysgraded abbottes and vnconfirmed prelates whyche was graunted foorthwith and they restored to their dygnytees For that gentyll seate Mathew Paris sayth was neuer wonte to fayle whan eyther reade or whyte came in the way The nexte yeare after was Anselme clerely forbyd to returne into Englande vnlesse he wolde obserue the good lawes of the lande whyche he refused to do the seyd Mathew sayth ☞ The conueyaunces of Anselme by epistles and writynges Whan the kynges massengers were returned home agayne with these croked newes and with strayght commaundement from the cruell byshop of Rome that he shulde neuermore intermeddle with appoyntynge out of prelates or by gyuynge to them the rynge and pastorall hoke but to leaue it only to hys absolute autoryte he was sore displeased turnynge all the possessyons rychesse of Anselme to his own vse What letters crafty counsels blasphemouse bablyngâ—s and abhomynable wrastynges of the scriptures went betwyxt that lewde byshopp of Rome and Anselme for the space of iij. yeares after it wolde requyre a great felde of matter to shewe as I fynde in hys epystles Moreouer it is a wondre to beholde there the subtyltye that thys Anselme vseth to brynge hys deuylysh purpose to passe for demynyshment of the Christen prynces autoryte and augmentyng of Antichristes vsurpacyon That prynce he flattereth to gyue ouer hys ryghte and an other he commendeth in hys folyshness that hath done it already their folysh wyues alwayes suborned to put the cause forwarde That doltyshe preste he prayseth whych hath contempned hys prynces lyberalyte to an other he promyseth muche hyghar promocyon These are the ingynes of a crafty dâ—uyll if ye marke them Hys letters to syster Frodelina syster Ermengarda syster Athelytes syster Eulalia syster Madily and syster Basyle to Maude to abbesse of Cane in Normandy and to Maude the abbesse of Wilton here in Englande declareth hym to be very famylyar with nonnes Ex epistolis Anselmi He also made a treatyse about the same tyme called planctus amissae uirginitatis a bewaylynge of maydenhede lost ☞ The first ordre of typpet men or secular prestes IN the yeare of our lorde a M. a. C. vâ— beganne first the ordre of Sarisburianes Mathew Paris sayth What maner of ordre this shuld be I can not coniecture vnlesse it were the ordre of portasse men typpet knightes or newe shauen sir Iohans professynge the vnsauery vse of Sarum By lyke whan these men were ones clerely separated froÌ„ their marryed wyues they were at the last contented at their byshoppes suggestyon to lyue peaceably vndre hym to come as it were into a vnyformyte of relygion in outward aperaunce as the moÌ„kes ded in their cloysters and so to wynne agayne some fauer or good opynyoÌ„ of the people whych they for theyr wyues had lost Than begaÌ„ they first to shyne in one shewe or to muster in one lyuerye as the coltes of one mare one short an other longe one hygh an other lowe For afore that tyme were they dyspersed by many dysgysinges one dyuerse from an other As the monkes had their cowles caprones or whodes and their botes so had they than their longe typpettes their prestes cappes their syde gownes gyrt to them their portasses relygyously hangynge with great buttoÌ„s at their gyrdles They had also their crownes shauen and their heare docked lyke as the monkes had though not so muche as they to apeare also relygyouse rable WhaÌ„ they had onâ—â— receyued that marke of the beast in their foreheardes and ryghthandes by the profession of a false chastyte they were made free of Antichristes marte myght by hys autoryte both bye and selle Apoc. xiij Yet coulde they neuer obtayne of the saye multitude so great an opynyon of holye perfectyon as ded the monkes vnlesse it were here one hypocryte and there an other but in conclusyon contynued vndre the slendre name of secular prestes or hedge chaplaines For in most places they dwelt vploude and wanted relygyouse habytacyons to haue sâ—t them forewarde or made them moâ—e Pope holye ☞ How the emperour was vsed in the tyme of their sorceryes NEcessary were it to marke an other crafty conueyaunce of these holye helhoundes A questyon myghte here be axed where Henry the iiij Emprour was for the tyme if thys tragycall turmoyle that he loked not more narrowly to their haÌ„des being a man so wyse so godly Thys questyon is suffycyently answered by the chronycle writers of that age The prelates occupied him with such mortall warres from Hyldebrandes tyme hytherto that he knewe not which way to turne him They made hys owne subiectes in euery quarter to rebell agaynst him and his owne naturall sonne in the ende vpon desyre of the crowne imperyal most falsely to betraye hym subdue hym captyue him emprison him and cruelly at the lattre to murther him The storye is a matter very lamentable heauye as Athelboldus TraiecteÌ„sis Barnesridus Vrspergensis Ioannes Nauclerus hath described it Whan thys man whych was called Henry the v. was ones satled in the empyre tydynges were brought hym the next yeare after that Paschall the byshop of Rome helde a generall councell at Trecas in Fraunce agaynst hys father Wherin he prosecuting the former actes of Hildebrande prohybyted laye prynces the inuestyng of prelates and the prestes their wyues in the realme of Fraunce as he had done in other nacyons dysgradynge those byshoppes and abbottes whome the Frenche kyng and emprour had made The seyd emprour hearynge of thys sent learned men vnto him gentylly requyrynge that he wold not take from him that his predecessours without interrupcyon had vsed from the tyme of Charles the great by the space of more than CCC yeares The boshopp at that tyme deferred the answere tyll he came to Rome Godfridus Viterbiensis Albertus Crants Paulus Aemilius Iacobus Bergomas Ioannes Stella Ioannes Capgraue li. i. de nobilibus Henricis Robertus Barnes ☞ The homblye handelynge of prelates at Rome Whan thys emprour se his tyme he came into Italy with a great host of
Fabiane parte vi cap. ccx ☞ S. Edwarde voweth chastyte in bedde REported it is in the legende of lyes which was wonte with solemnyte to be redde in temples of the Papistes that after thys kynge Edwarde was marryed to Editha the doughter of earle Goodwyne they both brynge togyther in bedde vowed a perpetuall chastyte and therin perseuered to the end of their lyues There contynued in them sayth the legende a coniugall loue without coniugall act and fauorable imbracynges without the deflourynge of byrgynite As though marryage were an enteraunce into vyoleÌ„t whoredome a fylthye deflourer of virgynyte whych rather sanctyfyeth it to increace to Gods honour as in Abraham Sara Zachary and Helisabeth For in theÌ„ was marryage a great blessynge of God Gene. xxi and a waye of ryghteousnesse without reproue Luce. i. as it is in all theÌ„ whych be of lyke faythe Edwarde was beloued sayth the legende but not corrupted Editha had fauer yet was she not touched As a newe Abisag she warmed the kyng with loue but she lowsed hym not by lecherouse lust She delyted hym wyth swete obsequyes yet made she hym not plyaunt to fleshly desyres In the same lowsy legende more ouer is it written that thys Edwarde called marryaged a fearfull shyp wrecke of maydenhede comparynge it to the fyery fornace of the Caldeanes Dani. iij. to the mantell whych Ioseph left in the handes of an whore Gene. xxxix to the lascyuyouse outrage of the. ii false prestes whych wolde haue oppressed Susanna Dani. xiij and to the fylthy intycementes of dronken Holophernes towardes fayr Iudith the seruaunt of God Iudith xij Of a farre other sprete was S. Paule than was thys Edwarde whan he called the marryed Corintheanes a chast virgyne coupled to Christ for their ChristeÌ„ beleues sake ij Cor. xi ☞ The Chronycles confuteth this deuylysh dreame FOr a confutacyon of thys practysed fable most deuylysh errour lete vs se what the Chronycles sheweth of the matter whych contayne muche more truthe than their quere legendes Ricardus Diuisiensis sayth that by feare terrour of deathe Edwarde was compelled to the marryage of Editha And Polydorus reporteth that for hate of her father whyche had slayne hys elder brother Alphrede he vtterly refused her agayne feysynge her goodes at hys pleasure Ranulphus and Anonymus sheweth that he depryued her of all quenely honour and put her into the abbeye of warwell with one only mayde to wayte vpon her so coÌ„myttynge her to the streyght kepynge of the abbesse there Wyâ—lyam of Malmesbury Marianus Scotus sayth that after he had marryed her he neyther put her froÌ„ hys bedde nor yet carnally knew her But whether that was for hate of her kyndred or in purpose of chastyte they can not dyffyne And Robert Fâ—byane confesseth the same in hys chronycle parte vi ca. ccx These testymonyes consydered se what sure grounde these oyled hypocrytes the monkes and the prestes haue to aduaunce in Edwarde their sodomytycal chastyte agaynst Gods fre instytucyon magnyfyenge hys wyfe to the starres in their letanyes with Sancta Editha ora pro nobis Iohan Capgraue rehearceth that the peeres of his realme had persuaded hym to marry that hys owne lawfull chyldren myght succede hym in that gouernaunce therof to the godly quetyng of the same as ded Dauid Salomon Ezechias Iosias and other holy kynges of the Hebrues But se what plage folowed of this Edwardes hypocresy by the peruerse counsell of those ydell whysperers and lecherouse leaders Such an whores byrde bastarde straunger enemy obtayned the crowne as brought Englysh people in most myserable subieccyon that wele was he which within hys owne nacyon myght saye I am none Englysh man Ranulphus Mattheus Paris Capgraue Fabianus Polydorus ☞ A voyce hearde but not much regarded NEuerthelesse it is redde of thys Edwarde the lyenge on hys death bedde he hearde thys voyce in a dreame The inyquyte of Englande of the clergy it wuld haue sayd prouoked God to wrathe The prestes haue swerued froÌ„ the lordes testament with poluted herte handes do their offyce vnpurely These be no natural shepherdes but hyred strauÌ„gers These defende not the flocke but suffer the wolffe to take hys pleasure of theÌ„ They only seke the mylke the wolle the shepe they care not for that helle is now redye to swellowe them in both The gydes of the people are bycome vnfaythfull next coÌ„panyons to theues robbers of their contrey Neyther feare they God nor regarde the lawe The veryte they hate the ryght they conteÌ„pne cruelte they only regarde Neyther haue the prelates ryghteousnesse nor their chaplaines curates any godly discipline Therfor wyll the lord whet his swerde hys bowe hath he bent made it redy Hys yre indignacyoÌ„ wyll he shewe to the people send them yll angels to vexe them accordynge to hys appoyntment All thys and much more hath Iohan Capgraue in Catalogo sanctorum anglicorum Yet were not those lecherouse lubbers by these forewarnynges amended But thys Edwarde they exalted aboue the mone and for hys vnprofytable chastyte yea most hurtefull myschefe vnto thys whole realme they haue euer sens placed hym next Mary the mother of Christ and the holy Euangelist Iohan. Neyther omytted they Editha in their letanyes nor yet Emma hys mother in their commendacyons whych had bene so depely in loue with Alwyne the forenamed byshop of Wynchestre that she both forgate hym and hys brother Ricardus Diuisiensis cum caeteris autoribus ☞ The Papacye ordre of Cardynalles and Swanus GRegory the vi about the same tyme founde the Papacy so impoueryshed and the possessyons therof so demynyshed by the lecherouse rule ryot excesse of hys bawdy predecessours in the yeare of our lorde a M. and xlvi that he had nothynge left hym to sustayne hys owne holy fathered and hys Cardynalles with in the relygyon of spirytuall ydelnesse but the bare offerynges and a fewe rentes there besydes Guilhelmus Malmesburiensis de regibus Vincentius li. xxv ca. xxij Ioannes de columna Antoninus parte ij tit xvi ca. i. About thys tyme Iohan Carion sayth the gloriouse name of Cardynalles came into an vse estymacyon or fame and so was noysed abrode Whose proude estate to maynteyne in all voluptuouse pleasurs thys Gregory toke in hande the materyall sworde and ded therwith suche murther and myschefe that the prelates their selues denyed hym Cristen buryall Ranulphus cestriensis ac Platina in uitis ponti ficum Swauus the first sonne of Goodwyne the earle of West saxons of Kent laye many tymes with Edgyne the abbesse of Leof about the yeare of our lorde a M. and xlix myndynge in the conclusyon to haue marryed her And was therfore compelled of kynge Edwarde to flee the realme of EnglaÌ„de into Flanders tyll such tyme as hys peace were procured by Aldrede than