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A34964	The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy ... : from all which is evidently demonstrated that the present Roman Catholick religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this our island, &c. / by R.F., S. Cressy of the Holy Order of S. Benedict.	Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.	1668 (1668)	Wing C6890; ESTC R171595	1,241,234	706

point of his sharp stile against one named C●neglas by interpretation Yellow Lyon whom he accuses of all sorts of crimes impiety again●● God and savage cruelty to his subjects repudiating his lawfull wife and violating her Sister who after her widdow-hood had vowd chastity to God and lastly by many injuries afflicting holy men and Pre●●● which ceased not to offer up to God their sight and prayers for him Whom he exhorts to change his life that he might reap benefit by the Prayers of those who had power to bind in heaven whan they had bound in this world and to loose likewise such as were penitent 4. Now by a view of the impieties of all these last Princes of Brittany the Reades will observe the justice of Gods severity against so wicked a Nation from which he took the Spirituall Kingdom of Christ and bestowd it on a people which few years after brought fruits worthy of it And again out of this dunghill of vices some pearles may be gathered for here we find the Wise Gildas commending a perpetuall vow of Chastity made not only by Virgins but Widows also the infringing of which vow he bitterly inveighs against And again he acknowledges in Gods Preists a power of retaining and absolving sinners not by way of declaration but authority and iurisdiction 5. In the year five hundred fifty nine dyed Ida King of the Northumbrians to whom succeeded his Son Alla whose Empire extended both over the Deiri and Bernicians This is that King Alla to whose name Pope Gregory alluded when he said prophetically that in the Province of King Alla there should be sung Alleluia But we must observe that though he had the authority paramount over all the Kingdom of the Northumbrians yet there were in some of the Provinces Brittish Princes with dependance on him which called themselves Kings So we mentioned lately M●●ken King of the Cumbrians For these Northern Saxons having obtaind their dominion not by absolute conquest but in many Provinces by Treaty they left the Princes there still invested with their former authority yet with dependance and deference to them VIII CHAP. 1.2 c. Saint Theodoric a Brittish Prince retires into solitude And comes out to fight with the Saxons In which fight he is mortally wounded 6.7 c. His Son Monric censured by a Synod at Landaff 1. THis Age afforded us more then one Example both of the vigour of Episcopall Authority and zeale exercised by a Holy Bishop Synodically and likewise of submission to the said Spirituall Authority by Princes otherwise of little devotion on the contrary staind with many vices and crimes But before we relate these particulars we will first declare who this Bishop and Princes were 2. The Bishops name was S. Oudoceus the Son of Anaumeda Sister to S. Theliau and Budic a Prince in Lesser Brittany S. Oudoceus from his infancy was addicted to piety He was assidileus in fasting watching and prayer for an everlasting reward In devotion he visited the Monument of S. Peter at Rome and at his return he went to the place of S. David and from thence he diverted to the Church of S. Theliau taking with him certain Relicks which during his Pilgrimages he had obtaind Afterward he succeded Saint Theliau the next Bishop of Landaff after Saint Dubricius and was an heyr not only of his dignity but of his vertue doctrin and miracles He is commemorated on the sixth day before the Nones of Iuly 4. Next as touching the Prince his name was Mouric Son of Theodoric Prince of Glamorganshire in the Province of the Silures who being weary of worldly vanities undertook a Monasticall Profession and served Almighty God in solitude having transferr'd his Pricipality on his son Mouric Into which his Son was no sooner entred but the Saxons broke into his countrey and began to wast it Whereupon the inhabitants had recourse to their former Prince Theodoric whom they even compelled to quitt his desart and to be their Generall in the war He full of Divine courage encountred the infidell Enemies whom he putt to flight at Tintern nere the River Vaga But having received a dangerous wound in the combat he returned homeward and perceiving that it would prove mortall he gave charge to his Son Mouric that in what place soever he should end his life he should there build a Church to God and a Sepulcher for himself After this proceeding in his journey he had not passed above five miles but at a place where the Rivers Vaga and Severn meet he gave up his Spirit 5. There did his Son Mouric erect a Church in which he layd his Fathers body whom posterity venerated as a Saint calling the place from his name Merthir-Tendric that is The place of the Martyr-Theodoric At this day it is more contractedly called Merthirn In the same place saith B. Godwin is seated the house and possessions of the Bishops of Landaff adding That Mouric first of his own accord gave to that Church a farm called Mochros lying on the banks of the River Vaga together with Portheassegg and the Church of Gurvid And afterward for exp●●●ion of a murder committed by him on a person called Cynetu contrary to a league by oath contracted between them he added other possessions as Ringranauc Nantana and Kansulvim with other lands besides He had two Sons Arthruis and Frior and by Arthruis or Athruis he had a grandchild called Morcant 6. This is that Prince Mouric this the crime against which the Holy Bishop Oudoceus exercised his spirituall authority the order and manner we read expressly declared in the Acts of a Synod of Landaff lately rescued from darknes and worms by our diligent Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman the tenour whereof is as followeth The Synod of Landaff assembled by Oudoceus third Bishop of that Church about the year of Grace five hundred and sixty in which Mouric King of Glamorgan for his perfidious murdring of Cynetu was excommunicated c. 7. King Mouric and Cynetu mett together at Landaff and in the presence of Oudoc●us Bishop swore before the Relicks of Saints lying before them that they would observe a firm peace between them Some space after this solemn Oath thus made King Mouric by treachery slew Cynetu Whereupon Bishop Oudoceus called together all Ecclesiasticks from the mouth of Taratyrin-Guy to Tyvi together with three Abbots Consen Abbot of the valley of Carban Cargen Abbot of Ildute and Sulgen Abbot of Docquinni and in a full Synod excōmunicated King Mouric for the murder by him committed and for perjury in transgressing the Covenant made in his presence and on the Altar of S. Peter the Apostle and of S. Dubricius and S. Theliau moreover inclining the Crosses toward the ground he interdicted the countrey of Mouric and so dismissed the King The Christian Communion also cursed the King with his progeny the whole Synod confirming it and saying Let his days be few his children

Apostles and by the ten books of S. Clement 7. But as for us we are able according to the authority of Holy Scriptures to give a true and sufficient testimony of our Tonsure and doe affirm that S. Peter ordained this Rite of Tonsure for severall causes First that thereby he might on his head bear a representation of our Lord who ascending the Crosse for our Redemption was Crownd by the execrable Iews in a cruell manner with sharp peircing thorns Next that the Preists of the Old and New Testament might be distinguished by their habit and Tonsure And lastly that the same Apostle and his followers might carry the ridiculous expression of scorn used by the Romans who when they sold their slaves taken in war they were wont to crown them But in the Old Testament this Signe of Tonsure took its Originall if I be not mistaken from the Nazarites who were persons consecrated to God for it is a mark of a Royall and Sacerdotall descent For a Tiara was anciently sett on the heads of the Preists which being enwrapped in fine linnen was round like the Middle Sphere and this is represented by that part of the head which is shorn Now a Crown or Diademe was a golden circle of some breadth which encompassed the heads of Kings And both these signs are expressed on the heads of Clergy-men concerning whom S. Peter saith You are an elect nation a Royal Preist-hood And moreover by this Rite of shaving and polling is signified our duty to cutt off all our vices and that we should devest our selves of our sins as we doe of our haires 8. But there is among you another practise far more pernicious to soules which is that in the observation of the Solemnity of Easter you neglect to follow the Rule of the three hundred and eighteen Fathers who in the Nicene Councill with great sagacity established the Circle of Nineteen years to last to the end of the world by the numbers of Eight and Eleaven and also ordained the Paschall supputation from the fourteenth day of the Moon to the one and twentieth making these the terms of the Paschall Circle which it is unlawfull for any one to transgresse Whereas the Preists among you according to the Account and Circle of Anatolius or rather according to the Rule of Sulpitius Severinus who described a Course of eighty four years doe some-times observe the Paschall Solemnity on the fourteenth Moon with the Iews whereas the Bishops of the Roman Church doe observe neither of these ways of calculation Neither have they decreed that posterity should follow the Paschall Table of Victorius which contains a course of five hundred thirty two years For there was a sort of Heretiks in the East called Tessera-decatitae because they celebrated the Paschall Solemnity on the fourteenth Moon with the Iews who blaspemed our Lord and trode under foot the pearles of the Gospell And for this they were excluded from the Communion of the Church and ranked among the unhappy conventicles of Schismatiks Of these as I remember S. Augustin makes mention in his Treatise of Ninety Heresies 9. But besides these enormities there is another thing wherein they doe notoriously swerve from the Catholick Faith and Evangelical Tradition which is that the Preists of the Demetae or South-west Wales inhabiting beyond the bay of Severn puffed up with a conceit of their own purity doe exceedingly abhor● communion with us insomuch as they will neither ioyn in prayers with us in the Church nor enter into society with us at the Table yea moreover the fragments which we leave after refection they will not touch but cast them to be devoured by doggs and unclean Swine The Cupps also in which we have drunk they will not make use of till they have rubbed and cleansed them with sand or ashes They refuse all civil salutations or to give us the kisse of pious fraternity contrary to the Apostles precept Salute one another with a holy kisse They will not afford us water and a towel for our hands nor a vessell to wash our feet Whereas our Saviour having girt himself with a towell washed his Disciples feet and left us a pattern to imitate saying As I have done to you so doe you to others Moreover if any of us who are Catholicks doe goe amongst them to make an abode they will not vouchsafe to admitt us to their fellowship till we be compelled to spend forty dayes in Pennance And herein they unhappily imitate those Hereticks who will needs be called Cathars or Puritans 10. Such enormous errours and malignities as these are to be mournfully bewayld with sighes and teares since such their behaviour is contrary to the precepts of the Gospell and suiting with the Traditions of Iewish Pharisees concerning whom our Saviour saith Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees who cleanse the outsides of Cupps and dishes On the contrary our Lord disdaind not to be present at feasts with Publicans and sinners thereby shewing himself a good Physician who was carefull to provide wholesom cataplasms and medecines to heale the corrupt wounds of those that conversed with him Therefore he did not like the Pharisees despise the conversation of sinners but on the contrary according to his accustomed clemency he mercifully comforted the poor sinfull woman who bewayld the former pollutions of her life and casting herself at our Lords feet washed them with showres of teares and wiped them with the curled locks of her haire concerning whom he said Her many sins are forgiven her because she hath loved much 11. Since therefore the truth of these things cannot be denyed we doe with earnest humble prayers and bended knees beseech and adiure you as you hope to attain to the fellowship of Angels in Gods heavenly kingdom that you will no longer with pride and stubbornes abhorr the doctrines and Decrees of the Blessed Apostle S. Peter nor pertinaciously and arrogantly despise the Tradition of the Roman Church preferring before it the Decrees and ancient Rites of your Predecessours For it was S. Peter who having devoutly confessed the Son of God was honoured by him with these Words Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevayle against it And to thee will I give the keyes of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shal be loosed in heaven If therefore the Keyes of the kingdom of heaven were given to S. Peter who is he who having despised the principall Statuts and ordinances of his Church can presumingly expect to enter with ioy through the gate of the heavenly Paradise And if he by a peculiar Priviledge and happines received the power of binding and the Monarchy of loosing in heaven and earth who is he who having reiected the Rule of the Paschall Solemnity and the Rite of the Roman Tonsure will not rather

generally all the Romans gave praise to God for this wonderfull deliverance of his Servant But the Conspiratours not being able to execute their malice any further against the Pope went to vomite their rage upon the house of Albin which they lacked and utterly demolished 4. The fame of this prodigious Miracle was in a short time spread through all Christendom And Winegise Duke of Spoleto accompanied by the Embassadours of King Charles came to Rome and from thence conveyed the Pope to Spoleto From whence afterward he went into France to King Charles by whom he was with all honour and kindnes received and during all his voyage the high wayes were filled with devout people which with great ioy and devotion congratulated with him for the goodnes which God had so wonderfully shewed to him and to the whole Church in his regard 5 King Charles assoon as he was informed of this barbarous cruelty executed on this good Pope wrote a Letter to Saint Alcuin demanding his advice what became him to doe in such a coniuncture To whom Saint Alcuin answerd that it was his duty as being supreme Governour of Gods people an avenger of crimes a comforter of the afflicted and an exalter of such as are good to punish severely those examples of extreme impiety committed at Rome where formerly piety did most flourish but where of late wicked men through the blindnes of their hearts pluck out the eyes of their own head c. And accordingly King Charles shortly after conducted Pope Leo to Rome where the crimes falsly imputed to him by his enemies were cleared but what became of the two forementioned Assassins we doe not read 6. Another Epistle likewise King Charles wrote to the same Saint Alcuin in which he declared to him the miraculous recovery of the same Pope to whom God by his Divine operation had restored his sight and speech To which Saint Alcuin answerd that it was the duty and obligation of all good Christians to reioyce in such Clemency of the Divine Protection and to praise the name of our God who never forsakes such as putt their trust sincerely in him And whereas the said King had invited him to quitt for some time the smoaky lodgings of his Monastery at Tours to accompany him in his voyage to the golden palaces at Rome Saint Alcuin excused himself saying that the sight of swords and armour would doe more harm to his eyes then the smoaky chambers at Tours and that he should more serve his Maiesty by dayly praying for him in his Monastery then attending him in his ●edious iourney too burdensom to his weak infirm body 1.2 Succession of Bishops 3.4 c. Edilbert Pren King of Kent subdued by Kenulf the Mercian King 6. The Monastery of Winchelcomb 1 A Thelard returning from Rome seems to have brought with him the Archiepiscopall Pall for Eanbald Arch-bishop of York who this year received it and thereby was instated in the plenitude of his Pontificall power The first exercise whereof was expressed in the Ordination and consecration of Eadred to the See of Hagustald who succeeded to Ethelbert In which ordination he was assisted by Higbald Bishop of Lindesfarn and the solemnity was performed at a place called Wodford Dudda likewise the Bishop of Winchester dying in his place was substituted Kinebert 2. The year following Eathored Bishop of Worcester in the Kingdom of the Mercians dying in his room succeeded Denebert And about the same time the Church of Shirborn also being deprived of its Pastour Denefrid received Wibert for his Successour 3. At the same time Edilbert sirnamed Pren after he had raigned two years in Kent taking the boldnes to provoke the Mercians much exceeding him in power was taken prisoner by them and was for some time held captive in chains But afterwards being sett free by his enemies his own Subiects refused to admitt him so that it is uncertain how and where he ended his life 4. But Hoveden recounts this calamity of King Edilbert Pren more tragically At this time saith he Kenulf King of the Mercians with all his forces united invaded the Province of Kent which he wasted most terribly almost to the destruction of the inhabitants During which invasion Edilbert King of Kent was taken prisoner whose eyes the Mercian King commanded to be plucked out and his hands cutt off for his former pride and treachery Then he adioyned that Kingdom to his own putting the crown thereof upon his head and the Scepter in his hands 5. Such inhumanity as this seems much disagreeing from the mercifull nature of this good King Therefore the Narration of Mathew of Westminster is far more credible In the year of Grace seaven hundred ninety eight says he Kinulf King of the Mercians in a hostile manner wasted the Province of Kent and took prisoner Edilbert sirnamed Pren who was much inferiour to him in power whom he caried in a triumphant manner bound in chains to his own kingdom But not long after when he caused a Church lately founded by him at Winchelcomb to be dedicated on the day of the Consecration he took the chains from off the captive King before the Altar and dismissed him free There was then present Cuthred whom in the place of Edilbert he had made Governour of Kent The Church sounded with acclamations and the streets with the Kings praises and because in a meeting of thirteen Bishops and ten Dukes assembled for that Solemnity he refused to none the marks of his liberality so that all went home much richer then they came For besides Presents of inestimable valew in rich garments choice horses and other furniture which he gave to his Nobles to every particular man then present he gave a pound of silver to every Preist a Mark of gold to every Monk a peice of money So that not one person there present fayled to partake of his bounty And he enriched the Monastery with so large possessions that in this age it seems incredible 6. In the Annals of this Monastery of Winchelcomb is recorded the Charter of this King confirmed in a Synod at which were present two other Kings his Tributaries Cuthred King of Kent and Sired King of the East-Saxons in which he signifies that his intention was that his body should be buried in the same Church But this Charter was of a later date because it is subscribed by Wulfred Arch-bishop of Canterbury who succeeded six years after this to Athelard In the same Annals likewise is declared that at the first building of this Monastery three hundred Monks were placed in it What particular Maunors the King gave to them is unknown by reason all the ancient Records were burnt in the time of King Steven XVIII CHAP. 1.2 A Synod at Bacanceld against Vsurpers of Church revenews and for restitution of the Rights of the See of Canterbury 3. Another Synod of the Arch●bishoprick York 1. A Little after Athelard was returned