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A25370 The English nvnne being a treatise wherein (by way of dialogue) the author endeauoureth to draw yong & vnmarried Catholike gentlewomen to imbrace a votary and religious life / written by N.N. Hereunto is annexed a short discourse (by way of conclusion) to the abbesses and religious women of all the English monasteries in the Low-countreys and France. Anderton, Lawrence. 1642 (1642) Wing A3109; ESTC R29040 86,325 178

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Virgins seeing that point concerneth me more neerely in regard of my allready begun Course And it also will giue I thinke better satisfaction to my sister Cosmophila For what you haue aboue said of the first Institution of a religious lyfe may perhaps by her not be extended to women but to strayned only to men Confessarius I will condescend to your words First then we find that S. Ignatius the martyr who was the Apostles Scholler affirmeth Colledges of Virgins and saluteth them in his f Epistles Yea some of our Aduersaries the Protestants do thus confesse of this point In the flower of the Church meaning in the beginning of the primitiue Church there were g Virgins that professed perpetuall Chastity And which is more our learned Aduersaries the Century writers I meane all being eminent Protestants euen out of the rack of Truth confesse that in Constantines time being the first Christian Emperour there were Monasteries h of Virgins That there i then was a woman Gouernesse of professed Virgins And furthermore the said Protestants make particular mention of the Veyle k of the Virgins Of their religious l habit and particularly of their Consecration m and all this in the tyme of Constantine who liued three hundred yeares after Christ To conclude this point the Antiquity of Virgin Nunnes is much celebrated by Ioninian the third Emperour after Constantine and he had them in such Honour as that he published an Edict That who n should seeke not only to violate but euen to marry a professed Nunne should loose his life Thus much of this point Caelia I thanke you Good Father for thus your discoursing For I take great pleasure to heare that this Religious Course by me begun is warranted with such great Antiquity and particularly in vs Women And now Sister Cosmophila you may see that this my Chosen Course of lyfe is no late Innouation or out an humane inuention as some Enemyes thereto are not ashamed to affirme Cosmophila I agree with you Good sister in iudgment herein But Reuerend Good Syr seeing this Religious Course of life hath continued so many hundred yeares as that no more touching this point can be expected I would gladly know what kind of men and especially of women haue imbraced this course whether they haue beene but of the meaner sort only or of more noble and worthy Persons since this later degree of persons if so you can proue it will giue a great lustre and glory to a Religious life For I obserue that diuers of high place ranke in these dayes do euen contemne that Course holding it as sorting only to the meanor condition and sor● of Men of Women Abbesse You shall giue me leaue Good Cosmophila to take this taske touching this your lost question or demand from Father Confessarius with his good leaue and to impose it vpon my selfe to relate what I haue read as concerning this point in spirituall bookes written of this subiect in our owne tongue I am the more bould herein because many great examples not only of Men out euen of women imbracing this state of life may be here alledged And there Examples of women do more neerely concerne v● Women and therefore may with good shew of Reason be deliuered by a woman Therefore I will most briefly begin with men but will chiefly rest in the Presidents of Women First then we find to insist somewhat in fortaine Princes Lothaerius a Westerne Emperour about the yeare 800. Anastasius a Grecian Emperour in the yeare 750. besides some other Emperours Hugo King of Prouence and Emperour in the yeare 920 Pipin king of Italy and eldest sonne to Charles the Great king of France in the yeare 800. Bamba king of Spaine about the yeare 670. to haue vndergone a Religious and Monastical lyfe I will conclude omitting many other forraine kings Princes with Charlemaine who was king of Austrasia and Sueuia and who receaued the habit of a Monke at Pope Zachary his hands But to looke a little into our owne Country of England we shall find it to haue beene most fertil herein whiles the Land of England was deuided into many kingdomes According hereto we may reckon Sigebert king of the Northumbers anno 640. Ethelred king of the Mercians anno 704. Offa king of the East Saxons Some small tyme after Kenred Finally Inas king of the same West Saxons all which did forsake the world and became Religious Monkes Thus far of men omitting to speake of many other Princes Lords and Noble men imbracing the same Religious Course But now to come to women of worth and dignity as being more peculiar to our drift intention I will restrayne my selfe to Empresses and Queenes who haue forsaken all Regall dignity or soueraignty and after the death of their Husbands entered into a Monasticall life and became Nunnes as we are at this pre●ent First then Theodora the Empresse about the yeare 880. imbraced this course of lyfe ●ugusta another Empresse anno 1190. Richar●is wyfe to the Emperour Charles le Grosse did build a Monastery into the which she after entred and therein dyed anno 890. Cunegundes wyfe to Henry the Emperour Agnes wyfe to the Emperour Henry the third gouerned some yeares the Empyre after her husbands death but in the end she surrendred vp the Empyre and chose to liue in the humility of a Monasticall life anno 1150. Elizabeth wyfe to the Emperour Albertus the first and Archduke of Austria did build a Monastery in the yeare 1290. and in that Monastery taking the Monasticall habit of a Nunne most happily ended her dayes This Elizabeth had two Daughters who followed her Example The one of them was marryed to the King of Hungary the other to the Count of Ot●ighen in like sort the said Elizabeth had two grand children to wit the Queene of Polonia her daughter who both entered into a Religious lyfe of Nunnes although her said daughter was in some sort assured in marriage to the Duke of Vratistaw To come to particular Queenes And first Tesia wyfe to Rachisius king of Italy with her Daughter Retruda ended their dayes in a Monastery spending their tyme in great Sanctity In France Radegundis who was maried to king Clotaire got his consent to depart from him and entred into a Monastery at Poictiers liuing and dying there with great shew of piety and deuotion in anno 520. Within some few yeares after Adocra wyfe to Chilperick king of France together with her daughter Childerade betooke themselues to this heauenly profession Balda about the yeare 650. wyfe to King Clouis king of France after the decease of her husband went to Celles where she enlarged a Monastery afore built and till death professed therein a Nunnes life Yt we cast our eyes into Spayne we shall find the like Examples of Deuotion For we read that Nunez wyfe to Veremond king of some Prouinces of Spaine and Teresa wyfe to