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A17943	Here begynneth the kalendre of the newe legende of Englande; Nova legenda Anglie. English. Abridgments.	Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Epistle on the medled life.; John, of Tynemouth, d. 1290? Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae.	1516 (1516)	STC 4602; ESTC S107496	190,729	324

vpon the drye groūde by her prayer was anone taken vp with the see and so she escaped and came into an I le called Ippleffec and as she sette her fote vpon a foure square stone her fote sanke into the stone as it hadde bensnowe after by seynt Theodre she was made abbesse to .lxx. nonnes On a tyme the deuyll as she was prayeng blewe out her candell and an Aūgell lyght it agayne She dyed the .iii. I de of Iulye her successours whiche was called Edburgh toke vp her body to remoue it to a more honorable place and founde it vncorrupt more lyke to slepe then to be deed After her monastery was destroyed and was made a parysshe churche her Relykꝭ were brought to Caunterbury but whether they lye in the church of seynt Augustyne or of seynt Gregorie the Legende leuyth it in doute and dyuers myracles be here omytted On a nyght as she was in prayer the holy ghost appered to her lyke aboue satte vpon her hedde with his wynges compassynge her hedde lyke a crowne with suche a lyght that she myght skarsely be seen the space of an houre ¶ De sancta Modwenna virgine abbatissa SEynt Modwen was borne in Irlande and by prechynge of seynt Patryke she entered into Relygyon and fro thens she gaue her self to lernynge to despyse the vanytes of the worlde to kepe her herte stedfast with all dylygence to punysshe her bodye with fastynges and vygylles no thynge she put byfore the loue of god hauynge great desyre to the Ioyes of heuyn with contynuell feere of the paynes of hell and her broder by her example forsoke the worlde and after was made a bysshop She made a monasterye and there lyued with her brother with rawe rotes gettynge her lyuynge with her owne laboure many noble matrones came to her quenes and virgyns to here the worde of god Eyght virgyns Ioyned them selfe to her wherof seynt Bryde and orbila were in the company and when Orbila for her youth fered to take the rule of the monastery vpon her seynt modwen put the gyrdell aboute her and brethyd vpon her and anone her heere waxed hoore and she was lyke an olde woman and thenne she toke the rule of the Monasterye with good wyll She caused a wolfe that had kylled one of her calues to folowe the cowe and kepe her and other wolfes of that kynde vse to do so to this day A great thefe called Glunelach kylled .viii prestꝭ that seynt Patrike had sent to vysyt seynt Modwen and she herynge therof went thyder with .xlix. nonnes to burye theym and Glunelache with .xlix. theuys mette theym and thought to haue rauysshed theym but when they wolde haue layde handes vpon the virgyns they fell sodeynly a slepe and slept .ii. dayes and the spyryte of seynt Modwen and Glunelache were ledde with an Aungell into heuyn hell when Glunelache came to hymselfe agayne he was cōuerted and his neue we also lyued a good and a blessyd lyfe A holy bysshop called Cheuyn was brought in beleue by craft of the deuyll that Glunelach the thefe by prayer of seynt Modwen shuld haue his place in Heuyn and that all was in vayne that he had done in the seruyce of god wherfore the bysshop thought to destroye her and her Monasterye and as he was cōmynge therto she had knowlege therof by our lorde and so she met hym and shewyd hym that his enemye had deceyued hym greatly and anone he sawe the deuyll that brought hym to the temptacyon lyke a blacke Ethyope wherfore he toke great repentaūce Then seynt Modwen to the entent she myght the more surely conferme hym in our lord put her staffe into a welle that she vsed oftymes in the wynter to stande in tyl she had sayd a hole Psaulter she drewe her staffe after her agaynst the hylle the water folowed the staffe into the toppe of the hylle wherupon he depꝑted lyued after a blyssed lyf On a tyme when she entended to go into Englāde she lacked a shyp at her prayer the groūde reysed it self vp about her lyke an I le so cōueyed her her company ouer the see into Englande where she and seynt Edith that was suster to kyng Edgar rered Ositha that was drowned fro deth to lyfe She went thryse to Rome for remyssion of her synnes and she dyed in Irlande the thyrde Nonas of Iulii after whose deth great varyaūce was bytwyxt Englysshemen Irysshemen and Scottes for her bodye and the bysshop Counceyled theym that eyght men shuld take vp her bere that countre that our Lorde wolde haue theym go towardes shulde haue the body and by the wyll of our lorde they went streyght towardes Englande so she was brought into Englande and lyeth at Andreseia After her deth she apperyd to one of the Nonnes after compleyne and tolde her that she herde some of the susters speke in tyme of scylence and that her body yet beyng amonge them vnburyed she meruayled that they forget her doctryne and reguler obseruaunce and bad them nat to breke the leste obseruaūce lest by lytell lytel they fell into greatter defautꝭ sayinge vnto the suster that she appered vnto that she shuld make her redy for after .vii. dayes she shuld come vnto her and so it was done ¶ De sancto Neoto abbate confessore SEynt Neotus comonly called seynt Eed was the kynges sone of west Englande of Kent and when he came to age he forsoke the pryde pompe of the worlde was made a monke at Glastenbury vnderseynt Dunstan̄ where he ascendyd to hygh perfyte relygion he was so lytel of stature that at masse he had a thynge vnder his fete but he was full of vertues and good maners Eloquent of speche discrete of wordes and of great lernynge beynge byloued of all men and to the entent that he wolde eschewe the recourse and fauour of the people he went into Cornewale where he lyued .vii. yeres in a wyldernes whiche after his name is called Neotstoke after he went to Rome and was there honorably receyued of 〈◊〉 Martyne fro thens he retourned into his owne coūtre where he made a monasterye and was ofte vysyted with Aungellys he had a water that had thre Fysshes in it and if he toke one euery day yet alway there were thre Fysshes He tolde the kynge Alfred his broder that for his pryde and tyrauntrye he shulde be put out of his Realme and be as an outlawe but he sayd by his prayers he had opteyned of our Lorde that he shuld be restored agayne and shuld cōuerte his enemy to the fayth it ꝓued after ī euery thyng as he had sayd By seynt Ede the kyng was correct tyrauntrie tourned into sobernes the worshyppyng of deuylles abated and the people of our lorde moche encreasyd in all the countre he lefte this worlde the day before the kalend of August and pa●●e of his Relykes lye at Ramsey the

suche sobrenes that his seruauntes neuer sawe hym excede in mete or drynke he punysshed his body with vigylles fastyngꝭ pryuely vsed to weer the heere and in the yere of our lorde M.CC.lxxv he was made bysshop of Herforde for defence of the right of his church to his great payne he went to Rome where he was honorably receyued of pope Martyn in retournynge home he deꝑted out of this world at Florentyn̄nygh the hylle of Flascon the .vi. nonas of Octobre in the yere of our lorde god M.CC.lxxxvii and .vi. dayes his body was kept and gaue a swete sauoure and then his flesshe was shauen fro the bones and buryed in the Churche of seynt Seuery there and his bones were brought to Herforde Threscore and ten men haue ben reysed fro deth to lyfe by his meryt ▪ and .xii. blyndemen recouered theyr syght with dyuers other cōtracte mute syke of the palsey that haue ben also made hole ¶ De sancto 〈…〉 THe lyfe and hole proses of this gloryous 〈◊〉 seynt 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 and of his fader moder How his moder beynge a pagan came to London fro fer countres and by the goodnes of our lorde was conuerted to the fayth how 〈…〉 was in fauoure with the kynge and was made his Chaunceller And after Archebysshop of Caunterbury where he lyued a blessyd lyfe in good e●ample dedes of charite and how he agreed at Clarendon to certeyn Articles which he after reuoked bycause they were agaynst the lyberte of the Churche and how he was therfore called ꝑiured and of the persecucion that he hadde for the lybertye of the Churche and how al his olde fauoure with the kynge tourned to malyce How he fledde at Northampton and went to Rome where he was as an outlawe .vii. yerꝭ his kynnesfolke banysshed the Realme for his sake all his goodes and possessions seased and his frendes tourned to his enemyes howe he was logged in a place of the Cisteux by the 〈◊〉 assygnement and was put out fro thens for fere leste the kynge wolde haue hurted that Relygion in Englande how he went into Fraunce was there greatly cherysshed how after by the meanes of the kynge of Englande the Frenche kyng tolde hynthe was to wylfull so he knew none other but he shulde be banysshed from thens then the Frenche kynge seyng his constaunce toke hym in more great fauour then he dyd byfore how the Archebysshop of yorke was accursyd for that he toke vpon hym to crowne the kyngꝭ sone where it belonged oonly to the see of Caunterbury whiche was cause of more grugge how he in the ende was 〈…〉 where by whom that the kynge sayd he was nat assentynge to his deth of the great repentaunce that the kynge toke by cause he had so moch attemptyd agaynst hym is so openly knowen to most people that the spekyng of it in this short treatyse shuld but make the story the more darke nat to open as it shuld be wherfore I cōmytte the reder hereof that is disposed to se more of this 〈…〉 to rede his hole Legēde When 〈…〉 in his lyfe lyued moche prayed at his tumbe for helth had it after his desyre After when he was hole he consyderyd that ꝑcase that helthe was nat expedyent to the helth of his soule wherfore he went agayne to his tumbe prayed that if that bodely helth were nat to the helth of his soule that his sykenes shuld co ● agayne so it dyd ¶ De sancto Thoma monacho a gallis occiso WHen Lowys sone to the Frenche kynge at the desyre of dyuers of the noble men of England came with a great hoste into Englāde they founde this blessydmā seynt Thomas at douersyttyng alone in the dormytorie a mā of a venerable age meke sobre fro his you the brought vp ī monastical ●uersaciō al his felowes were fled for fere of the Frenchmē whē he wold nat by fayr wordes neyther by thretes discouer the Riches of the Monastery But also boldely rebuked theym for theyr sacrelege and cruelte with a swerde in great malyce they martyred hym the nonas of August the yere of our lorde M. CC.lxxxxv and at his Tumbe a man of the Frenesy was made hoole Foure men had theyr fyght .v. were reysed fro deth to lyf ¶ De sancta Walburga virgine SEynt Walburgh was suster to seynt Willibrord Wynnybolde and with theym she went out of Englande when they came to seynt Bonyface bysshop of Maguntinēse he made Willibrord bysshop of Heystatense Wynnobolde entered into Religion at Heydanhem and after theyr deth seynt Walburgh was made Abbes of that Monastery had rule of many virgyns And when the keper of the churche at nyght denyed to gyue her lyght and she toke it in great pacyence there was in the dortor where she went a great heuynly lyghte that endured to Matens tyme so that al the susters meruayled at it and she thanked our lorde therof and attrybuted it to the merytes of her bretherne and nat of her owne On a nyght she went vnknowen to a Riche mannes house where a mayde lay syke and when the man sawe her he badde her beware of the dogges and she sayd he that had brought her thyther shuld saue her fro the dogges and when he had lerned what was her name he toke her into his house with great reuerence and when it was tyme to go to reste he asked her where she wolde lye and she sayde there as her suster lay syke where she gaue her to prayers and helyd the mayde and in the mornynge retourned to her Monastery and full of good werkes she went to our lorde the. Kalend of May and was honorably buryed in the same Monasterye She appered After her deth to Otgare bysshop of Heystatense and blamyd hym that he kept the Monastery neclygently and tolde hym that she wolde shewe hym such a token that he shulde ꝑceyue that he had nat done well to her and shortly after at the rofe of a house there was settynge vp the North wall fell and feryd theym moche and then Otgare repayred the Churche and remouyd the body of seynt Walburgh and of her brother Wynnybold to Heystatense ¶ De sancto Walleno abbate SEynt Wallene otherwyse called Walthesse was sone to Syrnon Erle of Huntyngdon his moder was doughter to the Erle of Northumberlāde accordynge to his name he was a good thefe for he stale mekely the kyngdome of heuyn kepynge all his Reuelacions and vertues close when his fader was disheryted and was deed in Fraunce seynt Wallene was made Chanon in the Monastery of seynt Oswalde in yorke and there beyng sexten he was chosen to be Pryor of Kyrkehm̄ and how moche he was in the oppynyon of other men hyer so moche he was in his owne syghte the more meke As he was at masse on Cristenmasse daye and he had spoken the

yet conuerted seynge thyse myracles fell downe to the fete of Bennowe and desyred to be cristened so they were and then she was made a Nonne kept virginite accordynge to her auowe and gadered many virgyns after her mayster went fro her and euery yere she vsed to sende hym a certeyne p̄sent and lapped it in a lynnen cloth layde it in the sayd welle as her mayster had appoynted her to do and it was conueyed to hym fyftye myles in the water And yet the cloth was neuer wette and after her maysters deth by the wyll of our lorde she went to a place called Wyltheriacus and the Abbot there by spirit knewe her cōmyng and met her and brought her into the company of virgyns and made her the ruler of theym where our lord Ihesu criste appered to her and tolde her that her tyme drewe nere in the fourth nonas of Nouembre she yelded her spiryte to our lorde for whom hath ben shewyd many myracles and now she lyeth at Shrewesburye whether she was translated in the yere of our lorde a thousande a C. and .xxxviii. ¶ De sancta Wereburga virgine THe Quene Ermenylde moder to Seynt Wereburghe came by Lyny all descent fro seynt Ethelbert kynge of Kent that was conuerted by seynt Augustyne a goodly pedegre is therof in the Legende Wulferus was her fader This glorious virgyne despysynge all concupyssence and pleasures of the worlde entered into Relygyon at Ely vnder her Aunte seynt Ethel drede where she shewyd her selfe to be the very meke hand mayde of our lorde And when her fader was deed her broder Ethelredus made her to haue Rule of all the Monasteryes of Nonnes in Englande natwithstandynge she shewyd her selfe rather to be a mynystrice then a maystres enformynge theym that were vnder her rather by good ●●mple then by cōmaundement her body beynge in Erth her mynde was in heuyn when she was in the mansyon of Wedun that is by Hampton certeyne fowles destroyed the corne wherfore she cōmaunded that they shuld be brought home and put in holde so they were on fote as though they coulde nat haue flowen in the mornynge when she had lycensyd theym to go away and one of the mynystres had hyde one of them Al the flocke came aboute the house where seynt Wereburgh was wolde nat away tyll she had caused theyr felowe to be delyuered then they went away wtout retournynge of theym or any of that kynde when she knewe that the tyme drewe nere that she shuld dye she wylled the where soeuer she dyed her body shuld be had to the Monastery of Hamburgense after in the .iii. nonas of February she went to our lorde when her body was brought to Trykenhm̄ was dylygently kept with the dores shet sodeynly all the cōpany fell aslepe men of Hamburgense came to fet away the body accordyng to her wyll the dores flewe open so that they toke the body wtout resystence buryed it honorably where many myracles were shewyd for her by our lorde .ix. yere after her body clothes were founde vncorrupt so her body lay vncorrupt vnto the cōmyng of the Danes that her flesshe was incyuerate by the goodnes of god rather then her body shuld be vngoodly touched by the infydels her bones were after trāslated to Chestre wher they lye at this daye ¶ De sancto Wylfryde Ep̄o confessore SEynt Wylfryde was borne of noble blode in Englande and in his youthe he gaue nat hym selfe to lyghtnes and wantonnes but ordered hym selfe soberly in all thyngꝭ nat vsyng any chydyng bacbytyng or stryfe and when he came to age of .xiiii. yeres he shewyd the Quene Elflede that his purpose was to leue the world to serue our lorde wherupon the quene sent hym to Lyndefernense where he associated hymself to a College of monkes there a sertayne tyme he seruyd our lorde After he went towarde Rome with seynt Benet Bysshop by the waye the bysshop of Lyons lyked hym so well that he wolde haue gyuen hym great possessions and haue maryed hym to his broders doughter but that he tolde hym that he hadde purposed a nother way of conuersacion And when the bysshop herde that he sent hym to Rome with great gyftꝭ and there in the Churche of seynt Andrewe he prayed hertely for remyssion of his synnes that he myght haue wysedome and eloquence to vnderstande and shewe the worde of god And streyghtway he ꝑceyued in hymself that a more quyknes of wytte was gyuen to hym then he had before and after he retourned into Englande where kynge Oswy gaue hym the churche of Rypon abiectynge the Scottes that wold nat kepe the right Ester and in tho dayes was great busynes in Englande for the kepynge of Ester and dyuerse cōnynge men and also good men were of contrarie opynyons And somtyme when the kynge kept Estre the Quene kept Palme sonday whiche contrauersy at a great counseyll at Whytby was appesed by seynt Wylfryde with great reasons and Auctorytes in the yere of our lorde god .vi. hondred .lxiiii After he was made bysshop of yorke though he with al his power refused it and therupon by Instygacōn of the Quene the kynge Egfryde enformyd seynt Theodre archebysshop of Caunterbury so sore agaynst ●eynt Wylfryde that he by that wrongfull informacyon put hym out of his see then the kynge deuyded in it thre sees Lynde●ernense Lagustaldens and Candyda casa whiche that tyme belongyd vnto Englonde wherfore he appelyd to Rome and when he was goynge thyder on the see the wynde droue hym into Frysya where he conuertyd many thousande people to the Feyth and there the groūde that before his commynge was drye and bareyne was aftre plenteuouse and fruteful And when he came to Rome he shewyd his cause so charytably that he neyther accusyd seynt Theodre ne yet omyttyd his owne Innocencye and when the 〈◊〉 agathone had herde all his aduersaryes he restoryd hym agayne to his see And when he shewyd to the Kynge the 〈◊〉 bullys He set them at nought and by the entysynge of the Quene he was with great derysyon put into pryson which he toke in great pacyence and there he helyd the kepers wyfe and when that keper was lothe to kepe hym ony lenger he was cōmyttyd to anoder ●ryson And there the fetto●rys wolde not abyde vppon hym And also ● deuyll enteryd into the quene whiche was thought was for the wronge that was doon to seynt wylfryde wherfore he was let goo And then by his prayer the Quene was made hoole After he cōuertyd many of the Lordys and of the people in the countrey of westsaxons to the feythe where the Kynge of that Countrey was before conuertyd and very fewe of his people Also he conuerted the I le of wyght The kynge Egfryde was after slayne in Batayle which seynt Wylfrede sawe in vysyon as he was at Masse then seynt