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A14916	Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer.	Weever, John, 1576-1632.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 25223; ESTC S118104	831,351	907

Gregory Bishop of Rome approued of God by working of miracles and that brought Ethelbert the king and his people from the worshipping of Idols vnto the faith of Christ the dayes of whose office being ended in peace he deceased May 26. the said king Ethelbert yet raigning But from the Porch his body was remoued into the Church for in the yeare of our saluation 1221.5 Kalend. Maij. Iohn de Marisco then Prior of this Monastery with the rest of his Couent being desirous to know the place where the body of this Archbishop their patron was deposited after fasting and prayer caused a wall to be broken neare to Saint Austins Altar where they found a Tombe of stone sealed and close sh●t vp with ●on and lead hauing this Inscription Inclitus Anglorum Presul pius et decus altum Hic Augustinus requiescit corpore sanctus And in the yeare 1300.3 Kal. Augusti Thomas Findon then being Abbot enshrined his reliques in a more sumptuous manner adding another Distich to the former expressing his affectionate loue to the said Saint Austin his patron Inclitus Anglorum Presul pius decus altum Hic Augustinus requiescit corpore sanctus Ad tumulum landis Patris almi ductus amore Abbas hunc tumulum Thomas dictauit honore But for the continuance of this mans memory this Monastery it selfe howsoeuer demolished surpasseth all funerall Monuments Inscriptions or Epitaphs for in regard he was the procurer of the building thereof the names of Saint Peter and Paul are now and were many hundred yeares since quite forgotten and the whole fabricke called onely S. Austins Austin a little before his death consecrated his companion Lawrence Archbishop of this See the next to succeed him in his gouernment lest either by his owne death as Lambard obserues or want of another fit man to fill the place the chaire might happely bee carried to London as Gregory the Pope had appointed Of which consecration my foresaid Manuscript Than Awstyn made Lawrence Archebysschop thar Whyls that he was on lyve for he wold nowght It vacond werk ne voyde whan he dede war So mykell than on yt he set hys thowght Of covetyse of good nothynge he rowght Ne of Estate ne yet of dygnyte But only of the Chyrche and cristente Lawrence by allusion to his name cal●ed L●urige● thus conse 〈…〉 ceeded the said Augustine being archbishop 〈…〉 exhortation by works of charitie and 〈…〉 and by 〈…〉 a godly life to continue and encrease the number of Christian 〈◊〉 And like a true Pastour and Prelate solicitously care● not ●nely 〈◊〉 the Church of the Englishmen but also for the old inhabitants of 〈◊〉 of Scotland and Ireland amongst whom the sparkles of Christianitie were alreadie kindled The foundations of this Church being now well 〈◊〉 strongly layed the maine thing that thwarted his religious designes 〈◊〉 that Edbald king of Kent would not with all his godl● exhorta●●ons 〈◊〉 ing a vitious young man be brought from his Paganisme to beleeue in the onely euerliuing God And that his people following the example o● 〈◊〉 king returned ●ikewise to the filthie vomit of their abhominable Idola●●●e Lawrence perceiuing at last that neither his reprehensions nor faire words tooke any effect but rather incited the King and the Subiect to a more des●perate hatred of him and of his Religion determined to depart the kingdome to follow Bishop Iusto and ●ellite before banished and to recommend the charge of his flocke to God the carefull Shepherd of all mens soules But the night before the day of his intended departure saith Beda Saint Peter appeared vnto him in his sleepe and reprehended him sharply for purposing to runne away and to leaue the sheepe of Iesus Christ beset in the middest of so many Wolfes hee challenged him with Apostolicall authoritie argued with him a long while very vehemently and among all scourged him naked so terriblie as when he waked finding it more then a dreame all his body was gore bloud Thus well whipped he went to the king shewing him his stripes and withall related vnto him the occasion of those so many fearefull lashes which strucke such a terrour into the king as by and by he renounced his Idolls put away his incestuous wife caused himselfe to be baptized And for a further testimonie of his vnfained conuersion built a Chappell in this Monasterie of Saint Peter Of which I haue spoken before Of which more succinctly thus in my namelesse Manuscrip● The folke of Estesex and of Kent Aftyr the dethe so of kynge Ethilbert And kynge Segbert that was of Estesex gent Who 's sonnes thre than exilde out full smert The Crysten feythe and wox anon peruert Susteynyng hole theyr old ydolatry Mel●te and Iuste had banyshte out for thy But Lawrence than Archebysschop and Prymate For wo of that to god full sore than prayde Porposynge eke to leve all hys estate And follow Iuste and Mellet that wer strayde Owt of the lond so wer they both afrayde But that same nyght as Lawrence was on slepe Sent Peter so hym bett iyll that he wepe That all hys hyde of blod full fast gan renne Sayeng to hym wh● wyll thow now forsake The floke that I the toke and dyd ●y s●nne Among the wo●●es to ravyshe and to take Thou hast forgett how I for gods sake Sufferd be●yng pryson and dethe at end For hys serv●nds that he had me commend Wherfor on morrow he came to Ethelbalde And shewyd hym all how sore that he was bett In what wyse and by what wyght hym tolde Wherfor yt was wythouten longer lett For whyche the kynge was full of sorow sett In hast dyd send for Iust and eke Melite And them restoryd ther wher they were a●yte To teche the feythe and voyd Idolatry To baptyse eke as was expedye●t The whyche they did as was than necessary The Archebysschop dyed that hight Lawrence The yere of Crist wyth good benyvolence Syx hundryd hole and ther withall nyntene Levyng this world for heuens blyse I wene This Laurence writ a learned booke of the obseruation of Easter and some exhorta●iue Epistles to the Bishops and Abbots of the Scottish Irish and Brittish Churches beseeching and praying them to receiue and keepe the societie of Catholicke obseruation with that Church of Christ which is spread ouer the whole world He died the same yeare that Edbald became Christian Februar 3. An. Dom. 619. and was buried in the Church Porch beside Augustine his predecessour For whom this Epitaph was composed Hic sacra Laurenti suut signa tui Monumenti Tu quoque iocundus Pater Antistesque secundus Pro populo Christi scapulas do● sumque dedisti Artubus huc laceris multa Vibice mederis Mellitus sometime an Abbot of Rome succeeded Laurence in this grace and Ecclesiasticall dignitie sent hither by Saint Gregory to assist Augustine in the seruice of the Lord by whom he was first consecrated Bishop of London during his abode in

wherein they stood not onely vpon the words of their former crie but reading something out of a paper they went more particularly ouer the office and ca●ling of Hacket how he represented Christ by partaking a part of his glorified bodie by his principall spirit and by the office of seuering the good from the bad And that they were two Prophets the one of mercy the other of iudgement called and sent of God to assist this their Christ Hacket in his great worke These men were apprehended the same day The 26 of Iuly Hacket was arraigned and found guiltie as to haue spoken diuers most false and traiterous words against her Maiestie to haue razed and defaced her Armes as also her picture thrusting an iron instrument into that part which did represent the breast and heart For the which he had iudgement and on the 28. of Iuly hee was brought from Newgate to a gibbet by the Cro●e in Cheape where being moued to aske God and the Queene forgiuenesse be fell to railing and cursing of the Queene and began a most biasphemous prayer against the diuine Maiestie of God They had much ado to get him vp the ladder where hee was hanged and after bowelled and quartered His execrable speeches and demeanure as well at his arraignment as death vtterly distained and blemished all his former seeming sanctitie wherewith he had shroudly possessed the common people Thus you see how easily ignorant people are seduced by false new doctrines how suddenly they ●●ll from true Religion into heresie frensie and blasphemie robbing the Church of all her due rites and as much as in them lies God of his Glory which abuse of these times I leaue to be reformed by our reuerend Clergie On the next day to make an end of the Story Edmund Coppinger hauing wilfully abstained from meat and otherwise tormented himselfe died in Bridewell And Henry Arthington lying in the Counter in Woodstreet submitting himselfe writ a booke of repentance and was deliuered such was the end of these men saith mine Authour of whom the ●il●ie people had receiued a very reuerend opinion both for their sincere holinesse and sound doctrine And in the yeare 1612. Aprill 11. Edward Wightman another peruerse heretique was burned at Lichfield This Wightman would faine haue made the people beleeue that he himselfe was the holy Ghost and immortall with sundrie other most damnable opinions not fit to bee mentioned amongst Christians Yet for all this this heretique had his followers It is much to be wished that all backsliders from our Church should be well looked vnto at the first and not to runne on in their puritanicall opinions Of the Shcismatiques of those times and more especially of Martin Marprelate these Rythmicall numbers following were composed Hic racet vt pinus Nec Caesar nec Ninus Nec Petrus nec Linus Nec Coelestinus Nec magnus Godwinus Nec plus nec minus Quam Clandestinus Miser ille Martinus Videte singuli O vos Martinistae Et vos Brownistae Et vos Barowistae Et vos Atheistae Et Anabaptistae Et vos Haketistae Et Wiggintonistae Et omnes Sectistae Quorum dux fuit iste Lugete singuli At Gens Anglorum Presertim verorum Nec non qui morum Estis honorum Inimici horum Vt est decorum Per omne forum In secula seculorum Gaudete singuli A certaine Northern Rimer also made these following Couplets vpon him and his seditious Pamphlets The Welchman is hanged Who at our Kirke flanged And at her state banged And brened are his buks. And tho he be hanged Yet he is not wranged The de'ul has him fanged Is his kruked kluks His name was Iohn Penry a Welshman a penner and a publisher of books intituled Martin marre Prelate he was apprehended at Stepney by the Vicar there and committed to prison and in the moneth of May 1593. hee was arraigned at the Kings bench in Westminster condemned of Felonie and afterward suddenly in an afternoone conuaied from the Gaile of the Kings Bench to Saint Thomas Waterings and there hanged with a small audience of beholders saith Stow. CHAP. XI Of the conuersion of this our Nation from Paganisme to Christianity including generally the Foundations of religious houses in the same and the pietie in the Primitiue times both of religious and Lay persons OF the conuersion of this our Island from Paganisme to Christianity diuers authenticall Authors both ancient and moderne haue written at large a little then of so much will suffice for this present Discourse Christiana doctrina sexaginta octo plus minus annorum spacio post passionem Domini nostri Iesu Christi totum fere orbem peruagata est within the space of threescore and eight yeares or thereabouts after the death and passion of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Christian Religion was spread almost ouer the face of the whole world And so fruitfull and famous was this spreading of the Gospell that Baptista Mantuan a Christian Poet compares the increase thereof with that of Noah thus alledging vnto it Sicutaquis quondam Noe sua misit in orbem Pignora sedatis vt Gens humana per omnes Debita caelituum Patri daret orgia terras Sic sua cum vellet Deus alta in regna reuerti Discipulos quosdam transmisit ad vltima mundi Littora docturos Gentes quo numina ritu Sint oranda quibus caelum placabile Sacris As Noah sent from the Arke his sonnes to teach The Lawes of God vnto the world aright So Christ his Seruants sent abroad to preach The word of life and Gospell to each wight No place lay shadowed from that glorious Light The farthest Isles and Earths remotest bounds Embrac'd their Faith and ioy'd at their sweet sounds Now to speake of the conuersion of this Island out of a namelesse Authour who writes a booke De regnis Gentibus ad Christi sidem conuersis thus Prima Prouinciarum omnium sicut antiquissimi Historiarum Scriptores memoriae prodidere quorum etiam authoritatem M. A. Sabellicus inter nostrae aetatis recentiores est sequutus Britannia Insula publico consensu Christi fidem accepit The first of all Prouinces or farre countries as ancient Historiographers haue deliuered to memory whose authority M. A. Sabellicus one amongst the late writers of our age doth principally follow this Island of Britaine by common consent receiued the Christian faith The glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ saith Gildas Albanius surnamed the wise the most ancient of our British Historians which first appeared to the world in the later time of Tyberius Caesar did euen then spread his bright beames vpon this frozen Island of Britaine And it is generally receiued for a truth that Ioseph of Arimathea who buried the body of our Sauiour Christ laid the foundation of our faith in the West parts of this kingdome at the place or little Island as then called Aualon now Glastenbury where he with twelue disciples his