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A41236	Festa Anglo-Romana, or, The feasts of the English and Roman church, with their fasts and vigils being an exact and concise accompt of their various etymologies and appellations, with the reasons and grounds of their celebration : together with a succinct discourse of several other grand days in the universities, Inns of courts, and the collar and offering days at White-Hall, tending, to the instruction of all persons in all capacities, and the dilucidation of several seeming difficulties in the ancient, as well as modern English and Roman calendar / by a true son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1678 (1678)	Wing F821; ESTC R7435	34,996	146

in Honour of those Chains wherewith Herod caused St. Peter at Jerusalem to be bound from which he was disengaged by the Angel of God Acts the 12th by the sole Touch whereof not only the fore-mentioned but many other Miracles were wrought nay some of that Church are so superstitiously Credulous as to believe their Miraculous joyning together many years after into one intire Chain with those Iron Fetters wherewith the Holy Apostle was loaden when he was Imprisoned at Rome August the 5th in some of our ancient Calendars is known by the name of Gowrie's Conspiracy and tho now omitted the reason thereof you shall soon understand yet it was kept very devoutly in the Reign of King James as a Day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty for his Deliverance from the Treacherous Conspiracy of the Gowries in Scotland The Story runs thus as Baker relates it in his Chronicle p. 382. out of which take this Abstract The Earls Gowry Marre Lindsey and others Invited the King to the Castle of Reuthen in the absence of the Earl of Arran and Lenox and there detain'd him not permitting him to walk abroad all his Trusty Servants they remov'd from him and Compel'd the King by Letters to Queen Elizabeth to approve and allow of this his Thraldom After his Mother Queen Mary had sent to Queen Elizabeth complaining of the Usage of her Son he himself sent Colonel William Steward and John Colvill to the Queen of England and after the Death of Lenox in France the Surprizers being lifted up in their Conceits thinking they had him safe enough he on a sudden tho scarce 18 years of age with some few others convey'd himself to the Castle of St. Andrews to whom the Nobility Repair'd with Armed Bands fearing some danger might befall him afterward with fair words he advised some of his Surprizers to go from Court to avoid Tumult promising them Pardon if they would crave it but Gowry only asked Pardon and submitted himself using this Distinction that he had not offended in Matter but in Form and farther Baker saith p. 384. that Gowry was tried by his Peers at Sterling Anno 1600. where being accus'd of many Treasons tho he gave colourable Answers to them all yet was found Guilty Condemn'd and Beheaded whose Head his Servants sewing to the Body committed to the Grave Baker farther saith p. 428. At this time Anno 1603. the King forgat not a Deliverance he formerly had which tho it were in Scotland yet he would have notice taken of it in England which was this his Deliverance from the Conspiracy of the Gowries on the 5th of August 1600. three years before and thereupon Friday being the 5th day was by Commandment appointed to be Holy-Day with Morning-Prayer Sermon and Evening-Prayer read with Bonefires at Night which was then and after during his Life solemnly observ'd August the 6th is the Transfiguration from Transfiguro Lat. to change shape a Feast Celebrated by the Papists in Memory of our Saviour's Transfiguring himself upon Mount Thabor and shewing a Glimpse of his Glory to his Apostles St. Peter St. James and St. John And his Face saith the Text shone as the Sun and his Garment became white as Snow Matth. 17.2 and in them also unto us for our encouragement to Vertue Perseverance in Faith and mutual Love one toward another St. Laurence The 10th of this Month is a Day Dedicated to St. Laurence Lat. flourishing like a Bay-Tree the same as Daphnis in Greek who was Deacon to Pope Xistus then sitting in the Chair at Rome a very Zealous Person according to Tradition for the Catholick Cause who thereupon in the Primitive times was by the Cruel and Barbarous Pagans most inhumanely Broyled on a Gridiron for the Faith of Christ which Martyrdom he suffered with undaunted and matchless Fortitude This is in the Roman but not in our Rubrick The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The 15th of this Month is The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of the Holy Jesus so call'd from Assumo Lat. to assume or take up 't is observ'd in Memory of her being Assum'd or taken up as the Papists confidently maintain into Heaven both Soul and Body after her Dormition or Dissolution and this is a constant Tradition of their Church This is also in the Roman not in our Rubrick St. Bartholomew The next is the Festival of St. Bartholomew solemnized on the 24th of August The Name is Chaldee and signifies the Son of him that makes the water ascend He was Nephew as some maintain and Heir to a King of Syria yet both an Apostle and Martyr He Preached the Glad Tidings of the Gospel to the Indians where he by the Command of Polemius King of India was sorely beaten with Cudgels the first day the next Crucified and Excoriated or flean alive while he was fastned on the Cross and finally still breathing and alive Beheaded in the year of our Lord 51. For this Reason it was named Duplex Festum some observing the 25th as we the 24th of August Here was a Complication of Punishments for no Crime at all This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering The 29th is the Decollation of St. John Baptist Beheaded by Herod at the request of Herodias which we have praementioned in the Festival of St. John Baptist Septemb. the 2d On this day hapned that Dreadful Conflagration of the City of London about one of the Clock in the Morning Anno 1666. beginning at the House of one Mr. Farryner a Baker in Pudding-Lane near New Fish-Street which consumed in four days time the greatest part of this Flourishing Metropolis 'T is supposed to be fired by one Robert Hubert of Roan in Normandy with one Peidloe the chief there being in all 23 Complices as he confessed for which he was hang'd at Tyburn and dyed a Roman Catholick Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The 8th of this Month is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Heb. Exalted or from Marah as some conceive i. e. Bitterness which is a Festival observ'd by our Holy Mother the Church in Commemoration of her Happy and Glorious Birth who brought into the World the Author of all Life and Salvation our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Holy-tood-Day or Holy-Cross The 14th is the other Holy-rood-Day or Holy-Cross the Invention of the Cross being on the 3d of May which we have given you an account of 't is call'd Holy Cross or the Exaltation of the Cross in Memory of the Exaltation or setting up the Holy Cross which was found by St. Helen as we have already acquainted you by Heraclius the Emperor who having regained it a second time from the Persians after it had been given over for lost the space of 14 years carried it on his shoulders to Mount Calvarie and there Exalted it with more than ordinary Solemnity Then follows the Ember-Week according to the Rule before laid down Post Cineres c. this being the

Licensed Octob. 11. 1677. Roger L'Estrange Festa Anglo-Romana OR The Feasts of the English and Roman Church with their Fasts and Vigils Being an Exact and Concise Accompt of their various Etymologies and Appellations with the Reasons and Grounds of their Celebration Together with a Succinct Discourse of several other Grand Days in the Universities Inns of Courts and the Collar and Offering Days at White-Hall Tending To the Instruction of all Persons in all Capacities and the Dilucidation of several seeming Difficulties in the Ancient as well as Modern English and Roman Calendar By a True Son of the Church of England London Printed for William Jacob and John Place and are to be sold at the Black Swan and Furnivals-Inn-Gate in Holborn 1678. MVNIFICENTIA REGIA 1715. GEORGIV● D.G. MAG BRVRET H●●●●● F.D. To the READER I Design not to Preface this small Tract with a Prolix Epistle for that were to make the Porch larger than the Temple but only to acquaint you that it is an Historical Collection of all the Feasts with the Fasts Vigils and Octaves Registred both in the English and Roman Rubrick together with their approved Etymologies Various Names and the True Grounds and Reasons of their Celebration A Treatise which differs from all others of this Nature that are hitherto extant both in its Method and Compendiousness for it begins according to the old Roman Computation of the year at the 1st of January and ends with the last of December giving an account of all the Festivals as they are placed successively in the Calendar And withal I must Advertise you to avoid Confusion that our Festivals are Intituled in an English and the Roman in an Italick Letter And thus I leave the Reader with these few necessary Instructions to the perusal of the Contents of this Book which may I presume tend to his more ample and plenary satisfaction The TABLE NEw-years Day Pag. 4 Epiphanie Pag. 6 St. Paul Pag. 10 Ianuary the 30th Pag. 11 Purification of the Blessed Virgin Pag. 12 St. Matthias Pag. 15 Sunday Pag. 20 Valentines-Day Pag. 23 Septuagesima Sexagesima Quinquagesima and Quadragesima Ibid. Shrovetide Pag. 27 Ash-Wednesday Pag. 28 St. David Pag. 29 St. Patrick Pag. 36 St. Joseph Pag. 37 Annunciation of the Holy Virgin ib. Palm-Sunday Pag. 39 Good-Friday Pag. 42 Easter Pag. 44 Low-Sunday Pag. 51 St. George Pag. 52 St. Mark Pag. 53 Misericordia Pag. 54 Phillip and Iacob ib. Holy-Cross Pag. 56 Rogation-Sunday Pag. 58 Holy Thursday Pag. 63 King Charles Birth Return Pag. 65 Penticost or Whitsontide Pag. 67 Trinity-Sunday Pag. 68 St. Barnabas Pag. 69 Corpus Christi Pag. 72 St. Iohn Baptist Pag. 74 St. Peter and St. Paul Pag. 75 Visitation of Mary Pag. 78 St. Swithins-Day Pag. 79 Dog-Days ib. Spanish Invasion Pag. 81 St. Iames. Pag. 86 St. Ann. ib. Lammas-Day Pag. 87 Gowrie's Conspiracy Pag. 91 Transfiguration Pag. 94 St. Lawrence Pag. 95 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Pag. 96 St. Bartholomew ib. Decollation of St. John Baptist Pag. 97 September the 2d the burning of London Pag. 98 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Pag. 99 Holy-rood-Day or Holy Cross ib. St. Matthew Pag. 100 St. Michael the Arch-Angel Pag. 102 The Apparition of St. Michael Pag. 103 St. Luke Pag. 104 Ursula a Brittish Virgin Pag. 105 St. Simon and Iude. ib. All Saints Pag. 108 All Souls ib. Gunpowder-Treason Day Pag. 110 Queen Catharines Birth-day Pag. 119 Presentation of the Virg. Mary Pag. 120 St. Clement Pag. 121 St. Andrew Pag. 123 Advent Sunday Pag. 124 Conception of the Virg. Mary ib. St. Lucia Pag. 125 St. Thomas ib. Christ Mass-Day Pag. 126 St. Stephan Pag. 128 St. Iohn Pag. 130 Innocents ib. In the Press a Printing in a Pocket-Volume Englands Remarks very much enlarged a fit Companion for all Travellers and others Festa Anglo-Romana HOly-Day in the Sacred Phrase is the same as separate or set apart to God being taken out of ordinary Days and dedicated to the Holy Service of God and his Worship tho none of them are certainly declared in the New Testament nor is any Christian obliged to the observance of those in the Old But the Holy Church hath thought fit and necessary for the Confirmation of Faith and the Exercise of the true Christian Religion that peculiar days should be cull'd out of the common whereon we should convene Politick affairs being laid aside in the Publick Assembly to hear God's Holy Word and to offer up the Calves of our Lips in Prayers to and Praises of the Almighty with Reading and Meditation Now as there is a Holy Feast Nehemiah the 8th and the 10th which our Church hath dedicated to the Religious Commemoration of some eminent Mercies and Blessings received among which some Festivals are of a superior degree in regard of the greatness of the Blessing remembred and the solemnity of the Service appointed to that purpose so there is an Holy Fast Joel 2. such as are Ash-Wednesday Good-Friday and the whole Week before Easter which the Church hath dedicated to God's solemn Worship in Fastings and Prayer The Holy-Days we divide into General and Particular The General are such as are generally celebrated by all Men and term'd Solemnities as the Circumcision Epiphany Purification Annunciation Resurrection Ascension c. the Particular are solemnized by some particular Church or some Country call'd Commune as those dedicated to the Apostles or by some Bishop's Sea Parish-Town or call'd the proper Holy-Days of the Place They are again divided in respect of the days whereon they fall in the Calendar into Moveable and Fixed The Moveable are those which tho celebrated on the same Week-day have no fixed seat in the Calendar The Fixed are such which fall upon divers days of the Week yet upon one and the same day of the Month. New-Years Day The first of January commonly called New-years Day of the old Roman Account which began the year from that day otherwise the Circumcision of our Lord being celebrated eight days after his Birth inclusively as it was on the Male-Children of the Jews according to the Judaical Law in memory of his Circumcision as the old Law commanded Genesis the 17th and the 12th when he was named Jesus Gr. a Saviour as the Angel had foretold St. Luke 1.32 Circumcision is deriv'd from the Latin Circumcido which signifies a cutting round about and in truth to speak more properly it is the cutting away of the Praepuce or double fore-skin which enfoldeth the Head or Extremity of the Virga Virilis and was perform'd with a very sharp Stone ordered and fitted for that use and not with an Iron Knife steel'd as some are of Opinion tho mistaken It was a Ceremony Prescribed by the Great Jehovah to Abraham the Father of the Faithful and his Posterity who were Heirs of the Divine Promise and Commanded to be sacredly observed by the Hebrews upon the severe penalty of Death as a sign and seal of the Covenant betwixt God and them and a

third in the year following Holy-Cross or Holy-rood-Day St. Matthew On the 21th of this Month is Celebrated the Festival of St. Matthew Heb. Reward an Apostle and one of the four Holy Secretaries of the most Sacred Gospel He was by Birth a Jew by Profession a Publican or Toll-Customer was at length Converted and became a Disciple Apostle Euangelist and Martyr He wrote the Gospel of Christ in the Hebrew Language and delivered it to James the Brother of our Lord who was at that time Bishop of Jerusalem He Preached in the Kingdom of Aethiopia where he was kindly entertain'd by the Eunuch Chamberlain or Chief Governor to Candace Queen of Aethiopia as it is Recorded in the Acts of the Apostles Acts the 8th 27th and was so successful in his Teaching that he prevail'd and perswaded Aeglippus the King and his People to be Baptized but after his Decease there succeeded him one Hyrtacus by name who Detested the Apostle and therefore Commanded him to be run through with a Sword which was accordingly done Anno Dom. 71. This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering St. Michael the Arch-Angel The 29th of this Month is the Feast of St. Michael Heb. who is like God the Arch-Angel who figur'd Christ or Michaelmas that is a Solemnity or Mass in honour of St. Michael Prince of the Heavenly Host and one of the Nine Orders of Angels aswel to Commemorate that famous Battle fought by him and them in Heaven against the red Dragon or the Devil and his Apostate Angels Apoc. 12. in Defence of God's Honour as also say the Romanists to Commend the whole Church of God to their Patronage and Prayers and by them 't is nam'd the Dedication of St. Michael because there is a Church at Rome dedicated on that day to St. Michael by Pope Boniface This is one of King Charles his Offering-Days at His Court of Whitehall And on this day also the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the year ensuing is Elected There is another Feast observ'd by the Romanists call'd the Apparition of St. Michael and is in Commemoration of his Wonderful Appearance on Mount Garganus where as the Papists fondly flatter themselves by his own appointment a Temple was Dedicated to him in the time of Pope Gelasius St. Luke October the 18th is a Day Consecrated to the Memory of St. Luke Heb. Taken the Euangelist Syria was the Place of his Nativity by Profession he was a Physician of Antioch after that an Euangelist and the Holy Penman of the Acts of the Apostles in their Peregrination but especially of St. Paul's He died at Ephesus in the 84th year of his Age where he was inhum'd Anno Christi 74 and was together with Andrew and Timothy Translated to Constantinople many years after in the Reign of Constantius Son of Constantine the Great but Nicephorus the Historian says that he was Hang'd on a Green Olive-Tree This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering The 21th of this Month Dedicated to Ursula Lat. a little She-Bear The Name of a Female Saint heretofore of great Honour and still continued in the Calendar and this Day was kept solemnly in Commemoration of a Famous Religious British Virgin who notwithstanding the Tenderness of her Sex and her Zeal for the true Religion was most Inhumanly Martyred under Attila King of the Huns styled Flagellum Dei a Bloody but Valiant Scythian who over-ran Italy and Gallia and at the Perswasion or rather Intreaty of Pope Leo retired into Hungary St. Simon and Jude The 28th is the Festival of St. Simon and Jude Simon Heb. Hearing or Obedient sirnamed Zelotes Gr. Fervent was born in Cana a Town of Galilee the Son of Mary and Cleophas as Euseb affirms L. 3. C. 11. and taught the Gospel in Aegypt and Persia from thence he returned and succeeded St. James in the Bishoprick of Jerusalem where under the Reign of the Emperor Trajan he was Crucified in the 120th year of his Age and consequently the last Martyr of all the Apostles St. Jude Heb. Jude Judah and Jehudah all three signifie Confession called also Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus Preached the Holy Gospel to the Edessaeans a sort of People of Edessa a City of Syria and throughout all Mesopotamia he was Murdered at Berytus a City of Phoenicia in the Reign of Agbarus King of Edessa according to the most Authentick Tradition where he was very Honorably Sepulchred in the year of our Lord 21. This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering The next day after being the 29th is a day whereon the Elected Mayor for that year accompanied with the Aldermen of London on Horseback to the River of Thames and the Companies of Freemen wait upon him in Barges with Drums and Trumpets to Westminster and there he walks with the Aldermen round the Hall and then goes up to the Exchequer where he is Sworn and returns to the City and at his Landing he is waited upon by several Companies of Soldiers and several stately Pageants are erected and carried about in a Triumphant manner All Saints November 1st Begins with the Festival of All Saints or Allhallows and this time is commonly call'd Allhallontide T is a Solemnity in Honour and Memory of all the Saints as the Papists maintain that so at least they may obtain the Patronage and Prayers of them all since the whole year is much too short to afford us a Particular Feast for every Saint All Souls The next day Novemb. 2d is All-Souls a Day Instituted by the Church of Rome in Commemoration of all the Faithful departed this Life that by the Prayers and Suffrages of the Living they may be discharged of their purging Pains and at last obtain Life Everlasting to this purpose the Day is kept Holy till Noon Hence proceeds the Custom of Soul-Mass Cakes which are a kind of Oat-Cakes that some of the Richer sort of Persons in Lancashire and Herefordshire among the Papists there use still to give the Poor on this Day and they in Retribution of their Charity hold themselves obliged to say this old Couplet God have your Saul Beens and all Both these days were of such eminent observance with our Ancestors that they still continue no Court-days at Westminster-Hall but are the Lawyers and Judges Holy-days All-Saints is one of His Majestie 's Offering-Days at Whitehall and one of the Houshold-days when the Besant is given by the Lord Steward or one of the other White-Staff-Officers November the 5th commonly call'd Gun-Powder-Treason-Day Anno 1605. and in the third-year of the Reign of King James in England of Happy Memory of which take this Brief Narrative Collected out of Sir Richard Baker in the said King's Reign The 19th day of March-was a second Parliament appointed to sit at Westminster the said Parliament beginning the King made a long and Loving Speech to both Houses wherein he signified the Cause of his Calling it but in the time when it should