head shauinge other vnsauerye ceremonies and wrote afterwarde an earnest treatyse agaynst Agilbertus a frenche man and at that tyme byshop of Wynchestre All thys myght not helpe then but in processe of tyme they had theyr whole myndes magry al their hartes Bedas Giruninus li. 3. ca. 25. De gestis Anglorum Guilhelmus Malmesburye li. 3. De Pontificibus Ranulphus lib. 5. cap. 17. Iohannes Caphraue and other ¶ Religiouse examples dysuadynge mariage After Laurentius folowed Melitus in the archebyshoppes seate of Caunterburye in the yeare of our lorde DC and. xix whiche they saye both alyue dead dysuaded yonge men from christen marryage As Saynt Columbanus a Scott about the same tyme came to the sell of an holye Nonne for ghostlye counsell She bad hym awaye least wanton youthe would bryng them togyther wylde they nylde they Saynt Edwyne kynge of Northumberland gaue vnto saint Paulinus the archebyshop of yorke hys yonge doughter Eanfleda so sone as she was baptysed in the yeare of our lorde DC and. xxvi that he shuld make her an vnholye Nonne And the daye after the said Edwyne was slayne he toke with hym both the doughter and mother and so fled with them vnto Rochestre in kent be water neuer returning thydre agayne Saynt Fiacre a Scottysh heremyte had so great malyce vnto women that he plaged so many of them with the fowle euyll as came within the precynct of hys monasterye because one woman had ones complayned to the byshop of hys prodygyouse charmynges Hector Boethius Saynt Foillanus an Irysh Byshop with his brethren was very famylyar and seruysable vnto Saynt Gertruyde and her nonnes at Nigella made dyuerse barren women full graciouslye to conceyue Saynt keynwirye a virgyne of wales contempnynge marryage fled from thēs to Saynt Myhels of the mounte to kepe her vowed virginite amonge the holye fathers there as vower with vowers All these storyes hath Iohan Capgraue ¶ Other relygyouse examples of that age SEbba kyng of the East Saxōs was so by wytched of the Byshop of Londō and his calkyng collygeners there for hys substaunce that he had made hymselfe a monke leauynge vnto them both hys wyfe and possessyons yf she had bene no wyfe then he nor more godly dysposed Yet was she by their incantacyons at the last deceyued they hauynge of hym an innumerable summe of money and he nothynge of them agayne but a mangye monkes cowle and hys buryall in Paules Whan Saynt Egbynes father was ones departed in wales his mother resorted wyth hym to the Abbeye of Saynt Sampson and there receyued of hym the habyte of a Nonne bestowyng the rest of her lyfe amonge the good bretherne there Saynt Eanswyde abbesse of Folkstane in kent inspyred of the deuyll dyffyned christen marryage to be barren of all vertues to haue but transytoryouse frutes and to be a fylthye corruptyon of virginite Yet ware Marye Iohan Baptyst and Iesus Christ swete frutes therof the iust fathers of the olde lawe not rekened Saynt Paule sayeth also that by vertue of marryage the vnfaythfull man is sanctyfyed by the woman that is faythfull i. Cor. vij Neither dyd he at anye tyme teache marryage to be eyther a corrupcion or yet an impedyment of christen virginite whan he coupled the Corintheanes whiche continued styll marryed a chaste virgine to Christ. 2. Cor. ii But thys gentylwoman Eanswyde was muche better acquaynted with the monkes learnyng then with Christes and with a chastyte rather to their behoue than to hys Yet droue she out all the gantes or bystardes there yf their churche legende be true These storyes shewed Iohan Capgraue ¶ The wanton toyes of the holye fathers ABout thys same tyme sent Pope Bonyface the fyft a shyrte with a golden collor and a fyne petycote of straunge makynge vnto kynge Edwyne with the blessynges of Peter and Paule And vnto hys wyfe Ethelburge a syluer glasse and a combe of yvorye with the same to vpholde them in thys newe christianite Se these wanton fathers what toyrs they vse to set vp their kyngdome here Neuer shall ye reade that Christes dysciples had anye suche wyttye polycyes Saynt Petrock an her myte of Cornewale was fayne euerye nyght from the crowe of the cocke to the sprynge of the mornynge to stande naked in a pyt to abate the hote mouynges of hys fleshe And neuer coulde he haue remedy of that dysease tyll he went onpilgrimage to Rome and Hierusalem Here was a newe sought out salue for that sore Saynt Pyrane a Byshop also in Cornewale had a fayre dammesell in the monastery of hys mother wyngell called Brunet whom the Lord of the soyle toke vp for his occupieng At the last he agreed with him no longer to haue her then the bernacle or butture shuld breake him of his slepe which chaunced sone after thā he sent her home agayn If these be not good honest legendes to be redd in the Popes holy church tel me Plēteouse shall ye finde Iohā Capgraue in the rehersall of them and suche other The ghostly bestowing of their vowes A Nonne belonging to saynt Cota and a monke perteyning to saynt Pyrane about the same tyme strake vp a couenaunt of loue And as they met in a wode for performance of the same a yong pigeon fell betwixt them and made them both ashamed so they went home agayne A lyke matter Such an other pagent was played at yorke but it was longe after The monkes of saynt Mary abbeye and the nonnes of Clement thorpe mett togyther there at hay making the abbottes fole being wyth them And as the abbot enquired of him at supper for pastyme where he had bene all that daye He fell in a great laughynge and declared before all hys gestes that a sore battayle had bene foughten that after none betwixt hys monkes and the monkes of clement thorpe But he thanked God that hys monkes had the best for they laye euer aloft Bycause that one of Saynt modwens maydes had layed her beste beloues shoes at her beddes head the spretes of heauen that were wonte to vysyte her wolde not come there that nyght After she had bene at Rome and was comen home agayne she dwelt at Scaleselyf where as an holye hermyte ded oft tymes vysyte her and muche refreshe her wyth a legende boke of sayntes lyues But no tydinges was there among them of Christes holy Gospell Loke Iohan Capgraue ¶ Erkenwalde and Osith with their Nondryes SAynt Erkenwalde the sonne of Vffa the fyrst King of the east angres abbot of Chertesye and Bishop of London buylded a Nondrye at Berkynge And bycause there were at that time in Englande no Nonnes to his mynde for Hilda hys kynswoman was to great a scripture woman in those dayes he sent ouer the see for an old acquayntaunce of hys called Hildelitha learned in arte
of lyfe She left her owne howse and buylded her an habitacion by the churche louyngly intertaynynge men of holye orders In conclusyon whan she departed the worlde she left her great coffers and treasure bagges with Dunstane to dyspose for her soule she had heard of Kyng Edwyne with the which he after that buylded fyne monasteryes Ioannes Capgraue in Cat sanct Anglie ¶ Dunstane kepeth the kynges of Englande vndre DVnstane was excedyngly beloued with Cadina Kynge Eldredes mother these are the playne wordes of the history and he loued her excedyngly agayne And wheÌ„ he ones became the kynges corectour mastre yea rather his kynge Emperour sayth the text by her meanes he was elected Byshop of wynchestre after the decease of Eâ—phegus But he enioyed it not by reason of his tyranny against kynge Edwyne that succeded hym Whose coÌ„cubynes he can sed the archebyshop Odo as is sayd afore to seale in the face with hote Irons and to bannysh theÌ„ specially one he sore blemyshed sent into Ireland And wheÌ„ Dunstane was for this presumptuouse pageant exyled the moÌ„kes caused the coÌ„mons to ryse against him from the water of Humbre to the flood of Thamis so to depose hym Ioannes Capgraue in uitis Dunstani Odonis Neuer were the coÌ„cubines of Dauid Salomon thus ordered of Samuel Achimelech Abiathar Sadoch the byshop of that age In a serten vision receyued Dunstane iij. swerdes they saye of iij. apostles Peter Paule Andrewe with the administracioÌ„ of iij. byshoprickes in EnglaÌ„d Worcestre LoÌ„don CauÌ„terbury to kepe the kynges vndre to bringe moÌ„kes into the plentuouse possessions of the cathedrall churches that priestes with their wyues children by violeÌ„te expelled Of him also yâ— forsayd Odo thus prophecied at his coÌ„secracioÌ„ This will be a most mighty captaine come downe knawes come downe valeaunt warriour against the worldly pryncâ—s VinceÌ„cius Antoninus Capgraue Thus grewe the hoÌ„gry leane locustes into most sturdy wild horses with lyoÌ„s heades Apo. ix neyeng after mennis wyues Hiere 5. What rule was at Rome in those dayes TO fatche thys matter where about we go from the very well sprynge or fyrst oryginall as the frute from the tree and the tree from the roote we wyll sumwhat shewe what chast ordre was at Rome in those dayes In the yeare of our lord DCCCC and vij was one Sergius a man without all vertu and learnyng made Pope and became the thirde of that name This Sergius kepte a yonge whore in the tyme of hys holy papacye called Marozia had by her a bastarde which was pope loÌ„ge after hym called IoaÌ„ the. xi and reigned in all fylthinesse more theÌ„ vij yeares Some writers holde that he begate of her IohaÌ„ the. x. also but the coÌ„trarye of that shall apeare herafter This filthy tyrauÌ„t caused pope formosus whom his predecessour Steuen had afore disgraded buried among the profane laye multidude to be taken vp agayne decked lyke a pope set in a chayre to be byheaded and hys iij. fyngars cut of hys carkas so to be throwne into the ragynge flood of Tiber Se if there were euer any tyrannye lyke vnto the tyranny of these spirituall Antichristes thus cruelly handelynge â— man that is dead This sheweth more at large Liuthprandus Ticinensis lib. 2. Capi. 13. ac lib 3. Cap. 12. rerum Europicarum BloÌ„dus Flauius Baptista Platina Ioannes Stella abbas Vrspergensis Ptolemeus LuceÌ„sis Vincencius Antoninus Bergomas alij ¶ The chastite of holy churche there THeodora a most execrable whore and aduouterouse mother to the forsayd Marozia Theodora the yongar both vnshamefast whores also so burned in concupiscens of the bewtye of one Iohan Rauennas a priest theÌ„ sent in massage to the pope by Peter the Archebyshop of Rauenna that she not only moued hym but also compelled hym to lye with her and so become her peramoure dere This whore for hys lecherouse occupyenge of her made hym first Byshop of Bononye than Archebyshop of hys owne natiue cytie Rauenna and fynally Saynt Peters vycar in Rome called Iohan the. x. Pope of that name that she myght at all tymes haue hys companye nygher home This was done in the yeare of our Lorde DCCCC and. xv and he gouerned the papacye there xiij yeares and more Liuthprandus Ticinensis lib. 2 Cap. 13. rerum per Europam gestarum It is easye to se by this open experiment that she and her ij doughters myght do muche in the holye college of cardynalles He that iudgeth not that churche to be whoryshe whiche was so depelye vndre the rule of whores that they at their pleasure might appoint ther vnto what head rulers they would hath litle good iudgement in hym I thynke ¶ A popes bastarde is made Pope GVido the marques of Thuscia at the lattre marryed Pope Sergius whore Marozia Whiche willynge to preferre vnto Saynt Peters seate the bastarde whome she had by the sayd Pope caused hym to enpryson her mothers dere peramoure Iohan the. x. and to stoppe vp hys breathe with a pyllowe Immediatly after which was the yeare of our Lorde DCCCC and. xxix was he constytute pope and called IohaÌ„ the. xi but the same self yeare he was deposed agayne Wherupon she clerly left all spirituall occupienge and in displeasure of the prelates maryed her self sone after her husbandes deathe to one Hugh the Kynge of Italye whiche was her other husbandes brother by the mothers syde and made hym the monarke of Rome to recouer agayne thys lost dignyte for her bastarde Thus shewed she her self to be a playne Herodias besydes her other vnshamefast whoredomes in the spiritualte Liuthprandus li. 3. Ca. 12. Pope Leo the. vi which folowed the next helâ— the papacy not iij. quarters of a yeare And after hym Steuen the. vij litle moâ—e then ij yeares They myght not longe tarrye here but had a cast of sowre physycke to sende them well hens that they myght geue place to the ryght heire For next them he succeded agayne and contynued almoste v. yeares after All that hath wrytten sens platynaes tyme haue bene fowlye deceiued with hym concernyng this Iohan the. xi some of them takyng one Iohan for another and some two for one forwante of the afore seyde worke of Liuthprandus whiche wrote about the same verye tyme. ¶ Thre whores made Goddeses for whoredome AT Rome were iij. whores of name notable aboute the yeare of our lorde DCCCC and. xxx called Bezola Roza Stephana Whiche in all prodygyouse lecherye has bene brought vp there amonge the relygyouse Cardynalles Bysshoppes monkes priestes from their verye youthe As these whores came ones to the occupyenge of kynge Hugh he euer after abhorred hys other wyfe Berta a ladye most fayre and bewtyfull And for their connyng feates in that bawdye occupacyon he gaue them
vse wherupon by force of the former commyssion he was condempned of Dunstane to vij yeares penaunce and myght in no wyse be dyspensed with tyll he had buylded for their commodyte the great nondrye of Shaftesbury with xij other monasteryes besydes Specyallye tyll he had fullye graunted to the vtter condempnacion of priestes marryage through out al hys realme and fyrmelye promysed to put the monkes in their rowmes in the great cathedrall churches wrytynge to the pope for the same For as witnesseth both WylliaÌ„ of Malmesbury Ranulph of Chestre Guido de columna and Robert Fabiane he was not crowned tyll the. xij yeare of hys reigne ¶ Dunstane fashyoneth the kynge to his purpose IN the ende thys aduoutrye of the kynge made greatlye for their purpose For whan it was ones openlye knowne Dunstane with hys Bulle went by and by vnto hym and by force therof denounced hym accursed The kynge of gentylnesse as he was commynge towardes hym arose out of hys regall seate to take him by the hande and geue hym place The hystory sayth that he then dysdayned to geue hym his hande And lokynge vpon hym with bende browes and most spyghtfull countenauÌ„ce he sayd thus vnto hym Thou that hast not feared to corrupte a vyrgyne made handefast to Christ presumest to towche a knaue the consecrate handes of a byshop Thou hast defyled the spowse of thy maker a monkes whore and thynkest by flatterynge seruyce to pacyfye a thefe the frynde of the brydegrome No speake not of it Hys frynde wyll not I be O colour of dyssymulacion whiche hath Christ to enemy This sayd he to make hym beleue that she was a professed nonne But the craftye knaue lyed falsely and so mocked hys kynge to make of hym a very dysarde fole For the Chronycles all agre in a maner that she was no nonne but a weÌ„che soiornauÌ„t in the nondrye Thus when he founde hym well fauerdlye submytted and well brought vndre he put hym to hys penaunce and depryued hym of his crowne for the terme therof as afore is specifyed Vincencius Antoninus Guilhelmus Malmesburye Ranulphus Cestrensis Guido de columna et Ioannes Capgraue ¶ The wyles of the serpent preuayle THys craftye pageaunt was played of Dunstane to put all other inferrioure subiectes the more in feare to dysobeye the popes fylthye commyssion For whan the kynge was ones brought vndre as they are not ashamed to write it who durst hysse ther against For Wylliam of Malmesbury sayth Ranulphus allegete the same li. 6. Ca. 10. of hys Polichronicon That by thys meanes he aswaged the grudge of the great men the murmoure of the commoÌ„s and the malyce of the priestes O wylye serâ—â—ntes I trowe the deuyll of hell hys â—elfe can not go beyonde yow in subtylte and craft for your beastlye generacyon Whan thys victorye was ones gotten then went the priestes out by heapes froÌ„ the cathedrall churches and colleges with their wyues and chyldren and the monkes came in as fast with all prodygiouse lecherye but all their feates were done in theÌ„ darâ—e Than was it blowen abrode as all suche knaueryes must haue a pretensed coloure that priestes lyued wantonlye and woulde not serue God with suche lyke But they coulde not in those dayes accuse them so largely of occupienge other mennys wyues nor yet of abhominable sodometrye as they haue bene knowen of sens that constrayned fylthynesse ¶ Dunstane chefelye loued the frutes of aduoutrye IOhan Capgraue Vyncent and Antonyne reporteth in their wrytynges that thys aduouterouse chylde was Edwarde surnamed the martyr whom Dunstane toke for hys own as paraduenture he had iust cause or els for that he was hys Godfather Not wythstandynge dyuerse other auctours hold that Editha was that chyld But what matter maketh it whiche of them it was whan all they are allowed now for canonysed Sayntes in the Popes whoryshe churche Yea the whoremonger the whore the whoryshe bastarde and all to set whoryshnesse forewarde and make it appeare holye where marryage is thought vnholye And as for the mother of Edwarde IohaÌ„ Hardyng nameth her Elflede Polidorus Elfrede Wylliam of Malmesbury Ranulphe Fabiane calleth her whyght Egelflede and Caxton dare geue her no name and therfore the matter is doubtful As Dunstane was on a tyme hallowynge of a churche in the honoure of Saynt deuyl saynt Denis I should saye he beheld the ryght thombe of the foreseyd Edithe thaÌ„ beynge abbesse of Wylton as she was crossyng and blessynge her forhead And muche delyghtynge therin he toke it in hys hande and sayd Neuer myght this thombe peryshe Immedyatlye after he beynge at Masse and dolorouslye wepynge sayd vnto the deacon that serued hym Alas thys floryshynge floure wyll fade this redolent rose wyl be gone this dayntye Dyamonde wyll peryshe thys swete byrde wyll awaye for euer And after her deathe he founde all her bodye resolued into ashes except that thombe and the secrete part vnder her bellye for those ij partes of her he had blessed afore In dede he was verye homelye to serâ—he so farre But the cause of thys they saye she afterwarde declared vnto him in a secrete vysyon Thys story sheweth VuilliaÌ„ of Malmesburye li 2. de pontificibus Ranulphus in polichronico li. 6. Ca 9. Vincencius li. 25. Ca. 33. Antoninus par 2. li. 16. Ca. 8 Iohannes Capgraue in uita Edithe ¶ Kynges become the Beastes Images Whan Kynge Edgare had ones perfourmed his vij yeares penaunce for hys aduoutrye wyth fayre Wilfrith whom Dunstone paraueÌ„ture prepared for hys owne store he became altogyther the dumme Image of the Beast and myght not vttre from theÌ„s fourth but as they gaue hym sprete Apo. 13. Than caused they hym to call a generall counsell at London some saye in the yeare of our Lorde DCCCC and. lxix by the vngracyouse autoryte of the afore seyd pope Iohan. And there was yt fullye enacted and establyshed for a lawe euer to endure that all canons of cathedroll churches collygeners persons curates vycars prestes deacons and subdeacons shuld eyther lyue chast that ys to say become Sodomytes for that hath bene their chastyte euer sens or els be suspended from all spyrytuall iurisdiccion This more than Pharaonyâ—all constitucion was the King sworne to ayde maynteyne and defende wyth the materiall swerde by the popes autorite Than were there chosen oute ij principall visitours Ethelwolde the Byshopp of Wynchestre that nest is oft vngracyouse and Oswalde the Bishop of Worcestre both monkes to sâ— this through out the whole realme executed Vincencius li. 24. Cap 83. Antoninus par 2 ti 16. Cap. 6. Guilhelmus Malmesburye Ranulphus Guido de columna Ioan Capgraue opus nouum de utraque potestate â—o 57 ¶ Dunstane is accused of yll rule IN this counsell were some wise men as all these writers witnesse though it be sumwhat fayntly which layed
were sumtymes cast in the tethe that their conuersacyon was not accordynge to the Apostles lyuâ—s they made a mocke at it commenly excusynge themselues by thys hombly verse Nunc aliud tempus alij pro tempore mores Now is it an other maner of tyme than was than and requyreth a farre other fashyon of lyuynge Marianus Scotus Ranulphus lib. vi ca. xxiiij Pabianus par vi ca. ccxij Polydorus li. ix About the yeare of our lorde a M. and. lxxxij one Wyllyam byshopp of Durhan dyspossessed the prestes of the college or cathedrall church of Durham bycause of their wyues and placed the monkes there in their rowmes as witnesseth Polydorus li. ix Anglicae historiae as he had hearde that kynge Edgare had done long afore in the churche of Excestre Olyuer a monke of Malmesbury of some authours called Elmer was at the same tyme so we le seane in Necromancy that he couâ—de with wynges flye abroade and worke many wonders Ranulphus li. vi ca. xxviij Vincentius Nauclerus alij ☞ Saynt Freswydes and Westmynster sanctuary IN the yeare of our lorde a M. and lx was the church of S. Frideswyde in Oxforde gyuen vnto the moÌ„kes by the chast kynge Edwarde of whoÌ„ we haue spoken afore at the request of Pope Nycolas the. ij in recompence of hys pylgrymage that he vowed to Rome the prestes wyth their wyues dysplaced vtterly Yet was it afterwarde restored to them agayne by hys successour kynge Haralde whyche with other lyke matter agaynst our prelates cost hym parauenture hys lyfe the monastery at the last consumed with fyre Ioannes Capgraue in uita Pridesoâ—dâ—e This Romysh Antichrist Nycolas coÌ„stytuted kyng Edward hys vycar here in Englande bycause he was a chast vower that he and hys successours shuld se that hys sodometrouse chastyte were wele there maynteyned Moreouer he gaue fredome to the sanctwary of Westminstre for theues and for whores not only to be vnto them a place of refuge but also a sauegarde from ponnyshment for terme of their lyues Ioannes Capgraue in uita Edâ—uar di cum alijs autoribus O â—hostly founders of chastyte Thys great patryaeke of Sodome sent fourth Petrus Damianus a monke and Cardynall to preache S. Gregories Dyaloges agaynst marryed prestes For he afterwarde wrote a boke Antoninus sayth par ij â—i xvi ca. viij De direptione nuptiarum of the takynge awaye or vtter dyssoluynge of marryage Tritemius mencyoneth also that he wrote ij bokes agaynst marryed prestes one de incontinentia sacerdotum an other de clericorum uxoribus and. ij for the vnmarryed monkes the one called regula solitariorum the other de monachorum profectu ☞ Berengarius and the synode of Wynchestre MVche a do had Berengarius Turonensis the archediacon of Angew with the foreseyd Popet Nycolas for Christes naturall presence in the eucharisticall breade whych he had in opeÌ„ preachynge and disputacyon denyed callynge both hym hys masmongers pulpifices that is to saye fleshe makers in his boke de Eucharistia Truely not an holy churche sayth he haue the veryte proued that congregacyon but a malignaunt churche a counsel of vanyte and the very seate of Sathan Lanfrancus contra Berengarium Whych opynyon he afterward compelled hym to recant not by force of argument but by terrour of cruell threttenynges Notwithstandynge he returned agayne persystyng more stroÌ„ge than afore Anon after in the yeare of our lorde a M. and lxix in the generall synode at Wynchestre were many byshoppes and abbotes deposed by the legates of Pope Alexander the seconde for yll rule kepynge in bankettes of baudry Amonge whom Stigandus was one whych myserably dyed in preson Ricardus Diuisiensis Guilhelmus Malmesbu li. i. de pontificibus Ranulphus lib. vij ca. i. Fabianus Polydorus li ix Thys Alexander made a constytucyon generall that none shuld heare the masse of prest whych kept a concubyne vndre payne of excommunycacyon meanynge a marryed wyfe Gracianus monachus in uolumine decretorum VVernerus in fasciculo temporum Iacobus Bergomas Yet graunted he that prestes sonnes myght by the Apostles autoryte receyue holy orders whych includeth contradiccyon Idem Gracianus ☞ Lanfrancus and hys lowsye legerdemaynes A Yonge monke assystynge Lanfrancus the archebyshopp of Canterbury at hys masse not farre from the shryne of Dunstane beheld a swarme of deuyls and was sodenly possessed of one of them Anon he opened hys mouthe and vttered the good rule of hys lecherouse bretherne suche matters sayth the storye yea so abhomynable and fylthie as are not to be spoken Than were they all called to the chapterhowse where as it was amonge them decreed that all the holye bretherne shuld be shryueÌ„ of Lanfrancus Wherby they were anon so newe bournyshed that in their returne the deuyll had nothynge to laye agaynst them For the vertu of confessyon and absolucyon is suche they saye that it taketh from the â—euyll both hys wyttes and remembraunce that he hath no longar any power to accuse them Forget not thys workemanshypp but marke it wele So good was the foreseyd Dunstane they saye to thys Lanfrancus that iiij score yeares after hys death he taught hym how to recouer agayne the possessyons and landes pelfered awaye by the kynges from hys archebyshopryck He made open vnto hym if dead men maye speake the craftes of all hys enemyes and shewed good wayes to recouer at their handes to auoyde their cantels Ioannes Capgraue in uitis Dunstani Lanfranci Vincentius li. xxv ca. xxxvii Antoninus par ij ti xvi ca. x. The whyche Antoninus sayth that Lanfrancus played the same part agayne at Rome suche tyme as he impugned there the doctryne of Berengarius concernynge the sacrameÌ„t For the whyche lordely acte Pope Alexander gaue hym ij maÌ„tels or Legates robes one of honour an other of loue Ranulphus cum caeteris autoribus ☞ Byshoppes change their seates and tytles IN the dayes of kynge Wyllyam the bastarde the Popes baâ—tard byshoppes here in Englande changed their seates and tytles from the meane vyllages to the most famouse cities of the realme to apere more gloryouse in the reigne of their father Antichrist As from Dorcestre to Lyncolne froÌ„ Lychefelde to Westchestre from Thetforde to Norwych froÌ„ Shirborne to Salysbury from Wellys to Bathe from Kyrton to Excetur froÌ„ Selwey to Chychestre with such lyke And this was done some writers sayth in the yeare of our lorde a M. and lxviij by a decre of the Popes canons Ranulphus li. i. ca. lij Vndre the same kynge also a solempne othe and profession by writynge to the bastarde byshop of Rome was demauÌ„ded and taken by hys vycar Lanfrancus in the yeare of our lord a M. and lxix and so euer after continued from thens fourth A sore stryfe besell in the same selfe yeare betwyn these bastarde byshoppes specyally betwyn
though they had afore with all practyses possyble assysted hym to the same Wherupon grewe wonderfull commocyons in dyuerse quarters of the realme specyally at Norwych Helye and Yorke the great earles Raufe Roger and Waldeof aydyng the rude coÌ„mens in that rebellyon whyche prouoked hym to shewe double hatred to the Englysh nobilyte The next yeare folowyng as the earle Waldeof of NorthumberlaÌ„d was worthely depryued and at Wynchestre byheaded for the same Walkerus a lecherouse monke ambycyouse prelate not fyndynge hymselfe satisfyed with the ryche byshopryck of Durham bought thaÌ„ of the kynge that earledome to augment hys pompe possessyons and vayne gloryouse dygnite He brought thydre a swarme of ydell and lascyuyouse monkes out of other partyes thynkynge therby to be eueÌ„ with God and with their howlynge and wawlynge to pacyfie his anger what mischefe so euer he had done afore But se what folowed about v. yeares after For his outragyouse oppression and tyrannye the commens fell vpon hym and slewe both hym and an hundred of hys best meÌ„ Simeon Dunelmensis Henricus Huntendunensis Matthaeus Paris Rogerus houeden Thomas Rudborne alij ☞ The monkes dyspossesseth the prestes at Durham AFter hym succeded in the byshoprycke one Wyllyam an abbot a man of more wordes the story sayth than of godly wytt Thys prelate as Simeon wryteth in chronicis Dunelmà persuaded the kyng that the prestes of the church of Durham were vycyouse lyuers bycause they had wyues and wold not leaue them and that byshopp walkers monkes were the holye Ghostes chyldren most fytt to kepe S. Cutbert bicause they were wyuelesse watchemen He recyted vnto hym by the chronycle of Bede and by other olde writynges that from the tyme of Aidanus their first byshop tyll the vyoleÌ„t slaughter of the Danes it had bene possessed of monkes The kynge not muche regardynge the matter had hym consulte with Pope Hildebrande as he resorted vnto hym to Rome for hys confirmacyon as all bishoppes were than confirmed by the great Antichrist of that synnefull synagoge The whyche ones perfourmed to hys mynde he returned home with Hyldebrandes commyssyon And in the yeare of our Lorde a M. and lxxxiij obtaynynge therwith the whole consent of the prelates in the kynges parlemâ—nt at Westmynstre he droue the marryed canons their wyues out of hys cathedrall churche of Durham and placed ydell monkes in their rowmes to kepe Saint Cuthbertes shryne vniustly depryuynge them of all possessyon Rogerus houeden li. i. Polydorus li. ix Other prelates anon after ded wurke the lyke in dyuerse other quarters of the realme and fylled all the land with the secrete occupyenges of wycked Sodome and Gomor as wele apered in their last vysytacyon in our tyme the regestre yet remaynynge ☞ The vysyon of Boso and acte of Tostius chaplayne IOHAN Capgraue reporteth in Saint Cuthbertes lyfe that one Boso a knyghte was rapte or deprâ—â—ed of all maner of felynge by the space of more than two dayes And in the thyrde daye as he was commen agayne to hym selfe he instauntly desyred to be confessed to the pryour of Durham at the tyme called Turgotus to whome he declared what vysyons he had in that wonderfull traunce He behelde he sayd on the one syde of helle all the monkes of his abbeye goynge sadly in processyon on the other syde a sort of wanton gyglot wenches reioycinge in fleshely delyghtes and vncomely entycementes He sawe there also in a darke desolate place an hygh howse all of yron And whyls the dore therof oft tymes opened and speared agayne at the last he behelde Wyllyam their byshop which had bene HildebraÌ„des commissyoner puttynge forth hys heade callyng for Godfrey the monke whych was at that tyme the generall procurator of hys whole dyocese And thys was iudged a token that they two shulde not lyue longe after Se what noble successe thys decre of Hildebrande had here in thys realme The wyfe of Tostius sumtyme earle of Northumberlande called Iudith gaue many ryche ornamentes about the same tyme to S. Cuthbertes churche Thys lady bad a lusty chaplayne whych commyng of deuocyon to Tynmouth abbeye to se the translacyon of the body of S. Oswyne kyng martyr as martyrs went than could within the towne haue no lodgynge for the excedyng resort of people that than was there Howbeit vpon acquayntaunce he founde suche fauer that a bed was prepared for hym within the parrysh churche And bycause he thought it not pleasaunt to lye a loue he conuayed in a wenche in the darke to kepe hym company that nyghte But as he began to fall to hys accustomed nyght worke all the whole churche moued the story sayth as it wolde haue fallen vpon them Wherby he was than compelled to leaue hys occupyenge Ioannes Capgraue in uita Osvuini martyris ☞ The myracles of Lanfrancus the archebyshop LAnfrancus the archebyshop of Canterbury helde a synodall counsell at Paules in London in the yeare of our Lorde a M. and lxxvi Where as it was enacted by their coÌ„men consent that byshoppes from thens forth shuld sytt in counsels parlementes by lyke they stode on fote afore with cappe in hande that they shulde generally remoue their seates from the meane vyllages to the cyties of name as some had done afore to apere more notable and to augment their autoryte and fame Was not thys a great study thynke yow for the Christen commen welthe Thus clome they vp from one degre of pryde to an other tyll they bycame here in EnglaÌ„d lyke their father at Rome exaltynge themselues as S. Paule prophecyed of them aboue God and hys Christ ij Thes ij Thys Lanfrancus the next yeare after made one Paulus a yonge monke of Lane in Normandy the abbot of S. Albons This Paule was his nephew some saye hys sonne whych is all one amonge the Italyane prelates as he was one sauynge that nephew is a name more spirytuall Other great myracles thys LanfraÌ„cus ded in hys lattre age At Canterbury he enryched the monkes with great landes sumptuouse buyldynges and with precyouse ornamentes He repared their temples appoynted straunge worshyppynges He wonderfully augmented the pryde here of the clergye fynally buylded ij great hospytalles for pylgrymes to encreace the dayly ydolatryes whych thaÌ„ began to spryng Simeon Dunelmensis Matthaeus VVestmonast Matthaeus Paris Ranulphus CestreÌ„sis Rogerus Cestren Thomas rudborne Ioannes Capgraue Fabianus alij ☞ Of Osmunde the byshopp and of Salisbury vse OSmundus was a man of great aduenture polycye in hys tyme not only concernynge roberyes but also the slaughter of men in the warres of kyng Wyllyam coÌ„querour Whervpon he was first the grande captayne of Saye in Normandy afterwardes earle of Dorsett and also hygh chauncellour of Englande As Herman the byshop of Salisbury was dead he gaue ouer all and succeded hym in
playe the Pope in dede and how to become a full Antichrist in length and in bredthe in pryde and in all other vngodlynesse Loke Mathew Paris and Iohan Capgraue ☞ Anselmes good deuocyon and prayer for women RAnulphus and Treuisa sayth that whan thys Anselme was yet but a lowsye abbot in a certen counsell holden at Turon in Fraunce Pope Vrbane at hys instygacyon enacted it that the Iewysh sabbot shulde be altogyther turned to the seruyce of our ladye and that euery daye in the weke her mattens and houres shuld be sayd of all the whole clergye Wherin I wolde this poynt to be specyally marked of all my readers In the responde afore Te deum at mattens in the anteme after Magnificat at eueÌ„ songe was thys solempne petycyon both songe and sayde Ora pro populo Interueni pro clero Intercede pro deuoto foemineo sexu Praye for the people be a gracyouse meane for the clergye and make intercessyon for the deuoâ—te kynde of women It thys deuoute kynde had bene taken for the whole kynde of women it had neuer bene placed so nygh the 〈◊〉 But surely it was some 〈…〉 of women that they there 〈…〉 for And not only of them that gaue aultre clothes and towels waxe caÌ„dels and eches masse grotes and trentals but also of them that serued their other secrete nedes whan the naturall beates were importaâ—le Tush they neuer had hartes to do so great thynges and contynually for nought but a prouokynge cause there was in the waye Truly thys was a fryndly foundacyon of Anselme for prestly women though he were not very fryndely to their marryage as afterwarde shall apere What wurthie actes he ded in the other iij. counsels at Cleremount Baren and Rome the processe folowynge shall wele declare ☞ Hys crafty conueyaunce in those iij. counsels IN the yeare of our lorde a M. and xcvi Vrbâ—nus helde a generall couÌ„sell at Cleâ—emount in fraunce wheras by the subtyle persuasyons of Anselme he moued the Christen prynces to warre vpon the Turkes and Saracenes for the defence of Hierusalem and recouer of other noble cyties of the holy lande as they called it gyuynge them a crosse to fyght vndre And thys was chefely to occupye their ydell hâ—ades whyls they were practysynge and bryngynge to passe other matters for the full establyshement of Antychristes reygne Neuer was there suche a knauerye practysed vndre so precyouse a colour as was thys wynnynge of Hierusalem Marke it for the space of more than ij hondred yeares For vndre that they brought all their false packynges to passe demynyshed the temporal power wrought all their myschefes and made themselues ryche without measure The next yeare after to occupye the tyme was an other counsell holden at Baren in Apuita where Anselmus played the man dysputynge agaynst the Grekes for hauyng leuened breade in their communyon and for admyttynge the marryage of prestes though the chronicles name an other thynge For Sigebertus sayth that Nichetas a learned Greke and monke of CoÌ„stantynople had written a lytle afore de azimis Latinorum ac sacerdotum nuptijs of the vnleuened breade of the Latynes and the necessary wynyng of prestes against that blasphemyes of the byshop of Rome In the great synode at Rome the next yeare after that was the stallynge of prelâ—tes and admyttynge to benefyces clerely takeÌ„ awaye from the temporall rulers by the whose â— sent of that counsell at the importune callynge on of our Anselme all laye men beynge accursed that from thens forth shuld attempt it I tolde ye afore they wolde wurke wonders whan they were ones froÌ„ home that shulde haue coÌ„trouled their doynges Matthaeus Paris Rogerus houeden Radulphus de Diceto Thomas rudborne Ioannes Capgraue alij plures ☞ A wonderfull ouerthrowe of the temporall power SIgebertus Vincentius Mathew Paris and dyuerse other writers reporteth that in these iij. couÌ„sels they both renewed confirmed the wycked decrees of Pope Hildebrande Moreouer they enacted that the churche as they thaÌ„ called their shorlynges shuld be faythfull amonge themselues shuld outwardly professe a chastyte be clerely exempted from the laye powee They ordayned that byshoppes abbotes and prestes shulde in no wyse receyue any spirytuall promocyons of prynces or kynges neyther yet of any laye person but only of the Pope for moneye and that they shulde not medle with handy labours whyche they called worldly occupyenges but leade all theyr lyues in a slouthfull ydelnesse They appoynted the laye people to fast the lent their masmongers and shauelynges Septuagesime aduent rogacyon dayes and quater-temper and their whorysh orders only to be gyuen on their fastynge dayes They ordayned also that he which robbed a prelate shulde â—e outlawed and he that strake a prest shulde be accursed They decreed that kyndredes shuld not marry to the vij or viij degre in bloude in peyne of their great curse that laye men shulde bye no tythes that none shulde be chosen byshoppes vnlesse they were presteâ— or deacons afore neyther yet any prestes sonnes admytted to holy orders except â—hey had bene professed monkes All th◠〈◊〉 Mathew Paris li. ij historiae 〈…〉 bruynges had the Babylon buylders whyls the vndyscrete prynces of Christendome were fightynge for Hierusalem amonge the Turkes they kepyng their wyues warme tyll they came fole home agayne A conueyaunce was thys I thynke neuer any so wylye and subtyle afore ☞ Blasphemyes are vttered agaynst God and hys Christ. IN thys lattre counsell of Rome as in the closyng vp of the whole they went more sharpely to wurke than afore Simeon of Durham and Roger Houeden sayth in their chronycles For than they gaue open sentence of excommunycacyon vpon all laye persones what so euer they were that shulde from thens fourth exhybyte any spirytuall promocyons vpon them also that receyued them of their handes eyther yet shulde consecrate any suche receyuers Moreouer they accursed all them that for benefyces or other promocyons shulde serue any great man kynge prynce duke or earle of the layte For it was vnsemynge they sayd yea they called it a thynge very execrable and wycked that the handes whyche were conuerted into so hygh wurkynge as was graunted to no Angell that is to saye to create hym wyth their crossynges whyche created all o abhomynable Antichristes and to offer hym vp for mannys redempcyon whyche redemed all o theues and sowle murtherers vnsemynge it is saye they that their holy handes shulde be brought to suche a slauerye as to be subiect to those fylthye handes o hypocryte knaues whyche both daye and nyght are poluted wyth shamefull touchynges robberyes and bloude shede Thys was the closynge vp of that wycked counsell the prestes clappynge their handes for ioye Whyche turned all Christendome to a most heauye ruyne as hereafter wyll apere Simeon Dunelmensis libro secundo Rogerus Houeden libro primo Radulphus de Diceto Capgraue What
Abbotes deposed and prestes in Northfolke depryued IN this solempne counsell a great nombre of abbottes were deposed and dysgraded chefely these by name Guye the abbot afperscour Aldewyne the abbot of Ramseye Wymunde the abbot of Tauestoc Godryck the abbot of Peterburgh Haymo the abbot of Ceruel Agelryck the abbot of MydeltoÌ„ Richard the pryour of Hely Robert the abbot of S. Edmondes Bury the abbot of Mycelney the abbot of Stoke certen others I thynke it was for hauntyng of whores or for bandy rule kepynge For Simeon of Durham Radulphus Niger Roger Houeden Iohan Euersdene and other historyanes report that they lyued without all honestie Byshopp Herbert of Norwych had muche a do with the prestes of hys dyocese anon after this counsell For they wolde neyther leaue their wyues nor yet gyue ouer their benefyces Wherupon he wrote to Anselme the archebyshopp for counsell what was to be done therin Whyche Anselme requyred hym by writinge to persuade the people of Northfolke and Southfolke that as they professed a Christianite they shuld subdue them as rebelles agaynst the churche and vtterly dryue both them and their marryed wyues out of the contreye with rebukes and shame placynge monkes in their rowmes Loke the C. lxxvi epystle of Anselme This was the reuerence that the fallen starres had in those dayes of hypocrâ—sye to that holye ordynaunce of marryage whych God had prouyded for mannys naturall necessyte O subtyle Sodomytes how deuylyshely demented yow mennys eyes in that age that they ded not perceyue your wycked sorceryes ☞ The raylynge ryme of a folysh monke ABout the same tyme as malycyouse moÌ„ke or beast without all good learnynge made these folysh verses in dyspyght of the marryed prestes and set them vpon doores and postes to cause the people to abhorre theÌ„ for their marriages O male uiuentes uersus audite sequentes Vxores uestras quas odit summa potestas Linquite propter euÌ„ tenuit ê— morte trophaeuÌ„ Quod si non facitis inferni claustra petetis Christi spoÌ„sa iubet ne presbyterille ministret Qui tenet uxoreÌ„ domini quia perdit amorem Contradicentem fore dicimus insipientem Non exrancore loquor haec potius sed amore Ye prestes that lyue so naughtyly Heare these my verses by and by Your wyues forsake whome God doth hate For the lambes sake immaculate If ye do not ye shall to helle The spowse of Christ bad me so telle She wylleth no prest any masse to saye Whych hath a wyfe but that he decaye We call hym a fole that beleue not thus I speake not of hate by swete Iesus Thys founde I at Ramseye abbeye in a lyttle treatyse de monachatu Was it not good stuffe to confounde prestes marryage with Where founde thys raskal moÌ„ke that marryage was a naughty lyfe eyther yet that God euer hated the wyfe of a preste consyderynge that Abraham Aaron and Peter pleased their lorde God in marryage Who wolde for righteousnesse thretten helle but a fylthie Antichrist knaue Neuer was it Christes dere spowse that forbad the mynystracyon of a marryed mynyster but the sorcerouse synagoge of the deuyll They are godly wyse that withstande this hypocresy of SathaÌ„ and no foles though thys beastly fole so call them of a spyghtfull hate agaynst the veryte of the lorde ☞ The earnest resystaunce of Yorke dyocese GErarde the archebyshop of Yorke whan he was ones satled at home after the aforesayd great counsell laboured to sett that waye of wyckednesse in hys prouynce of Yorke that Anselme had planted afore hym in the prouynce of Canterbury For as the kynges had their regyons of God so had these sorcerers their sorted out prouynces of the tyrannt of Rome and wolde be aboue them within their owne nacyons as their wycked maistre wolde be aboue God in hys monarchycall meddelynges Whan thys Gerarde had begonne hys feates to depryue the prestes of their wyues not only ded they knytt hym vp with bytynge wordes but also they manfully reasoned argued and dysputed with hym And whan that wold not helpe they sharpely threttened hym and reuyled hym saynge if they myghte not by the newe statute holde wyues of their owne they wolde not spare the wyues of their neybers make what lawes they wolde Professyon of chastyte wolde they none make otherwyse than was their olde custome Neyther coulde he cause them by any persuasyon to take their newe orders whyche had none orders afore for doubt of the vowe annexed newly to them And muche a do he had with the archedeacons sonne whome for a certen summe of moneye he had made sure of hys fathers lyuynges afore hys dysseace Bicause it was done afore that great synode he wolde gladly haue dyssolued it but it wolde not so come to passe Loke the epystles of Anselme in the lattre ende ☞ An other Synode at London for Sodomytes IN the next yeare after thys great counsel at Westmynstre for prestes diuorcementes which was the yeare of our lorde a M.a. C. and. iij. rumours and complayntes were brought to Anselme that the lande was sore replenyshed with the execrable vyce of Sodometry sens the clergye was inhybyted marryage Thus entered in thys plage here with the wyckednesse of the Romanes for our vnbeleues sake as S. Paule afore prophecyed Roman i. Than was Anselme compelled to call an other counsell at Paules within London where as he specyally enacted it amonge other matters that euery sondaye in the yeare the Sodomytes shulde be pronounced excommunycate Ranulphus Rogerus Treuisa He ordayned also that no cattell shulde be sold that daye to seme to sytt vpon other matters so wele ae vpon that sumwhat to shadowe the filthienesse of his masmoÌ„gers Wilye wer the wurkers in that wicked generacioÌ„ to blind so the syght of the simple The acte for Sodometrye was this Sodomiticum flagitium facientes eos in hac uoluntate inuaÌ„tes graui anathemate damnamus donec poenitentia confessione absolutionem mercantur Wyth a greuouse curse we condempne both them that occupye the vngracyouse vyce of sodometrye and them also that wyllyngly assyst them or be wycked doars with them in the same tyll suche tyme as they maye deserue absolucyon by penaunce and confessyon Is not here thynke yow good matter and relygyously handeled Wher was the learnynge of the lorde yea where were godly gouernours in thys wycked age Oh that the people of God shulde be ledde by such helhoundes and theues as these sodometrouse shauelynges were ☞ A generall curse agaynst Buggerers NOw foloweth the rest of thys acte marke it good reader thou shalt beholde these holy canonysed deuyls in their owne ryght colours Qui uero in hoc crimine publicatus suerit statutum est siquidem fuerit persona religiosi ordinis ut ad nullum amplius gradum promoueatur si quem habet ab illo deponatur Si autem
not thought in those dayes holye though it were of God He tombled all naked among bryres and thornes He wore sumtyme a shyrte of heare and sumtyme a coote of mayle nexte hys skynne Of barelles he made wythin hys own chapell a welle wherin he stode to the chynne in the tyme of hys heates For in the night alwaies was he most greuously teÌ„pted with she deuyls But one of them transfourmed into an he deuyll turned vp hys brode bumme if deuils haue buttockes made suche a shewe there as I am ashamed to wryte He that hath deuocyon to knowe the whole storye lete hym resorte to the holye legende of hys lyfe that was wont to be redde vpon hys feastfull dayes wyth no small deuocyon Thys deuyll hadde a nombre of yonge deuils folowing hym lyke pratye blacke boyes wyth shauen crownes and I thynke he was the great abbot of our votaryes So was S. Godrycke terryfyed wyth this lecherouse deuyll that all the heares of hys holye bodye the legende saith stode vp lyke sowes brystles Suche men as hadde barren wiues complayned to thys holye Godrick and he made them frutefull by tyenge hyâ— gyrdle aboute them Thys fat carle and fowle fornycatoure the storye sayth dyed at Fynkale in the yeare of oure lorde a. M. a. C. and. lxx doynge more than CC. and. xxviii myracles wythin fewe yeares and was made a saynte wyth Thomas Becket Loke Iohan Capgraue ☞ A counsell at Rome agaynste Buggerers THe buggerye of prestes and relygyouse prelates was in that age so noysed abrode and complayned of that in the yeare of our lorde a. M. a. C lxxix Pope Alexandre was compelled to call a generall counsell at Rome of CCC and. x. byshoppes Where as he ordeyned agayne that prestes in anye wyse shulde lyue chaste And if it chaunced anye of theÌ„ to be found a buggerer as they were none other but sodoâ—ytes and whoremongers all the packe he shuld be fyrste excoÌ„munycated and than hydden from the syghte of the people tyll suche tyme as they dyspensed wyth hym Here was a sore ponnyshemeÌ„te for so horryble a myschefe but that they sumwhat teÌ„dered them selues in the same as occupyers in one arte He ordeyned also that archebyshoppes shulde ryde in vysytacyons wyth no more than halfe an hondred horses byshoppes wyth xxx legates wyth xxv archedeacons wyth vij and deanes wyth ij sequestrynge all ecclesyastycall persones from the iudgementes of the laye magistrates For by that tyme had they gotten of king Henry the second a ful reuocacion of â—egal customes a coÌ„firmacioÌ„ of the churches liberties that they might frely appeale to the pope against all powers that no clarke shuld be brought afor a lay iudg for no maner of wickednesse that he whiche strake a priest shulde be alwayâ—s ponnyshed at the byshoppes pleasure Matthaeus Paris Matthaeus VVesâ—monasteriensiâ— â–ª About this tyme were the seâ—ular canâ—â—â— remoued from Waltham by this Popes autoryte bicause some of them had wyues and regular chanons whyche were men without wyues vnlesse they were other mennys placed in their rowmes the kynge of gentylnesse recompensynge Guye the deane certen other of those canoÌ„s an other way Radulphus de Diceto Rogerus Houeden Ranulphus Treuisa Ioannnes Euersden ☞ Notable sentences of a learned man in thys age IOhan Salisbury a chaplayne first of the court and afterwardes byshop of Carnote in Fraunce beyng a man exercysed in all kyndes of good lyterature and perceyuynge abuses intollerable dayly to encrease in the clergye with very sharpe rebukes as with fyerye dartes oft touched them both in his famylyar epistles and also in hys great wurke called Polycraticon In the Rome church sayth he sytteth the scrybes and the pharysees and vpon mennys shulders they laye burdens importable The great byshop ther is greuouse to all men and scant to be suffered of any man Hys legates are so furyouse and ragynge mad that a man wolde thynke as they steppe foewardes that Sathan were sent from the face of God to flagelle the churche They noye where they go and therin are they lyke to the deuyll Ryght iudgemâ—â—â— with them is none other than an open byenge and sellynge Gayne take they for godlynesse the gatherynge of goodes for most high religion For moneye they iustifye the wicked and ouerloade the afflicted consciences They decke their tables with golde syluer and reioyce in thynges which are most wycked They eate the synnes of the people are clothed with the same Yea they diuersly abuse themselues in lykynges of the fleshe whyls the true worshippers worshyp God their heauenly father in sprete and veryte He that in any poynt dyssenteth from their doctryne is eyther iudged an heretyke or a scysmatike Christ therfore of mercye in this age shewe hymselfe and teache vs what waye we maye walke a right to his pleasure with manye suche other clauses Ex lib. v. cap. xvi ex li. vi ca. xxiiij Polycratici ☞ The insacyable glottonye of Benettes monkes GIraldus Cambrensis reporteth in hys wurthye wurke called SpeculuÌ„ ecclesiae li ij ca. iij. that as kyng HeÌ„ry the seconde was huntynge at Gildeforde the pryour of S. Swithunes of Wynchestre and. xiij of hys monkes fell down vpoÌ„ their knees afore him iâ— the â—apre and with wepynge teares complayned that Richarde More their bishop had demynyshed their face of iij. dishes at euery meale whyche their founders had allowed them for the maintenaunce of Gods seruyce The kynge demaunded of them how many remayned They answered but. x. only where as afore of custome they had xiij contynuynge from the dayes of S. Swythune to that present With that the kynge called hys lordes vnto him and swore as hys fashyon was By the eyes of God quoth he I iudged of these monkes that their howse had bene brent or that some other yll chaunce had fallen vnto them And now I perceyue their matter is none other but that their byshop hath shortened them of their bellye chere If their bishopp do not by theÌ„ as I whiche am their king do by my court that is to saye brynge them to iij. dyshes I praye God he be hanged Than sayd the monkes Thys request of ours is chefely to refreshe the poore therby No sayd the kynge it is rather to pamper your glottonouse mawes whiche neuer are satisfyed The poore maye otherwyse and in more honest ordre be prouyded for than to rede of your so glottonouse leauynges to the publyque slaundre of Christianyte A lyke storye he sheweth of the monkâ—â— of Christes church at Canterbury whyche were serued with xvi dyshâ—s euery daye and of other more He 〈◊〉 that the cattell whyche was th◠〈◊〉 fed were as raâ—â—e as stoned horses and as vnable to perfouâ—me their vowe of chastyte as euer were they Sancti ordinis professores de ferculorum numerositate contendunt sayth Petrus Blesensis vpon
beast To worshyp the first Beast Hildericus Pipinê° Kyngdomes traÌ„slated antichrist Apo. xiij Alderbertus Claudiê° Errours doctrine Canonistes Rome Open sale of whores Ethelbaldus Colfredus Osredus geraldus geilepus Fulda 744. Lieba Monasterium fuldeÌ„se Floriacus 651. To ease their vowes Oxford Frideswyde A king Alcuinus Autoures Ethelwolphus Penitentes at Rome Syt in the consâ—â—ences The Rome shott Hospytall Fulda Gilberta A womâ— pope 854. Pryde hath a fall An whore Popes chosen by their stones An exaÌ„ple Fulda Matrimony coÌ„deÌ„pned 858. A prest Holy water 875. Gabriel A boke of xij chapters Diuerse Gabriels Odulphus Fredericus Clarus The Danes Coldyngham Elphegus Ghostly fathers CoÌ„teÌ„cioÌ„ Egelricus a married prest Marriage conteÌ„pned A married prest ethelstâ—nus a monke maryed A miracle Elpe Brithgida Wilfhilda Odo 946. Floriaâ—us The kinges concubines Cinstitucions Oswalde Floriacus The sacrameÌ„t Miracles DuÌ„stanus magnus musyck sorcerye Carniâ—ge autours A caste or feate Ethelstanus Athelmus Elphegus a moÌ„kes cowle Hypocrytes Edmondus rex DuÌ„stanes deuil worketh homely Playe tyme I trowe GlasteÌ„burye Edwinus alfgina Odo caÌ„tuariensis CoÌ„fession Masse of requiem Alfgina loueth Stronge loue Cadina loueth Edwinê° rex The coÌ„mens ryse iij. swerdes Maryed priestes Apoc. 9. Hiere 5. Rome chastite 907 Sergius Marosia Formosus TyraÌ„ny Autours Theoracum filiabus Ioannes raueÌ„nas Ioan ye. x 915. whores rule all Guido Mazozia 929. IoaÌ„ xi hugo rex Italie Leo et Stephanus Writers deceiued iij. whores 930 Hugo rex Goddeses for Whoredom spiritual chastite Albericê° Octauianus 956. Ioan. xij Synodê° Rome Rainera Anna. Rome sacrifice he might be chast Their spiritual father Ioan. xij LiuthpraÌ„dus Byworde 960. Dunstanus The first compulsion Foundacion of chastite The deuyls coÌ„myssyoner A thefe A tirauÌ„t Kynge Edgare Tiranny spiritual mariage condemned Facies ecclesiarum Heretikes and theues wilfrith penauÌ„ce An apyshe slaue The beastes autorite A proude knaue No king but a fole A witles Beast Practyse Craft Priestes go out A colour Edward Editha Al sayntes The mother duÌ„stane Editha Great loue shewed A narrow sercher Edgare Image Bestie sinodus 969 An Acte for sodome TiraÌ„ny Visitours For mariage Bulles Dunstane accused Edgare alfreda Oratio ad clersi knauery A deuilish Illusion wolues Act. 20. Cant. 2. Monasteries Ethelwoldus impostor magus Heretykes a colour a father Ioan. 13 Stephana Oswaldus magus Floriacus Prestes expelled Apoc. 9. a colour iij false knaues 975 Scisms Alpherus Ethelredus Edwardus legatus Ioan. 13 a father A deceyt Alpherus Prestes restored The prestes The moÌ„kes A crosse in mariage Backare sir monke 975. sinodus coÌ„missioÌ„ A roode knauery The rood speaketh 1 IoaÌ„ 4 thomas croÌ„well Verses Capgraue 1036 Canutus The crowne Egelnothus An Idol made king Image of the Beast canutus Elgiua Claustrall chastite A monkes bastarde Sweno Heraldus Dunstanus knauery Alpherus 976 a lerned Bishop Dunstane an asse A blind beast a limme of the deuill Mich. 3 sayntes Gods seruyce Precursor Antichristi Apo. 20. miracles the churche Apo. 12. Sathan Vyces 988 Deuils A bloudye cloude Danes Siricius MoÌ„kes were Englandes destruccioÌ„ The Danes streÌ„thened Lorde Dane 1012 Caunterburye Elphegus Tythynges A iust Plage Extent of thys boke The other boke 1551. Sathan at large Good workes Sodomites Mat. â— Mar. iiij Luc. 12. Christ to buketh Mat. 23. Vespasianus Titus Captyues ExaÌ„ple Magystrates Englysh Saintes The Autour Starres Fallen starres Holye dayes Peter Paule secular laye Called Startsmen Tayles whores â–ª Face of the Seâ—pent Dunstanes deuil Noble men Kynge Henry Saynt George What maketh noble Lawes Doctrine Deuyls ij part A dogge False teachers Romanes Nahor Cechim Romulus Ilia Rhea Lupa Lupanaria Chloris Floralia Spurij Priapus A God Romysh goodes Iulius Nero. Aurelius Clergy Constantinus TeÌ„ples ij soÌ„nes Emperour French kynge Childericus Angisus Pipinus TeÌ„ples Olympus Whores Aristotle Simon Magus Bishoppes Sergius Rome Sodomytes Roma Papistes Examples Adam Holy churche The author tarryed Ghostly fruytes Doctryne Sathan 1000. Syluester ij Darkenesse Saturnus Chastite 1000. Saturnus Vesta Aurelius Palumbus An offerynge Syluestre Apo. xx Dyscyples Fathers Sorcerers Two prynces Necromaâ—cy Oblacyon Prynces Promocyons Papacy 1001. IooÌ„nes Baconthorpe Decrees Empyre 1002. Germanes Yongar sonne Electours 1002. Chauncellers Princes Pyllars The Egle. An ydol Odilo abbas 1010. Purgatory Osbernus 1010. Hypocresy Phylosophy Sodome A prest 1010. A weÌ„che Deuyls Wilfhilda Barkinge Good chere Ethelgarus Siricius 990. Elphegus 1010. ij deuils Their power A cowle The vertue Hypocrytes S. 〈◊〉 The water S. Walstane 1016. Capgraue meÌ„bers 1017. A starre Canutus Abbeyeâ— Rome shott Bastardes Fulbertus Gene sucke A church O traytours O caytyfes For Idolatry Bury abbey 925. 1021. 1036. A chaplayne Coueyaunce Promocyons All holy A nonne As a wyfe A prest Saye Masse Whoredom Alwinus 1044 Emma Danysh bloude A traytour Myracles An ydyote Edward Marryage Legenda Blasphemy S. Paul Errour Testymonyes Editha Hypocrytes Examples Subieccyon A voyce Straungers Prelates Lubbers Newe sayntes Gregory 1046 Cardynalles Swauus 1049 Penaunce Palumbus Deuyls Members A wytch Masses Holy churche 1053. Wenches Victor 1056. Poyson ChristiaÌ„ O trayters Hypocresy Duke Robert Brotheis A bastarde Autores Stigandus 1054. A Byshopp Versus 1082. WyllyaÌ„ Olyuer 1060. Edward Nicolas Westminster Petrus Damianus Berengarius Churche 1069. Wynchestre Alexander A prouiso Lanfrancus A counsell Confession Dunstanus Dead men Lanfrancus Bishopryckes 1068. An othe 1069. A stryfe Lanfrancus Canterbury Walter 1070 A weÌ„che Ouercome A practyse Cecilia 1075. Thurstinus 1083. A battayle ij slayne CoÌ„meÌ„s HildebraÌ„dus Dyscyples Aduersary vij Popes poysened A murtherer Practyses A traytour Deuyls A traytour God stryketh Myschefe ij cantels Sorcerer God brent Autores 1074 Depryued ExaÌ„ples TyrauÌ„t Autoreâ— Cestes Scysme Seducers Maude An whore A crafte Resystaunce Sathan Marryage Angels Vycar Holy church Warnynge Wytnesses Prouysyons Prestes TyraÌ„ny A bulle Masses Preposterously Deceyuers 1075. ConteÌ„pt Antichrist WyllyaÌ„ 1075. RebellioÌ„ 1076 Walker Satisfactyon 1080. DurhaÌ„ Reason Confirmed 1083. Kepers Boso Turgotus VysyoÌ„s A token Pylgrymage Prestlyke 1076. Prydee 1077. A bastard Lanfrancus A warryour 1077 Blasphemer 1083. Osmundus Canonysed 1087. KeÌ„redus Exempcyon Nobylyte Roberyes Styngers Anselme Wyues 1097. Tribute 1090. Styngers Walkinus Walterus Tryall Warnynge 1095. Starres The place A chaÌ„ge Mark it symony 1092. A lechour Spretes 1093. Reward Chestre Herbert 1091. 1094 No merchaunt 1095. 1096 Testymonyes Norwych A monstre Money Symoners A deuyll Simon Richard Peche Ethelwolf A bishop 803 A bastard Wulstane Louers to blesse A fable Wolstone Hardinâ— Cisteanes 1098. 1135. Sectes fasciculus 1000. Sorceryes 1094 1100. 1096 Realyte Paulus Deceyuers 1094 Anselme Kynge WyllyaÌ„ Vycars Anselme Spyes 1095. Falsehede A traytour A SathaÌ„ A rebell A search Suggestyon 1089 PetycioÌ„ women Fryndly 1096 Practyses 1097 Nichetas 1098 woÌ„ders CouÌ„sels for lucre Actes MoÌ„kes Make spede A curse o deuils Blasphemy A mouth Sorceryes A seate EnglaÌ„de A pope 1099 A sonne A fable Raylers 1101. Yll chauÌ„ge No faulte Iudgementes A practyse Lyke a kyng RaÌ„dolfe Practise 1101 ij Thomas Gerard. 1114. doctrine 1102. Marryage Sodometrye marke it Actes ExeÌ„pt Chast professioÌ„ Al a like Iniunctyons Shamed Forfaytes Buggerers 1539. Abbotes For whores Herbert Anselme A iestar BabyloÌ„ Monkelyke Good stuffe Antichrist Gerard. Wyues for lucre 1103. a synode An acte Sodomytes Saintes An acte Laye prest Publyshed Conueyaunce TeÌ„derly Practise Buggerers WyllyaÌ„ A rope Hypocryte A crafte No not so A stryfe Lawful Anselme to Rome Warelwast Paschalis Antichrist Richard restored From Rome Knaueryes subtylte Systers 6. An ordre RelygioÌ„ lyke MerchauÌ„tes Secular A questyon O traytours 1106. Antichrist Deceyt 1112. Breches A couÌ„sel An excuse Barnes Kynge Henry 1107. A couÌ„sel Anselme O traytour A Pope 1108. Women Wytnesses Antichristes Papystes 1109. A Pope wurkes A wolfe 1110. Tritemius iij. bastardes Dyuynyte Baconthorpe 1113. Raufe 1115. The crowne Authours Calixtus 1119. 1123 Scripturs 1123 1102. 1115 Wiues 1120 Lordes Ladies writers A plage Bastard Celsus No vowe Eckius ReuereÌ„d 1120. Irel â— 1125. A legate Bagges SenteÌ„ce A verse Cardynall Secrete Vnfytt Ashamed 1129. Processe Lucre. A craft Wyues Sectes CisteaÌ„s S. Robert Charterers Locustes Fatte 1135. Steuen A vowe Customes Mark it A plage 1036. Prelates A helpe A sinode Accursed 1137. TurstaÌ„ Prelates Heretykes 1138. No wife 1140. Mark it Wyttes Define Plato Wysdome 1140. Dauid 1140 Decrees Petrus Esse To darken 1144. Wulwarde Goodwyn Marryage 1545. Corbet Rugge Men godly mockers A mother Examynacyon No shame doctrine I. Bale 1148. terrour Crabbes Dyscouered Autores Nicolas A moÌ„ke Salisbury All true 1159. S. Willyam Poysened Spirituall Yorke 1154. 1159. 1155. No better Becket rebukes Gylbert A ordre 1148. Rules 1159. WaÌ„ton Nigellus Gilbertynes Hefled Returned whores 1153. A shyfte Nigellus ij sortes Hypocresy Theues Mark it all voyd Nigellus Fruitfull Malcolme A kynge Maior 1163. Water 1160. Calfes Fame Antichrist writers Tolouse Becket A ruflar pleasure a weÌ„che for loue All chast Change 1164. Prestes AddicyoÌ„ An acte A preste Vndre Becket Autour articles Cursed No king Clarkes 1164. a church Christyanes Monkery Opynyons 1171. franrick Idolatrye A deuyll Defeccyon Miracles Bokes 1173. Assoiled 1220. A rebell Henry ij 1166. 1168. 1169. Errour 1171. 1188. Barnes 1176. A priour Alphege Bakon the soÌ„ne ExaÌ„ples Prestes successe Curates Eckius Pedlar Heates Water LegeÌ„de Geares 1170. 1179. Sequestred Ryders Pryuyleges WalthaÌ„ 1120 BurdeÌ„s Lucre. Dissent 1187. Dyshes Bellye PaÌ„per Dyshes A priour Conueyaunce Two priours Abroade 1086. prisoner A thefe ij orders They serue 1312. 1186. 1187. mockers 1187. Pleasure 1189. miracle DurhaÌ„ Longe lyfe autours Giraldus A moÌ„ke A falle Drowned Canterbury 1101. Giraldus Autores Stryses Wiles 1191. A rular a votary Accomptes Disgysed A sowster A monstre A preste A playe Depryued Meueâ— 1197. A frynd 1191 Antichrist Ioachim prelates Argumentes 1191. Defend Antichrist Mark it o Inciset 1192 Charite Nouant Contencion 1198. Hubert 1196. Poyson Studye Sisions Iohan. Warryres A chaunter Canons CoÌ„timae 1197. Hypocrite Husbandes Fulco Thre howses 1198. Legion 1196. WomeÌ„ 1198. coÌ„secrat Baldewyn Prestes apostles 1199. Occupied Discressyon A boke Actes Yeares Sathan no stop Hydden Mistes Lighte Autour iiij paroes coÌ„tentes The last Diuerse Craftes ij offices the firste Wiues oportet Wretches women Buggerers The. ij Autorite Deceyt o SathaÌ„ Mockers Traytours Curses An hidre Fauer Traytours rebelles Blasphemers Deceyuers ij matters Verlettes Simon Magus Iudge