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A69547	Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B.; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English. Selections	Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Beaumont, Henry, 1611 or 12-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1659; ESTC R8695	74,168	275

admonisht them to keep among themselves and towards all Charity to follow the rule● and orders of Monastical discipline which they had either learnt of him or of their forefathers Then he told them that his departure was nigh For the most lovely guest quoth he that was wont to visit our brethren many had died of the Plague out of the Monastery hath vouchsafed this day to come to me and call me out of this world Go ye to Church again and speak to the brethren That with their Prayers they both commend unto our Lord my departure and remember with watching prayers and good works to prepare also for their own When the Brethren had taken his blessing and were gone Owen casting himself on the ground said I pray you good Father what song was that I heard of that I heard of that joyfull company descending from heaven upon this Oratory and again returning He answered if you heard the singing and understood the comming of the heavenly Companies I charge you to tell no man thereof before my death They were indeed Angels who came to call me to the heavenly rewards which I alwayes loved and long'd for and after seven dayes they promised they would return and take me with them The seventh day as it was promised after he had received the body and blood of our Lord his holy Soul was carried as we may well believe by Angels to everlasting joy Among his manifold merits he was renowned for Chastity Abstinence Preaching Prayer voluntary Poverty Agreeable to this Revelation is that which I now adde Ecbert a Monk in Ireland whom Higball Abbot went to see said He knew one yet alive who when Chad past out of this world beheld a company of Angels descend and carry up his soul with them St. Chad was buried first neer St. Maries Church but afterwards his bones were remov'd to the Church of the most blessed St. Peter Prince of the Apostles in both which places in token of his virtue frequent miracles in healing of the sick are wont to be wrought One yt had a Phrensie lying by his tomb all night the next morning came out well and in his perfect senses declaring to the great joy of all that there he had by Gods goodnesse got his health The place is covered over with a wooden tomb like a house having a little hole on the side wherein they that come thither for devotion are wont to put in their hand and take of the dust which putting into water they give to sick beasts or men to drink whereby they forthwith become whole Chap. 4. Relates How the Bishop Colman leaving England took with him some thirty English Monks and afterwards founded a Monastery for them in Ireland after the example of the Venerable Fathers living under rule and under a regular Abbot in great continency getting their living with the labour of their hands Chap. 5. The year 670. 2. King Oswi of Northumberland died he bore such affection to the See Apostolike of Rome that had he lived he purposed to have gone thither for to end his life in those holy places having for that purpose entreated Bishop Wilfrid to be his guide This Chapter further relates how Theodore call'd a Synod of Bishops at Hertford The result of this Synod was that they maintain'd the Ancient Canons of the Church Theodore at the beginning thereof said I Theodore though unworthy appointed by the see Apostolike Archbishop of Canterbury c. Chap. 6. Theodore the Archbishop being offended with Winfrid Bishop of the Mercians for a crime of disobedience deposed him appointing in his place Sexwolph who was founder and Abbot of the Monastery of Medshamsted now called Peterborough Winfrid returning to his Monastery Artbear there piously ended his life Theodore also appointed Erconwald Bishop of London whose life and conversation was counted most holy as to this day his heavenly vertues and miracles do well declare for his Horse-litter wherein he was wont to be carried when he was sick being yet kept by his disciples doth daily cure such as have Agues or are otherwise diseased The very chips also that are cut off from it and brought to the sick are wont to give them speedy remedy He built two goodly Monasteries for himself and his Sister Edilburge furnishing them with good Rules that for his Sister at Berring in Essex where she was Mother of the Nuns behaving her self in all vertuous conversation as was shewed by Miracles from Heaven Chap. 7. In this Monastery many wonderfull signs and Miracles were shew'd which for the benefit of posterity are written by many who knew them when the Plague raging thorow the Island came to this Monastery and had entred upon that part where the men lived so that daily one or other was taken out of the world This good Mother being carefull of her company at such a time as the visitation of God touched that part of the Monastery in the which the Handmaids of God dwelt by themselves apart from the men askt the Sisters In what place of the Monastery they would have their bodies buried when God should visit them When she could get no certain answer from them she and all the rest received a most certain one and from God For one night as these Handmaids of Christ went forth of the Chappel after Mattins to the graves of the Brethren that were dead singing accustomed prayers to our Lord behold suddenly a light sent down from Heaven in manner of a Sheet came over them which strook them with such fear that they ceast from singing which brightness whereunto the mid-day seem'd night being again lifted up went to the south part of the Monastery and there staying awhile withdrew to heaven so that none of them doubted but that the very light which should receive their souls into heaven did also shew a place for their bodies to rest in Chap. 8. There was a childe about three years old brought up in this House of Virgins dedicated to God to be employed in Meditation among them This Childe being strucken with the plague coming to the pangs of death spake to one of those consecrated Virgins of Christ calling her by her name Fadgit This Virgin being suddenly taken with the sicknesse departed this life following the voice that called her Another of the Handmaids of God taken with the same disease and brought to the last told them that a certain holy man appear'd to her who died the same year bringing her word that when the morning drew neer she should depart to everlasting light The Truth was prov'd by the death of the Maid Chap. 9. When Ediburge the pious Mother of this devout congregation was to depart this world a wonderfull vision was seen by one of the Sisters whose name was Thorithgid who had lived long in that Monastery and was alwayes diligently employed in serving of God in great

of three dayes humbly to implore Gods mercy There was in the house at that time a little Boy lately converted who was taken with the sickness When the second day of Fasting and Prayer was come it hapned that in the morning there appeared unto him the two most blessed and chief Apostles St. Peter and Paul for the boy was innocent and endow'd with the Sacrament of Faith The Apostles saluted him saying Son fear not death for we will this day bring thee to Heaven but thou shalt stay till the Masses be said and after thou hast received the Viaticum or journey-earnest of the body and blood of our Lord thou shalt be convey'd to everlasting joyes Call Eappa the Priest and tell him thus Our Lord hath heard your prayers and looked mercifully upon your fasting there shall not one more dye of the plague in this Monastery and they that are sick shall recover But thou alone said they shalt be set free and go unto the Lord whom thou haft served Tell them it hath pleased God to doe thus for them through the intercession of the dear servant of God King Oswald For on this day was he Martyred by the Infidels and taken up to Heaven Let them look their Book wherein are registred the departed and they shall find it so Let them therefore say Masses through all the Oratories of the Monastery giving thanks as well that their prayer is heard as also in the memory of the said King who formerly was their King and therefore earnestly prayed for them as for those of his Nation And when all the brethren are come together to Church let them be partakers of the heavenly sacrifice and so end their fast All this being related by the boy the Priest enquired after what manner they appear'd He answered They were comely and resplendent in habit and countenance above any he had ever seen the one with the celestial Tonsure the other with a long Beard and they said they were Peter and Paul servants of Christ sent for the defence of the Monastery The Priest believing the words by the Boy seeking in the Records found that Oswald was slain that day calling therefore together the brethren he commanded Masses to be said and that all should communicate after the accustomed manner and also caused a particle of the same sacrifice of the Lords Oblation to be brought to the sick Boy which done he died the same day confirming by his death the truth of the Apostles words for no more but he dyed out of the Monastery By this Vision many were stirred up to pray and call for mercy in adversity as also to use the wholsome help and medicine of fasting And from that time as well in the Monasteries as in very many other places the Birth-day of the said King began yearly to be kept holy with celebration of Masses The 15. Chapter nothing but Civil Affairs Chap. 16. Relates How King Cedwall though not yet Christned bound himself by Vow that if he took the Isle of Wight he would give unto God the fourth part thereof which he perform'd He gave it Wilfrid for the service of our Lord Thus this Island after all the Provinces of Britany was converted Chap. 17. At this time Theodore the Archbishop hearing that the Faith was much opposed at Constantinople by the Heresie of Eutichus and desiring that the English Church which he govern'd might continue free from any such spot gathered an Assembly of many Reverend Priests and Doctours where he found an uniform consent of them in the Catholike Faith Theodore By the grace of God Archbishop of the Isle of Britany and with him sitting the other Bishops at Hetfield c. After debate and conference We have set forth the true Catholike Faith in such sort as our Lord delivered it c. We have received the five holy and general Synods of the blessed and beloved Fathers of God viz. of 318. assembled at Nice against the wicked Arius and his opinions and of 150. at Constantinople against the fond Sect of Macedonins and that at Ephesus the first time of 200. against wicked Nestorius and that of Calcedon of a 130. against Eutichus and at Constantinople the second time where was assembled the fifth Councell against Theodore and others Also we receive the Synod held at Rome in the time of the most holy Pope Martin We worship and glorifie our Lord as those men have done neither adding nor diminishing and we excommunicate with heart and mouth those whom they excommunicate and whom they have received we receive Chap. 18. At this Synod was present and confirm'd the Catholike Faith a Reverend man nam'd John the cheif Chantour of St. Peters and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Martins who was come from Rome by command of Pope Agatho having for his guide the Reverend Abbot Benedict For having built a Monastery in England in honour of the Prince of the Apostles he came to Rome as often before with Ceolfrid his companion in the same work after Abbot and was receiv'd most honourably by the Pope of whom he obtain'd Letters of Priviledge by Apostolike Authority as he knew King Egfrids will was by whose liberal gift he had erected it He brought this John with him into England to teach the Abbeyes the yearly course and order of singing as it was taught at St. Peters in Rome which he did teaching the Chantours and Choristers of the Abbey the order and form of singing and reading committing to writing thosethings which appertain'd to the celebration of the high Feasts and Holy-dayes through the year which have been hither kept in the same Abbey and are now in all places copied out They came to hear him from all the Monasteries of the Province and many invited him to come unto them He had in charge from the Apostolike Pope diligently to observe what Faith the Church of England profest and bring him word thereof to Rome So the Copy of the foresaid Synod was given to him to carry to Rome wherein the Catholike Faith was found sound and uncorrupt but in his return he died His body for the love he bore to St. Martine whose Monastery he govern'd was honourably buried at Towers Neverthelesse the Copy of the Catholike Faith was brought to Rome and joyfully received by the See Apostolike Chap. 19. King Egfrid took to wife Ediltrude daughter of the King of the East-Saxons yet she remain'd twelve years a Virgin as Bishop Wilfrid a man of holy memory did inform me enquiring purposely thereof because some doubted it And that such things may be done in our time as formerly as Histories witness we may not question This also was a signe of the divine Wonder that the body of the same Virgin being buried remain'd uncorrupt which shews she ever lived untoucht And t is well known she long besought the King that she might

forsake the cares of the world and go into a Monastery to serve Christ Which having obtain'd she chose the Monastery of Abbesse Ebba Bishop Wilfrid giving her the Veile and cloathing of a Nun. A year after she was made Abbesse in the Isle of Ely where was built a Monastery of Virgins dedicated to God to whom she proved a good mother living a Virgin in example and heavenly life T is said that from the time she entred she never wore linnen but wollen onely very seldome but on high feasts or for necessity did she eat more than once a day From the time of her first setling to prayer untill day light she continued in the Church They say she prophesied she should die of the plague and declared the number that should die out of the Monastery Sexburge her sister succeeded Abbesse who plac'd her Sisters bones in the Church the Grave being opened and the body of the holy Virgin and spouse of Christ taken up it was found as free from corruption though buried sixteen years as if she had died the same day as Bishop Wilfrid and others witnesse and the cloaths wherein her body was wrapt appear'd whole and so new that they seem'd but then to be put on It is further related How being molested in her life time with a swelling and pain of her cheek and neck she rejoyc'd and was wont to say I know I deservedly undergoe this pain for when I was a girle I wore the superfluous burthen of precious Pearls and necklaces and I believe God doth therefore send this pain in my ne●k that he may so absolve me from the guilt of vaenity whilst in lein of Gold and pretious stones the fiery heate annoieth me It hapned also that by the touching of the said clothes wherein the Corps lay Spirits were expelled out of possest bodies and diseases heal'd And t is said that the Tombe in which she was first laid cured those that had sore eyes who making their prayyer and applying their head to the Coffin forthwith were freed The body of the Virgin is kept to this day and had in great veneration The Tomb ready made was not without miracle found fit for the Virgins body Chap. 20. I adde saith Bede a Hymne of this Queen and Spouse of Christ and therefore truly Queen because Christs Spouse then followeth the Hymne Chap. 21. Nothing but a battell in which King Elbuine was slain peace ensued Chap. 22. In the foresaid battell a thing famous and well known to many hapned which we may not omit both for the profit of the Reader and glory of God Among the souldiers that were slain a young man called Imma was left for dead who at last reviving and binding up his wounds was taken and brought before the Commander he fearing to confesse he was a souldier said he was a Farmer of the Country and had brought victuals to the Campe The Commander for all that at night commanded he should be kept in Irons yet none would hold him for as soon as they were gone that bound him his Fetters fell off For he had a Brother whose name was Tunna a Priest and Abbot of a Monastery in the City called this day Tunnacester who hearing his Brother was slain came to seek his body where finding one like him he brought him to the Abbey and buried him and after caused Masses to be said to obtain Absolution for his soul by the saying of which Masses it came to passe that nothing could bind him but that he was instantly loosed The Earle that kept him wondered thereat and inquired of him the cause I have quoth he a brother that is a Priest I know he thinks that I am slain and therefore doth often say Masse for me And if I now were in another world my soule should be loosed from pains through his Intercession and Prayers as my body is hear from fetters Being recovered the Earle sent him to London and sold him to a Marchant of Frizeland but neither he nor any else could binde him by any meanes The Merchant seeing this took a ransome for him For about the third hour in the morning when Masses began to be said very often were his Fetters loosed Imma returning to his Countrey declared to his brother all that hapned and he knew by what his brother told him that his bonds were loosed at those times chiefly in which Masses were said for him He understood also that the other great helps that befell him came from Heaven through his Brothers Intercession and offering of the saving Host and Sacrifice Many that heard this were devoutly inflamed in faith imployjng themselves in Prayer Almes and Charitable deeds offering to our Lord Hosts of Sacred Oblations and Sacrifices for the delivery of their friends that were departed this world For they understood thereby and knew that the saving sacrifice was effectuall to the everlasting Redemption of body and soul This story was told me by them that heard it from the man on whom it was done and therefore knowing it to be undoubtedly true I insert it here Chap. 23. The year following the devout and Religious servant of Christ Hilda Abbesse of Streanshal after many heavenly deeds past out of this world to the rewards of heaven Three and thirty years she lived in a secular life and as many did she dedicate more nobly to our Lord in Monasticall life she was Daughter to the Nephew of King Edwin Yet she quitted her secular habit desiring to go into France and there in a Monastery to lead a Pilgrimes life that so more easily she might enjoy an everlasting Country There liv'd in that Monastery at the same time Herewid her sister Mother to Aldulf King of the East-English under the rule and discipline of Religion and after the example of her sister she lived as a stranger out of her own Country A year after Hilda being called home by Aidan the Bishop had a Lordship given her where she lived a Monastical life with her company Then was she made Abbesse of a Monastery called He●rthew which was built by the devout Handmaid of Christ Heiu who is said to have been the first in Northumberland that took upon her the state and habit of a Nun being consecrated by Aidan This handmaid of Christ goveining this Monastery ordered the 〈◊〉 excellently in regular life and discipline Having ruled there for some years in great observance and strictnesse of Regular life she took upon her the building of Streanshal which she furnisht with the same Rules and Orders She admirably taught the works of Righteousnesse Devotion and Chastity after the example of the Primitive Church There was none rich none poor all was in common nothing peculiar or singular in any one she made the Religious men that lived under her bestow their time in reading of holy Scripture and practise of vertue that thence might be found men worthy