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A61733	The life and gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chancellor of England extracted out of the authentique records of his canonization as to the maine part, anonymus, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, Harpsfeld, and others / collected by R.S., S.I.	Strange, Richard, 1611-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5810; ESTC R14349	107,722	368

we must so commend this as to leaue the other in its due reuerence and esteem To come now to our B. S. THOMAS his father was William Lord CANTILVPE a person for his worth and greatnes often mentioned in the English History and Records of Heralds The father of this Lord was also another william who ioyntly with his Sonn stood euer firme in the Barons Warrs to both the Kings whose fauovr in employments of highest trust and honour they well deserued Though as a knowne Historian of those Matt. Paris times affirmes theyr family receiud not so iust a measure as theyr meritt requird Yett the father of our Saint bore no less a charge in court then that of great Master or Lord steward of the kings house Which as in other kingdoms so in this of England was euer esteemd of chief fauour and dignity being the eye and hand of the king not onely at a distance and in absence but commanding all in his very presence and in a manner seated vpon the same throne Neyther was this honour or whatsoeuer else they receiud from theyr soueraigns aboue the rank of theyr birth and quality The Cantilupes or Cantelowes vulgarly so calld from the originall Champ de Loup or Campus Lup● were a noble family of speciall note and eminency among those braue Aduenturers who-followd the Norman conquerour in his enterprize of our English Monarchy and purchasd him that crowne with the hazard of theyr liues and fortunes And as they brought with them a fayre inheritance of estate and honour so still continud theyr course with successiue increase as great riuers the further they goe the more they dilate themselues with the reception of other streames The Heyres generall of the Strong-bowes and Marshalls Earles of Pembroke of the Fitz Walters Earles of Hereford of the Breoses or Breuses Lords of Abergauenny left theyr estates and greatnes by right of marriage vnto the Cantelupes Such being the Paternall line of S. THOMAS and his father a person of so high command and creditt the king vpon an exigence being to make a voyage into france could not think of a more powerfull and faythfull hand beyond all exception and enuy to intrust with his crowne and kingdome then VVilliam Cantelupe it was an equall and happy match between this Lord and the Lady Millescenta countess of Eureux and Glocester Mother of our Saint She was daughter of Hugh lord Gournay and the Lady Iuliana sister to Reginald Earle of Dammartin and Boulogne The Gournay's were of the prime nobility of Normandy neerly allyd to the soueraigne Dukes of that country and as neer to our gloirous and blessed King Edward the Confessour The counts of Dammartin were of an inllustrious family in france matchd with the greatest Princes of Europe And this Reginald vncle to the Lady Millescent in right of his wife lda grandchild to Stephen king of England became Earle of Boulogne which title he trāsferrd againe with his daughter Matilde marry'd vnto Philipp Earle of Clermont onely brother to Lewis the 8. king of france and vncle to S. Lewis This the allyance and desent of that noble Lady She was first marry'd to Almerick Montfort Earle of Eureux in Normandy as also of Glocester in right of his mother Mabelle eldest daughter heyre to william Earle of Glocester Grandchild to Henry the first king of England This Almerick being head of that illustrious family of the Mōtforts descended from Robert surnam'd the Pious king of france and dying without issue was the last of that race in Normandy leauing his noble and vertuous Confort the Lady Millescente to be blessd with a happyer and more fruitfull marriage especially in this her sonn who alone illustrated that renownd family with more honour then all the greatnes and titles of theyr famous Ancestres III. CHAPTER Of his Childhood and domestique Education TO looke into the infancy or Childhood of Saints may seeme as little pertinent to theyr meritt as to the glory of God that part of the life of man being Commonly held for a meer Prologue or dumb show before a tragedy of miseryes a dreame or slumber before the soule awake to the light of reason a state of Neutrality betwixt man and beast as vncapable of prayse as blame and onely happy in this that it is vnsensible of all vnhappynes Yett experience and reason teaches vs that this twylight of life is not so dark but that we may read sundry characters though written in a small letter by the hand of God This mute part of the age of man is not so speechless but that it fore-tells vs much of what will follow In fine euen childhood it self hath not so little of the man but that it is capable of deep impressions both of grace and reason as the louely and sweet variety of colours in many flowers receiue theyr first tincture in the very root and the value of Pearles depends much vpon the first dropps of dewe which falls into the shell when thy are newly engendred That the divine Prouidence hath a speciall eye vpon the infancy of man is an vndenyable truth both in humane and diuine history neyther doth this onely consist in certaine prodigyes and dedemonstrations of a power aboue the reach of nature but also and that most vsually in a particular fauour and protection of the diuine hand by connaturall meanes of Education and other circumstances to with draw from euill and lead to vertue The whole sequele of our S. THOMAS his life clearly shewes how highly he was priuiledg'd with both these blessings from heauen A nature he had eleuated aboue the Common strayn a minde full of generous heat and vigour euer tending to a higher sphere like a fire without smoke or mixture of grosser elements which mett with soe noble a temperature of body that though of a prosperous and liuely habitude he neuer knew in his whole life what any thing meant which was not agreeable with the purity of Angells He the first fruit of that happy marriage was borne at a Mannour of his fathers in Lincolnshyre Hameldone by name where he alsoe receiud the Sacrament of Baptisme regenerated therby to the pretious adoption of the Children of God In memory wherof Edmund Earle of Cornwall sonn to Richard once king of the Romans and a great admirer of out saints perfections built there an Oratory to the honour of God and his in the which Oratory our Lord is sayd te haue wrought frequent Miracles by the intercession of the same saint Besydes him his Parents were blessd with a numerous offspring of 3. Sonns and 3. daughters which like so many young Oliues enuironnd theyr table to theyr great loy and the latter were all bestowd in an honorable wed-lock To cultiuate duely these hopefull endowments both of nature and grace by a Good education was the care and endeauour of his pious Parents who as in his infancy they had prouided him of vertuous Nurse the Process of his

had of his sanctity were esteemd for such In the present circumstances that could not be conueniently done but care was thus farr taken that the bones being separated from the fleshy parts they togeather with his head and hart were transported into England and deposited as a most pretious treasure in the Church of Hereford These were receiu'd with much Deuotion by the people who went forth togeather with the Chapter and Clergy to meet them and were enshrynd in the Chapell of our B. Lady in the same Cathedrall that they might repose in her bosome after death to whome liuing and dying he was so singularly deuoted and where could his hart rest better then in her hands to whose honour he had sacrific'd both hart and hands Among others whome eyther deuotion or curiosity mou'd to meet this wellcome pledge one was Gilbert Lord Clare Earle of Glocester betwixt whome and our Saint as we insinuated heertofore there was no good vnderstanding vpon the account of some lands which the Earle detaynd and the Saint claymd as due to his Church and recouerd from him by force of law with much both cost and paynes He now approaching to the sacred pledge it was very remarkable and lookd on as a Miracle by all the Company that the dry Bones in his presence begann to bleed a fresh and in such a quantity that he and all might see the Cask in which they were carryd imbru'd with the same The Earle much amazd heerat was struck with compunction and acknowledging his fault made a full restitution of all to the Church expiating by pennance what he had rashly committed as the onely way to make the best of an ill bargaine In the retinue of the deceasd Bishop the chief mannager of affayres was Richard Swinfield his Secretary first in autority aboue the rest he was a Priest of great parts and vertuous conuersation for which he was afterwards promoted to succeed in that vacant See and in process of time chief sollicitour and informer in order to the Saints Canonization To him as such belongd the charge of conueying the Sacred Depositum and he tells vs in his deposition before the Commissaryes Apostolicall what happend to himselfe the night before he with it arriu'd at Hereford To the end all things might be the next morning in a better readynes he cast his journey so as to lodge with his Company that night in a village 2. miles distant from the Citty where weary with journeying and going late to bed he ouersleept himselfe beyond his time the next morning His chamber was remote from all Company and so high that without a ladder there was no access to the windowes and yett 3. knocks were giuen as with the knuckle of a bended fingar on the same and soloud that they seru'd for an alarme to awake and tell him it was time to rise And in that sense he vnderstood them and ther vpon calld vpp his Company concluding with-in himselfe that this was a fauour done him by the Saint towards the pursuit and furtherance of what they had in hand to witt the solemne Reception and placing of the same bones And what indeed could it be else synce humanely speaking no body without a ladder could come there and looking curiously about he saw there was none therfore he ascribd it to the meritts of the Saint and very thankfull for such an extraordinary fauour to his honour he recorded it to posterity making thence a conjecture that this piece of seruice the conueyance of his bones was acceptable to him synce he had bin pleasd to giue it such an vnusuall concurrence While S. THOMAS was yett aliue no body seemd to carry a greater respect and Veneration for his sanctity then Edmund Earle of Cornwall Sonn to Richard King of the Romans He it was that inuited the Saint to keep his Whitsontyde with him at his Castle of Wallingford where whilst he sung the „ Veni Creator Spriritus the strange Miracle of the birds happend which we shall relate heer after in the 23. Chapter Howeuer it was procurd this great Deuotist made meanes to gett his Hart a treasure he esteemd aboue any iewells and to testify this esteem thought he could not honour it sufficiently any other way then by enclosing it in a most costly shryne togeather with a parcell of our Bl. Sauiours Blood and founding a Monastery of Bons-Hommes at Ashridg in Buckingham shyre to its honour where it might be dayly and duely venerated to the praise and glory of Alm. God who had raisd his Seruant to such an eminency of perfection This deuout Earle had such a Confidence in his patronage and intercession that he was wont to profess he had not greater in those of our glorious Apostle S. Austin XIX CHAPTER The Translation of his H. Bones into a more eminent place THe neer approach of the most wellcome Treasure being knowne at Hereford stirrd vpp the Cittizens both Ecclesiastiques and laymen to ioyne as we sayd in a solemne Procession to fetch it in so shewing by theyr Veneration to the dead how much respect they had for him aliue and how deeply they ressented theyr incomparable loss It was done with as much splendour as the shortnes of the time would permitt and so amidst all the festiualls of deuotion it was brought into the Cathedrall a small parcell God wott of what they desyrd yett euen as such most wellcome They wishd him such in his returne home as they sent him abroad aliue and gouerning as theyr Pastour they wishd if dead not onely his Bones but whole body for a treasure the greater it is the better and more pretious but as it was content with what necessity imposd they lent theyr concurrence towards a solemne enterring it in the Chappell of our B. Lady the place designd for its Reception Heer it was layd in a Coffin of stone and a fayre Grauestone such as beseemd his quality plac'd for a Couer to the Orifice cimented on all sydes as close and handsomely as art could make it Heer it lay 5. yeares amidst the priuate veneration of deuout persons partaking of no more honour then theyr Deuotion gaue it each one according to the opinion they had of his Sanctity For though diuers things more then ordinary and such as begott much wonder and Veneration were related on seuerall passages as the fragrant oudour it exhald the blood it sweat morning call c. Yett formall Miracles none were wrought nor pretended to and the Catholique Church hath allwayes vsd a speciall warynes to preuent disorders of this nature that nothing may be publiquely ascribd before attested by legall autority and we need not doubt but the Saint himselfe among so many decrees as he made had left this enacted During this interuall of time the Vacant Chayre was prouided of a successour the party elected was Richard Swinfeld of whome we sayd somthing in the precedent Chapter the same that accompanyd our Saint to Rome and by his good

implying both parts of Christian duty to decline from euill and doe good and doe good not how euer but after a good manner and as beseems such a Majesty for God loues not slubberd seruices but wil haue them done as well with the hart as hand and tongue or else they 'l find a cold acceptance By a due complyance in this Kind we shew our loue to him and this complyance in our Spirituall functions is calld Deuotion which is esteemd greater or less as our performance is more feruorous or remiss Deuotion is an effect of loue and an issue of diuine grace which if not sourc'd from these two is not esteemd genuine and currant but to want of its graines of weight and this may be counterfeyted as well as other vertues The subject of his deuotion or his spirituall exercises relating immediately to Alm. God were chiefly Prayer the H. Sacrifice of Masse his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office and in the discharge of these he was not onely sayth the Record deuout but most deuout performing them with a most profound attention and Reuerence Prayer is calld an Incense and this inconse he was I may say continually offering according to the aduise of S. Paule sine Thess 5. 17. intermissione orate be allwayes praying not onely as each good work in the opinion of S. Basil is a good prayer but also by a more neer interiour and familiar Conuersation with Alm God by the powers of our soule employing them not onely in a Consideration of his attributes but an vnion of will And what could a pious hart nursd vpp in its baptismall grace and consequently the throne and Aultar of the H. Ghost Sacrifice to so diuine a guest besydes prayers and prayses the former to begg new blessings the latter in thanks giuing for them receiu'd To attend the more freely to this was the chiefe reason why he cutt his sleep so short and rise by night that he might watch and pray and offer early a morning oblation to God and his Saints in an odour of sweetness killing as the Royall Prophet did in the feruor of his prayer all Psal 100. 8. the sinners of the earth He knew that in a spirituall life no great matter could be atchieu'd or aduance made without this and therfore he made it his dayly bread and was much more frequently feeding his soule with it then his body with Corporall deeming it the life which was to animate all his actions We treated in the 12. Chapter of his Retyrement and vnion with God and this vnion was chiefly effected by Prayer and intimates a frequent and constant practise of the same euen to an intimate familiarity whose result it is Euen before he was Bishop he was particularly noted for his singular Reuerence and Deuotion in reciting Diuine office which argues a true feeling of Spiritt and the presence of Alm. God in which his exteriour Composure of body and attention of mind was such that it was of great edification to the beholders Thus he begunn thus he perseuerd vntill the end fullfilling exactly what our H. Mother the Church requires of vs for a due discharge of that great function and it were to be wishd all those to whome this obligation is incumbent were imitatours of the same He was most exact in the administration of the Sacraments and performance of Ecclesiasticall Ceremonyes so mixing piety with a Majestick grauity that both the one and other begott a Reuerentiall esteem towards those Sacred Rytes in them that were present But aboue all he was most singularly deuoted to the H. Sacrifice of Masse heer his deuotion seemd to triumph and he at the Aultar to be in his Center so full was his hart fraught with pious affections with such a spiritt of humility and Contrition did he approach it such an ample testimony heeroff did he giue by his abundance of teares that one would haue thought he had rather sayth the Record actually be held the bloody Sacrifice it selfe and his Lord and Sauiour therin immolated then an vnbloody and Mysticall representation of the same an argument both of his liuely fayth and ardent charity To indulge the more to these pious affections he gaue heer ample scope to his deuotion much beyond the ordinary stint of halfe an houre letting his soule feed at leasure on these sweet Mysteryes and Alm. God did so concurr that he was frequently alienated from his senses and as it were in a rapture so that it was necessary for the seruer who deposd this vpon oath to cough and make a noyse to bring him to himselfe and make an end of his Mass and this sayth the same happend frequently while he liu'd at Rouen from the feast of S. Peter ad Vincula till the feast of S. Michael next ensuing To shew how acceptable this his piety in the H. Sacrifice and other spirituall deuoyrs was to Alm. God it pleasd his diuine Majesty to grace him particularly at the same with a fauour which all that were present attributed to Miracle and as such it was approu'd by the Lords Commissioners and those that beheld it On the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday he was inuited by Edmund Earle of Cornwall a great admirer of his Sanctity to Celebrate the feast and say Mass at his Castle of Wallingford and it happend in the second or third yeare of his Pontificate While he was preparing and disposing himselfe therto by singing the Hymne „ Veni Creator Spiritus vpon the entonement of the first verse a flock of byrds in the sight and hearing of all with Musicall notes and beating theyr wings against the Chappell windowes seemd to applaud the Saint while he sung and he hauing ended they retyrd while the Quire prosecuted what he had enton'd till the end of the strophe But he entoning the first verse of the second they returnd againe and while he sung both with voyce and wing they accompanyd him and applauded as before and soe strophe after strophe till the hymne was ended This seemd a great Nouelty to the sayd Earle and all that beheld it which were many and to satisfy themselues the better they went out of the Chappell abroad and had a full sight of them judging them to be about 40. and beheld them Coming and going as before nor could interprett such an vnusuall thing neuer obseru'd before nor after otherwise then as orderd by God to wittnes the sanctity of our Saint and the acceptablenes of the great work he was about Then it was that the Earle in the hearing of all Bishop Richard then Chancellour of Hereford being present made that expression cited in the end of the 18. Chapter of his singular Confidence in the prayers and patronage of S. THOMAS no less then in those of our great Apostle S. Austin The liuely fayth and high esteem he had of the dignity of this diuine Sacrifice as it made him recollect all his powers and attention for its better performance so it