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A85971 Edovardus Confessor redivivus. The piety and vertues of holy Edward the Confessor reviv'd in the sacred Majesty of King James the II. Being a relation of the admirable and unexpected finding of a sacred relique, (viz. the crucifix) of that pious prince; which was found in Westminster-Abby, (the place of his interrment) 622 years succeeding; and is since worn sometimes by his present Majesty. With a comment thereon. Previous to which relation, are recited many wonderful casual discoveries; all of them being presagious, or very effective. Gibbon, John, 1629-1718. 1688 (1688) Wing G649; Thomason E1963_13; ESTC R225399 23,999 46

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in this place lay Buried the Bodies of the Martyrs Dionisius Rusticus and Eleutherius which until that time was not known to any Man but they appearing to Dagobert in his Sleep advised him to Build a Church there which he afterward performed But I should have told you The Father supposing the Messengers unwilling to distaste the Son had to gratifie him counterfeited this Fear was sain publickly to pronounce his Pardon and then they could enter and fetch him out Genoueva a Virgin of Paris did most Reverently frequent the Village Catula where Holy Dionisius Died to whom she had Dedicated a Cathedral Church She went to certain Priests with Collected Monies but they fearing further Supplies and having present want of some made their excuse On the contrary she Divinely Inspir'd said I beseech you go to the Bridge of the City and what-ever you hear declare it to me They going forth while they stood attentively in the Market-place expecting what to hear two Swine-herds coming towards them talked together says One While I sought a straid Hogg I found a Furnace of Lime I also says the Other found another in the Wood The amazed Priests relate to the Virgin what they heard she Weeps for Joy and notice being given to the Citizens Collections were made and a Magnificent Temple Built and Dedicated to Dionisius Bonfinius Lib. 5. There are many over-weaning and credulous Persons of the Reformed Religion believe the Pope grants Pardons to ratifie Murders and perpetrate Crimes Now it pleased God in the secret disposition of his hidden Judgment to Reveal the contrary in this wonderful and unexpected Manner About the Year 1608. 6 Jacobi l. as the Sexton was digging a Grave in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul London to Interr the Corps of Doctor Stanhop he chanced to light upon the Coffin of one Sir Gerard Braybroke Knight Buried there Two hundred Years before where finding the Cords whole the Flowers fresh he espied a Charter of Pardon or Indulgence not Consumed not Eaten not Defaced in so long time You may read this Charter in Latin in the Historia Ecclesiae Paulinae Written by my most Loving Friend and fellow Officer Sir William Dugdale late Garter King at Arms. I will Recite it here Translated into English Verbatim BOniface Bishop Servant of the Servants of God To his beloved Son the Noble Gentleman Gerard Braybroke the younger Knight and to his beloved Daughter in Christ the Noble Lady his Wife Elizabeth of the Diocess of Lincoln Salvation and Apostolical Benediction It proceedeth from your Affectionate Devotion with which you Reverence Vs and the Church of Rome that We admit Your Petition to a favourable Hearing especially that which concerns the Salvation of Your Souls For this cause We being moved to yield to Your Supplications By the Tenor of these Presents do grant this Indulgence to Your Devotion That such a Ghostly Father as either of You shall choose shall have Power by Apostolical Authority to grant to You persisting in the Sincerity of Faith in the Vnity of the Holy Church of Rome and in Obedience and Devotion towards Vs or Our Successors Popes of Rome Canonically entring into that Sea full Remission only once at the point of Death of all Your Sins whereof you shall be Contrite and Confessed in such manner nevertheless that in these Cases where Satisfaction is to be made to any other the same Confessor shall enjoyn You to do it by Your selves if You Survive or by Your Heirs if You should then Die which You or They ought to perform as aforesaid And lest which God forbid You should by this Favour become more prone to commit unlawful Things hereafter We declare That if upon confidence of this Remission or Indulgence You shall commit any such Sins That this present Pardon shall not be any help to You concerning Them. Furthermore Let it be Lawful for no Man to Infringe this Writing or Grant of Ours or with whatsoever boldness to Contradict it And if any shall presume to attempt any such thing let him know That he shall Incurr the Indignation of Almighty God and of his Blessed Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Given at Rome at St. Peters under the Fishers Ring 5o. Junii in the Second Year of Our Papacy Note This was Boniface the IX and the Year was 1400. the First of Henry the IV. Now Let all that are Opiniated as aforesaid read and well consider the Conditions of this Brieve First It is necessary to Persist in the Sincerity of the Faith. Secondly To be Sorrowful and Contrite and to confess Our Sins Thirdly To make Satisfaction or Restitution if any be needful Fourthly Not to Presume hereby to commit unlawful Things I pray who can be Sorrowful or truly Confess or duly intend to Satisfie that fully intends to commit Sins Who can be imboldned to fall into Sin in hope of a Plenary Indulgence when this very Hope and Presumption is a main Bar against gaining the same Gregorius Turonensis lib. 1. chap. 14. tells us When the Article of our Resurrection was most eagerly Impugned by the Saducean Heresie in the days of Theodosius the Emperour it pleased God to reveal and awake the Martyrs St. Maximinian Malchus Martinian and the rest after they had Slept 372 Years For 't was concluded If God could raise from Sleep after so many Years He could do it after any Number and so consequently having at first Created all Things out of Nothing could again raise them out of their own Ashes Baronius in his Annals Anno Christi 357. relates That when so many Doubts were made about the Martyrdom of St. Foelix Pope and Martyr that his Name was in danger to be blotted out of the Calendar it pleased God to Reveal his Body by means of some who digged at Rome in the Church of St. Cosmus and Damianus for Treasure and which is very Remarkable it was the very day before his Feast was Celebrated Even so The Divine Providence who with admirable convenience disposeth all things even then in the Royal City of London in the chiefest Church in the greatest Recourse of such who were so malevolently Opiniated disclosed this Pardon in Vindication of the Catholicks when they were most hotly pursued and most wrongfully condemned of Crimes of this Nature This Discovery being as a Witness produced from Heaven to acquit Them as it were by the Sentence of God himself It will not be amiss to note here That this Noble Knight Sir Gerard Braybroke was Brother to Bishop Braybroke whose Skeleton or Skinny Bony Remains by the fall of St. Pauls Arched Floor into Sr. Faiths preiently after the Fatal Fire 1666. was discovered and is now reserved in that our admirable piece of Building the Consistory and shown as a great Rarity to curious Persons And from whence may be Collected That this Family of Braybroke had an Egyptian Humor of Desire that their bodies might not suddainly Decay but attend if possible the Re-union of the