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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the Lantern John washington Prior of Durham lies buried under a fair Marble stone with his Verses engraven in Brass upon it before the Porch over the entrance of the North Alley as you go to the Song-School adjoyning to St. Benedict's Altar Robert Berrington of Walworth Prior of Durham first obtained the use of the Mitre with the Staff He lyeth buried under a fair Marble stone being Pictur'd from the waste up in Brass on the North-side of Prior Washington in the North-plage over against St. Benedict's Altar being the first of the three Altars in the North-plage Next to St. Benedict's Altar on the North is St. Gregory's Altar being the second Altar An Ancient Memorial Collected forth of the best Antiquaries concerning the Battel of Durham in John Fosser's time In the Night before the Battel of Durham strucken and begun the seventeenth day of October Anno Dom. 1346. There did appear to John Fosser then Prior of the Abbey at Durham a Vision commanding him to take the Holy Corporax-cloath which was within the Corporax where with St. Cuthbert did cover the Chalice when he used to say Mass and to put the same holy Relique like unto a Banner-cloath upon a Spear point and on the Morning after to go and repair to a place on the West part of the City of Durham called the Red-Hills and there to remain and abide till the end of the said Battel To which Vision the Prior obeying and taking the same for a Revelation of Gods grace and mercy by the Mediation of Holy St. Cuthbert did accordingly early the next Morning together with the Monks of the said Abbey repair to the said place called Red-Hills there most devoutly humbling and prostrating themselves in Prayer for the Victory in the said Battel a great number and multitude of Scots running and passing by them with intention to have spoiled them yet they had no power or sufferance to commit any violence and force to such Holy Persons so occupied in Prayers being protected and defended by the mighty providence of Almighty God and by the Mediation of Holy St. Cuthbert and the presence of the said Holy Relique And after many conflicts and warlike exploits there had and done betwixt the English men and the King of Scots and his Company the said Battel ended and the Victory was obtained to the great overthrow and confusion of the Scots their Enemies And when the said Prior and Monks accompany'd with Ralph Lord Nevil and John Nevil his Son the Lord Percy and many other Nobles of England returned home and went to the Abbey-Church there joyning in hearty prayer and thanksgiving to God and holy St. Cuthbert for the Conquest and Victory atchieved that day a Holy Cross which had been taken out of the Holy-Rood-House in Scotland by King David Bruce was won and taken upon the said King of Scots at the said Battel Which Cross by most Ancient and credible Writers is Recorded to have come to the said King most miraculously and to have happened and chanced into his hand being Hunting the Wild Hart in a Forrest nigh Edinborough upon Holy-Rood-day commonly called The Exaltation of the Holy Cross the said King separated and parted from his Nobles and Company suddenly there appeared unto him as it seemed a most fair Hart running towards him in a full and speedy Course which so affrighted the King's Horse that he violently coursed away whom the Hart so fiercely and swiftly follow'd that he bare forcibly both the King and his Horse to the ground He being much dismay'd thereat did cast back his hands betwixt the tynes of the said Hart to stay himself and then and there the said Cross most strangely and most wondrously slipped into the King's Hands at the view whereof the Hart immediately vanished away and was never seen after no man knowing certainly what metal or wood the said Cross was made of In the place where that Miracle was so wrought doth now spring a Fountain called the Rood-Well And the next night after that the said Cross so bechanced unto him the said King was charged and warned in his sleep by a Vision to build an Abbey in the same place which he most diligently observed as a true Message from Almighty God and so did send for Work-men into France and Flanders who at their coming were retained and did erect and build the said Abbey accordingly which the King caused to be Furnished with Canons Regular and Dedicated the same in honour of the Cross and placed the said Cross most sumptuously and richly in the said Abbey there to remain as a most renowned Monument And it so there remained till the said King the night before he addressed him forward to the said Battel was in a Dream admonished that in any wise he should not attempt to spoil or violate the Church Goods of St. Cuthbert or any thing that appertained unto that Holy Saint which for that he most contemptuously and presumptuously did disdain and contemn violating and destroying so much as he could the said Goods and Lands belonging to St. Cuthbert he was not only punished by God Almighty by his own Captivity being taken at the same Battel in the Field and therein sore wounded having first valiantly fought but there were also taken with him four Earls two Lords the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews one other Bishop one Knight with many others and in the same Battel were slain seven Earls of Scotland besides many Lords and Scoth-men to the number of one and other fifteen thousand as also by the loss of the said Cross which was taken upon him and many other most excellent Jewels and Monuments which were brought from Scotland as his own Banner and other Noble-mens Ancients all which were offer'd up at the Shrine of St. Cuthbert for the beautifying and adorning thereof together with the Black Rood of Scotland so termed with Mary and John made of silver being as it were smoaked all over which was placed and set up most exactly in the Pillar next St. Cuthbert's Shrine in the South Alley of the said Abbey And shortly after that the said Prior caused a goodly and sumptuous Banner to be made with pipes of silver to be put on a staff being five yards long with a device to take off and on the said Pipes at pleasure and to be kept in a Chest in the Feretory when they were taken down which Banner was shew'd and carried in the said Abbey on Festival and principal dayes On the height of the over-most Pipes was a fair pretty Cross of silver and a wand of silver having a fine wrought knob of silver at either end that went underneath the Banner-cloath whereunto the Banner-cloath was fastened and tyed which wand was of the thickness of a man's finger and at either end of the said wand there was a fine silver Bell. The wand was fasten'd by the middle to the Banner-staff hard under the Cross the Banner-cloath was a yard broad and five quarters