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A10829	The admirable life of Saint VVenefride virgin, martyr, abbesse. Written in Latin aboue 500. yeares ago, by Robert, monke and priour of Shrewsbury, of the ven. Order of S. Benedict. Deuided into two bookes. And now translated into English, out of a very ancient and authenticall manuscript, for the edification and comfort of Catholikes. By I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, d. 1167.; Falconer, John, 1577-1656.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 21102; ESTC S115985	37,470	252

for them which I do promise to do for you my beloued deare Children after Christ shall take me vnto him And whereas said she to other worldly soules vnwilling to dye and fearefull to behold the face of their high ludge whome they are guilty in their liues grieuously to haue offended Death commeth as a cruell iaylor to breake down their mortery houses and to drag them forcibly vnto him So to holy Soules he euer cōmeth as a welcom guest and therefore findeth the dore of their hart open to receaue him like vnto men expecting the returne of their Lord from his hea she with a glad patience to goe to her heauenly Spouse silently sustayned often and earnestly beseeching him not to let the infernall Enemy be frightfull vnto her in her last agony And finding by her much weaknes forces decayed that her dissolution approached she called for the Saint her Confessor to receaue the diuine Sacrament of him as a safe protection in so dreadfull a passage And behoulding her sisters kneeling round about her and grieuing aboue measure to loose her presence no lesse comfortable then profitable vnto them Deare Children said she grieue not so I beseech you at my happines thus approaching but reioyce rather with me that I shall fully now enioy him in heauen whome in earth heere I haue loued Treade also so neerely as you can my footesteps by seruing him as I haue done contemning for his sake such baites and base pleasures as the world can affoard you Let your promised fayth to him be inuiolably obserued who by his mercyes and merits is only able to bring you comfortably to this passage and eternally to crowne you Cōceaue your bodies though youthfull and faire to be as truly they are but loathsome prisons of your soule and mortery houses apt if you take not heed to pollute defile you and persuade your selues assuredly that so miserable a world as this is and full of temptations can yield no true happines or pleasures without daungers vnto you To others also that came to visit her she ceased not at times as her voyce would serue to giue profitable aduises aboue all that they should be ready for that passage which herselfe then was entring into and to spend their liues in such sort as they might receaue comfort when that moment should approach on which Eternall weale or woe dependeth sweet manner comforting herselfe and him also by a certaine hope they shey should meete againe ere longe and liue in heauen eternally togeather she afterwards humbly besought him that her body might be buried neere vnto Theonia her holy Mother which the Saint gladly promised And soone after in an act of feruent prayer vpon the 3. day of Nouember she breathed out her pure soule into her Redeemers hands ready to receaue it Which being perceaued by S. Elerius and the sisters praying about her they fall into such new complaints and sad expressions of their sorrow that the Saint was enforced to smother his owne griefe and to comfort them all he could by declaring that she was only gone to Heauen before them where gloriously vnited with God she would be no lesse powerful ready then when she liued in earth by her prayers to help them Her body nothing changed in the louelines thereof by death was neere vnto Theonia solemnly afterwards interred euen in the ashes as it were of many other great Saints buried in that place before amōgst whom Cheb and Sennan the one lying at her head and the other by her side were for sanctity miracles in their dayes famously renowned and had Churches therfore euen yet remayning in that Prouince to their memories erected wherein by wonderous signes their glory with God is now frequently testified And albeit these two other innumerable Saintes haue ben interred in that holy ground yet was the same for S. VVenefrides Sepulcher afterwards especially honoured graced with numberles and notorious miracles by her prayers there obteyned S. Elerius also soone after holily disceased was buried in a Church erected to his Name and memory in which at this very day Almighty God through his merits and prayers worketh miraculous cures vpon persons either diseased or distressed The End of the first Booke AN APPENDIX Of the Translatour concerning diuers particulars of S. Wenefrids History omitted by the Author MY Author Courteous Reader more carefull to write plainely and truly his History then to obserue the conditions of an exact Historian speaketh not of the ty me wherein S. Wenefride liued as he should haue done nor when her body was to Shrewsbury translated nor whether S. Elerius or other Saints reliques mentioned in her life were with it transferred Wherefore I will heere adde what I haue read for your further satisfaction First therefore I find in a learned collection which a friend of myne hath made of British and English Antiquities either wholy omitted or obscurely expressed by other writers that S. Wenefride liued about the yeare of Christ 660. And wheras S. Bede flourishing also at that tyme hath made no mention of her at all in his History amongst the other Saints of our Countrey it might well happen because the continuall iarrs and bloudy quarrels between the Britans and Saxons did so hinder all commerce betweene these two Nations as that it seemes the Acts of one Church became almost wholy vnknowne vnto the other especially in Yorkeshyre where S. Bede most commonly liued far distant from any part of Wales so as his silence of her and of S. Elerius in the Roman martyrologe acknowledged as of many other British Saintes gloriously flourishing in those dayes and before insinuated also by my Author disproueth nothing that is by him or any other learned Anti quary affirmed Her body was in the yeare of our Lord 1138. translated to Shrewsbury togeather with the reliques of many other Saintes neere ruder parts of the world then the others did the histories of their holy liues haue not been by learned mens pens equally diuulged In so much as M. Camden no fauourable reporter of such Catholique Acts and Monuments rarely now extant speaking of the old british Monkes of Glastenbury Monastery from the first A postolicall tymes of that Church hath these wordes in his Britannia Primis his temporibus viri san ctissimi c. In these first tymes to wit of the British Church before the Saxons inuasion of England more then 1100. yeares since many most holy men night and day attending to the seruice of God liued in this place maintayned by the Kings liberality and trayning vp youth in piety liberal sciences imbraced a solitary life that so with greater quiet repose they might attend to the studies of Diuinity and exercise themselues in all seuerity to beare the Christ of Christ c. Of which sort of Monkes so by him described were very many Religious men dispersed in like manner though all parts of that Church liuing either in holy

Pag. 204. lin 7. streames read streame Pag. 225. lin 2. hath read had Pag. 251. lin 9. was read he was Pag. 269. lin vlt. little read so little The Prayer and Sequence of S. Wenefride taken forth of the ancient Missall of England according to the vse of SARVM Oratio OMnipotens sempiterne Deus qui beatam Wenefredam Virginitatis praemio decorasti fac nos quaesumus eius pia intercessione mundi huius blandimenta postponere cum ipsa perennis gloriae sedem obtinere Per Dominum nostrum c. The Prayer ALmighty and euerlasting God who hast adorned Blessed Wenefride with the reward of Virginity grant vs we beseech thee through her poius intercession to set afide the delights of this world and obteyne with her the throne of euerlasting glory Through our Lord Iesus Christ c. SEQVENTIA VIrgo vernans velut Rosa Agni Sponsa speciosa Martyr Christi pretiosa Wenefreda floruit Ex Britannis oriunda Fide firma spe iocunda Actu sancta mente munda Mundi mendâ caruit Hanc occidit Carodocus Quem mox sorbet Orci focus Qui prauorum extat locus Quo Sathan exuitur Huius argumento rei Fons ebullit nutu Dei Rubricatae speciei Quo caput praeciditur Mira multa hic patrantur Caeci vident muti fantur Morbi omnes effugantur Cum fide petentium Gloriosa Wenefreda Maris fluctus nobis seda Ne fiamus hosti praeda Pia fer praesidium Amen The same in old English As a sweete Rose in pleasant spring Of heauenly Lambe Spouse louely faire And Martyr deare of Christ our King S. Wenefrede did flourish heere Descended well of Brittish race In Fayth now firme and Hope secure With workes Holy and Soule in Grace From worldly filth perseuered pure This sacred Mayd did Cradocke kill And him Hell swallowed presently Where teares in vayne do run downe still And Sathan burnes incessantly A Token sure of this strang thing Bespotted all with blouddy red A Well by Gods command doth spring Where Tyrant fierce cut off her head Heere wōders great Gods hand doth worke The blind do see the dumbe do speake Diseases which in bodies lurke Are cured when Fayth is not weake O glorious Virgin Wenefrede To vs the raging sea appease And free vs so from Sathans dread That he on vs may neuer seize Amen THE AVTHORS OWNE PROLOGVE TO THE LIFE OF S. WENEFRIDE To the right Reuerend Father Guarinus Prior of Worcester Robert his spirituall Sonne Prior also vnworthy of Shrewsbury wisheth Grace to walke vprightly in the way of Gods Commandements SINCE he who hath receaued the least talent at Gods hands is bound charitably to imploy the same in the seruice of him who freely bestowed it and to the good of such as may be edified and benefitted spiritually by it not hiding the same vnder a bushell or reseruing it to himselfe alone which will become the more his owne by being charitably communicated to others in a holy imitation of our Redeemers bounties and graces vpon vs universally bestowed I haue iustly feared out of this respect to conceale from others vnited in the same band of Christian Faith and Charity with me and particularly from your Venerable selfe much respected by me the Collection which I have lately made of the Blessed Virgin S. Wenefrides life the reading whereof will I doubt not help much to increase and perfit heauenly piety and love eminently already and exemplarly to many shining in You delighted also to dilate the glory of God his Saints by workes like to this which you haue by frequent letters and earnest intreaties required of me I haue gathered the same partly from the Ancient and vndoubted Monuments of such Monasteries and Churches as this Blessed Virgin is knowne to haue liued in and partly from the relation of sundry Ancient Priests for their great learning sanctity of life and Religious profession made Venerable worthy of all credit in their assertions and depositions vnto me Three causes have moued me to publish the true knowledge of this Saints life so by me attayned vnto The first was a wholsome feare as I haue said to be reproued by my Eternall Iudge for hiding vnder groūd and not imploying profitably as I ought the talent which he hath lent me The second was my especiall loue and deuotion to this most renowned Virgin and Martyr of our Countrey that by her sanctity and great merits heere by me declared she might by faithfull soules be the more deuoutely honoured serued and prayed unto The third was a particular desire which I have charitably had to edifie my owne Brethren humbly in their deuotions and instantly intreating this labour of me As for S. Wenefrides pretended iourney to Rome and other particulars vulgarly only and by persons of no credit fabulously reported I haue wholy omitted them and for borne likewise to set downe some other certaine and vndoubted relations concerning her life because I would not be tedious and ouer-large in my manner of writing this which I have heere gathered being sufficient in my opinion and yours also I hope to declare the eminent sanctity and graces of this most sacred Virgin by whose powerfull intercession and your holy prayers I hope to receaue at her heauenly spouses hands some small reward of my labours and paynes in this worke vndertaken THE FIRST BOOKE conteyning the History of S. Wenefrids Life CHAPTER I. Of S. Beuno his great sanctity how he was inspired by God to goe to S. Wenefrids Father how liberally he was entertayned by him and had his only child commended for her Education vnto him IN the Westerne part of great Britanny called VVales cōioyned Eastwards in the same continent with England and rounded on all other sides with Seuerne and the Ocean flourished in times past innumerable Saintes men and women of singular sanctity and merit as their seuerall Shrines and stately Monuments yet remayning do testify amongst who me in King Eluith the second his tyme one S. Beuno was for his wonderfull graces especially renowned who hauing out of a holy desire to imitate the pouerty of his heauenly Lord and to become a true Pilgrime heere on earth forsaken his owne Countrey and trodden vnder foote such glorious pompes and pleasures of the world as he might at home haue enioyed made himselfe first a Moncke and soone after arriued to such perfection and sanctity of life that he became a common Father of Religious persons For no sooner had he built a Church and Monastery in one place and setled there in regular discipline and great purity of life a certaine number of Religiōs persons but he trauelled to another part of the Countrey to do there the like also as Gods holy spirit for the benefit of many peculiarly directed him so that at length he entred into the territory of a rich potent Lord called Theuith sonne to a chiefe Counsellour of the King a principal gouerner of the Coūtry who equalled