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A01200	The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.	Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.; Cape, William.	1618 (1618)	STC 11314.2; ESTC S4305	734,345	826

manifestation that he had not any thing in this world and with the more facility to wrestle against his furious aduersary in this last conflict and triall wherin consisted the crowne he with an exceeding feruour and courage stript himselfe all naked as he had bin without any infirmity then cast himselfe on the ground couering with his left hand the precious wound of his right hand and tourning his ioyfull face towardes the kingdome whither he was to goe he began to prayse and blesse his sweet lord IESVS CHRIST that being dischardged and freed of all worldly impedimentes he might ascend to heauen and enioy his diuine Maiestie then tourning towardes his Religious he said vnto them My deere Brethren I haue to this present done what I ought to doe These wordes were diuersely vnderstood of the Religious some of them wept in regard he was to leaue them without Pastour and gouernour others because he seemed to leaue them as men forlorne others for other occasions only the Guardian whome he obeyed vnderstood the desire of the holy Father wherfore taking presentlie an habitt with the cord and linnen breeches brought and gaue it vnto him saying Father take this habitt which I lend you with the corde and breeches that you may be buryed therwith as a poore creature who of your selfe haue not so much as wherwith to couer your nakednes I command you to receaue it in this your last houre euen by the vertue and meritt of obedience wherof the Sainct discouered to haue the greatest contentment that can be imagined considering that in this extremity he had obserued his holy pouerty in such sort as he desired euen to the last end He contentedlie accepted the breeches but to conforme himselfe entierlie to his truely-beloued IESVS CHRIST that would dye naked on the crosse to the performance wherof wanting nothing but to dye naked hauing already bin and euen for the present being admirably crucified by the vertue of the almighty he commaunded his Religious not only to permitt him to dye on the ground but euen to leaue him there a long time after his death Hauing procured to be brought vnto him the holy Sacramentes and they being successiuely administred vnto him those I meane which the Church accustometh to afford such as are ready to dye he lastly tourned towardes his Religious to whome he made a worthy sermon exhorting them to the loue of God then of their neighbour and especially to obedience vnto his holie Romane Church next to obserue their pouerty and before the same and all other thinges to be alwayes mindfull to preferre the obseruance of the holy ghospell and the diuine counsailes therof Then crossing his hādes this great Patriarch of the poore gaue his holy benediction to all his Religious both present and absent saying My deere Brethren God of his mercy blesse you as also I blesse you be it his holy will to confirme me it in heauen Remayne ye all in his holy feare perseuering alwayes therin for the time of afflictions approach wherin they shal be happy who shall perseuer euen to the end remayne ye all in his holy obedience as you haue solemnely promised vnto him Finally remayne ye all in his most holy peace and in charity among your selues God blesse you I goe in great hast vnto God to whose grace I recommend you Amen Which hauing said he asked for the gospell and speaking no more to any person he only desired that place to be read vnto him where is mentioned the departure of our lord Ante diem festum paschae which being read to the end he began to say to himselfe Voce mea ad Dominum clamaui And being come to the verse Educ de custodia animam meam that is deliuer my soule if thou please my God out of this prison that it may attaine to thee my God and my lord where the iust expect me to the end thou mayest giue me my recompence Which being ended this holy soule at it desired was deliuered out of the prison of her proper flesh and eleuated to heauen there foreuer to enioy the eternall bounty with all the sainctes his elected of both sexes in that degree which his diuine maiestie ordayned and parepared for him How some saw the soule of the glorious Father sainct Francis ascend in glory THE LXXI CHAPTER THis holy soule failed not to appeare to some when it ascended to the celestiall glory For Brother Angelus a Religious of worthy sanctity being att that time prouinciall of the prouince of Naples and very neere his end saw in an instant the soule of the sainct as a resplendant starre on the toppe of a verie bright cloud to be transported aboue the great waters and directlie mounted and eleuated into heauen And albeit he had the space of two dayes lost his speech he neuertheles then resumed his spirittes for seeing the blessed spiritt of the sainct he began to crye out Stay for me Father stay for me for I goe also with you The Religious asking what he meant therbie See you not said he our holie Father sainct Francis that now goeth to the glory of Paradice which hauing spoaken he yelded his soule to God and followed his most holy Father The Bishop of Assisium being gone in pilgrimage to visitt the Church of S. Michael the Archangell on the mount Gargan S. Francis appeared vnto him the very night of his death and said My lord know that I haue left the world and goe to heauen The Bishop therfore being risen told his people that S. Francis was dead the night before which was proued to be true An other Religious of this Order being the same night rapt into deep contemplation saw the blessed Deacon of IESVS CHRIST vested with a very rich tunicle accompanyed with a great multitude of soules that attended him as a worthy Prince who so ascended into a pallace of merueillous beauty and eminency it is piously beleeued that the said soules were by his merittes deliuered out of Purgatory This glorious soule ascended to glory accompanied with many Angels that attended and visited him continually in this life and is now seated among the Seraphins which glory he merited not only in this life by the excessiue and Seraphicall loue of God but also it appartayned vnto him in regard of the Seraphicall vision of IESVS CHRIST who transformed him into himselfe making him a Seraphin by gtace and sealing the same with diuine seales as hath bin reuealed to many holy personnes worthy of creditt as well during the life of the Sainct as after his death The verie birdes and particulerlie the Larckes that were much beloued and verie familiar vnto him did exceedinglie reioyce att his glorie a great flight of them appearing verie earlie the next morning on the roufe of the house where sainct Francis lay dead warbling a verie delightfull and extraordinarie note yea as it were miraculous which continued diuers howers celebrating the prayses

saincte Clare appeared vnto him and sayd Arise Iames for thou art already cured and being awaked and raysed on his feet the defect of his sight left him and by the vertues and merittes of this Sainct he clearly saw for which he glorifyed God and gaue him thanckes for so admirable a worcke exhorting all present to doe the like and to prayse our Redeemer IESVS CHRIST in his holy seruant Of the lame and paralitiques cured by saincte Clare THE XXX CHAPTER A Cittisen of Perusia called Iohn Martin de Buony wēt one time with many other Cittisens out of the citty to fight against their ennemies of Tullinium the skirmish being ended Iohn found his hand exceedingly hurt with the blow of a flint stone and the bone being broken he was therby maymed hauing bin att extreme coste for the cure therof yet without any remedy but still enforced to carry his arme in a scarfe he alwayes complayned therof as of a desperat may me and asked counsel about cutting off his hand but hauing one day heard speech of merueillous matters wrought by almighty God att the intercession of sainte Clare he with a strong faith vowed to goe to her sepulcher whither arriuing he very deuoutly and reuerently presented her a hand of wax then fell on his knees and made his feruent prayers to God that it would please his diuine Maiesty by the merittes of that holy virgin to cure him The successe was admirable for before this gentleman arose he felt his hand entierly cured for which he gaue thanckes to God and to the Saint A yong man of Castrouitoly called Petronius was so consumed with a disease which had for three yeares continually afflicted him that he seemed to be already withered and corrupted yea he was therby brought to such weakenesse that in goeing he stooped with his face as it were on the ground and found great difficulty to walke though with a staffe in his hand to support him His Father hauing already bin exceedingly chardged about his cure continued yet in resolution to employ the residue of his substance out of his vehement desire to see his sonne cured But the Phisitions hauing assured him that there was no hope of cure by humane art he had recourse to the new Sainct of whose vertue hauing heard much report he caused his sonne to be carryed where the Reliques of saincte Clare reposed And hauing made his prayers by her sepulcher he recouered his former health and miraculously arose sound and straight as if he had neuer endured infirmity yea he ran leapt and praysed God and saincte Clare inducing all present to haue greater faith and deuotion towardes her In the towne of sainct Quiric within the diocesse of Assisium a child of ten yeares old hauing bin borne lame went so pittifully and painfully that if he chanced to fal to the groūd he could not rise againe but with extreme difficulty His Mother had many times recommended him to S. Francis yet found he no redresse but vnderstanding afterward that the virgin sainte Clare was very famous for infinite miracles which by her merittes were wrought att her sepulcher she caused her sonne to be carryed thither and incontinently after he had bin there his bones were setled in their places and his members were cured that which sainct Francis entreated by deuout prayers would not graunt he referred to be obtayned and impetrated by the merittes of his disciple saincte Clare A Cittisen of Augubia called Iames le Franch had a sonne of fiue yeares old so lame that he could not goe which he very impatiently supported it seeming to him that the torment of his child was a reproch vnto his honour and family When this child was on the ground he would wallow and creep in the dust in that sort to goe and if he would stay himselfe against any thing to arise he could not for nature had giuen him only a desire but no force and ability thervnto But his Father and mother consulted to make a vow for him and to offer him to the merittes of sainte Clare to whome they promised that being cured he should be called hers The vow being made the espouse of IESVS CHRIST cured this child who began so well to goe that without any helpe he went to the sepulcher of the sayd sainct A woman of Castel Menany called Plenaria had bin long time benummed in such sort as she could not goe without a staffe but causing herselfe to be carryed to the sepulcher of S. Clare and hauing there deuoutly offered her prayers she the day following obtayned what she there with faith demaunded So she retourned home on her owne feet who came thither supported by the feet of others A woman of Perusia had a swelling on her cheeke which tormented her a long time and besides had al ouer her body many ring wormes tettars she had also her neck greater then her head And often thincking of S. Clare she one day went to her church where withgreat deuotion and a true faith she made her prayers and continuing by her sepulcher till euen within night she fell into a great sweat wherby the swelling began to wax dry and to shrinck and so by litle and litle she was so perfectly cured that there remayned no shew of scarre How two children were by saincle Clare rescued and preserued from the rage of wolues THE XXXI CHAPTER THe vally of Spole●ū was accustomed to be much afflicted with wolues who did of●ē proy there on humā flesh There dwelt a woman called Bonna on the Mount Galien within the diocesse of Assisium who hauing two children had scarce ended her lamentations for the one which the wolues had deuoured but whiles she was busy in her house they carryed away the other The wolfe carryed her child to the top of the mountayne grapled it by the throat when a labourer in the vineyardes hearing the pittifull cry of the child called the mother and admonished her to haue care of her sonne in regard he heard a crying voice like to his The woman not finding her sonne presently beleeued that the wolfe had seased on him and therfore began to rayse her lamentation towardes heauen deuoutly inuocating the helpe of S. Clare in these tearmes O blessed saincte Clare haue compassion on me miserable woman and restore me my child Alas heare if thou please the prayers of an infortunate mother permitt me not to continue in this so rigorous desolation Whiles this poore woman so recommended her distresse to saincte Clare her neighbours fournished with weapons hastened after the rauening wolfe and comming to the top of the sayd mountaine they found that he had left the child wounded in the throat whose woundes a dogge was licking And so the child was safely recouered by the merittes of saincte Clare who was inuocated by his mother to whome he was brought and was incontinently restored to perfect health A litle girle of the towne of Canary being about noone abroad in