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

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

on the equity of his plea deemd himselfe bound vnles he would betray his trust to attempt the recouery of these Lands His courage was such that in Gods cause he feard no colour of greatnes nor multitude of opposers and why should he synce he was armd with the armour of the just a true armour of prooff hauing justice or a good Conscience for his Sap. 5. 20. breast plate piece syncer judgment for his helmett and equity for an inuincible shield Courage and magnanimity is neuer better seconded then by vertue and sanctity and a good cause when these make the onsett be the opposition what it will they Carry all before them Of his owne nature he was so auerse from suites or contrasts that he would sooner haue yealded vpp his priuate right to an aduersary then sought to regaine it by Law in what belongd to his Church he could not it being not his owne but Gods who requird it at his hands But to moderate and facilitate all the best he could the first essay he made was a modest and peacefull clayme of his right proposing an agreement on reasonable tearmes and in case it were refusd a ready offer of a Reference if that were rejected too then he left the matter to a tryall at law in which he playd the Sollicitour so well and was so diligently watchfull that he would be present at the decision though he were carry'd in a litter This conscientious proceeding grounded on an equitable right driuen on by a studious attendance made him neuer fayle to winn his plea. Hence such was the opinion which euery one conceiu'd of his zeale and courage in behalfe of his Spouse or Church that during the time of 7. yeares which he sate in its Chayre no body durst presume to offer the least encroachment on its immunityes knowing well that to offer such a thing were to awake a sleeping Lion But this was not enough his loue and magnanimity aymd at a recouery of what was vnjustly invaded and detaynd in which behalfe though the endeauours of his immediate predecessours Peter and John had bin little successfull being ouer powerd with might he also would try his chance and began with the greatest first Wherfore after a legall clayme layd to Malbume Chase and other lands and woods ther to adioyning wrongfully withheld by Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester nor receiuing any satisfactory answere towards a restitution he commenc'd a suite against him and followd it so close that notw ithstanding all his greatnes and countenance from the King cleare justice was ready to giue verdict on his behalfe The Court was held neer or vpon the place controuerted and the Earle had armd men togeather with his Forresters in case of being cast to keep possession by force and seeing things brought to this pass besought the King for a suspension of the finall Sentence which was granted All this nothing abashd the H. Bishop who going a syde to geather with his Clergy into the wood putt himselfe in his Episcopall Robes and them in theyrs with lighted tapers thus going before them he came to the place where the Judges togeather with the Earle made theyr a bode where the Candles being putt out he solemnly pronouned a sentence of Excommunication against all and euery one who that day hinderd and molested his and the Church of Herefords right in the sayd woods and forrest This done the Earle perceiu'd who he had to deale withall and presently taking horse departed nor was he sooner gone then the Judges proceeded to giue sentence and that giuen the Bishopp causd his seruants to hunt as in his owne libertyes through the same Chase to Regaine possession and he himselfe for the same purpose walkd ouer the bounds vnarmd as he was though it were not done without danger of his life For diuers of the Earles men obstinately persisting to maintaine the quarrell shott at random very neer his person without any respect or reuerence had therto one of whome more injurious then the rest he threatned with the diuine reuenge and the same person shortly after sayth the Record was miserably drownd the Common voyce of all going that it was a just punishment for his contemptuous carriage towards the Saint and well for him if onely a temporall He proceeded much after the same fashon with Lewellin Prince of Wales and to excommunication also for vniustly detayning 3. villages situated neer Montgomery belonging to the sayd his See Who lying thus vnder the Censure came with the King as fearing nothing vnder his shaddow into a Church where the Saint was going to Say Mass He espyd the Excommunicated person and without further complement warnd him as such out of the Church the King himselfe interpossd for his stay but all would not doe nor he beginn till the other had absented himselfe nor could he be admitted into Communion before due satisfaction was performd He was in like manner forc'd to vse the same rigour both spirituall and temporall against some Welshmen who had vsurpt 3. villages of his Territory and defended them by strong hand till proceeding to the like censures he frighted them into a restitution Roger Lord Clifford a Neighbourer vpon his Diocess had trenchd so farr vpon the same in time of warr as to driue bootyes of cattle and vse extorsions vpon some of the diocesans He was too noble minded to denye the fact or putt the H. Bishop to the prooff of it but now willing to restore all his endeauour was to make satisfaction in priuate by some Composition without vndergoing the confusion of a publique and to obtayne this he offerd vnderhand no small summe of money He knew not with whome he had to doe nor the principle it seems that a publique fault must haue a publique pennance the offence being notorious a priuate attonement could not be admitted nor the scandall taken away till he in person in the Church of Hereford appearing in a penitentiall weed barehead and barefoot went in procession vpp to the high Aultar it selfe the Bishop following with a rodd in his hand and according to the canons striking him XVI CHAPTER His iourney to Rome and entertainment there THe last contest he had and which cost him dearer then the rest as going more against the hayre for he lou'd not debates with superiours was with his Metropolitane Iohn Peccham Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a man of great learning and ability and a worthy Prelate as graue Authors doe testify of him Nor is eyther he or our Saint to be the worse thought off for this theyr variance synce good and wise men may be of a different judgment as to matters of right or fact vntill a just umpyre decide the controuersy till then both the Plaintiff and Defendant may inculpably by course of law seek theyr right This Iohn Peccham succeeded Robert Kilwarby in the Chayre of Canterbury with whome he carry'd this reference that as the other had bin Prouintiall of the H. 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preseruation of her immunityes Vpon this account he vndertook a iourney to Rome which cost him his life nor could any temporall power how formidable soeuer appale him when he found justice his a bettour in this a true imitatour of his glorious Patrone S. THOMAS of Canterbury which his magnanimity synce it is to be the subject of the next Chapter I will say no more heer then onely to referr the reader to it Now as charity had made him her victime and as such a perfect holocaust of loue no wonder if louing it so entyrely he hated as hartily its opposite and Riuall detraction The horrour he bore to that vice was so signall that all the Writers of his life take notice of it and in such expressions of auersion that greater can hardly be inuented And indeed how could these bowells all made of loue doe other wise then abhorre its destructiue a compound made vpp of malice and enuy It is a murtherer of its neighbours good name a Robber of his meritt and prayse a thiefe that 's allwayes pilfering somthing a poysonous breath that seeks to blast what 's not its owne a meer lump of selfe loue repining at anothers prosperity He learnd this lesson of the great S. AVSTIN who as he was charitably hospitable so he excluded none from his table besydes the detractour as the noted distick which he putt vpp to that purpose doth testify Our B. Saint as he perfectly detested this vice in him selfe so he could not endure it in any of his domestiques nor did he omitt when he found them faulty to giue a seuere reprehension One of his Chaplans hauing bin present at a passage betwixt the Arch-Bishop Peccham and him wher in the Saint seemd to receiue hard dealing both as to words and deeds the Chaplain in time of table Complaining of it begann to inueigh against the court of Rome for its negligence in prouiding able and fitt Prelates to gouerne thyer flocks with much more then needed to that purpose His Lord was presently mou'd therat and giuing him a check wishd him to speak more reuerendly and charitably of all and chiefly of his Superiours and betters It may be expected that treating of his charity to all som thing should be sayd of it in order to God whome it regards in the first place It is this loue chiefly which is the fullfilling of the Law and Prophetts by which we loue God aboue all and our Neighbour as our selfe in and for God so that this latter part of the Law Cannot subsist without the former on which it depends As his whole life was as I may say one continued or vninterrupted act of charity towards God by which he was incessantly not onely tending towards him but alsoe vnited to him in his deuine grace as will appeare by the reuiew of his vertves soe an ample scope of matter Cannot fayle him that would dilate himselfe on this subject for what are all morall vertues but so many issues or shoots of charity theyr root yett at present we will rather suppose this vertue of vertues then goe about to prove it and leaue it to be drawen by the reader rather from his other perfections then make a formall draught of it praising it perchance as much or more by an admiring silence then extenuating expressions for what are the Commendatoryes of our words to the liuely colours of his vertues Besydes we shall haue occasion to say somthing of it when we treat of his piety and deuotion true gennuine children of this Mother XV. CHAPTER His Courage in defence of Ecclesiasticall Libertyes THe Church is the Bride of Christ espousd at the expense of his pretious blood dearer to him then his life and who euer touches her to wrong her touches the apple of his eye For her defence and propagation he settled a Hierarchy in which he gaue some Apostles some Doctours others Pastours for the work of the Ministery and edification of this his Mysticall body In this Hierarchy Ministery edification Bishops as the immediate successours of the Apostles Carry the first rank both in gouerning and feeding in feeding is regarded the wholsomnes of the fodder and pasturage in gouerning direction and protection and both these require that he be a true Sheapard not a hyreling and seek the good of his flock not himselfe If the hyreling see a wolfe Coming sayth the best of Sheapards Joan. 10. 12. he runns away because he is a hyreling while the good Sheapard exposes his life for his sheep shunning neyther paynes nor danger for theyr safety and behoof and so did our B. Saint prouing himselfe a good Sheapard indeed His loue to his espousd Church was as tender as ought to be to his owne Spouse now a Spirituall part of himselfe and the Spouse of Christ and he embracd her as such and togeather with her espousd all her Concerns whatsoeuer and this is no more then is ordinarily done euen in Corporall Marriages It was his deuoir to proue himselfe a faithfull Menager of the family he was entrusted with all and a valiant maintainer of all its possessions priuiledges Libertyes immunityes that in none of them it might suffer prejudice This he took to hart exceedingly as deeming it the prime part of his charge resolu'd to expose and oppose himselfe as a wall for the House of God and what we are to relate will shew that he fayld not in his resolution sealing it euen with the loss of his life and what greater pledg of his fidelity It had bin the deplorable misfortune of our poore Country that for many yeares successiuely and by fitts it had bin inuolu'd in an vnnaturall intestine warr which as it causd great Confusion in the ciuill state so did it no little in the Ecclesiasticall In such times of liberty abuses easily creep in an vniust inuasion being much sooner committed then redressd for when the sword giues Law it s in vayne for the Crosyer to plead Conscience or preach Restitution a language little vnderstood in in ciuill garboyles The weakest they say goe allwayes to the walls and so does the Church as least able in such occasions to defend it selfe synce it cannot nor must not repell force by force and so to redeem vexation is compelld to part with her right especially when the inuaders are powerfull This was the case of the See of Hereford when our Saint enterd vpon it it had bin vniustly outed of diuers large possessions and what made the Recouery harder the possessours had quiettly enioyd them diuers yeares euen in time of peace when the lawes had theyr Course his two predecessours knowing well the equity of theyr cause but dispayring to preuayle against such potent aduerfaryes One wheroff was the Kings Sonn-in-law Gilbert Earle of Glocester another Lewellin Prince of Wales and a third Roger Lord Clifford besydes the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others Our H. Saint hauing maturely considerd all this though he found the task very hard yett relying