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A10829	The admirable life of Saint VVenefride virgin, martyr, abbesse. Written in Latin aboue 500. yeares ago, by Robert, monke and priour of Shrewsbury, of the ven. Order of S. Benedict. Deuided into two bookes. And now translated into English, out of a very ancient and authenticall manuscript, for the edification and comfort of Catholikes. By I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, d. 1167.; Falconer, John, 1577-1656.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 21102; ESTC S115985	37,470	252

vertues who ouer-ioyed at first with their leaue so obtayned and freed from former feares of worldly entanglements daily extended herselfe to courses of sanctity and perfection by frequent and feruent practises of humility and punctuall obedience to her holy Father permitted by her Parents freely vnto her So as now a corner neere his Cell where she might frequently visit him and delightfully drawe through her eares to her soule the vitall breath of his heauenly discourses was in the day tyme her delightfullest māsion and watching whole nights in the Church kneeling or prostrate before the Aultar when extreme wearines and deadly sleep did not possesse her was to be as in her spouses bed-chāber raised by amourous thoghts of his wonderfull Perfections and rapt with pure delights freshly euery day communicated vnto her So as to heare him only named caused a iubily in her soule by blushing and teares to such as beheld her sweetely discouered And as internall guifts did wōderfully adorne her so were not externall graces wanting vnto her for her face was matchles in bewty and by a rare modesty exceedingly graced Her speach was sweet neuer but leasurely and wisely vttered The comly stature likewise and proportion of her body in all parts thereof though poorely clad serued to grace her in the eyes of others so as the Diuell emulating those high beginnings of sanctity in her and fearing withall what her example might worke in tyme for the drawing of others to like courses of Perfection he ceased not to lay many snares to intrappe her and with new temptations raysed by others for her greater merit glory at last incessantly to try her the beginning of which shall in my next Chapter be declared CHAP. IV. How S. Wenefride was found alone by the Kings sonne in her Fathers house and in daunger to haue byn violated by him escaped towards the Church and was in the way cruelly beheaded for constantly refusing to yield her pure body vnto him S. Beuno hauing fully ended the fabrique of his Church and consecrated the same to Christ was daily visited by great multitudes of such as dwelled in places neere him amongst them S. VVinefreds holy Parents neuer fayled in his sacrifices and sermons to heare him so as on a sunday whilst they were in the Church their daughter by some needfull or charitable occasion contrary to her custome detained at home Prince Cradocus king Alan his sonne with a lustful wicked purpose entred the house pretending that he came to speake with the Lord Theuith her Father The Holy Maid suspecting no worse of him at first after courteous salutatiōs passed betweene them and excuses by her humbly made of being alone vnattired and vnable in her Parents absence fitly to intertayne him as his Princely dignity required intreated him with all to repose himselfe in a more conuenient roome of the house till after diuine seruice ended her Father should returne and be free to speake with him To which simple candor and plainenes of her speaches gracefully vttered the Prince infuriated with loue of her faire person and lustfull desires presently to inioy her replyed that he would willingly expect the returne of her Parents if herselfe in meane time wold be pleased to consent vnto his will so deuoted vnto her that for the fauour then expected from her he would according to his Birth and Power euer afterwardes be ready to honour and serue her threatning withall presently to rauish her if she yielded not willingly to his motion The holy Virgin though trembling for feare blushing at the immodesty of his speaches yet lost not her wits in so needfull an occasion but present with herselfe diuinely also at that instant assisted she humbly and patiētly answered him that she doubted not of enioying honour wealth and worldly contentment by being espowsed to so Princely a person but because said she the present poore attire wherein you haue so on the sodaine taken me suiteth not to so high a motion or indeed beseemeth your presēce giue me leaue I beseech you to enter my chamber heere by presently to alter it To which her request albeit with some loathnes to be delayed in his purpose he yielded his consent so that she now finding herself in her chamber freed out of his hands and hopeles of any rescue or succour to be otherwise affoarded her ran out by a backe way as fast as she could towards the Church where her Father and his people would she doubted not be able to saue her But he impatient in his desires and suspecting indeed that which happened brake into the roome and finding her not there pursued her so hastely in her flight as on a hill side neere the Church he furiously apprehended her vowing with his sword drawne in his hand a countenance full of wrathful indignation that if forthwith she consented not to his will so full of honourable loue towards her he would strike of that head from her body deforme that face therein which formerly he had loued Whereunto the holy Virgin as another S. Agnes to her carnall Louer vndauntedly replyed that she had holily espowsed herselfe that also with her Parents consent to the king of Heauens sonne in power beauty and goodnes incomparably exceeding him and vpon his experienced loue towards her she would euer remaine to him so faythfully constantly and vnalteredly deuoted in the affections of her hart as she wold gladly loose her head and life for refusing to admit any corriuall togeather with him Neither shall your terrours said she or threats draw me from the sweetnes of his Loue or make me not go as I haue promised purely vnto him Whereupon he in a furious scorne to be slighted so by her knowing withall that whilst she liued the vehemēcy of his loue could not be asswaged gaue her with his sword so deadly a stroake on the neck as her head thereby and body became instantly parted the body falling without the Church dore and the head within it so as the floore therof being somewhat declining as built in the hanging of a hill it tumbled towards the people kneeling togeather before the Aultar astonishing them with the sight thereof no lesse the afterwards it made them worthily to wonder in seeing a cleere and plentifull spring newly then beginning to run out of the ground in the same place where her head had first fallen vpon visited since that time by holy pilgrimes from places farre neere and by miraculous graces and cures frequently affoarded to sickely and grieued persons famously renowned CHAP. V. The lamentations made at S. Wenefrids death aswell by the people as by her Parents how likewise S. Beuno procured by his prayers a dreadfull reuenge of her death vpon the Author thereof glorying in his cruelty and then putting the head body togeather sought to obteyne of God her returne to life againe THE people moued with so dolefull a spectacle as was the virgins head bloud

Pag. 204. lin 7. streames read streame Pag. 225. lin 2. hath read had Pag. 251. lin 9. was read he was Pag. 269. lin vlt. little read so little The Prayer and Sequence of S. Wenefride taken forth of the ancient Missall of England according to the vse of SARVM Oratio OMnipotens sempiterne Deus qui beatam Wenefredam Virginitatis praemio decorasti fac nos quaesumus eius pia intercessione mundi huius blandimenta postponere cum ipsa perennis gloriae sedem obtinere Per Dominum nostrum c. The Prayer ALmighty and euerlasting God who hast adorned Blessed Wenefride with the reward of Virginity grant vs we beseech thee through her poius intercession to set afide the delights of this world and obteyne with her the throne of euerlasting glory Through our Lord Iesus Christ c. SEQVENTIA VIrgo vernans velut Rosa Agni Sponsa speciosa Martyr Christi pretiosa Wenefreda floruit Ex Britannis oriunda Fide firma spe iocunda Actu sancta mente munda Mundi mendâ caruit Hanc occidit Carodocus Quem mox sorbet Orci focus Qui prauorum extat locus Quo Sathan exuitur Huius argumento rei Fons ebullit nutu Dei Rubricatae speciei Quo caput praeciditur Mira multa hic patrantur Caeci vident muti fantur Morbi omnes effugantur Cum fide petentium Gloriosa Wenefreda Maris fluctus nobis seda Ne fiamus hosti praeda Pia fer praesidium Amen The same in old English As a sweete Rose in pleasant spring Of heauenly Lambe Spouse louely faire And Martyr deare of Christ our King S. Wenefrede did flourish heere Descended well of Brittish race In Fayth now firme and Hope secure With workes Holy and Soule in Grace From worldly filth perseuered pure This sacred Mayd did Cradocke kill And him Hell swallowed presently Where teares in vayne do run downe still And Sathan burnes incessantly A Token sure of this strang thing Bespotted all with blouddy red A Well by Gods command doth spring Where Tyrant fierce cut off her head Heere wōders great Gods hand doth worke The blind do see the dumbe do speake Diseases which in bodies lurke Are cured when Fayth is not weake O glorious Virgin Wenefrede To vs the raging sea appease And free vs so from Sathans dread That he on vs may neuer seize Amen THE AVTHORS OWNE PROLOGVE TO THE LIFE OF S. WENEFRIDE To the right Reuerend Father Guarinus Prior of Worcester Robert his spirituall Sonne Prior also vnworthy of Shrewsbury wisheth Grace to walke vprightly in the way of Gods Commandements SINCE he who hath receaued the least talent at Gods hands is bound charitably to imploy the same in the seruice of him who freely bestowed it and to the good of such as may be edified and benefitted spiritually by it not hiding the same vnder a bushell or reseruing it to himselfe alone which will become the more his owne by being charitably communicated to others in a holy imitation of our Redeemers bounties and graces vpon vs universally bestowed I haue iustly feared out of this respect to conceale from others vnited in the same band of Christian Faith and Charity with me and particularly from your Venerable selfe much respected by me the Collection which I have lately made of the Blessed Virgin S. Wenefrides life the reading whereof will I doubt not help much to increase and perfit heauenly piety and love eminently already and exemplarly to many shining in You delighted also to dilate the glory of God his Saints by workes like to this which you haue by frequent letters and earnest intreaties required of me I haue gathered the same partly from the Ancient and vndoubted Monuments of such Monasteries and Churches as this Blessed Virgin is knowne to haue liued in and partly from the relation of sundry Ancient Priests for their great learning sanctity of life and Religious profession made Venerable worthy of all credit in their assertions and depositions vnto me Three causes have moued me to publish the true knowledge of this Saints life so by me attayned vnto The first was a wholsome feare as I haue said to be reproued by my Eternall Iudge for hiding vnder groūd and not imploying profitably as I ought the talent which he hath lent me The second was my especiall loue and deuotion to this most renowned Virgin and Martyr of our Countrey that by her sanctity and great merits heere by me declared she might by faithfull soules be the more deuoutely honoured serued and prayed unto The third was a particular desire which I have charitably had to edifie my owne Brethren humbly in their deuotions and instantly intreating this labour of me As for S. Wenefrides pretended iourney to Rome and other particulars vulgarly only and by persons of no credit fabulously reported I haue wholy omitted them and for borne likewise to set downe some other certaine and vndoubted relations concerning her life because I would not be tedious and ouer-large in my manner of writing this which I have heere gathered being sufficient in my opinion and yours also I hope to declare the eminent sanctity and graces of this most sacred Virgin by whose powerfull intercession and your holy prayers I hope to receaue at her heauenly spouses hands some small reward of my labours and paynes in this worke vndertaken THE FIRST BOOKE conteyning the History of S. Wenefrids Life CHAPTER I. Of S. Beuno his great sanctity how he was inspired by God to goe to S. Wenefrids Father how liberally he was entertayned by him and had his only child commended for her Education vnto him IN the Westerne part of great Britanny called VVales cōioyned Eastwards in the same continent with England and rounded on all other sides with Seuerne and the Ocean flourished in times past innumerable Saintes men and women of singular sanctity and merit as their seuerall Shrines and stately Monuments yet remayning do testify amongst who me in King Eluith the second his tyme one S. Beuno was for his wonderfull graces especially renowned who hauing out of a holy desire to imitate the pouerty of his heauenly Lord and to become a true Pilgrime heere on earth forsaken his owne Countrey and trodden vnder foote such glorious pompes and pleasures of the world as he might at home haue enioyed made himselfe first a Moncke and soone after arriued to such perfection and sanctity of life that he became a common Father of Religious persons For no sooner had he built a Church and Monastery in one place and setled there in regular discipline and great purity of life a certaine number of Religiōs persons but he trauelled to another part of the Countrey to do there the like also as Gods holy spirit for the benefit of many peculiarly directed him so that at length he entred into the territory of a rich potent Lord called Theuith sonne to a chiefe Counsellour of the King a principal gouerner of the Coūtry who equalled

his Illustrious birth by his Noble Religious exemplar demeanours When Venerable Beuno came to this Lords house he was most respectfully by him entertayned and after charitable salutatiōs passed betweene them the Saint tould him that he was sent by God to erect a Church in his Territory as he had done in other places and I doubt not said he but that God hath by a very feruent and peculiar inspiration drawne me hither from his other seruants with whome I liued els where with great content to performe some great good particularly for you and yours Wherefore for his diuine Maiesties seruice I humbly intreate a small part of your ample inheritance to rayse therein a Church where others with my selfe will daily pray for your safety The Noble man moued with the Saintes Venerable aspect and speaches resolued forthwith to graunt what he asked and yielded this wise answere vnto him With good reason holy Father am I bound to giue you a part of what Lands I possesse for the seruice of him who gaue all vnto me and I conceaue indeed that you haue pleasured me much in asking this Charity of me more profitable to my selfe then to you Wherefore this very Mannour which now I liue in I do from this tyme forward wholy alienate frō my selfe and all myne yielding the possession all right therof most gladly vnto you and hauing no more then one child a tender Virgin the greatest delight indeed and worldly ioy of my hart I will besides bequeath her to your holy instructions and prayers that her life may be holy and her conuersation such as may be pleasing to God and contentfull to me also And hauing put the Saint in possession of the place and promised moreouer to help him in the building by him intended for a conuenient aboad of Gods Religious children and seruants he chose afterwards a place for himselfe to dwell in vpon a high hill ouer against it that when he could not inioy the holy mans presence he might a far of looke at least towards him and recreate himselfe often in the day by being with him holily and continually imployed in the seruice of God spiritually conioyned CHAP. II. How S. Wenefrides Parents did help the Saint in building his Monastery become also with their Daughter his deuout Auditours and obedient children How likewise S. Wenefride vpon hearing S. Beuno's exhortations resolued to leaue the world and conserue her virginity intreating him to mooue also her Parents thereunto VVHen the Saint began to build his Church and monastery the Lord Theuith did not faile with meanes liberally to further it vouchsafing also many times to put his owne hands to this holy worke for the example of others and the sooner to finish it as a thing by him for the glory of God and good of his owne scule exceedingly desired So as the Church was no sooner raysed and made fit for the holy man to preach and offer the diuine Sacrifice in but himselfe with his Wife and VVenefride his Daughter were daily and deuoutely present at such holy exercises he obseruing still this Custome to place his Child at the Saintes feete whilst he preached willing her to be attentiue to his speaches VVhich became not fruitles in her soule holily euen then in her tender yeares and graciously prepared feruently to practise in her life such heauenly documents as from the Saints mouth she continually learned And her delight in hearing him was such as with leaue of her Parents she often visited him alone by her selfe to be enriched the more with a profitable and practicall knowledge of diuine verities from him And albeit her Parents as their most gracious and only child dearely affected her and had placed after a worldly manner the only hope of their posterity in her by resoluing with an ample dowry to marry her in due tyme to some Noble and chiefe person of the in this doubtfull conflict betweene humane diuine loue passing in her thoghts the powerfull illuminator and best Directour of holy soules interiourly suggested this counsel vnto her that by Saint Beuno whose holy speaches had occasioned this pious resolution first in her hart firmely then rooted to propose it vnto her Parents whose power and authority she wisely knew to be very great with them by reason they honoured him much and in all things he said gladly obeyed him VVherfore one day finding him alone after his manner holily retired she humbly and boldly manifested her purpose thus vnto him Holy Father I come here to make knowne vnto you the holy fruites of your speaches and Gods graces togeather in my Soule whereby I haue byn effectually and I hope happily moued to estrange my selfe wholy from Worldly contentments and to consecrate my Virginity purely to him who liberally gaue me the beeing I haue and hath hitherto cōserued this enriching Treasure graciously in me Humbly beseeching you to obteyne for me my Parents good leaue and permission so to continue The Saint forthwith as beyond all expression delighted to know that the seedes of diuine grace sowne by his speaches were beginning to grow so happily in her willingly vndertooke to obteyne of her Parents what she desired throgh the cōfidence which he had in their singular piety towards God readines to do what his diuine Maiesty would haue them CHAP. III. S. Beuno proposeth S. VVenefrides desire to her Parents obteyneth their grant therin they giue away in almes her intended dowry ioy to see rare beginninges of future sanctity and solide vertues in their Daughter THe holy mā a powerfull Oratour with thē who as Children reuerently respected and desired to obey him in a heauenly language imparted vnto them S. VVenefrids desires and made them withall capable to know that it would be no ordinary act of their due loue to God gladly and freely to dedicate to his seruice what in this world was dearest vnto them Their answere vnto him with teares of ioy and praysing of Christ for his graces affoarded so singularly to their child was no other then a full and free leaue giuen to S. VVenefride of forsaking the world to serue her heauenly Spouse who by so high and holy a vocation had called her vnto him And so wishing her a happy progresse therein they resolued also to draw out of the same this benefitt to thēselues that giuing away to the poore her ample dowry for a secular mariage by them prepared and distributing in holy vses besides a very great part of their owne princely wealth and possessions as troublesome vnto them and with pouerty delighted due to the king of heauen who by espousing their Child was growne to be heyre as it were vnto them they might run more lightly the way of his commandements in a holy freedome frō worldly solicitudes spend end the remainder of their life in gayning to themselues heauenly treasures eternally to enrich them wherein they became animated afterwards by the rare example of their daughters

height of Religious Perfection choosing for that purpose to sit at the Saints feet as S. Mary Magdalen did at the feet of our Sauiour neuer satiated with the delicacies which fell from that heauenly Table vnto her by his most pious speaches and deuout instructiōs within a smal tyme out a restles and most amorous desire fully to be what an height of sanctity perfection the spirit of God for the glory of himselfe good of others intended to raise her sought more and more to illuminate her soule by heauenly documents practicall lessons for the direction of herselfe others in a spirituall and Religious life which she as a very apt scholler did not only learne but practise also in such a manner that the Saint was ouerioyed to behould her And finally finding her fully enabled not only to guide herselfe but others also in courses of Perfection he called her Parents one day vnto him and tould them that as they had liberally graunted vnto him a Church and house for the seruice of God and help of his seruants so had his diuine Maiesty liberally requited their Charity towards him by singular graces affoarded to them and especially to their Childe whom now they might well choose and propose vnto themselues as a Mistresse able to guide them in their Redeemers seruice and as a bright shining patterne of religious Perfection Wherfore being diuinely called to another place I must heere said he leaue you to the helpes of Heauenly Graces which will not be wanting vnto you persisting as now you do holily in Gods seruice and to the carefull direction of your Daughter And then conuerting himselfe to S. VVenefride Our Lord said he deare Child hath appointed you to succeed me heere in my holy labours and abiding in these parts to go onwards happily your self to guide others fruitfully in the way to eternall life as hitherto I haue taught you And doubt not but by the mouing example of your death for him already susteyned and the holy conuersation of your life you wil be able to performe what I haue said and in this very place gather togeather for your heauenly spouse many pure and deuout Virgins guided vnto him holily by you But know withall that you shal not heere end your dayes but that after seauen yeares in prayer and pennance spent in this place to your owne great Merit singular edification of others our gracious Lord will call you to another that strangers also may in the knowledge and true seruice of him be illuminated by you and know also that heerby your memory shall become glorious in future ages and your merits published to the whole world by miraculous cures helpes affoarded vnto sickly and distressed persons praying vnto you CHAP. VIII VVherein is declared S. Wenefrides griefe for her Holy Fathers departure and his comfortable speaches vnto her concerning particular Graces intended by God towards herselfe and others by her THe Godly Virgin being excessiuely grieued at her holy Fathers departure he to cōfort her in so deep an affliction tooke her by the right hand and lead her to the fountayne which miraculously had risen in the tyme place of her martyrdome sitting togeather vpō a stone neere to the side of the well called therefore to this day S. Beuno's stone You see said he heere the monumēt of your sufferings and behold also the stones therein steyned as with your bloud shed for your Heauenly Spouses sake be you therfore now attentiue and mindfull of what I shall fore-tell you concerning three especiall ter my departure now from you into a remote part of this ●land God will giue me a Cell neere the sea shore when you would send any letters or tokens vnto me as his diuine Maiesty wold haue you to do and I also do intreate the same of you once at least euery year cast them only in the streame of this fountayne and they will passing into the Ocean by many creekes and turning-shores be diuinely safely directed vnto me which graces likewise to the worlds end shall be diuulged gloriously of you And hauing ended this his speach he led her backe againe vnto the Church and said then vnto her Behould heere this Church lodgings about it which hauing byn built by the charitable magnificence of your parents and my labours I leaue vnto you to be conuerted into a copious monastery of Chast Deuout Virgins who moued by your instruction holy example of life shall togeather with your selfe meritoriously practise those heauenly documēts which by a perfit contempt of the world and a full abnegation of thēselues the two maine grounds of Religious perfection I haue often deliuered by my speaches vnto you Stupendious miracles also done for the temporall eternall good of many repayring to this very place shall heerafter be effected to the prayse of their heauenly Maker and euen bruit beasts shall not want their share in such blessings striue therfore deare Child to exhibit your selfe in all things as a liuely patterne and example to others of all Vertue As for my poore selfe I shall goe whither Gods spirit will guide me euer retayne in my hart and soule a Fatherly and louing memory of you presence alwayes edified by your example instructed by your speaches Which words of hers together with her flowing teares so moued the Saint himselfe as also her louing Parents and others that were present as not to haue their owne sorrow by staying longer with her increased after he had blessed her with his hand as hauing no toūg through griefe to speake a word more vnto her hastned his pace faster then modesty would permit her to follow him vntill at length he was gon quite out of her sight neuer more in this world to behold him so that returning with her companiōs homeward for many dayes after she remayned in her sorrow till tyme at length discret thoughts hauing eased her hart she wisely and maturely began to reflect vpon his heauenly discourses and lessons formerly giuen vnto her both how she might practise them herselfe and draw others also to the exercise therof Which in a short tyme Gods grace and the force of her holy Example did so happily effect that a great number of Noble and deuout Virgins trampling worldly wealth Honours pleasures vnder their feet for the glory and seruice of Christ betooke themselues to her gouernment liued in religious discipline holily vnder her commanding or teaching them nothing but what herselfe practised first amongst them as a shining cleere Light in safe paths of sanctity to guide them yea with such a sweet mildenes motherly loue towards them that with equall merit and contentment they obeyed her commands and obserued such rules as she had established amongst them Her wholsome aduises also they receaued as heauēly oracles such remedies as in their difficulties temptations she wisely compassionably gaue them had a heauenly kind