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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43426	Domus carthusiana, or, An account of the most noble foundation of the Charter-House near Smithfield in London both before and since the reformation : with the life and death of Thomas Sutton, esq., the founder thereof, and his last will and testament : to which are added several prayers, fitted for the private devotions and particular occasions of the ancient gentlemen, &c. / by Samuel Herne.	Herne, Samuel.	1677 (1677)	Wing H1578; ESTC R10688	113,628	343

his Noble and Magnificent Benefaction Edv. 3. Anno 11o. He was sent Ambassadour to the French King which was no mean Imployment for him either as he was a Gentleman or a Stranger In this Voyage he couragiously lands his men on the Isle of Agnes on purpose to revenge the Death of some English men who not long before were slain by the Inhabitants when they came for fresh water Here he made a general slaughter and takes the Earl of Flanders his Brother Captain of the Island Prisoner His next martial performance was in company of Henry Earl of Derby Duke of Lancaster into Gascoign and Guyen where these two only attended with Five hundred men at Arms and some few Archers did mighty things vanquisht the Enemy and recover'd many walled Towns and Castles It chanced that the Countess of Montfort Sister to Louis Earl of Flanders like an undaunted Virago put on Armour and leads and encourages her People to repell the common Foe She desires aid of the King of England and hath it granted under the conduct of no less a man than the Lord Walter de Manny Not long after the King himself fighting with the French that he might not be known in Person puts himself and the Prince under the Colours and Defence of the same Invincible Warriour This may suffice for a small description of his Strength and Valour I shall now proceed to the occasion of this singular Instance of his Piety and Beneficence He lived in an Age wherein all things seemed as wonderful as himself Ann. 1345. on the Conversion of St. Paul a great Earthquake shook Germany wherewith many Villages and Castles fell down likewise Stones mixt with Rain fell out of the Air Moreover the same day many publick and private Houses fell at Venice afterwards the Earth was shaken more or less fifteen days whereof it hapned that almost all Women with Child were delivered before their time And after this a noysom Pestilence called Inguinaria invaded the People the venom of the Disease was so deadly that scarce one in an hundred escaped alive It began first in Scythia there raged along the Coasts of the Sea Pontus and Hellespont at length through Greece and Illyria it came into Italy 1346. A great Vapour coming from the North-part to the great fear of the Beholders was seen in the Air and fell on the Earth And the same year certain small Beasts in great number fell from the Element in the East through whose corruption and stench there ensued a great Plague which for three years reigned over the whole World First creeping into Asia from India was vehement in England Florence Germany and all Europe The Jews were thought guilty of it by poisoning Fountains and therefore they were burned every where 1349. The Eighth of the Calends of Febr in Noricum on that side it is joyned with Pannonia Illyrium Dalmatia Carinthia and Istria there was a great Earthquake in the Evening which lasted forty days Six Cities and Castles were overthrown and swallowed up In London the Plague was so vehement that in a place called Charter-house-yard were buried of the better sort of People Sixty thousand says Cambden in his Britannia Middlesex p. 311. Ibi floruit opulenta Carthusianorum aedes à Gualtero Manny Hannonio posita Qui summa cum laude sub Edv. 3. bello Gallico meruit Celeberrimúmque fuit eo loco ante Caemeterium in quo grassante peste 1349. Londino sepulta fuerunt plusquam quinquaginta hominum millia quod inscriptione ibi in aere p●steris fuit testatum In this dismal time it pleased God to stir ●p the heart of this Noble Knight to have respect to the danger that might fall in the time of this Pestilence then begun in England if the Churches and Church-yards in London might not suffice to bury the multitude Wherefore he purchased a piece of ground near St. John's street called Spittle-Croft without the Barrs in West-Smithfield of the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew Spittle containing Thirteen Acres and a Rod and caused the same to be Enclosed and Consecrated by Ralph Stratford Bishop of London at his own proper Cost and Charges In which place in the year following Stow reports were buried more than Fifty thousand Persons as is affirmed by the King's Charter and by this following Inscription which he read upon a Stone Cross sometime standing in the Charter-house-yard An. Dom. M. CCC XL. IX Regnante magna Pestilentiâ consecratum fuit hoc coemeterium In quo infra septa praesentis Monasterii sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Here not long after he caused a Chappel to be built wherein Offerings were made and Masses said for the Souls of so many Christians departed And afterwards Ann. 1371. he founded an House of Carthusian Monks which he built in Honour of the Salutation of the Mother of God as may be seen at large in the King's Charter and the Pope's Bull which I have annexed This Pestilent Disease continued in one place or another till the Year 1357. at which cessation the Bishop of Norwich the Earl of Northampton Earl of Stafford Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Walter de Manny sailed over into France to make a Peace which they did for a year only But after many long and happy years when the Prince of Wales eldest Son to Edward the Third dy'd at Bourdeaux the Prince with his Wife and other Son Richard came over into England then in the year 1371. dy'd our worthy Heroe at London and was buried in the Monastery of the Chartreux which he had built leaving behind him only one Daughter married to John Earl of Pembroke Thus departed the generous Soul of this pious Founder thus he desired to sleep in peace among his Carthusians in the Fields as 〈◊〉 M. ss terms them in the Cott. Libr. and left such a Monument of his Bounty to Posterity that I suppose it no Crime to make this Honourable mention of Him For at the Dissolution of Religious Houses this was valued at Six hundred forty two pounds four pence half penny If any person be offended at what is said because he lived in a dark and gloomy Age I refer him to the Preface of that great Man Cambden in his Britannia Sunt ut audio qui Monasteria eorum Fundatores à me memorari indignantur dolentu● audio sed cum bonâ illorum gratiâ dixerim iidem indignentur imo forsan oblivisci vèlint majores nostros Christianos fuisse nos esse cum non alia Christianae eor um pietatis in Deum devotionis certiora illustriora uspiam extiterint monumenta nec alia fuere plantaria unde Christiana Religio bonae literae apud nos propagentur utcunque saeculo corrupto averruncanda filix in illis plus nimio succreverit CHAP. V. Of their Fabulous Miracles AS we