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A14573	A catalog of the bishops of Excester with the description of the antiquitie and first foundation of the Cathedrall church of the same. Collected by Iohn Vowell alias Hoker, gentleman.	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.	1584 (1584)	STC 24885; ESTC S102101	32,358	40

consecrated Bishop of Deuon and his sea was then at Tawton now named Bishops Tawton and from thence shortlie after remooued to Kirton and after manie yeares from thence to Excester Herstanus was consecrated Bishop of Cornewall and his sea was first at S. Petrokes in Bodmin and after remooued vnto S. Germines and at length was vnited vnto Crediton and in the end both were remooued vnto Excester And for as much as I haue not yet found anie thing of the Bishops of Cornewall worthie memorie I will deale and set downe onelie the Catalog of the Bishops of Deuon and of Excester and what I find doone by them or in their time worthie the obseruation I know that for want of knowledge in me there be manie imperfections herein But among so manie wise godlie and learned men as you are I hope that some one good man or other and hauing accesse vnto your euidences and records will either reforme what they find amisse or impart it vnto me that I may so doo it when time and opportunitie shall serue therevnto And thus much concerning the first receiuing of the true and christian religion and appointing of Bishops in this prouince of Deuon And for as much as this pamphlet doone and written a fewe yeares past came vpon some occasion to my hands to be reuiued at this present time being the end of the yeare past and the beginning of the new now come in which it hath beene an old vsage and custome among good freends and especiallie of the yoonger to their elders and of the inferiour to their superiours to offer some small present ech one to the other congratulating thereby the good successe of the yeare past and wishing the like to come and considering also that you which doo labour in the word and in doctrine doo dailie beget vs through the Gospell in Christ Iesus and are his ministers to our saluation and therefore the more worthie of double honour and for as much as I my selfe am his name be praised by these meanes made partaker of his heauenlie blessings and dailie confirmed doo thinke my selfe most bounden to be thankefull and gratefull vnto you all herein Wherefore these my trauels so much as concerne your church I thought it good by waie of a strene to offer and present vnto you praieng you that though it be somewhat imperfect yet such as it is you will accept and take in good part not respecting the slendernes of the thing offered but the good will and beneuolence of the offerer And herewith also I am to praie you to call to your remembrance that as the old yeare is past and the new is come so that euerie one doo cast awaie the old man which is corrupt and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnes and holines and that you be renewed in knowledge after the image of God which created vs and to cast awaie the workes of darkenes and put on the armor of light walking honestlie as in the daie time not biting nor deuouring one the other least we be consumed one with another but walke in loue and peace long suffering gentlenes goodnes faith meekenes and temperance which are the fruits of the spirit crucifieng the flesh and the affections and lusts thereof and thus hauing purged awaie the old leauen and being freed from sinne and made the seruants of God and prepared to good works through Christ you maie haue your fruits in holines and in the end to enter into the ioie of our Lord and life euerlasting And thus commending you vnto the eternall and euerliuing God in Christ Iesus I doo most dutifullie take my leaue Exon the last of the old yeare and the beginning of the new 1583. Yours in the Lord Iesus Iohn Hoker The antiquitie foundation and building of the Cathedrall Church of S. Peters in the Citie of Excester AFter that false and superstitious religion was crept and receiued into the Church of God and the people growen verie deuout therein they began the erecting and building of religious houses and monasteries in euerie place which after the maner of the most part of Christendome as it was doone vniuersallie within this realme so also there wanted not the like in this citie after the rate and portion thereof For this humor being now entred and the people misled therein so prone and forward was ech man to continue the thing begun and receiued that the more busie forward and liberall he was therein the better man he was reported and taken to be There were therefore in this citie from time to time as oportunitie serued diuers religious houses and monasteries founded and erected whereof appéereth that thrée were within the site circuite and place which is now called the close of S. Peters and which in time ●●crewed and were vnited into one The first was a house of women called Moniales or Nunnes which is now the calenderhaie and the Deanes house of the Cathedrall Church The other was of monks and supposed to be builded about the yeere of the Lord 868. by King Etheldred the third sonne of King Ethelmophus and these two were by Bishop Leophricus added and vnited to the Cathedrall Church The third was a house of Moonks of the order of S. Benet and founded by K. Athelstane Anno 932. And this is that part of the Cathedrall Church now called the Ladie chappell For the said King hauing driuen out of this citie the Brytaines who then dwelled therein and minding to make a full conquest of them and of such as then inhabited in Deuon or in Cornwall followed and pursued them whom in the end he conquered and hauing exploited his wit and gotten the victorie returned to this citie and here staieng and soiourning for a time did reedifie the citie as also yeélding himselfe thankefull to God for his good successe builded the said monasterie for Moonks for thus is it so written of him Hanc vrbem primus Rex Athelstanus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Brytonibus redactam turribus muniuit muro ex quadratis lapidibus ●inxit ac antiquitùs vocatum Munketon nunc Exeter vocari voluit ac ibi sedens mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum monasterium pro monachis deo sancto Petro famidantibus And besides the great charges he was at in the building he gaue also sufficient lands reuenewes for their liuing whereof Morkshut and Thresaurers beare be yet remaining are appertaining to the treasurer of the said Church But after the time of K. Athelstane the Danes with great hostilitie crueltie hauing ouerrunne this land this citie and Church was much infected and troubled for with no lesse crueltie did the Danes pursue the English men and Saxons than did the Saxons before pursue the Brytaines And then the Moonks not able to indure the same fled and forsooke their house seéking places of refuge and better safetie and so was this monasterie left destitute and forsaken for sundrie yeares vntill the