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A15506	The English martyrologe conteyning a summary of the liues of the glorious and renowned saintes of the three kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Collected and distributed into moneths, after the forme of a calendar, according to euery saintes festiuity. VVherunto is annexed in the end a catalogue of those, who haue suffered death in England for defence of the Catholicke cause, since King Henry the 8. his breach with the Sea Apostolicke, vnto this day. By a Catholicke priest.	Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1608 (1608)	STC 25771; ESTC S120085	181,492	404

manner a learned Treatise of the same subiect as also another worke yet extant intituled De Lo●is Sanctis and flourished about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauenty A The third Day AT Fossis in the Territory of Namures the Translation of S. Foillan Bishop and Martyr Sonne to King Philtan of Ireland who going to Rome was there created Bishop by Pope Martin the first and sent thence to preach the Christian faith in France and Flanders which when he had done for many yeares with very great labour profit in that kind he was at length slayne togeather with three of his fellows at a place in Namures called Silua Carbonaria or Colliers-wood which thing being reueyled to his brother S. Vltan and S. Gertrude Abbesse of Niuell in Brabant his body was ●ought for and being found out was on this day afterward solemnly translated to the Monastery of Fossis and there is yet preserued with great veneration He suffered about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore B The fourth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the Translation of S. Cuthbert Bishop and Confessour who first leading a solitary life in the Iland of Farne now called Cochet became afterward a Monke and then Abbot of the Monastery of Mailros in Northumberland and last of all was promoted to the Bishopricke of Lindisferne the which he resigned after some yeares againe became an Eremite Whose great holines of life hath byn manifested by the wonderfull miracles wrought by him both aliue and dead He desecased in the yeare of Christ 687. His body being afterward on this day taken vp foūd altogeather whole and vncorrupt was with great solēnity trāslated to the Cathedrall Church of Durh●m there kept with great veneration whither also many thousandes went on pilgrimage euen vntill the dayes of King Henry the eight THE same day at Treuers in the higher Germany the Passion of S. Marcellus Bishop and Martyr who being a noble Britan by byrth and gathering togeather the dispersed Christians in our Countrey that were conuerted to Christ by S. Ioseph of Arimathia and his fellowes in our Primitiue British Church did by his preaching and doctrine so mooue King Lucius that he sent forth with to Rome to Pope Eleutherius to treate about his Conuersion to Christian faith He afterward went ouer into Germany to preach in like manner the faith of Christ to that people where as he was executing the office of a good Pastour he was finally martyred at Treuers about the yeare of our Lord one hundred and fourscore was the first of our British Nation that suffered death for Christ out of the Iland of Great Britany C The fifth Day AT Alt-Munster in Germany the Commemoration of S. Altho Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome went ouer into Germany in that Primitiue Church and there became Abbot of a new Monastery erected by S. Boni●ace an Englishman Archbishop of Mentz and Apostle of that Countrey Which Monastery was afterward of this mans name commonly called Altho-Monastery and now by continuance of tyme more abruptly is tearmed Alt-Munster He died in great sanctity and holines of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore and was buryed in the same place D The sixt Day IN Cumberland the Commemoration of S. Bega Virgin who descended of a very noble parentage in Ireland and being instructed in the Christian faith came ouer into our Iland of Great-Britany and there led a most vertuous life in the forsaid Prouince of Cumberland where in very great sanctimony of life and working of miracles she finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse There hath byn in ancient Catholick tymes a goodly Church and Monastery erected in her honour in Cumberland where her body was wont to be kept with great reuerence and veneration of the Inhabitantes of that Shire which place in those dayes was a famous pilgrimage especially for the people of the Northerne partes of England E The seauenth Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Dunstan Bishop and Confessour who being first Abbot of Glastenbury then Bishop of VVorcester and after of London was last of all created Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of England whose most holy life and miracles are yet famous throughout the Christian world The Diuell appearing to him on a time in the liknesse of a yong beautifull woman tempting him to vncleanesse he tooke vp a paire of pinchers that then lay by him and caught the foule beast by the vpper lippe and so holding him fast and leading him vp and downe his chamber after diuers interrogatories draue him away He died in great sanctity of life in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and eight His body was on this day taken vp and with great solemnity set in a more eminent place of the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury wherat it hath pleased God to worke many miracles F The eight Day AT Lyming in Kent the Commemoration of Blessed Ethelburge Queene wife to holy Edwyn the first Christian King of Northumberland and daughter to K. Ethel●ert of Kent who after the martyrdome of her Lord and husband fled out of Northumberland and came backe to her Countrey of Kent where forsaking the pompe and vanities of the world she built herselfe a little Monastery at the forsaid towne of Lyming and there receyuing the holy veyle of Chastity was consecrated to God by the handes of S. Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury where in very great holines of life seruing her heauenly spouse she became mother to many holy Virgins and widdowes that did imitate her religious purpose and profession And so continuing in that godly vocation for many yeares full of all vertue and sanctimony of life she finally went to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourty and seauen G The ninth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Queran Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble family in that Kingdome contemned the vanities of the world and entring into a Monastery became a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict afterward Abbot of the same whose singular life and miracles haue byn manifested aboundantly to the world both at home and abroad THE same day at Barking in Essex the depositiō of S. VVulshild Virgin Abbesse daughter to VVulshelme an Earle among the VVestsaxons who being borne after eighteene yeares barrenesse of her mother was in her very infancy consecrated to God and cōmitted for her education to the Religious Virgins in the Nunry of VVinchester but comming to riper yeares she built herselfe a Monastery at Horton and was by holy K. Edgar confirmed Abbesse therof as also of the Monastery of Barking which the said King had newly reedined and repayred being sorely ruined through the incursions of the Danes from whence being soone after expulled with all her company by the

afterward was ordayned Bishop of Lindisserne which Bishopricke after he had gouerned some two yeares he resigned and became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the Iland of Farne and so continued vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and eight He was very famous for sanctity and working of miracles both aliue and dead THE same day and same place the deposition of Blessed Herebert Priest and Cōfessour a man of great holinesse of life who often repayring to S. Cuthbert aforsaid alwayes vsed his counsell and direction for the affayres both of his body and soule And one day S. Cuthbert telling him that himselfe was shortly to leaue this world passe to the other Herebert fell downe at his feet and importunely besought him that he might also passe to the next life with him that had so long inioyed his company heere on earth At whose earnest intercessiō S. Cuthbert falling to his prayers finally obtayned the same And so with in a while after they both falling sicke went both to our Lord vpon the one and selfe same day and houre in the yeare of Christ 688. and were both buryed at Lindisserne C The one and twentith Day AT VVerdt in Cleeu-land the Commemoation of S. Isenger Bishop and Martyr who descended o 〈…〉 a noble Scottish family contemned the vanityes of the world and became first a monke in that Kingdome of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward Abbot there of the Monastery called Amarbaricke which whē he had gouerned for diuers yeares mooued with zeale of conuerting his neighbour-Countreyes went ouer into Flanders and Germany and being there ordayned Bishop o 〈…〉 VVerdt was a little after slayne in defence of the Christiā faith by the infidels of that Countrey about the yeare of Christ eight hundred twenty and foure His body being brought to VVerdt there interred in his owne Cathedrall Church was kept for a long tyme with great honour veneratiō of the Inhabitātes D The two and twentith Day AT Sherborne in Dorcet●hire the Commemoration of S. Hamund Bishop of that Sea and Martyr who in the Danish persecution vnder the Captaynes Hingar Hubba was for the Confession of Christ most barbarously slayne at Merdune by those Tyrannicall Pagans who in the vastation of England spared neyther Ecclesiasticall nor Religious person whatsoeuer His Martyrdome happened about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eleuen and in the raigne of Alfred King of the VVest saxons E The three and twentith Day AT Lindisserne the Commemoration of Blessed Fgbert King of the Northumbers and Confessour who after he had gouerned that Prouince most laudably for twenty yeares contēned his Crowne dignity of a King leauing the same to his sōne Oswulph entring into the Abbey of Lindissern aforsaid became there a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict where in very great sanctity of life humility obseruance of Monasticall discipline and other vertues he finally ended his peaceable dayes in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore and eight He endowed the Archbishopricke ●f Yorke whilst he was King with gr 〈…〉 〈…〉 newes where also he founded a worthy Library and furnished the same with all good Authors that could then be gotten F The foure twentith Day AT Canterbury the depositiō of S. Lanfrāke Confessour and Archbishop of that Sea who borne at Pauia in Lombardy became first a monke of the Abbey of Becke then Abbot of Cane in Normandy and afterward ordayned Archbishop of Canterbury at the request of King VVilliam the Conquerour whose most pious life good learning ioyned with extraordinary charitie to the poore and assistance of the Church of England is yet memorable throughout the Christian world Of this man there is a story recorded how that in his yōger dayes he trauayling by the way chācing to be robbed by theeues tooke the same so impatiently that by no means he could be pacified for a tyme but at lēgth cōming to himself againe he brake forth into these words VVhat haue I so much learning knowledge both in Philosophy Diuinity and Scriptures and yet haue not learned to be patient in aduersity Surely 〈…〉 uall not cease vntill I fynd out that learning And vpon this he presently went into France and thence into Normandy where comming to the Abbey of Becke he lay secretly for many yeares in that Monastery being reputed for an Idiot and simple man vntill at length his learning and wisdome being discouered he was made Prior of Becke and presently afterward Abbot of S. Stephens in Cane aforsaid and finally Archbishop of Canterbury He died in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nyne and was buryed in his owne Church at Canterbury G The fiue twentith Day AT Norwich in the County of Norsolke the passion of S. VVilliam Mareyr who being a boy of the same Citty of some ten yeares old was by his Father set an apprentice to a glouer of the same towne whome the Iewes of Norwich secretly stealing away crucified on a Crosse in despite of Christ his blessed Mother vpō the feast of her Annūciation His body they cast into a wood or thicket neere to the said Citty which being foūd brought vnto the towne with a sollemne procession of the Clergy was placed in the great Church or Minster of that Sea and there was wont to be kept with great veneration His Martyrdome happened in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred forty and six in the eleuenth yeare of the raigne of K. Stephen A The six and twentith Day AT Bardney in Lincolnshire the Commemoration of Many holy Monkes Martyrs who in the first Danish persecution in our Iland were slayne by those Pagan people in their owne Monasteryes in hatred of Christian Religion At what tyme also the said Danes ranging abroad the Countreyes slew saith the Story the Abbot the Monkes of the Monastery of Croyland and fiered their Church and houses belonging thervnto At Peterburrow also they made the like slaughter of Religious persons and comming to the Nunry of Ely they put the Religious Virgins all to the sword without compassion and so receyuing theyr Crownes of Martyrdome they went vnto our Lord. All which happened in our Countrey about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and ten B The seauen twentith Day IN Scotlād the depositiō of S. Archibald Abbot Confessour descended of a very noble parentage in that Kingdome whose rare 〈…〉 e conuersation togeather with the singular gifts of clemency towards the poore and orphanes hath in former tymes byn famous both in England and Scotland His feast is recounted to haue byn celebrated on this day by the ancient Records of Scotland and Ireland among both which Nations many altars and some Churches also haue heertofore byn dedicated in his

who being sent from Rome by S. Gregory the Great to preach the Christian saith to the English nation first conuerted King Ethelbert of Kent and afterward by himselfe and others the whole Nation and so became our Apostle He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and was buryed at Canterbury where his feast was wont to be kept ho●yday with great solemnity and so likewise throughout the whole Diocesse THE same day at Gl●stenbury in Somersetshire the festiuity of the Saints Fugatius and Damianus Confessours who being sent into Britany by S. Eleutherius Pope whose ●east is also this day celebrated did baptize K. Lucius with the greatest part of his Kingdome as also did institute three Archbishoprickes to wit London Yorke and Carleon in VVales and twenty eight Bishoprickes in place of so many Flaminies teaching and instructing the people in all Christian vertues and cerimonyes necessary for that new planted Catholicke Church And when they had thus laboured for many yeares sull of most venerable old age and sanctity of life they both ended their blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one hundred fourscore and eleuen and are said to haue byn buryed at Gl●stenbury G The seauen twentith Day AT Geruaux in Yorkshire the deposition of S. Bede Priest who being a monke of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of S. Peter and S. Paul vpon the riuer banke of VVyre in the Kingdome of the Northumbers so illustrated Gods Church by his wrytings that not only in his life tyme but euer synce he hath for the same byn called by the name of Venerable He departed this world in great sanctity and holinesse of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore six and was buryed at Geruaux in the Monastery there with this Epitaph Presbyter hic Beda requieseit carne sepultus Dona Christe animam in caelis gaudere per aeuum Daue i i sophia debriari fonte cui iam Suspirauit orans intento semper amore But his body being afterward translated to Durham and placed in the tombe togeather with S. Cuthbert was there kept with great reuerence euen vntill the dayes of the late Queene Elizabeth There is a very ancient Table hanging in the new Church of S. Peter at Rome which my sel●e haue seene and read wherin are registred these words In medio Ecclesiae ante portā quae dicitur Argentea sub lapide circulari sepultum est corpus Venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri c. But it is not I suppose to be vnderstood of this our S. Bede of England as many do but rather of another of the same name though not so anciēt as he who was a Mōke also of S. Benedictes Order very famous for learning in the tyme of Charles the Great with whome he liued and after his death which was in the yeare of Christ eight hundred and ninteene his body shining with miracles was for a tyme translated to the Monassery of S. Benignus neere Genua in Italy and perhaps afterwards to Rome But whosoeuer this was it is not any way manifest that our S. Bede was euer at Rome eyther aliue or dead A The eight twentith Day AT Luxouiū in France the Commemoration of S. Ionas Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and contemning the world in the flower of his youth went ouer into France and thence into Lombardy to S. Columbane the Great where he became a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and S. Columbanes disciple and was afterward made Abbot of Luxouium where in all kind of good learning sanctity of life and other vertues he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty He wrote the liues of S. Columbane aforsaid S. Eustachius and S. Bertulph Abbots which are to be seene at large in Surius though being annexed to the third Tome of S. Bedes workes are by errour attributed vnto him B The nine twentith Day ATS. Buriens in Corn-wall the Commemoration of S. Burien Virgin who being an irish-Irish-woman of great nobility by birth came ouer into England and liued a most vertuous and godly life for many yeares in Corn wall where in very great sanctimony and working of Miracles she finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse Her memory is very famous euen vntill this day in our Ilād of Great Britany especially among the Cornish-men where there is a towne and port of her name in the Cape or Promont of Cornwall commonly called S. Buriens where also in tymes past hath byn a famous Church erected in her honour C The thirtith Day AT Colchester in Essex the Commemoration of S. Hieu Virgin who borne of o● a noble bloud in the Kingdome of the Northumbers building there a goodly Monastery called Heorth●u of which the holy Virgin Hilda was first Abbesse is said to haue byn the first woman in that Kingdome that tooke vpon her the vow and habit of a Nunne being veyled and consecrated therunto by S. Aidan Bishop of Lindisferne And a●terward cōming into the Prouince of the Fastangles to the Citty called Calcaria and now Colchester in all sanctimony and holines of life she finally there ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and seauen D The one thirtith Day AT Eucsham in VVorcester-shire the festiuity of S. VVolstan Nephew to two Kinges of Mercia who being slaine in hatred of Christian Religion by one of his owne Kinsmen a great light from heauen was seene for thirty dayes togeather to descend and remayne ouer the place where he lay killed By this miraculous token his body being found out was first buryed in the Monastery of Rependowne now called Ripon in Yorkeshire and after when many miracles were wrought therat it was translated to the Abbey of Euesham which holy S. Egwyn Bishop of Worcester had founded not many yeares before and there with great solemnity and veneratiō placed in the Church of that Monastery wherat it pleased God in testimony of his innocency to shew wonderous things He was martyred vpon the vigill of Pentecost about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourty and nyne THE MONETH OF IVNE E The first Day AT Stone in Staffordshire the Commemoration of the Saintes Rufin and Vlfade brothers martyrs sōns to VVulserus a Pagā King of the Mercians who for that they were made Christians and had receyued baptisme at the hands of S. Chad Bishop of Lichfield were both by their owne Father slayne in hatred therof as they were at prayer in S. Chads Oratory about the yeare or Christ six hundred threescore eight Their bodyes were by their mother Queene Ermenild afterward also a Saint conueyed to Stone and there kept with great veneration where also in tyme was erected a goodly Church togeather with a Priory and dedicated in their honour But the K. their Father soone after repēting

being a very zealous and godly Prince as he was one day on hunting was slayne by a Pagan souldiar partly in hatred of Christian Religion and partly also for that a noble Virgin should say she would neuer marry any man except the said King who was so zealons a Christian. There was afterward a goodly Church erected in his honour neere to a Riuer in South-wales where he was slayne and where with great veneration his holy body was interred at which it pleased God in signe of his innocency to worke many miracles A The twentith Day IN Northumberland the passion of S. Oswine King of the Deires Martyr who for that he was a most zealous Christian was impiously slayne by Osway the Pagan King of the Bernicians about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and one His body being throwne into an obscure place after miraculously found out was with great veneration brought vnto Tinmouth and there placed in an ancient Church erected in honour of our blessed Lady S. Aidan liuing at the same tyme and Bishop of Lindisserne had a reuelation of his death euen at the instant of his passion who when he preached to the people was wont oftentymes to say of him This Nation of ours is not worthy to haue so good a Ruler or Gouernour c. B The one twentith Day IN Calabria in Italy the Commemoration of S. Richard Bishop and Confessour who descended of a worthy parentage in England and going to the Court of Rome was there made Priest and at length for his vertue and learning ordayned Bishop of a place in Calabria called S. Andrews where in great sanctity and holines of life togeather with exceeding vigilancy ouer his flocke committed to his charge he finally reposed in our Lord. His body was interred in his said Cathedrall Church of S. Andrew and there is yet preserued with great deuotion and veneration of the Inhabitantes for the frequent Miracles that haue byn wrought therat He is Patrone of that Diocesse and his feast is there celebrated with a double Office wherin he hath three proper lessons conteyning the whole Story of his life C The two and twentith Day IN Bedfordshire the Commemoration of S. Arnulph Confessour who descended of a noble British lynage in our Iland for the loue of God contemned the world and became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the County or Prouince of Bedford where in great sanctity and holinesse he also ended his blessed dayes His body was buryed in the same shire at a place called afterward of his name S. Arnulphs-bury where for a long tyme it was honoured for the miracles it pleased God to worke therat D The three and twentith Day AT Meneuia now cal'ed S. Dauids in Penbrookeshire of VVales the Commemoration o● S. Iustinian Monke and Martyr who being a noble Britan and building a Monastery with his owne inheritance in the Iland of Ramsey in Penbrookeshire aforsaid and hauing there gathered many monkes togeather vnder Monasticall discipline was in the said iland by the diuells instigation in hatred of his sanctity slayne by three of the brethren of his said Monastery who were all presently stroken with a filthy leprosy by diuine Iustice in reuenge of so odious a fact about the yeare of Christ foure hundred fourscore and six His body was withall veneratiō honour brought to the Church of Meneuia where the same was by S. Dauid himselfe then Bishop therof solemnely interred and wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles E The foure twentith Day IN Cateby-Monastery the Commemoration of S. Alice Prioresse and sister to S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury who borne at Abington in Barkeshire a woman of admirable spirit and vertue was after the death of her sister S. Margaret made Prioresse of the Monastery of Cateby where in very great humility and holinesse of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and seauenty Her body was buryed in the same Monastery neere to the body of her forsaid sister S. Margaret wherat in token of her sanctimony of life whilst she liued it pleased God to worke miracles after her death F The fiue twentith Day AT Coldingham in Norhamshire in the Marches of Scotland the passion of S. Ebba Abbesse and Martyr descended of the bloud royall of the Kings of Northūberlād togeather with all her Sisters in the Monastery who in the first Danish Incursions vnder the Captayns Hinguar Hubba cut of their noses and vpper lippes to deforme themselues therby to anoyd the barbarous lust of the Pagan persecutours who seeing them so mangled and defaced commaunded their Monastery to be fiered and so they all ended their course of Martyrdome She was afterward canonized for a Saint about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and fourscore This woman is different from the other of the same Name who was the foundresse and first Abbesse of this Monastery of Coldingham and no Martyr for that the Danes were not in her tyme yet come into England nor almost two hundred yeares after Her Commemoration we haue put downe before vpon the second day of Aprill THE same day at Monte-Flascone in Tuscany the deposition of S. Thomas Confessour and Bishop of Hereford who going to Rome to Pope Martyn the second about the affaires of his Church died in his way homward at the forsaid Towne of Monte-Flascone where his flesh being separated from his bones was there honourably interred in the Church of S. Seuerine but his sacred Reliques were brought to Hereford and there placed in a faire marble Tombe in his owne Cathedrall Church with great solemnity and veneration the second day of October in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourscore and seauen He was afterward Canonized for a Saint by Pope Iohn the two and twentith G The six and twentith Day AT Isselbey in Lincolnshire the Commemotion of S. Pandwyne Virgin who descended of a noble parentage in our Iland of Great-Britany was of such admirable vertue and austerity of life that in signe therof it pleased God to worke many miracles at her body after her death which was kept for a long tyme with great veneration of the Countrey-pleople at the forsaid towne of Isselbey She died about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and foure The story of her life is wrytten at large by Richard Pastour of the Church of Isselbey wherof there is mentiō made in the Catalogue of English Saints gathered by Iohn Capgraue a learned man of our Nation who liued in the tyme of King Richard the second and lead an Eremiticall life in the Prouince of Kent A The seauen twentith Day IN Glocestershire the Commemoration of S. Decuman Eremite and Martyr who borne of a very noble British parentage in South-wales and brought vp in the Christian faith from his youth stole