of S. Sethird Virgin and Abbâ—sse daughter to Annas King of the East-angles and sister to S. Edilburge Virgin who in her yong yeares went ouer into France and became a Religious womaÌ„ there in a monastery at the forsaid towne of Brige vnder the care of her said sister that then gouerned the same after whose death she was made Abbesse of the whole Monastery where in very great sanctimony of life ioyned with most godly Conuersation and Monasticall discipline she yielded vp her blessed soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore And was buryed in the same place D The eleuenth Day AT VVorcester the deposition of S. Egwine Confessor third Bishop of that Sea who being a man of very austere life made a payre of iron-shackles locked them close about his legges then cast the keyes therof into the Riuer of Seuerne an so went to Rome with Oâ—â—a King of Mercia desiring of God that the said shackles might not be loosed from his leges vntill he had made satisfation for all the synnes of his youthfull yeares and in his returne backe as he came ouer the sea vpon a suddayne a fish leaped into the shippe wherin he sayled which being taken and killed the forsaid keyes of the shackles that he had throwne into the riuer were found in the fishes belly the which being brought to the Blessed Bishop he forthwith applyed them to the shackles that were about his legges and straight vnlocking them to the admiration of the behoulders he came ioyfully home to his Bishopricke He founded the famous Abbey of Euesham neere VVorcester endowed it with great reuenewes possessions procuring from Rome diuers priuiledges and franchises for the same of Pope Constantine by the meanes of K. Coenred and K. Oâ—â—a that then resided in that Citty for deuotion sake And after many other workes of piety famous for miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and sixteene and was buried at Euesham E The twelfth Day AT VVire-mouth in the Bishopricke of Durham the deposition of S. Benedict Abbot surnamed Biscopus who being descended of a noble parentage in our Iland went to Rome and after his returne thence built a goodly Monastery at the Riuer-banke of VVire in the Kingdome of the Northumbers wherin our famous S. Bede was afterward brought vp He founded there also a goodly Church dedicating the same to the Blessed Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul And after a second voyage to Rome to procure priuiledges for his said Monastery full of sanctity and holinesse of life he ended his venerable dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and three and was buryed in the forsaid Church which himself had built wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles F The thirteenth Day AT Glasco in Scotland the deposition of S. Kentigerne Abbot and Confessour Sonne to King Eugenius the third of Scotland who being created Bishop of Glasco soone after resigned that dignity and built himselfe a Monastery in the same Kingdome gathering togeather six hundred Monkes whome he instructed in all kind of vertue and good learning and was a myrrour to the Christian world And when he had thus coÌ„tinued for very many yeares full of venerable old age ioyned with sanctity of life and miracles he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest about the yeare of Christ six hundred and eight and was buryed in the same place G The fourteenth Day IN North-wales the Commemoration of S. Beno Priest and Confessor who leading an Eremiticall life in the West part of England was by an angell admonished to go into VVales to a noble man called Trebuith S. VVenefrides Father who gaue him a part of his lands and possessions to build a Monastery as also his daughter VVenefride to be instructed and brought vp in a Religious manner whose head being soone after cut of by Cradocus sonne to Alane King of the same Contrey for not yielding to his vnlawfull lust he miraculously set on againe she liuing fifteene yeares after He ended his venerable life full of sanctity and miracles about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore whose body hath alwayes byn had in very great reuerence in our iland especially of the Ancient Britanes of VVales A The fifteenth Day AT Mailros in the Kingdome of Northumberland the Commemoration of Blessed Alfred Confessour and eighteenth King of that Prouince who being a most vertuous Prince in the one and twentith yeare of his raigne contemning all worldly pompe and honour to the admiration of all Christendome both he and his wife the Queene with mutuall consent entred into Monasteryes became Religious she being veyled a Nunne at a place called Dormundcaster two miles from Peterburrow and he taking the habit of a Monke in the forsaid Monastery of Maylros where in great sanctity of life obseruance of Monasticall discipline he spent the rest of his dayes and finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and twenty and was buryed in the same place B The Sixteenth Day AT Tyn-mouth in NorthumberlaÌ„d the deposition of S. Henry Confessor and Eremite who borne in Denmarke of very honourable parents came ouer into England and obtayned leaue of the Prior of Tyn-mouth to lead a solitary or Eremiticall life in the Iland of Cochet where he liued many yeares with only bread and water and afterward he came to eate but thrice in the weeke and three dayes also a weeke he kept sylence On a tyme he would haue gone to Durham but had no boate to passe ouer the riuer of VVire Wherfore being solicitous how to get ouer a boate that was fastened on the other side of the water brake loose and of it selfe came ouer vnto him wherin he passed Towards the end of his dayes he got a swelling in one of his knees through ouer much praying which growing to an vlcer at last brake and when certayne little wormes crept therout he would take and put them in againe saying Go into your inheritance where yow haue byn nourished c. And so perseuering in a most godly and Saintly life for a long tyme when the houre of death drew neere he went into a little Chappell in the same iland and taking the belrope in his hand when he had rung it he departed this life A monke of the next Monastery hearing the bell ring made hast thither and found him dead sitting vpon a stone with the belrope in his hand and a candle standing lighted by him which did yield so cleere a light that it dazeled the eyes of the behoulders His body was brought to Tyn-mouth and there buried in the Church of our B. Lady neere to the body of S. Oswyn King and Martyr in the yeare of Christ 1120. which yeare also he died C The seauenteenth Day AT Canterbury the Commemoration of S. Milwyde Virgin daughter to Merualdus
and descended there of a noble parentage became in that Kingdome first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and thence went ouer into France to S. Gallus Abbot that then was famous in those partes of whome being throughly instructed in all kind of Monasticall discipline was at last ordayned Bishop of Constance where after many yeares of most approued vertue and sanctity of life he happily reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Constance B The seauen twentith Day AT Lichfield in Staffordshire the Commemoration of Blessed Sexulfe Bishop and Confessour who being the first Abbot of the Monastery of Medshamsted now called Peterburrow by whose persuasion VVulferus K. of Mercia had newly founded the same was ordayned Bishop of Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers and afterward translated to Lichfield in the place of VVinsrid that was deposed by S. Theodore of Canterbury In both which Seas he most worthily behaued himselfe in teaching and instructing his flocke for many yeares And at last full of venerable old age ioyned with sanctity of life he departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred THE same day in the Prouince of the Eastangles in the Diocesse of Ely the CoÌ„memoration of S. Alnoth Martyr who being heardsman to S. VVereburge Abbesse of the Nunry of Ely became an Anchoret leading a most strict and seuere recluse life for the loue of God whome when he had so serued for some yeares he was slayne by certaine wicked theeues in hatred therof and so receyued his crowne of Martyrdome about the yeare of Christ 670. C The eight twentith Day AT Yorke the deposition of S. Oswald Bishop CoÌ„fessour nephew to S. Odo Archbishop of Canterbury who being first made Chanon of VVinchester then Bishop of VVorcester was lastly promoted to the Archbishopricke of Yorke whose godly vertues and innocency of life was afterward declared by the manifold miracles wrought at his body Amongst other works of Charity he was wont euery day to giue dinner to twelue poore men or pilgrims seruing them at table with his owne hands wash their feet giue them money in almes and alwayes at Easter to giue them new apparrell He died on this day in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and twelue and was afterward translated to VVorcester vpon the fifteenth of October on which day his principall festiuity is celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England of whome also in that place we haue made a large Relation THE MONETH OF MARCH D The first Day AT Meneuia in Penbrookshire the deposition of S. Dauid Bishop and Confessour sonne to Xantus Prince of VVales and Vncle to the valiant King Arthur who was so famous for working of miracles in his life tyme that he became a great pillar and vphoulder of the British Primitiue Church especially in extinguishing the Reliques of the Pelagian heresy He translated his Bishopricke which was at Carleon vpon V. ske vnto Meneuia now called in the British tongue of his name Twy Dewy in English S. Dauids where finally after he had built twelue Monasteryes and replenished the same with monkes being of the age of an hundred fourty six yeares he ended his blessed dayes was buryed in his owne Church about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore twelue It is recorded by the British antiquityes that by his prayers he obtayned the heate and vertue that the waters of Bath in Somersetshire haue in curing and asswaging many deseases though others do assigne it to haue byn found out long before He was afterward canonized for a Saint by Pope Ca 〈…〉 us the second THE same day at VVerdt in Cleeu-land the deposition of S. Suitbert Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea Sonne to Sigebert Earle of Nottingham who going ouer into the lower Germany and thence into Saxony Frizland with S. VVillebrord and his company to preach the Christian faith was there elected Bishop of VVerdt and sent backe into England to be consecrated and then returning to his Sea after much fruite wrought in that haruest in great sanctity and holines of life he reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen huÌ„dred seauenteene His body is kept at VVerdt where he died with great veneration of the inhabitants He was canonized by Pope Leo the third E The second Day AT Lichfield in Staffordshire the deposition of S. Chad Confenour and Bishop of that Sea whose most exemplar life togeather with working of manifold miracles is yet famous throughout England The Cathedrall Church or Minster of that Citty is dedicated to our Blessed Lady and S. Chad. There is also a VVell neere to the same Church commonly called S. Chads VVell In the bottome whereof lieth vntill this day a cleere great marble stone wheron S. Chad was wont to kneele and pray in his Oratory the water of which Well is very wholsome soueraigne for many diseases He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and foure and lieth burved in his owne Cathedrall Church of Lichfield THE same day at VVerdt in Cleeu-land the deposition of S. Willeicke Abbot and Confessour who going out of England with S Switbert and his company to preach the Christian faith to the Pagans of the lower Germany and Saxony was constituted Abbot of a monastery at VVerdt which S. Switbert had newly founded where after the reaping of a fertile haruest in the conuersion of infinite soules to God full of sanctity miracles reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ 727. F The third Day AT Tauracum in little Britany the deposition oâ— S. VVenlocke Abbot and Confessour who descended of the royall bloud of oâ— Great Britany and nephew to Francanus Viceroy of that Kingdome went ouer into litle Britany and was ordayned Abbot there of an ancient Monastery called Tauracum whose liâ—e replenished with sanctity and miracles was famous aswell in our Kingdome as in France and Flanders about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and fourscore about which tyme also he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward translated to Gaunt in Flanders in the NormaÌ„ persecution and there is kept vntill this day with great veneration of the Inhabitants for the ofteÌ„ miracles that haue byn wrought therat G The fourth Day AT Perone in Picardy the deposition of S. Eurseuâ— Abbot and Confessour sonne to Philtan King of Ireland who coÌ„ming into England to Sigebert King of the Eastangles built there a goodly Monastery and filled the same with monkes wherof himselfe was ordayned Abbot And then after a while leauing the care therof to his brother Foillan he went ouer into France and built another Monastery at Perone where in most godly and saintly exercise of life he died on this day about the yeare of Christ six hundred thirty and six
being a very zealous and godly Prince as he was one day on hunting was slayne by a Pagan souldiar partly in hatred of Christian Religion and partly also for that a noble Virgin should say she would neuer marry any man except the said King who was so zealons a Christian. There was afterward a goodly Church erected in his honour neere to a Riuer in south-South-wales where he was slayne and where with great veneration his holy body was interred at which it pleased God in signe of his innocency to worke many miracles A The twentith Day IN Northumberland the passion of S. Oswine King of the Deires Martyr who for that he was a most zealous Christian was impiously slayne by Osway the Pagan King of the Bernicians about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and one His body being throwne into an obscure place after miraculously found out was with great veneration brought vnto Tinmouth and there placed in an ancient Church erected in honour of our blessed Lady S. Aidan liuing at the same tyme and Bishop of Lindisserne had a reuelation of his death euen at the instant of his passion who when he preached to the people was wont oftentymes to say of him This Nation of ours is not worthy to haue so good a Ruler or Gouernour c. B The one twentith Day IN Calabria in Italy the Commemoration of S. Richard Bishop and Confessour who descended of a worthy parentage in England and going to the Court of Rome was there made Priest and at length for his vertue and learning ordayned Bishop of a place in Calabria called S. Andrews where in great sanctity and holines of life togeather with exceeding vigilancy ouer his flocke committed to his charge he finally reposed in our Lord. His body was interred in his said Cathedrall Church of S. Andrew and there is yet preserued with great deuotion and veneration of the Inhabitantes for the frequent Miracles that haue byn wrought therat He is Patrone of that Diocesse and his feast is there celebrated with a double Office wherin he hath three proper lessons conteyning the whole Story of his life C The two and twentith Day IN Bedfordshire the Commemoration of S. Arnulph Confessour who descended of a noble British lynage in our Iland for the loue of God contemned the world and became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the County or Prouince of Bedford where in great sanctity and holinesse he also ended his blessed dayes His body was buryed in the same shire at a place called afterward of his name S. Arnulphs-bury where for a long tyme it was honoured for the miracles it pleased God to worke therat D The three and twentith Day AT Meneuia now cal'ed S. Dauids in Penbrookeshire of VVales the Commemoration o◠S. Iustinian Monke and Martyr who being a noble Britan and building a Monastery with his owne inheritance in the Iland of Ramsey in Penbrookeshire aforsaid and hauing there gathered many monkes togeather vnder Monasticall discipline was in the said iland by the diuells instigation in hatred of his sanctity slayne by three of the brethren of his said Monastery who were all presently stroken with a filthy leprosy by diuine Iustice in reuenge of so odious a fact about the yeare of Christ foure hundred fourscore and six His body was withall veneratiō honour brought to the Church of Meneuia where the same was by S. Dauid himselfe then Bishop therof solemnely interred and wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles E The foure twentith Day IN Cateby-Monastery the Commemoration of S. Alice Prioresse and sister to S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury who borne at Abington in Barkeshire a woman of admirable spirit and vertue was after the death of her sister S. Margaret made Prioresse of the Monastery of Cateby where in very great humility and holinesse of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and seauenty Her body was buryed in the same Monastery neere to the body of her forsaid sister S. Margaret wherat in token of her sanctimony of life whilst she liued it pleased God to worke miracles after her death F The fiue twentith Day AT Coldingham in Norhamshire in the Marches of Scotland the passion of S. Ebba Abbesse and Martyr descended of the bloud royall of the Kings of Northūberlād togeather with all her Sisters in the Monastery who in the first Danish Incursions vnder the Captayns Hinguar Hubba cut of their noses and vpper lippes to deforme themselues therby to anoyd the barbarous lust of the Pagan persecutours who seeing them so mangled and defaced commaunded their Monastery to be fiered and so they all ended their course of Martyrdome She was afterward canonized for a Saint about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and fourscore This woman is different from the other of the same Name who was the foundresse and first Abbesse of this Monastery of Coldingham and no Martyr for that the Danes were not in her tyme yet come into England nor almost two hundred yeares after Her Commemoration we haue put downe before vpon the second day of Aprill THE same day at Monte-Flascone in Tuscany the deposition of S. Thomas Confessour and Bishop of Hereford who going to Rome to Pope Martyn the second about the affaires of his Church died in his way homward at the forsaid Towne of Monte-Flascone where his flesh being separated from his bones was there honourably interred in the Church of S. Seuerine but his sacred Reliques were brought to Hereford and there placed in a faire marble Tombe in his owne Cathedrall Church with great solemnity and veneration the second day of October in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourscore and seauen He was afterward Canonized for a Saint by Pope Iohn the two and twentith G The six and twentith Day AT Isselbey in Lincolnshire the Commemotion of S. Pandwyne Virgin who descended of a noble parentage in our Iland of Great-Britany was of such admirable vertue and austerity of life that in signe therof it pleased God to worke many miracles at her body after her death which was kept for a long tyme with great veneration of the Countrey-pleople at the forsaid towne of Isselbey She died about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and foure The story of her life is wrytten at large by Richard Pastour of the Church of Isselbey wherof there is mentiō made in the Catalogue of English Saints gathered by Iohn Capgraue a learned man of our Nation who liued in the tyme of King Richard the second and lead an Eremiticall life in the Prouince of Kent A The seauen twentith Day IN Glocestershire the Commemoration of S. Decuman Eremite and Martyr who borne of a very noble British parentage in South-wales and brought vp in the Christian faith from his youth stole
A The ninteenth Day AT Hagustalde in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Acca Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being one of S. VVillebrord his coadiutors and going ouer with him into Saxony and Frizeland for the conuersion of those nations was sent backe againe into EnglaÌ„d to the Consecration of S. Switbert and there detayned and ordayned Bishop of Hagustalde by S. VVilfrid the second of Yorke which pastorall function wheÌ„ he had most worthily performed for many yeares in great sanctity of life and godly conuersation full of venerable old age he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and six B The twentith Day IN the I le of Thanet in Kent the deposition of S. Mildred Virgin daughter to Merualdus King of Mercia who contemning the vayne pleasures of this world went ouer in her tender yeares into France and there dedicated her selfe to God in a Monastery of Virgins at Kale but afterwards returning into England and gathering togeather seauenty other Virgins was consecrated Abbesse of a new Monastery erected in the I le of Thanet by S. Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury where famous for saÌ„ctimony of life miracles she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred threscore and foure The forsaid Monastery was afterward burned by the Danes with many others in our Iland There is yet to be seene a fayre Church dedicated in her honour in London in the Poultry commonly called S. Mildreds as also an old Chappell yet staÌ„ding erected likewise in her honour in a village or Flaunders called Milà n three miles distant from the Citty of S. Omers THE same day at Haselburrow in VViltshire the deposition of S. Vlfricke Confessor and Eremite whose wonderfull life in prayer and abstinence togeather with working of Miracles was very famous throughout England about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and foure about which tyme also he died and was buryed in a little Oratory at the forsaid village of Haselburrow which himselfe had built at whose body many miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought C The one and twentith Day IN the I le of Wight in Hampshire the commemoration of S. Cymbert Bishop and Confessour who being a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict Abbot of the Monastery of Redford in the same Prouince was in the raigne of Ethelhard King of the VVestsaxons ordayned Bishop and placed in the â—le of VVight where he confirmed the people in the Christian faith which S. VVilfride of Yorke had there planted some twenty yeares before in the tyme of his banishment from that Sea where in all kind of most godly conuersation and sanctity of liâ—e he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and thirty D The two and twentith Day AT Gaunt in Flaunders the Translation of S. Gudwall Bishop and CoÌ„fessour who being a noble Britan by birth ordayned Bishop in that Primitiue Church preached incessantly the faith of Christ with great profit in our Iland He built many Monasteryes and became himselfe a Father of an hundred and fourscore monkes And after all this thirsting the good of his neighbour-Countreyes he went ouer into the lower Germany and there taught the Christian faith in like manner with no lesse profit then in Britany And last of all full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holinesse of life he rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ three hundred and fourty and was one of the first of our Iland that preached the Christian faith in Flaunders His body hauing byn brought into England was afterwards on this day in the second persecution of the Danes translated to Gaunt by Arnulph Earle of Flaunders and S. Gerard Abbot in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and threescore Where the same is still preserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants E The three and twentith Day AT VVenlocke in Shropshire the Translation of S. Milburge Virgin daughter to Merualdus Prince of Mercia whose great sanctimony innocency of life it pleased God to manifest vnto the world after her departure by the manifold miracles wrought at her body which being miraculously reuealed to a certaine godly man in the raigne of K. VVilliam the CoÌ„querour was takeÌ„ vp and found sound vncorrupt to the admiratioÌ„ of the behoulders and being put into a costly shrine was kept in the Monastery of VVenlocke which she had built with her owne inheritance vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight when the same was destroyed She departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure vpon the six and twentith day of May but her feast is commonly celebrated on this day both in England and other Countreys Her life is wrytten at large by Gotzelinus a monke of the Monastery of S. Bertin in the Citty of S. Omers in Artoys F The foure twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposion of S. Ethelbert King of Kent and Confessour who first of all other Princes in our Iland after the Britans receyued the Christian faith by the preaching of S. Augustine and his fellowes sent from Rome by Pope Gregory the Great He built many goodly Churches and Monasteryes in his dominions and among the rest S. Augustines at Canterbury S. Andrewes at Rochester and S. Paules at London He departed this life in the yeare of Christ six hundred and sixteene and was buryed at Canterbury THE same day in Scotland the depositioÌ„ of S. Berectus Confessour who leading a Monasticall life in that Kingdome was famous for sanctity of life working of miracles about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fourteene about which tyme also he ended his blessed dayes and was buryed in Scotland G The fiue twentith Day AT Perone in Picardy the Translation of S. Furseus Abbot and Confessour sonne to K. Philtan of Ireland who comming into England to Sigebert King of the Eastangles built there a Monastery and gathered many monkes togeather instructing them in all kind of vertue and good learning And then leauing the care therof to his brother called Foillan he went ouer into France and there built another Monastery at Perone where in his venerable old dayes full of great sanctity and holines of life he departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty His body was buryed in the same Monastery of whome the Monkes of that place haue many particular hymnes in their Office the which being taken vp afterwards was on this day translated to a more eminent place of the forsaid Church of Perone where the same is kept with great veneration for the miracles that are recorto haue byn wrought therat A The six and twentith Day AT Constance in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Iohn Bishop Confessour who borne in Scotland
the forsaid I le of Crowland In which kind of life he continued in so great austerity of fasting praying pennace that he deserued twice a day for fifteene yeares togeather to enioy the glorious sight of his good Angell working wonderfull miracles both aliue and dead He departed this world in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fourteene and was buryed in Cro 〈…〉 and Abbey D The tweluth Day AT Roane in France the Commemoration of Blessed Hugh Co 〈…〉 ssour Bishop of that Sea who being an Englishmā by birth Abbot of Reading in Barkshire was thence in the time of K. Henry the 〈◊〉 promoted to the Bishopricke of Roane in which dignity he so worthily behaued himselfe for 〈…〉 x and thirty yeares togeather that his name was famous in those dayes throughout all France He died in great sanctity of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore and six This man is different from the other S. Hugh Bishop of the same place whose fes 〈…〉 all day is celebrated vpon the nynth of this moneth THE same day at Alaxion also in France the Commemoration of S. Mechtild Virgin who descended of the bloud Ro all of Scotlād fled thēce secretly with her yōgest brother Alexander in base attire into France where placing him as a Brother in the Monastery of Cistercian Mōkes at Fone she wēt herself to a village nyne myles of called Alaxion there made her a little Cottage of stickes and rushes liuing in great seuerity and pennance manteyning herself with the labour of her owne hands till her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred The townesmen of Alaxion buryed her body with great solemnity and veneration God glorifying the same by many Miracles E The thirteenth Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Commemoration of S. Elsled Virgin and Neece to King Ethelstane of England whose wonderfull vertues and holines of life togeather with working of miracles haue in tymes past byn famous in our Iland She built herselfe a little Oratory by the counsell of S. Dunstan neere to the Church of our Blessed Lady at Glastenbury in which she liued in continuall prayer watching and fasting vntill her dying day And when vpon a tyme her vncle K. Ethelstane that was there on hunting came to visit her with a great company stayed and dined with her she hauing but one little vessell of drinke called meath set the same before him and his trayne of which when euery one had dronke his fill the said vessell was notwithstanding as full as before She ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred thirty and six and was buryed at Glastenbury F The fourteenth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of Blessed Ethelnulph King of the VVestsaxons and Confessour whose godly acts in propagating and increasing the Christian faith in our Iland is not only famous to all posterity but may be an example also and myrrour to all other Christian Princes of Europe He made the tenth part of his Kingdome free from all tributes and and exactions and gaue it to the Church in honour of our Blessed Lady and other Saints of God as also he sent euery yeare three hundred Markes to Rome one hundred to S. Peters Church another hundred to S. Paules and the third to be bestowed in almes at the Popes discretion And at last went thither himselfe in pilgrimage togeather with his yongest sonne Alfred whome he cōmitted to Pope Leo for his education And there among other deeds of Charity he reedified the English-schoole that had byn a little before consumed by fire And soone after his returne backe into England in most godly wise he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fifty and seauen Matthew Paris a monke of S. Albans and a very graue Author numbreth him among the canonized Saints of our Nation His body was with all solemnity veneration honourably reconded in the Cathedrall Church of VVinchester where it yet remayneth among the Monuments of our Saxon and English Kings G The fifteenth Day AT Yorke the Eleuation of the glorious venerable body of S. Oswald Bishop of that Sea and Confessour who trauayling in his yonger dayes into France became there first a monke in the Monastery of Floriacke returning into England was afterwards ordayned Bishop of VVorcester and lastly at the intercession of K. Edgar preferred to Yorke where in great sanctity of life and miracles he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and twelue His body in the yeare 1002. was on this day with all solemnity and reuerence taken vp by Aldulph his successour in that Sea and set in a more eminent place of the Cathedrall Church of Yorke but afterward translated to VVorcester He built the famous Abbey of Ramsey in the I le of Ely as also a goodly Church at VVorcester which he dedicated to our blessed Lady A The sixteenth Day AT Cullen in the higher Germany the Translation of part of the venerable body of S. Alban Protomartyr of Great-Britany which togeather with other Reliques being first carried thence to Rome by S. Germā Bishop of Auxier in France when with S. Lupus he came into Britany to expell the Pelagiā heresy was afterwards brought backe to Cullen by Thcophania wife to the Emperour Otho the second and there very honourably placed in the Monastery of S. Pantaleon where the same is yet kept with great veneration of the whole Citty This S. Alban in his youth before his conuersion to Christian faith being Lord of Verolame now called S. Albans went to Rome and there made a Royall Chalēge of Iustes for the honour of his Realme where before all others he had the price and thereupon was made knight of the Bath by the Emperour Dioclesian and high Steward of the Britans who were then vnder the subiection of the Romans And after his returne home being made a Christian by S. Amphibale Priest was for that cause shortly after apprehended and put to death at the forsaid towne of S. Albans in Hartfordshire about the yeare of Christ three hundred and three Fortunatus in his excellent Booke of Virginity speaking of Martyrs among others commendeth S. Alban thus Albanum egregium foecunda Britannia profert There was a goodly Church and Monastery afterwards erected at S. Albans in his honour by Ossa K. of the Merciās wherin the said body of S. Alban was placed the which was in our last age destroyed by K. Henry the 8. his commandement with hundreds more in our Iland B The seauenteenth Day AT Fulda in the Diocesse of Mentz in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Marianus Cōfessour who borne in Scotland descended of a good parentage in that Kingdome went ouer into Germany and tooke first the habit of a Monke
him of the fact with great sorrow and contâ—ition came to S. Chad and asking him forgiuenes receyued the Christian faith wherupon destroying all the TeÌ„ples of the Idolatrous Gods in his Dominions did in their places build Churches and Monasteryes and amoÌ„g the rest he founded the goodly Abbey of Medeshamsteed now called Peterburrow dedicating the same vnto God and S. Peter the Apostle and enriching it with many and large possâ—ssions F The second Day AT Dunfermelling in Scotland the Commemoration of Bâ—essed Malcoline the third King of that name and husband to the famous S. Margaret Queene of Scotland whose godly workes of piety deuotioÌ„ are famous all to posterity especially to his successors as well in that Kingdome as to other Princes of bloud in Europe He was so zealous in the loue of God that he became more holy then any of his predecessors had byn before him being wholy addicted to the repayring and erecting of Churches Monasteryes and Bishoprickes Moreouer he was accustomed with his Religious Qu. S. Margaret euery day to serue with his owne handes 300. poore people with meate drinke he on the one side and she on the other was the first King of that NatioÌ„ that created Earles in Scotland Which Kingdome after he had gouerned in all vertuous and pious manner for six and thirty yeares coÌ„ming into England was violently oppressed and slayne at Anwicke in the borders of Scotland by Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumber land togeather with his eldest sonne Edward to the great lamentation of his Countrey and was buryed at Dunfermelling in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue G The third Day AT Arke in Apulia in the Kingdome of Naples the Commemoration of S. Eleutherius Confessour who borne of a very good parentage in England and taking his iorney to Hierusalem for deuotion returned thence backe by Italy where for the loue of God he became an Eremite or pilgrime leading a strict and seuere kind of life so far from his natiue Countrey at what tyme the plague infecting sorely those partes full of great sanctity and holynes of life he finally rested in our Lord. His body is kept at the forsaid towne of Arke vntill this day with due honour and veneration of the inhabitants for the Miracles that by his merits it hath pleased God to worke therat and there is visited as chiefe Patrone of the Village A The fourth Day AT Bodmin in Corn-wall the deposition of S. Patrocke Bishop CoÌ„fessour whose most godly life and vertues haue byn very famous in former ages throughout our whole Iland but especially in Corn-wall where his memory is fresh vntill this day and where many altars and Oratories in Catholicke tymes haue byn erected and dedicated in his honour He liued about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and fifty is said to haue byn the first bishop of Corn-well placing his Episcopall Sea at the fornamed towne of Bodmin which Bishopricke was afterwards translated to S. Germans at Cridington now called Kirton in the same Prouince lastly to Excester in Deuonshire by King Edward the CoÌ„fessour in the yeare of Christ one thousand and fifty B The fifth Day AT Dockum in VVest-frizland the passioÌ„ of S. Bonisace Archbishop of Mentz and Apoltic of Germany who being an Englishman by birth went ouer into Germany thâ—ce to Rome where he was created the first Bishop of the forsaid Citty of Mentz and sent thither to preach the Christian faith which he did incessantly for sixteene yeares togeather reducing many thousands from their Idolatry to the true worship of Christ building Churches Monasteryes for the coÌ„tinuation and propagation therof And at last going into Frizland to preach to that people was there â—â—ayne by the enemyes of Christ at the forenamed towne of Dockum in the yeare of our Lord seauen hundred fifty and foure His body was afterward translated to Mentz and there honourably placed in the Monastery of Fulda which himselfe had founded THE same day also and same place the passion of S. Eboam S. Adlar Bishops S. Vintruge S. VValter and S. Adelhere Priests S. Hamunt and S. Boso Deacons S. VVaccare S. Gunderbere S. VVilbere S. Hildebrand and S. Adolph Monkes and others to the number of fifty most of them Englishmen who were with the forsaid S. Bonisace martyred in Frizland for preaching the ChristiaÌ„ faith And as they were his fellowes in trauaile labours of propagating the name of Christ so were they worthy to be made partakers of his Martyrdome Their bodyes are most of them kept at Maestricht vpon the Riuer of Mosa with great veneration of the Inhabitants C The sixt Day IN the Monastery of Blandine neere Gaunt in â—landers the depositioÌ„ of S. Gudwall Bishop and Confessour who borne of a noble and ancient Brittish bloud and despising all worldly honours and preferments built many Monasteryes in our Iland and became Father to an hundred and fourscore moÌ„kes which he instructed in all kind of vertue good learning at last being made Bishop he went ouer into France and Flanders to preach the Christian faith in those parts where famous for sanctity of life and miracles he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ foure huÌ„dred and three His body was first buryed in the forsaid Monastery of Blandine but being afterward brought into England was thence againe in the second persecution of the Danes translated to Gaunt by Arnulph Earle of Flanders and S. Gerrard Abbot about the yeare of our Lord nyne hundred and fifty D The seauenth Day AT Knaresburge in Yorkeshire the deposition of S. Robert Abbot Confessour who borne in the same Prouince became first a moÌ„ke at VVhitby and then at Fountaines and last of all was ordayned Abbot of Knaresburge of the Order of Cisterce whose most holy life coÌ„uersatioÌ„ hath byn wittnessed by the manifold miracles wrought at his body after his death out of which in the time of King Henry the third there distilled a pretious sweet oyle very soueraigne for many diseases He was wont in his life time to recite euery day an hundred and fifty psalmes in honour of Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary He died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and fifty was buryed in his owne Monastery THE same day at VVorcester the Translation of S. VVolstan Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose wonderfull life and miracles haue byn famous throughout EnglaÌ„d His body being takeÌ„ vp on this day was found sound vncorrupted togeather with his Pontificall vestments wherin he was buried which was more theÌ„ an huÌ„dred yeares after his death and was very solemnely and with great veneration set in a more eminent place of his owne Cathedrall Church of VVorcester in the yeare of Christ 1218. It is recorded that the said Church being afterward burned by casuall fire the tombe wherin
his body lay was not so much as touched with the flame E The eight Day AT Yorke the deposition of S. VVilliam Confessour and Bishop of that Sea kinsman to Stephen King of England who by false slaunders being accused to Pope Eugenius the third was deposed froÌ„ his Bishopricke and one Murdacke set vp in his place but after againe restored by Pope Anastasius the fourth wherin with great signes of sanctity and innocency of life togeather with many miracles he finally ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and foure and was buryed at Yorke It is recorded by Polidor Virgil that when he was restored againe to his Bishopricke and comming towards Yorke the people flocked in so great number to congratulate and welcome his returne that passing ouer the Riuer beyond Pont-fract the throng and presse was so great that the bridge being but of wood brake euen â—ust as the Bâ—shop was ouer and threw all the rest into the water which when the holy man saw he fell downe vpon his knees and besought our Lord to saue them Whose prayers were soone heard For though the streame was very strong and violent yet were they euery one preserued from drowning THE same day in the Diocesse of Metz in the higâ—er Germany the deposition of S. Distoode Bishop CoÌ„fessour who borne in Ireland and a monke of the Order of S. Benedict was ordayned Bishop of Dullyn in the same Kingdome but going ouer into Germany to preach the Christian faith he resigned that dignity and became Abbot of a Monastery there which vntill this day is called of his name S. Disibodes in the forsaid Diocesse of Mentz where in great sanctity of life and Miracles he ended his blessed daâ—es about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred F The ninth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Columbe Abbot and Confessour who borne in Ireland and descended of a noble parentage forsooke the world and all other eartâ—â—y preferments and became a monke in one of the ilands of Orcades called 〈…〉 oy in a Monastery there of the Order of S. Benedict wherof at last he being made abbot was so famous for sanctity and holines of life that euen vntill this day his memory is fresh to the Christian world especially in the Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland where there be many Churchs yet remayning dedicated in his honour He desceased about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore and sixteene whose body was afterward translâ—ted into Ireland to the towne of Dune in the Prouince of Vlster and there with great solemnity and veneration interred togeather with the sacred reliques of S. Patricke S. Brigit He by his preaching conuerted to the faith of Christ the Pictes that inhabited Scotland and is called their Apostle working very many miracles among them to his dying day G The tenth Day AT S. EdmuÌ„dsbury in Sussâ—lke the TranslatioÌ„ of S. EdmuÌ„d King of the EastaÌ„gles martyr who in the Danish incursions vnder the Captains Hinguar Hubba being first whipped and then bound to tree and shot full of shaftes was finally beheaded All which torments he most constantly indured euer calling vpon the name of Iesus vntill he had finished his Martyrdome which was in the yeare of Christ eight huÌ„dred threescore and ten His principall festiuity is celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England vpon the twentith of Nouember but his body being taken vp afterward on this day was with great solemnity translated from Hexam in Northumberland where he was martyred and placed in a goodly shrine richly adorned with iewells and pretious stones in a Church erected in his honour in Suffolke which of his name was euer since called S. EdmuÌ„dsbury wherat it is recorded many miracles haue byn wrought And after this againe in the yeare one thousand ten the Danes inuading the Prouince of the EastaÌ„gles Alwyn the Bishop of that Diocesse brought the body of S. EdmuÌ„d from Bury aforsaid to London at the comming wherof in at Criplegate many miracles were wrought where for the space of three yeares it remayned in the Parish Church of S. Gregory neere vnto S. Paules and then was translated the second tyme to Bury in the yeare of Christ one thousand and thirteene THE same day in Scotland the festiuity of S. Margaret Queene wife to holy Malcome King of that nation daughter to Prince Edward surnamed the Out-law Sonne of Edmund Ironside King of England whose godly life and vertues especially in deuotion and liberall almes to the poore are yet famous both at home and abroad She died in great sanctimony of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue vpon the sixteenth of Nouember though her principall festiuity be celebrated vpon this day both in England and Scotland THE same day also at Rochester in Kent the deposition of S. Ithimar Bishop and Confessour who being a man of excellent learning and wisdome succeeded S. Paulinus in that Sea being consecrated therto by Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury which when he had gouerned most worthily for 17. yeares togeather in great sanctity and holines of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and eleuen and was buried in S. Andrewes Church at Rochester A The eleuenth Day AT Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Edilwald Priest Confessour who borne in our Iland of a noble parentage succeeded S. Cuthlert for twelue yeares togeather in leading an Eremiticall life in the Iland of Farne commonly called Holy Iland He was indued with so rare singular vertues that his very name was famous in those dayes throughout England Scotland S. Bede recounteth that a certaine skynne wherwith S. Edil 〈…〉 ald had stopped a hole in his Oratory did miracles after his death as also how by his prayers he ceased a storme or teÌ„pes that arose on the sea when certayne of his frieÌ„ds that came to visit him in the Iland returned homeward which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and nynteene about which tyme also he died was buryed in S. Peters Church at Lindisserne in the raygne of King Elfride of Northumberland B The tweluth Day AT Bâ—schopssen in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Agatha Virgin who being an English woman by birth and leading a religious life in the Monastery of VVimborne in Dorcetshire went ouer into Germany with S. Lioba S. Te 〈…〉 and others whome S. Bonisace an Englishman in like manner and 〈…〉 bishop of Mentz had sent for into those partes to be Directrices in Monasticall discipline of certaine Nunryes which he there had newly founded where vnder the forsaid Lioba that was constituted Abbesse of the fornamed Monastery of Bischopssen she liued died in great sanctimony and holinesse of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and seauen
Scotland contemned the vanities of the world in his youth and entring into a Monastery there tooke the Religious habit of S. Benedict In which kind of life he so excelled in all humility and perfection that his name was very famous throughout Scotland and Ireland euen vntill his dying day which happened full or sanctity of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ six hundred where also in ancient Catholicke tymes many Chappell 's and altars haue byn dedicated in his honour D The tweluth Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Luane Abbot and Confessour who being borne in the same Iland of a noble pareÌ„tage became there first a monke of the Order of S. Benedict and afterward Abbot of the Monastery of Benchor in the same Kingdome where he was very famous for sanctity of life in the tyme of S. Malachy Bishop of Connerthen Primate of all Ireland with whome he liued many yeares ending his venerable dayes in a good old age about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty and in the raigne of King Stephen of England E The thirteenth Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Mildred Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Merualdus King of the Mercians or middle Englishmen who contemning the vanities of this life became a religious woman in the I le of Thanet in Kent and afterward Abbesse of that Monastery in which kind of life she so excelled especially in humility that it pleased God to worke many miracles at her body after her death which being on this day translated to CaÌ„terbury by S. LaÌ„franke Archbishop of that Sea was togeather with the venerable body of S. Edburge most honourably placed there in the Church of S. Gregory in the yeare of Christ one thousand fouâ—score and fiue There was also a famous Monastery built in her honour in the Prouince of Kent besides many goodly Churches eâ—ected and dedicated in her name in diuers places of England Part of her Reliques were translated to Dauentry in Gelderland and there kept vntill these our dayes with great veneration of the people of Geldria She died about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure F The fourteenth Day AT Dauentry in Gelderland the festiuity of S. Marchebne Priest and Confessour who being an Englishman by birth and going ouer into the low-Countreyes as companion to S. Willebrord preached there the faith of Christ incessantly for more then threescore yeares togeather wherby he conuerted the greatest part of Frizeland and is called their Apostle And a ter infinite labours and toyles taken in that holy enterprize full of great sanctity and holmes of life and in a good old age he finally reposed in our Lord at a place in Transysleania to wit beyond the Riuer of Ysle called Oldseele about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore and two His body was aâ—ter translated to Dauentry where the same was honoured and preserued euen vntill our dayes with great veneration of the Inhabitants G The fifteenth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Translation of S. Swithin Bishop of the same Sea and Confessour whose life was so innocent and vertues so rare that it pleased God by him to worke many miracles both aliue and dead When he was ready to depart out of this world he commanded for humilityes sake his body to be buryed in the Church-yard wheron euery one might tread with their feet But afterward when many and dayly miracles were by his merits wrought at his graue and the concourse of people therto began to be great he was on this day taken vp and translated to a Church of his owne name erected in Winchester commonly called S. Swithins which now of late in hatred of his memory is by the Protestants named the Trinity This his translation happened about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred which day was afterward by commaundement kept holy throughout the Diocesse of VVinchester THE same day at Oldseele beyond the Riuer of Ysle in Gelderland the deposition of S. Plechelme Bishop and Confessour who borne in our Iland of Great Britany and going to Rome with S. VVero was ordayned Bishop of an old towne in ScotlaÌ„d named Candida-Casa now called VVhitherne in his returne homward preached the Christian faith to the Frisians where full of sanctity of life and miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and two His body is yet preserued at the forsaid towne of Oldseele with great veneration of the people therabout THE same day also at Pollesbury in VVarwickeshire the deposition of S. Eadgith Queene of Northumberland and sister to King Ethelstane who was giuen in Matrimony to Sithricke Prince or the Northumbers a Pagan vpon condition he would become a Curistian Which he accepted of but soone after renouncing both his Queene faith ended his life in a most miserable sort And she setting aside the cares and troubles of this world became a Religious woman receyued the holy veyle of chastity in the Monastery of Polesbury aforsaid where in great sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ 926. THE same day in like maÌ„ner at VVerdt in Cleeucland the passion of S. Harrucke Bishop and Martyr who being a Scottishman by birth and a monke of the Monastery of Amarbaricke in Scotland went ouer into the low Countreyes and Germany to propagate the Christian faith where being ordayned Bishop of VVerdt was at last put to death by the enemyes of Christ and so ended a glorious Martyrdome about the yeare of Christ eight hundred thirty and one MOreouer in Suetia the deposition of S. Dauid Confessour who being an EnglishmaÌ„ by birth an Abbot of the Venerable Order of Cluniacke went into Suetia to preach the faith of Christ to the infideâ—s of that CouÌ„try which he did for many yeares and after aboundant fruite reaped in that haruest by his holy labours and indeauours famous for sanctity of life he finally reâ—ed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two A The sixteenth Day AT Salisbury in VVilâ—shire the Translation of S. Osmund Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose liâ—e and doctrine hath much illustrated as well the vniuersall as our Catholicke Church of England He was the first that compiled the SaruÌ„ Breutary and other Cerimonies of that Church which were afterward receyued and vsed throughout the whole Realme For which cause in ancient tymes the Catholicke Bishops of Salisbury obtayned the Title of the Popes Maister oâ— Cerimonyes and had their places alwayes assigned them in the Popes Chappell other soleÌ„nitâ—es at Rome according to that dignity His body was on this day solemnely translated to new Salisbury from a village a mile distant from the sâ—me now called old Salisbury where he died in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and ninteene and there placed in the great Minster or Cathedrall Church of
meate that was therin saying They had more need therof then himselfe The Bishop sitting by and delighted with such rare piety in a King tooke him by the right hand and said This hand I pray God may neuer consume And so saith S. Bede it fell out for that his arme and hand being cut of at his death remayned till his dayes whole and incorrupt being kept in a siluer case in S. Peters Church at Bambrough He finished the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter at Torke which was before begun by his predecessour King Edwyn His body was first buryed at Peterburrow and part therof traÌ„slated afterward to VVinockes-Berghen in Flanders where the same was preserued with great Veneration A The sixt Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the depositioÌ„ of Blessed Henry Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being a Frenchman by birth and brother to King Stephen of England became first a monke of the Order of S. Benedict and after Abbot of Glastenbury and last of all Bishop of VVinchester and Legat Apostolicall of England In which dignity he behaued himself with so great humility and loue of the common people for more then fourty yeares togeather that his name was famous throughout all England France He died in great sanctity of life and spirit of Prophesy in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred seauenty and one about foure monethes before the Martyrdome of S. Thomas of Canterbury THE same day at â—one in France the Commemoration of S. Alexander Confessour who descended of the bloud-Royall of Scotland stole secretly thence for the loue of Christ in base attyre and went into France where he became a Lay-brother in a Monastery of Cistercian monkes at Fone labouring in the basest offices of the house vnknowne till his dying day Which being then reueyled to the Prior of the Monastery vpon obedience it pleased God to testify his worthines by a Miracle after his death which was thus A Monke of the same Monastery that had a sore vlcer in his brest and now growne to a fistula came to the said Alexanders tombe and there prayed Vnto whome AlexaÌ„der appearing brighter then the sunne with two Crownes one on his head and another in his hand the Monke demaunded what that double Crowne meant He answered and said The Crowne in his hand is for the temporall Crowne which I forsooke for Christes loue for he should haue byn King of Scotland being next heyre thervnto by succession as the Story relateth The other on my head is that which I haue receyued common with other Saintes And that yow may be assured of the verity of this vision you shal now be cured of your infirmity And hauing thus spoken and the other immediatly healed he vanished away He died about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred B The seauenth Day AT VVestminster by London the Commemoration of S. Maude Queene daughter to S. Margaret and holy King Malcolme of Scotland wife to K. Henry the first of England whose admirable and rare vertues togeather with her singular exemplar life hath byn a patterne euer synce to all Princesses in Europe especially her exceeding Charity towards the poore whome she disdayned not though neuer so foule leapers but rather imbraced them with all delight yea washed their soares and vlcers neuer so loathsome and filthy For whome she built also a goodly hospitall in the suburbes of London called S. Gâ—les as also founded the Priory of Christes-Church within Ald-gate of the same Citty Her body was with all veneration buryed at VVestminster in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and eighteene which yeare she desceased In whose praise these distiches following were composed Prosper a non laetam secere non aspera tristem Aspera risus ei prospera terror erant Non decor essecit fragâ—lem non Sceptra superbam Sola potens humilis sola pudica decens She was in her tender yeares brought vp in the Monasteries of Religious womeÌ„ at VVinchester and Rumsey in all exercise of vertue and learning She built a faire stone-bridge ouer the riuer of Lue at Stratford-vpon-Bow as also gaue diuers goodly mannours and lands to the Abbey of Barking in Essex for mayntayning of the same C The eight Day AT Glastenbury-Abbey in Somersetshire the Commemoration of S. Fagane Confessour and Scholler to S. Ioseph of Arimathia with whome when he had led a solitary life for many yeares in the Iland of Auallonia now called Glastenbury and being by S. Ioseph throughly instructed in the Christian â—aith and other vertues became himselfe a preacher therof and S. Iosephs successour in his Oratory where the â—amous Monastery of Glastenbury was afterward built Where also in great sanctity holines of life he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one hundred and twelue and was one of the first Confessours of our British Nation D The ninth Day AT Ely in Cambridgshire the deposition of S. Hugh Bishop and Confessour who being first a Monke and then Abbot of the Monastery of S. Edmundsbury in Suffolke was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of Ely where in all kind of most commendable vertues especially in humility and abstinence hauing gouerned that Sea fiue and tweÌ„ty years he happily ended his venerable dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and foure His body was very honourably interred in the Cathedrall Church of Fly within the Chancell which himselfe had newly built from the ground consecrating the same in presence of King Henry the third and his sonne Prince Edward in the yeare 1235. and was there kept vntill our dayes with great honour and veneration of the people He also built the Bishops Pallace at Ely besydes many other publicke works of Charity which he perfourmed whilst he liued E The tenth Day AT Lesmor in Ireland the Commemoration of S. Malcus Bishop and Confessour who borne in England and a Monke of the Monastery of VVinchester in Hampshire and of a most vertuous conuersatioÌ„ was elected consecrated Bishop of Lesmor in Ireland In which Pastorall office in great sanctity of life working of Miracles he finally ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twenty fiue He is also much praised by S. Bernard that liued at the same tyme who wryting the life of S. Malachy Bishop and Primate of Ireland among other thinges he saith of S. Malcus That the wisdome of God was in him c. F The eleuenth Day AT Chichester in Sussex the Commemoration of Bl. Gilbert Confessour Bishop of the same Sea whose integrity of life and vertuous conuersation hath made him famous to posterity He was a Father of the fatherlesse saith the Story of his life a comforter of mourners a defender of widdowes a relieuer of the poore a helper of the distressed and a diligent visitour of the sicke And thus heaping vp heauenly
treasure by the excercise of these and other like vertues and by his continuall teaching and instructing the people like a true Pastour of Christs flocke full of venerable old age he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred and â—iue was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church At whose body Matthew of VVestminster recordeth diuers Miracles to haue byn wrought He raised the foundations of our Blessed Ladyes Chappell at Chichester but death preuenting his pious endeauour the same was finished by another G The tweluth Day AT Stafford in the â—ame Shire the Commemoration of S. Bertelme Confessour who descended of a noble British lynage in our Iland contemned the puddle and vanityes of the world in the flower of his youth and became an Eâ—mite for the loue of God leading a most strict seuere kind of life in the woods neere Stafford aforsaid where in very great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes finally reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward brought to Stafford and being there interred was wont in ancient tymes to be kept with great veneration of the people of that Prouince A The thirteenth Day IN Frizeland the Commemoration of S. VVigbert Priest and Martyr who being an English-man by birth descended of an honourable stocke lead first a solitary life in Ireland and thence returning into England went ouer into Frizeland to preach the Christian saith to the Pagans of that Countrey which when he had done for two yeares without any great profit returned againe and gaue himselfe to his former Eremiticall kind of life But being sent thither the second tyme with S. VVillebrord his fellowes was by Radbodus King of the Frizians put to a mosâ— cruell death for persuading the people to breake downe a certaine Image of Iupiter which the said King had set vp to worship and offer sacrifice vnto about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and fourteene This man is different from the other S. VVigbert whose feast is also celebrated vpon this day by the Roman Martyrologe vnder the name and title of a Confessour B The fourteenth Day AT Elst in Gelderland the Translation of S. VVerenfrid Priest Confessour who being a Monke of the monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire went out of England into FlaÌ„ders and Germany to preach the Christian faith where he conuerted the whole Countrey of Geldria and became their Apostle labouring incessantly by teaching and instructing them in the true way of life vntill his dying day His body was afterward with great solemnity and veneration on this day translated to the forsaid towne of Elst wherat infinite miracles haue byn wrought especially in curing the disease of the Goute He died about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and siue and is honoured of the Inhabitantes of Elst as principall Apostle and Patrone of that Prouince C The fifteenth Day IN the Monastery of Cateby the Commemoration of S. Margaret Prioresse who borne at Abington in Barkeshire and sister to S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury was by him ordayned Prioresse of the forsaid Monastery of Cateby whose most vertuous life and conuersation full of sanctimony and miracles deserued to be famous euen vntill our dayes throughout EnglaÌ„d She died about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and seauen and was buryed in the same place At whose body it hath pleased God in testimony of her holines increase of deuotion in our Iland of Great-Britany to worke miracles D The sixteenth Day AT Douer in Kent the Commemoration of S. Thomas Monke Martyr who by certain French Pirates that laÌ„ded there in the night was most barbarously slayne in defence of the goods of the Church Monastery committed to his charge about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourscore and fifteene and raigne of King Edward the first of England His body was with great solemnity and veneration interred in the Church of Douer wherat it is recorded that miracles haue byn wrought in signe of his innocency E The seauenteenth Day AT Hartford in the same Shire the festiuity of S. Thomas Archdeacon of Northumberland and Confessour who hauing byn a disciple of S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury was of so great sanctity and holinesse oâ— life that it pleased God to manifest the same after his death by the manifold miracles wrought at his body He died in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three and was buryed in a little Chappell of the Carmelites at Hartford And for that there are three other Saintes of this name of the English nation this man is coÌ„monly called for distinctions sake by the name of S. Thomas of Northumberland THE same day at Egmond in North-Holland â—n the Dâ—ocesteo Harlem the deposition oâ— S. Ieron Priest and Martyr who borne in Scotland of a Noble bloud went ouer into Holland to preach the Christian faith to the peopâ—e oâ— that CouÌ„trey which wheÌ„ he had done most painfully for many years togeather with great sruite and profit of his holy labours was at last slayne in hatred therof by the Danes and Normans that made incursions into those partes about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and fifty His body was with great veneration brought to the Monastery of Egmond and there placed neere to the venerable Reliques of S. Adalbert their Apostle both which are now destroyed and cast out oâ— the Church in these our vnhappy dayes togeather with all other sacred Reliques and images in those partes to the lamentation of the Christian world F The eighteenth Day AT Rome the deposition of S. Helen Empresse mother to Constantine the Great who borne at Colchester in Essex as ancient Records testifie and daughter to Prince Coelus of Britany was for her great zeale in Christian Religion made worthy both of an earthly heaueÌ„ly crowne She desceased at Rome about the yeare of Christ three hundred twenty and six being of the age of fourscore yeares Her body was afterward translated to Rhemes in France and there is kept with great veneration The Greeke Church doth celebrate her feast vpon the one and twentith day of May togeather with her sonne Constantine She going to Hierusalem found out the Crosse wheron our Sauiour was nayled and suffered his passion for the Redemption of man-kind and repayred that Citty sore ruined through the warres of the Roman Emperours adorning the same with many goodly Churches and monumeÌ„tes She also builded the walles of the Citty of London Colchester in England togeather with a goodly Church in the Towne of Bedsord which being turned into a Monastery was called of her name Helenslow but afterward quite destroyed and ouerthrowne by the Incursions of the Danes about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eight G The ninteenth Day IN south-South-wales the Commemoration of S. Clintanke K. of Brecknocke and Martyr who
celebrated with great solemnity by the Inhabitantes round about MOreouer the same day at Condy in He 〈…〉 lt the deposition of S. VVas 〈…〉 lph Confessour who desâ—ended oâ— a nobâ—e bloud in the Kingdome of Ireland and brother to S. Etto of that Naâ—â—on did for the loue of Christ foâ—saâ—e his Countrey and friendâ— and went ouer into France to lead a solitary and strict kind of life where in great sanctity and holines famous for miracles â—e ended his blâ—ssed daâ—es in the Prouince oâ— Hen 〈…〉 whose body being yet preserued at the 〈◊〉 towne of Cordy is there honoured with great veneration of the Inhabitants B The second Day AT Hereford tâ—e Translation of S. Tâ—omas Bishop and Conâ—essour who being first Chancelour of the Vniuerâ—â—ty of Oxâ—ord theÌ„ of the whole Realme of â—nglaÌ„d was finally ordâ—â—ned Bishop oâ— Hereford which Sea wheÌ„ he had gouerned moâ—â—lâ—â—dably for many yeares he tooke his â—orney to Rome to Pope Mar in the second and died in his way homward at Mâ—te-â—â—sâ—oâ—e in the Dukedome of Florence in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourscore and seaueÌ„ whose sacred Reliques being brought into England were with great veneration on this day placed in the Cathedrall Church of Hereford His miracles are Registred in the same Church to the number of foure hundred twenty fiue AmoÌ„g which it is recorded that by his prayers were raised from death to life threscore seuerall persons one and twenty leapers healed and three and twenty blynd and dumme men to haue receyued their sight speach C The third Day IN VVestphalia the Passion of the Saintes â—waldi brethren and Martyrs commonly called Alâ—us and Niger who being Priests and Monkes of the Monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire went ouer into Ireland where liuing for diuers yeares in great austerity of life at last returned and went into Frizâ—land to preach the Christian faith to that Nation which they did for a long tyme with great labour and profit till comming into VVestphalia they were slayne by the old Pagan Saxone for the Confession of Christ about the yeare of our Lord six hundred fourscore and siâ—teene Their bodâ—es were afterward miraculously found in the riuer of Rhene most honourably layd in the Church of S. Cunibert at Cullen by Duke Pepin of France about the yeare of Christ 1074. and there are kept with great veneration of the Cittizens of that place D The fourth Day IN Northumberland the Passion of S. Eduyn King and Martyr who being the first Christian Prince of that Prouince and conuerted to the faith of Christ by the preaching of S. Paulinus Bishop of Yorke was afterward slayne in hatred therof by the impious Cadwalline King of the Britans Penda King of the Mercians in the yeare of Christ six hundred thirty and foure and in the seauenteenth of his raigne There was an ancient fayre Church somtyme crected and dedicated in his honour in the Citty of London by New-gate Market which there remayned vntill it was dissolued in this last age by King Henry the eight togeather with many other like goodly Monuments of Catholicke piety in our Kingdome E The fifth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Conwalline Abbot and Confessour whose rare vertues and learning haue in tymes past byn famous not only throughout his owne countrey but in others also He was first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and then made Abbot of an ancient Monastery in the Iland of Iona belonging to Scotland where in great sanctity of life and other vertues especially in the Reformation of Monasticall discipline he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and threefcore F The sixt Day IN NorthuÌ„berland the festiuity of S. Ywy Deacon and Confessour scholler and disciple to S. Cuthbert of Durham whose great holines of life hath in ancient Catholicke tymes byn famous in our Iland especially among the Northumbers He died as may be gathered out of antiquity about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and foure THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Comine Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble bloud in the same Kingdome and disciple to S. Columbe the Great in a Monastery in the Iland of Hoy was for his great learning and vertue made Abbot by him of another Monastery in the same Prouince whose godly life and miracles haue in former tymes byn famous both at home abroad He died about the yeare of Christ 600. G The seauenth Day AT Chich in Essex the Passion of S. Osith Queene and Martyr daughter to the King of the Eastangles and wife to Suthred the last King of the Eastsaxons who with the consent to her husband foâ—â—ooke the world and receyued the holy veyle of Chastity in the Monastery of Alisbury but afterward building another of her owne in a Village called Chich in the Prouince or the Eastsaxons and gathering togeather many noble Virgins became herselfe Abbesse therof vntill the Danes inuading that Kingdome and comming vnto her said Monastery cut of her head in hatred of Christian Religion The which she taking vp from the ground carried three surloÌ„ges â—o a Church of S. Peter S. Paul where coming to the Church dore imbrewed in her owne innocent bloud she fell downe and so ended the course of her martyrdome about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty In the place also where she was beheaded there presently sprong vp a miraculous fountayne of water very soueraigne for many diseases which euen vntill this day is greatly esteemed by the Inhabitantes neere about Her body was first buryed at Alisbury in Buckinghamshire but afterward by a voyce from heauen it was commaunded to be translated to the forsaid Monastery of Chich now commonly called S. Osiths of her name situated not far from the sea side wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles THe same day at Lincolne the Translation of S. Hugh Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose body after fourscore yeares that it had byn buryed was on this day taken vp and being found altogeather vncorrupt with a great quantity of cleere and sweet oyle in the Tombe where it lay was put into a costly shrine of siluer guilt and richly adorned with precious stones and set in a more eminent place of the same Church or Minster at Lincolne in the raigne of King Edward the first and yeare of Christ 1282. where it hath euer synce byn kept vntill these our later dayes with great reuerence and veneration for the miracles that haue byn wrought therat A The eight Day AT VValciodore in the Territory of Liege the Translation of S. Eloquius Priest and Confessour who borne in Ireland of a noble pareÌ„tage coÌ„ming into England went theÌ„ce into the low-Countreys with S. Etto his fellowes to preach the Christian faith where after much fruite reapt in gayning of soules to God
Bishop Confessour who descended of the bloud-roall of Scotland and Kinsman to King Fugenius the fourth of that Name despised â—or the loue of God aâ—l worâ—dly preferments and went ouer into the lower Germany to preach the Christian faith where when he had reduced many thousands to Christes flocke replenished with sanctity oâ— life he ended his blessed dayes in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty His body is kept vntill this day in a Village called Albâ—niacke in the Diocesse of Arras where there is a goodly Priorâ— of Chanous-Regular erectd in his name commonâ— called the Priory of S. Kilian Thâ—s man is different from the other S. Kilian of the same Name mentioned vpon the eight of Iuly who was of the Irish Nation and a Martyr C The fourteenth Day AT London the Translation of S. Erconwald Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea Sonne to Offa King of the Eastsaxons whose fame of sancâ—ity and holines of life togeather with working of miraclâ—s hath byn notorious throughout Christendome but especially in England He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and fifteene and was buryed at London in S. Paules Church but afterward taken vp on this day and transâ—ated to a more eminent place oâ— the same Church in the yeare of Christ 1148. At whose body it is recorded many mâ—racles to haue byn wrought THE same day at Ewe in Normandy the deposition of S. Laurence Bishop and Confessour who being first a Monke and then Abbot of Glindalacke in Ireland was la 〈…〉 y ordayned Bishop oâ— Dublyn in the same Kingdome And thence going ouer into Normandy in great holines of life and miracles ended his blessed dayes He was aâ—terward canonized for a Saint by Pope Honorius the third in the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred and six His body still remayneth at Ewe aâ—orsaid where it is kept with due veneration of the Inhabitants of that place ALso the same day in Bardsey-Iland in North-wales the deposition oâ— S. Dâ—â—ritius Confessour Archbishop oâ— Carleon vpon Vske Primate of the old Britans of VVales who resigning his Sea to S. Dauid King Arthurs vncle became an Ermite in the wild Mountaynes of North-wales where in very great austerity of life full of miracles in a venerable old age he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred twenty and two and was buryed in the aâ—orsaid Iland of Bardsey D The fifteenth Day AT Sainctes in France the Deposition of S. Macloue Bishop and Confessour who being descended of a noble British bloud MoÌ„ke of the Monastery ot Bangor in Caerneruanshire of VVales was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of Althene in little Britany now called of his name in that vulgar language San-Macloue and consecrated therto by Leontius Bishop or Sainctes which Sea when he had gouerned most worthily for many yeares in all sanctity of life and laudable vertues comming to Sainctes aforsaid in a good old age gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ 〈…〉 e huÌ„dred threescore and foure His Reliques were afterward translated to the Monastery of Gemblacum where the same are yet preserued with great honour and Veneration for the manifold miracles that in tymes past haue byn wrought therat E The sixteenth Day AT Pontoyse in France the Deposition of S. Edmund Bishop and Confessour who being somtyme Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury was ordayned Archbishop of Canterbery which Sea when he had gouerned for six yeares in all godly manner being many wayes 〈…〉 red by King Henry the third and 〈◊〉 Otho he resigned the same went 〈◊〉 into France and liued in voluntary banishment spending the rest of his dayes in continuall prayer and meditation in a Monastery of Chanons-Regular at Sorson where in very great sanctity of life he departed this world in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fourty His body was brought with all solemnity to P 〈…〉 yse where the same is kept with great honour and Veneration vntill this day He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Innocentius the fourth six yeares after his death This day was afterward commaunded to be kept holy in his memory throughout England King Lewes of France caused his body to be translated to a more honourable place of the Church in Pontoyse and bestowed theron a sumptuous shryne of siluer guilt richly adorned with many precious stones THE same day in Scotland the deposition of S. Margaret Queene wife to holy King Malcolme the third of that Name and daughter to Prince Edward of England surnamed the Out-law whose wonderfull life and vertues especially in deuotion and liberall almes to the poore are famous to posterity Her principall festiuity is celebrated vpon the tenth of Iune though she died on this day in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue and in the raigne of K. VVilliam Rusus of England F The seauenteenth Day AT Lincolne the deposition of S. Hugh Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who borne in Burgundy was sent for into England by King Henry the second and first made Prior of the Charterhouse-Monks at VVittam in Somersetshire and thence elected and ordayned Bishop of Lincolne In which function he so excelled in all kind of vertue and holines of life that his merits deserued to haue the same manifested to the world by the wonderfull miracles wrought at his body He newly built the Cathedrall Church of Lincolne from the foundations And when he had most laudably gouerned his flocke for fourteene yeares full of venerable old age he gaue vp his soule to rest at London in the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred His body was presently brought to Lincolne at what tyme there happened to be present King Iohn of England and VVilliam King of Scots with very many of the Nobility of both Realmes The two Kinges for the great reuerence they had vnto his holines bare-headed carried his body from the gates of the Citty vnto the Church where the same being most solemnly receyued by the Prelates Clergy was buryed behind the high Altar neere vnto the Chappell of S. Iohn Baptist. He was afterward canonized for a Saint by Pope Honorius the third in the yeare of Christ 1220. THE same day at Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Deposition of S. Hilda Virgin and Abbesse descended of the bloud royall of the Kinges of that Prouince who forsaking the vanityes of the world became a Religious woman first in a little Nunry neere to the riuer of VVire and then Abbesse of the Monastery of Hartsey now called VVhitby in Yorkeshire afterward of Strenshalt where in very great sanctity of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred fourscore Her feast is in many places obserued vpon the fifteenth of December where also we haue againe made mention of her G The
His feast is very soleÌ„nely celebrated with Octaues at Chure aforsaid as is to be seene in the Breuiary of that Diocesse wherin the whole story of his liâ—e is recounted at large THE same day at Dorcester in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Birine Confessour and first Bishop of that Prouince who conuerted the VVestsaxons to the faith of Christ togeather with their King Kinegilsus and so became their Apostle He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fifty and was buryed at the forsaid towne of Dorcester but afterward translated to VVinchester by S. Hedde Bishop of that Citty and there with great solemnity and veneration being placed in the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter and S. Paul deserued to be honoured with this Epigram of an ancient Poet that wrote his life in verse Dignior attolli quà m sit Tyrinthius heros Quà m sit Alexander Macedo Tyrin hius hostes Vicit Alexander mundum Birinus verumque Nec tantùm vicit mundum Birinus hostem Sed sese bello vincens victus eodem IN like manner the same day in the Territory of Liege in the Lower Germany the deposition of S. Eloquius Priest Confessour who borne in Ireland went ouer the sea with diuers other Companions to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the Netherlanders where after much fruite reapt in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty one whose body was afterward translated to the Towne of VValciodore and there is kept with great veneration as Patrone of that place B The fourth Day AT Salisbury in VViltshire the deposition of S. Osmund Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being a Norman of noble birth came into England with King VVilliam the CoÌ„querour by whome he was first made Chancellour of the Realme and Earle of Dorset and afterward for that he was a most vertuous and learned man he was elected Bishop of Salisbury which Church being begon by his Predecessour he finished adding therto a goodly Library which he furnished also with many excellent bookes And when he had most laudably gouerned his flocke for sixteene yeares in great sanctity and holines of life he happily reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nynteene and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Salisbury at whose body it pleased God to worke miracles He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Calixtus the third two hundred and fifty yeares after his death THE same day at Triuis in the Territory of Chure in the Prouince of Heluetia in Germany the festiuity of S. Emerita Virgin Martyr sister to King Lucius of Britany who going into Germany with her said brother was by the pagaÌ„ people of that CouÌ„trey for the confession of Christian saith put to death ending her glorious martyrdome by fire about the yeare of Christ one hundred fourscore and thirteene The whole story of her life is set forth at large in the Breuiary of the Diocesse of Chure aforsaid in her Office on this day C The fifth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Christine Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Edward surnamed the Out-law and sister to the famous S. Margaret of Scotland who togeather with her mother Agatha entred into the Monastery of VVinchester and there became a Religious woman first and afterward Abbesse of the whole house In which dignity she perseuering in all kind of exemplar sanctimony of life and Monasticall discipline gaue vp her soule at last to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourscore and in the raigne of King VVilliam the Conquerour D The sixt Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Congellus Abbot and Confessour who being a most venerable Monke of the Order of S. Benedict and liuing with S. Malachias at that tyme Bishop of Connerthen in Ireland was by him ordayned Abbot of an ancient Monastery neere to the forsaid Bishops Sea in the same Kingdome where in very great sanctity of life miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty THE same day at Cullen in Germany the Commemoration of S. Florentina Virgin and Martyr who being one of the number of the eleuen thousand holy British Virgins martyred with S. Vrsula was for defence of her Chastity there put to death with the rest of her fellowes about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three herselfe afterward miraculously reueyling her name E The seauenth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the CoÌ„memoration of S. Odwald Abbot and CoÌ„fessour who of a Monke of wonderfull Innocency and godly conuersation was elected Abbot of the monastery of Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers where in ad kind of holines of life and Monasticall discipline full of miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and six and was afterward buryed at Durham aforsaid THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Gallanus Monke and Confessour who borne in Ireland and desceÌ„ded of a noble bloud in that Kingdome came ouer into Scotland with S. Columbe the Great whose senoller and disciple he was where teaching preaching the Christian faith to the Pictes that in those dayes inhabited Scotland famous for sanctity of life and miracles he departed this world about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and fourscore F The eight Day THE CONCEPTION of the most glorious and immacusate Virgin MARY mother of God by the grace and power of her Sonne that preserued her from all inquination of synne which feast being first of all begun to be celebrated in our Iland of Great Britany in the tyme of S. Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury and King VVilliam the Conquerour about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore ten by the Monkes of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict to the honour and glory of the blessed Virgin was afterward confirmed by our Mother the holy Roman Church and coÌ„maunded to be kept holiday throughout Christendome to the increase of deuotion towards so mighty a Patronesse THE same day at VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of Blessed Agatha Queene daughter to Salomon King of Hungary and wife to Prince Edward of England surnamed the Outlaw and Mother to the two famous Saintes Margaret and Christine who when after the death of her husband she saw her Sonne Edgar to whome the succession of the Crowne of England by right belonged to be iniustly depressed and molested by the inuasions of King Harold first and after of the Conquerour and therby frustrated of the recouery of the Kingdome she with her two daughters resolued to take their iourney backe towards Hungary by sca but being driuen by teÌ„pest into ScotlaÌ„d they were very honourably receyued by King Malcolme who tooke the forsaid Margaret to wife And after a while
and prosperity famous throughout the Christian world both for Religion learning and prowesse vpon displeasure taken against the Popes Holines about his diuorce with Queene Catherine his lawfull wife began vnfortunately his breach with the Sea Apostolicke forbidding by Proclamation vpon the 19. of September all suites to be made to the Court of Rome c. And so by little and little going forward in this course now begun and being through euill Counsell incited first against the Clergy of England condemning them in a Premunire for relaxation wherof they were forced to giue him an hūdred thousād pounds and then against the Pope at last intituled himselfe Head of the Church of Englād taking vpon wholy the gouerment of all the Ecclesiasticall state in his Dominions dissoluing and suppressing Monasteryes other Religious places at his pleasure And moreouer exacting an Oath vnder payne of death of all sortes of subiectes against their consciences of this his pretended Supremacy This forsaid breach with the Sea of Rome thus begun and continued afterward vnder the raygne of King Henryes two Children Edward and Elizabeth holdeth also vntill this day in our Coūtrey in their Successour K. Iames to the great griefe of all the Christian Catholicke world The names of those who for refusing the said Oath or otherwise resisting this their pretenced Supremacy haue suffered vnder these forsaid Princes are set downe as followeth according to the yeares moneths dayes of their deathes Vnder King Henry the VIII Anno Christi 1535. Henrici 8. anno 27. IOhn Houghton Prior of the Carthusians at London Augustine Webster Prior of the Carthusians at Exham Robert Laurence Prior of the Carthusians at Beuall These were put to death at Tyburne the 29. of Aprill for denying the Kings Supremacy Richard Reynolds Monke of S. Brigits Order of Syon Iohn Hayle Priest Vicar of Thistleworth Humsrey Midlemore William Exmew Charterhouse Monkes of London suffered at Tyburne 18. Iune Sebastian Newdigate Iohn Rochester Iames Warnet Carthusians at Yorke 11. May Richard Bere Thomas Greene Iohn Dauis Thomas Iohnson Williā Greenwood Charterhouse Monkes died in prison in Iune Iuly Thomas Scriuan Robert Salt VValter Persons Thomas Reading VVilliam Horne Charterhouse Monke 4. Aug. Iohn Fisher Card. of S. Vitalis Bishop of Rochester at the Tower-Hill 22. Iune Syr Thomas More Knight at the Tower-hill 6. Iuly Anno Christi 1536. Henr. 8. 28. Iohn Pasley Abbot of Whaley Iohn Castegate Monke at Lancaster 10. March VVilliam Haddocke Monke at Whaley 13. Mar. N. N. Abbot of Sauley N. Astbebe Monke o◠Geruaux at Lancaster in March Robert Hobbes Abbot of VVoborne togeather with the Prior of the same Monastery a Priest suffered at VVoborne in Bedfordshire in March Doctor Maccarell with 4. other Priests at Tyburne 29. March VVilliam Thrust Abbot of Fountaynes Adam Sodbury Abbot of Geruaux at Tyburne in Iun. William Would Prior of Birlington N. N. Abbot of Riuers Anno 1537. Henr. 29. Antony Brorby of the Order of S. Francis strangled with his owne gildle at London 19. Iuly Thomas Cort Franciscan famished to death in prison 27. Iuly Thomas Belcham of the same Order died in Newgate 3. August Anno 1538. Henr. 30. IOhn Forest Frier obseruant Confessour to Queene Katherine in Smithfield 23. May. Iohn Stone an Augustine friar at Canterbury this yeare Two and thirty Religious Men of the Order of S. Francis being cast into prison for denying the K. Supremacy died there through cold stench famine in Aug. Sept. and October N. Crost Priest N. Collins Priest at Tyburne N. Holland Layman Anno 1539. Henr. 31. Adrian Fortescue Thomas Dingley Knights of S. Iohns of Ierusalē at Tower hill 8. Iul. Griffith Clarke Priest N. Mayre Monke at S. Thomas Wateringes 8. Iuly Iohn Tauers Doctor of diuinity Iohn Harris Priest 30. Iuly Iohn Rugge William Onion Priests at Reading 14. Nouemb. Hugh Faringdon Abbot of Reading at Reading 22. Nouemb. Richard Whiting Abbot of Glastēbury Iohn Thorne Roger Iames Monks of Glastēbury at Glastenb 22 Nouem Iohn Beck Abbot of Colchester at Colchester 1. Decemb. Anno 1540. Henr. 32. VVIlliam Peterson William Richardson Priestes at Calais 10. April Thomas Abell Edward Powell Priestes in Smithfield 30. Iuly Rich. Fetherstone Laurēce Cocke Prior of Dancaster William Horne Monke Edmund Bromley Priest Giles Horne Gentleman at Tyburne 4. August Clement Philpot Gentleman Darby Genninges Layman Robert Bird Layman Anno 1541. Henr. 33. DAuid Genson Knight of the Rhodes 1. Iuly Anno 1543. Henr. 35. GErman Gardener Priest Iohn Lark Priest Iohn Ireland P 〈…〉 est at Tyburne 7. March Thomas Asbey Layman Vnder Queene Elizabeth Anno 1570. Elizabethae 12. IOhn Felton Gentleman in S. Paules Churh-yard 8. August Anno 1571. Elizabeth 13. Iohn Story Doctor of the Canon-law at Tyburne 1. Iune Anno 1573. Elizabeth 15. THomas Woodhouse Priest at Tyburne 19. Iune Anno 1577. Elizab. 19. CVthbert Mayne the first Priest of the Seminaryes at Launston in Cornwall 29. Nouemb. Anno 1578. Elizab. 20. IOhn Nelson Priest at Tyburne 3. February Thomas Sherwood Gentleman 7. Febr. Anno 1581. Elizab. 23. Everard Hanse Priest at Tyburne 31. Iuly Edmund Campian Priest of the Society of Iesus Alexander Briant Priest of the same Society of Iesus at Tyburne 1. Dec. Raph Sherwyn Priest Anno 1582. Elizab. 24. IOhn Pa 〈…〉 e Priest at Chelemsford in Essex 2. April Thomas Ford Priest Iohn Shert Priest at Tyburne 28. May. Robert Iohnson Priest Thomas Cottam Priest of the Society of Iesus William Filby Priest at Tiburne 30. May Luke Kirby Priest Laurence Iohnson Priest William Lacy Priest Richard Kirkman Priest at Yorke 22. August Iames Tompson Priest at Yorke in Nouemb. Anno 1583. Elizab. 25. Richard Thirkill Priest at Yorke 29. May. Iohn Slade Laymā at Winchest 30. Oct. Iohn Body Layman at Andouer 2. Nouemb. William Hart Priest at Yorke Iames Laburne Gentleman at Lancaster Anno 1584. Elizab. 26. VVilliam Carter Layman at Tyburne 11. Ian. George Haddocke Priest Iohn Mundine Priest Iames Fen Priest at Tyburne 12. Feb. Thomas Emersord Priest Iohn Nutter Priest Iames Bele Priest Iohn Finch Layman at Lancaster 20. April Richard White Layman at VVrixam in Wales 18. Octob. Anno 1585. Elizab. 27. THomas Aufield Priest Thomas VVebley Layman at Tyburne 6. Iuly Hugh Taylour Priest Marmaduke Bowes Layman at Yorke Margaret Clitherow Cittizen of Yorke at Yorke in March Anno 1586. Elizab. 28. EDward Transam Priest Nicol. VVoodfine Priest at Tyburne 21. Ianuary Richard Sergeant Priest VVilliam Tompson Priest at Tyburne 20. April Iohn Addams Priest Iohn Low Priest at Tyburne 8. Octob. Robert Debdale Priest Robert Anderton Priest VVilliam Marsden Priest at Tyburne Francis Ingleby Priest at Yorke Stephen Rousam Priest at Glocester Iohn Finglow Priest Anno 1587. Elizab. 29. MAry Queene of Scotland at Foderinghay-Castle 8. Febr. Thomas Pilchard Priest at Dorcester in March Iohn Sandes Priest
the Commemoration of Blessed Inas King of the VVestsaxons and Confessour who leauing the care of his Kingdome to his kinsman Ethelhard went to Rome where he erected a Schole for the English nation as also a fayre Church therto belonging in honour of our blessed Lady neere to the hospitall of Sanctus Spiritus in the Burgo or suburbes of S. Peters both which were afterwards consumed by fire He was the first King of our nation that ordayned throughout his Dominions that euery family should once a yeare giue a penny to the Church of Rome in honour of S. Peter the Apostle which contribution continued euer synce euen vntill our dayes commonly called by the name of Peter-pence He founded the Abbey of VVells with the Cathedrall Church dedicating the same to God and S. Andrew the Apostle He new builded also the Abbey of Glastenbury which was the fourth building of that Monastery Besides the said Godly King did there in like manner erect a Chappell plated all ouer with siluer and guilt with ornaments also and vessels saith the Story of gould and siluer To the building of which Chappâ—â—â— ne gauâ— in weight two thousand six hundred forty pounds of siluer and to the aultar two hundred thrâ—escore and foure pounds of gold A Chalice with the patin ten pound of gold a Censar eight pound two candlestickeâ— twelue pound and a halfe of siluer a couer for the Missall or as then they vsed to call it the Ghospell-booke twenty pounds vessels for wyne and water to the aâ—tar thirty pounds of gold a holy water pot twenty pound of siluer Images of our Sauiour our Bl. Lady the twelue Apostles one hundred threescore and fifteene pound of siluer and twenty eight pound of gold A pall for the altar and ornaments for the Monks of gold and pretâ—ous 〈…〉 nes curiously wrought All which he gaue saith the Author to that Monastery but the same was afterward in this last age by commandement of K. Henry the eight defaced spoyled and robbed of all the forsaid and infinite other treasure And after all this the forsaid King Inas going in person to Rome and performing the things aboue mentioned tooke finally vpon him the habit of a Monke where in great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ 727. and was there buryed in the entrance of S. Peters Church as the ancient Tables Records therof do declare C The seauenth Day AT Luca in Italy the deposâ—tion of S. Richard King and Confâ—ssour sonne to Lotharius King oâ— Kent who sor the loue of Christ taking vpon him a long peregrination went to Rome for dâ—notion to that Sea and in his way homward died at Luca about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fifty where his body is kept vntill this day with great veneration in the Oratory or Chappell of S. Frigidian and aâ—orned with an Epitaph both in verse and prosâ— That in verse is this Hiâ— Rex Richardus requiescit Sceptriser almus Rex suit Anglorum regnum tenet ille Polâ—rum Regnum dimisit pro Christo cuncta reliquit Ergo Richardum nobis dedit Anglia Sanctum Hic genitor Sanctae Walburgis Virginis almae Et Willebaldi Sancti simul Winibaldi Suffragijs quorum det nobis regna Polorum The same day at â—ondó the deposition of S. Augulus Bishop Martyr who in the persecution of Dioclesian the Emperour for peaching the Christian faith in our Iland of Great Brytany was put to death by the enemyes of truth about the yeare of Christ three hundred fiue a little after the death of S. Alban IN like manner the same day at Rhemes in â—rance the Translation of S Helena Mother to Constantine the Great who borne in Colchester of Essex according to the ancient traditions of the Britans and daughter to Coclus Prince of Britany was famous for building of Churches in honour of Christ and his Saintes She died at Rome when she was fourscore yeares of age and was afterward on this day translated to Rhemes where her sacred reliques are kept wâ—th great veneration Her Memory hath byn very famous in tymes past in the Greeke Church whose celebrity is there kept vpon the 22. of May together with her Sonne Constamine D The eight Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of of S. Edelsled Virgin Abbesse daughter to Oswyn King of the same Prouince who by her Father being dedicated vnto God for a famous victory which he obtayned against the cruell Penda King of the Mercians was coÌ„mitted for her education to S. Hilda Abbesse of a Monastery amongst the Northumbers called Hartesey and when she came to riper yeares she founded for her selfe another Nunry in the same Kingdome called Strenshalt and was made Abbesse therof where in all kind of profound humility sanctity of life ioyned with other vertues she gaue vp her soule to her heaueÌ„ly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauenty Her body was buryed in the same Monastery wherat for many ages following it pleased God to worke wonderous miracles E The ninth Day IN the territory of Liege in the lower Germany the passion of S. Menigold Martyr who borne in England and descended of a very noble parentage became first a Captaine in the French and German warres afterward an Eremite vnto whome Arnulph the Emperour gaue a little territory neere to the banke of the riuer of Mosa where he built himself a cottage or Oratory for his deuotion And as he was going one day to the Church was slaine in hatred of ChristiaÌ„ saith by certaine notorious malefactors enemyes therof about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred His body was afterward translated to Huis neere Cullâ—n vpon the fifteenth day of lune where togeather with the body of S. Domitian Bishop the same is kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants of that place F The tenth Day AT VVorcester the TranslatioÌ„ of S. VVilfrid the second of that name Confessour Bishop of Yorke whose great sanctity and holines of life it pleased God to manifest by the incorruption of hâ—s body which being reueyled to S. Oswald Bishop of VVorcester to remayne interred in the Monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire then decayed destroyed by the Danes was by him sought for fouÌ„d whole incorrupt togeather with the venerable bodyes of siue ReuereÌ„d Abbots Tilbert Borwyn Albert Sygred and VValden all which S. Oswald traÌ„slated to his Cathedrall Church of VVorcester there with great veneration and honour interred them wherat it pleased God also in signe of their sanctity to worke miracles He died about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty This S. VVilfrid is different from the other of the same name whose festiuity is kept vpon the 12. of October G The eleuenth Day AT Tyre in Syria the Commemoration of Blessed VVilliam Bishop and Confessor who being
an Englishman by byrth became first a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and was afterward sent into Palestine and made Prior of the Monastery of the holy Sep 〈…〉 er in Hierusalem And in the yeare of Christ one thousand one huÌ„dred thirty he was coÌ„secrated the first Archbishop of Tyre in Syria which function when he had inioyed six yeares in all sanctity of life and vertuous conuersation he ended there his happy dayes in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thirty seauen THE same day in Breckneckshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Canoch Confessor who being sonne to Braghan King of Brecknocke great Vncle to S. Dauid Bishop of Menâ—â—ia was very famous for holines of life in those partes about the yeare of Christ foure hundred fourscore and twelue and whose memory is yet famous amongst the ancient Britans of our Iland especially in South wales He had a brother called S. Cadocke that was a Martyr a sister named S. Keynâ— who liued about the same time in great opinion of sanctity as the Records of their liues yet extant do demonstrate A The twelfth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the Commemoration oâ— S. â—dilwald Bishop and Confessour who being first a mâ—nâ—e then Abbot of the Monastery of Mailros in the Kingdome of the Northumbers was lastly promoted to the Bishopicke of Lindisserne now translated to Durham and succeeded S. Edbert in that Sea which when he had gouerned like a worthy pastour of his flocke for almost fourty yeares in great sanctity of life and vertues therto agreeable full of venerable old yeares he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and eight and was buryed at Lindisserne B The thirteenth Day AT â—ly in Cambridgshire the deposition of S. Ermenild Queene wise to VVulherus King of Mercia who after the death of her husband became a Religious woman in the Monastery of Ely vnder her owne Mother S. Sexburge who at that tyme was Abbesse therof and after her said Mothers descease she was elected in her place where famous for sanctimony and holines of life she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundredthreescore and eighteene ALso the same day at VVirtzburgh in Germany the Translation of S. Kâ—lian Bishop and Martyr who descended of the bloud royall of Ireland for the loue he bare to his neighbour-Countreyes came thence with three other CompanioÌ„s into Flaunders so went into Germany where he was ordayned Bishop of VVirtzburgh which Sea when he had held for few yeares diligently attending to his flocke he was slayne togeather with his three forsaid Companions by the enemyes of Christian saith in the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and seauenteene His body being buryed at VVirtzburgh was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of the same Church where beâ—ore it lay but his principall festiuity is celebrated vpon the eight day of Iuly C The fourteenth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Conâ—â—ane Confessour who borne in the 〈…〉 e Kingdome and desâ—â—nded of a noble parentage dâ—spised all pleasures of this world retyring himself to a Monastery became a Religious man of the Order of S. Benedict in one of the Ilands of Orâ—ades neere Scotland where in all kind of exemplar good life learning and vertuous conuersation in a good old age ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty His memory hath byâ— famous euen vntill thâ—se our dayes throughout the whole Iland of Great Britany but especially amongst the Scottish nation amongst whome also diuers Churches and altars haue in tymes past byn erected and dedicated in his honour D The fifteenth Day AT Vexouia in Goth-land the deposition of S. Sigfride Bishop and Confessour who being Archdeacon of the Church of Yorke was sent by King Alfred of England into Gothia to preach to the pagan people of that Countrey whome he conuerted to the Christian faith togeather with their King Olaus and so became their Apostle He was afterward made Bishop of Vexoâ—ia and Metropolitan of Gothâ—a which Sea when he had gouerned most worthily for many yeares in great sanctity and holines of life full of venerable old age he went to rest in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Vexouia where his body was kept with great honour and veneration of that nation for the myracles that were wrought therat vntill these later yeares of schismes and heresyes in those Prouinces E The sixteenth Day AT VVerdt in Cleeu-land the deposition of S. Tancone Bishop and Martyr who borne of a noble bloud in Scotland was first a monke and then Abbot of a Monastery in the same Kingdome called Amarbaricke and being very desirous to help his neighbour-Countreys for their soules health went ouer into Flaunders and thence into Cleeu-land and there was made Bishop of VVerdt where preaching continually and propagating the Christian faith he was at last slayne by the barbarous and incredulous people of that Prouince in hatred therof about the yeare of Christ eight hundred His body was buryed at VVerdt F The seauenteenth Day AT Lindisferne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the deposâ—tion of S. Finan Bishop and Confessour who being first a monke of S. Columbes Mâ—nastâ—ry in the Iland of Hoy by Scotland was ordayned Bishop of Lindisferne and succeeded S. Aidan that Sea where in all kind of godly conuersation sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore He is called the Apostle of the Mercians or middle Englishmen by whose endeauours in preaching a great part of that Kingdome was first conuerted to Christian faith togeather with their Prince Peda sonne to the notable persecutor Penda who with many great Larles Lords of Mercia was at the inâ—â—ance of holy King Oswyn of Northumberland by him baptized at Barwicke as S. Bede and other English Historiographers do recount There are many Churches both in England and Scotland dedicated in his honour G The eighteenth Day AT Saltzburge in Bauaria the Commemoration of S. Iohn Confessour Bishop of that Sea who being a monke of an old Monastery neere VVinchelsea in Sussex went ouer into Germany to S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz with whome he remained for a tyme and after going to Rome was by Pope Gregory the third created the first Bishop of Saltzburge and sent thither which sea when he had most worthily gouerned and preached the Christian faith for fourteene yeares togeather and brought many thousands to the true worship of God in great sanctity of life and venerable old age he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and seauen and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Saltzburge
France and became Maiâ—â—er to the Emperour Charles the Great by whose help he founded the Vniuersity of Paris about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and foure hauing himselfe byn scholler to our famous S. Bede in his youth His notable labours and workes in Gods Church are yet memorable throughout the Christian world He died at Towers in France about the yeare of Christ 813. was the first that composed the Masse Office of the blessed Trinity and of S. Stephen the Protomartyr which being afterward approued by our Mother the holy Catholicke Church is the same that now is vsually said in the RomaÌ„ Missal Breuiary G The twentith Day AT Hereâ—ord the festiuity of S. Ethelbert King of the Eastangles and Martyr who comming into Mercia to visit King Ossa and to treate of a Marriage with his daughter was through the malice of wicked Quendred wife to Ossa miserably slayne at a town now called Sutton-wallis foure miles distant from Hereâ—ord partly for ambition therby to inioy his Kingdome and partly also for that he was a Christian. His body being presently brought to Heresord and there interred it pleased God forth with to shew the innoceÌ„cy of his cause by the wonderfull miracles wrought therat Ouer which King Kenulphus afterward erected a goodly Church in his honour placing there a Bishops Sea and which is now the Cathedrall Church of that Citty He suffered in the yeare of Christ 793. A The one and twentith Day AT Finâ—hall among the Northumbers the deposition of S. Godricke Eremite who after he had lead a solitary life for threescore yeares togeather and twice on pilgrimage for deuotioÌ„ visited our Sauiours Sepulcher at Hierusalem and the blessed Apostles bodyes at Rome full of great sanctity of life veneble old age togeather with innumerable miracles he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred seauenty His body was buryed at Finâ—hall in an Oratory which himselfe had built wherat euen vntill the dayes of Queene Elizabeth many miracles were wrought THE same day at Constantinople the deposition of Blessed Constantine the Great who borne in our â—â—and og Great Britany according to ancient Traditions was the first Christian Emperour that restored peace to the Church of God He is by the Greekes canonized for a Saint and his festiuity appointed on this day among whome also many goodly Churches and altars haue in former ages byn dedicated in his honour And in North wales of our Iland there is yet remayning to be seene a fayre Church â—râ—ted and dedicated in his name B The two and twentith Day AT VVindesore the deposition of holy K. Henry the sixt of that name of England who being a most vertuous and innocent Prince was wrongfully deposed by King Edward the 4. cast into the tower of London where a little after he was most barbarously slayne by Richard Duke of Glocester in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred threescore and eleuen His body was first buryed in the Monastery of Cherâ—sey where presently it began to doe miracles which being sâ—ene it was with great solemnity and veneration translated to VVindesore and there honourably interred in the Chappell of S. Gregory wherat also it pleased God in wittnesse of his innocent life to worke many miracles Moreouer it is recorded that his Veluet â—at which he vsed to weare being put on mens heads that were troubled with the head-ake were presently cured He builded the famous schoole of Eaton and was the founder of the Kings Colledg in Cambridge King Henry the seauenth dealt which Pope Iulius the second about his Canonization but by reason of both their deaths the same was broken of C The three and twentith Day AT Rochester in Kent the deposition of S. VVilliam Martyr who borne in the towne of Perth in Scotland and taking his pilgrimage towards Hierusale on foote through England was by his owne seruant slaine in the high way a little froÌ„ the aforsaid Citty of Rochester whose body being brought to the towne it pleased God forthwith to worke many miracles therat in signe of his innocency where the same was after interred and kept with great veneration in the Cathedrall Church of S. Andrew in the same Citty vntill these our dayes The story of his martyrdoÌ„e miracles is writteÌ„ at large by Thomas Monmouth who liued about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and threescore D The foure twentith Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Commemoration of holy King Edgar Confessour and first Monarch of England whose glorious actes in Gods Church are famous to all posterity He builded and reedified seauen and fourty Monasteryes that had byn destroyed by the incursions of other barbarous Nations and endowed them with great maintenance as also caused by his intercession to the Sea Apostolicke all the Clergy of his Realme to be reformed In the houre of his Natiuity it is recorded that S. Dunstan heard a voyce of Angells singing Pax Anglorum Ecclesâ—ae c. Peace to the Church of England He died in all sanctity and holinesse of life in the yeare of Christ nyne huÌ„dred threescore and fifteene whose body was with all solemnity and veneration honourably interred at Glastenbury which being takeÌ„ vp in the yeare one thousand fifty and two almost fourscore yeares after his death by Aldar Abbot of that place was found whole and vncorrupt being cut fresh bloud issued therout as if he had byn newly dead wherupon he was put into a costly shrine of siluer which himselfe had somtime giuen to that Church and placed vpon the high altar togeather with the head of S. Apollinaris and the reliques of S. Vincent Martyrs wherat miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought And so continued there vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight and decay of that Monastery E The fiue twentith Day AT Sherborne in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Adelme Bishop and Confessour nephew to Inas King of the Westsaxons who trauayling into France in his youth after his returne became first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict at Malmesbury and afterward being made Abbot of that Monastery went to Rome in company of King Ceadwall and was there created Bishop of Sherborne in Dorcetshire by Pope Sergius and sent backe to his bishopricke where after great labours and many notable bookes wrytten for the instruction of men in Christian Religion but especially one of Virginity which he dedicated to the Nunnes of Barkensteed and wherby many were moued to that holy kind of Religious life he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nyne His body was buryed at Sherborne first but afterward remooued to Maimesbury where the same was wont to be kept in Catholicke tymes with great veneration F The six and twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Augustine Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea
that they had stayed there Agatha the Mother and Christine the other daughter returned into England entred both into the Monastery of Religious women at VVinchester where in very great sanctimony of life they finally ended their blessed dayes the Mother desceasing about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore and twelue whose body being interred in the same Monastery hath byn kept with great veneration euen vntill our dayes G The ninth Day AT Shaftesbury in Dorcetshire the Commemoration of S. Ethelgine Abbesse daughther to Alfred King of the VVestsaxons who despising all temporall and worldly preferments tooke a Religious habit and became a Nunne in the Monastery of the forsaid Towne of Shaftesbury which her Father had there newly erected wherof at last she being ordayned Abbesse gouerned the same in all sanctimony of life and exact Monasticall discipline vntill her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourscore and sixteene A The tenth Day AT Glower in Clamorganshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Chiâ—â—d Confessour and Eremite who borne in Wales and there descended of an ancient and noble British lynage contemned the vanityes of the world and for the loue of Christ became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the Mountaynes of the forsaid Prouince of Clamorgan where in very great sanctity and holines of life he finally ended his happy dayes His body was buryed at the forsaid Towne of Glower whose memory hath in tymes past byn very famous throughout England but especially among the ancient Britans of VVales B The eleuenth Day IN Morauia the Commemoration of S. Geruadius Bishop and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome tooke a Religions habit and became a Monke there of the Venerable order of S. Benedict and thence went ouer into Germany and lastly into Morauia where being created Bishop he preached the Christian faith incessantly to that Nation and became their Apostle And a ter that he had brought many thousands from their Idolatry to the true worship of one God full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holines of life he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and soure C The tweluth Day IN the I le of Crowland in Lincolnshire the Commemoration oâ— S. Elâ—rede Virgin daughter to Offa the Pagan King of Mercia who being conuerted to the ChristiaÌ„ faith principally by the murder coÌ„mitted by her Mother vpon King Ethelbert of the Eastangles that came to demaund her in Marriage for his wife forsooke her said parents friends and all other worldly prefermeÌ„ts and tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of S. Guthlacke in the forsaid I le of Crowland where in great sanctimony of life and obseruance of Monasticall discipline she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fourscore and thirteene D The thirteenth Day AT Pontoyse in France the Deposition of S. Iudo 〈…〉 Confessour and Ermite who being desceâ—â—ed of a most noble British bloud forsaking all worldly prefermentes went ouer into France and there for the loue of Christ became an Ermite In which kind of life he so excelled in sanctity and holines that it pleased God to manifest the same by the incorruptibility of his body which is kept whole vntill this day with great veneration at the forsaid Towne of Po 〈…〉 oyse He gaue almes foure tymes to Christ visibly in the habit of a poore man that demaunded the same and died in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and three Whose worthy praise this distich declareth Regia Progenies veterum styrps clara Britannúm Ecce nitet ruâ—la Iudocus luce per Orbem THE same day in the â—le of Thanet in Kent the deposition of S. Edburge Virgin and Abbesse daughter to blessed Ethelbert the first Christian King of that Prouince who being baptized and instructed in the Christian â—aith by S. Augustine our Apostle forsooke the world and entred into the Mona 〈…〉 ery of holy Virgins erected in the I le of Thanet aforsaid vnder the gouerment of her neece S. Mâ—ldred after whose death she became Abbesse of the same place where in all sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes S. Lansranke Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and siue translated her body as also S. Mildreds vnto Canterbury and placed them there in the Church of S. Gregory which he had newly repayred and enriched wherat miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought E The fourteenth Day AT Cullen in Germany the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Munborine Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble bloud in that Kingdome despised the world and became first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward went ouer into Germany and there was made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Martin in Calles which when he had most laudably gouerned for twelue yeares or therabout in great sanctity of life and miracles he endeâ— his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred four score and thirteene and was buryed in the same place F The fifteenth Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Translation of S. Hilda Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Herericke nephew to Edwyn King of the same Prouince who from her infancy giuing herselfe wholy to deuotion and piety became a Religious woman first in a little Nunry by the Riuer of Wyre and then was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery erected in the forsaid Kingdome neere to the sea side called Hartsey at this day coÌ„monly knowne by the name of VVhitby in Yorkeshire afterward of another Monastery also in the same Prouince called StreÌ„shalt which herselfe had built where in all kind of holines of life excercise of Monasticall discipline glorious for miracles she finally weÌ„t vnto her spouse in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore Her body was after many yeares taken vp and set in a more eminent place of the forsaid Church of Strenshalt where before she lay buryed wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles G The sixteenth Day AT Aberdine in Scotland the depositioÌ„ of S. Bean Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose wonderfull holines of life togeather with the Miracles he wrought both aliue and dead haue in tymes past byn famous throughout the Christian world but especially in Scotland and Ireland where also many goodly Churches Altars haue byn erected and dedicated in his honour THE same day at Dormundcaster-Monastery two miles from Peterburrow in NorthaÌ„ptonshire the Commemoration of S. Tibbe Virgin and Anchoresse who descended of a noble bloud in our Iland and KinswomaÌ„ to the Saints Kinisdred and Kiniswide forsooke the pleasures of the world and became an Anchoresse for the loue of Christ liuing a most strict and seuere kind of