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A09859	The flowers of the liues of the most renowned saincts of the three kingdoms England Scotland, and Ireland written and collected out of the best authours and manuscripts of our nation, and distributed according to their feasts in the calendar. By the R. Father, Hierome Porter priest and monke of the holy order of Sainct Benedict, of the congregation of England. The first tome.	Porter, Jerome, d. 1632.; Rucholle, Peeter, 1618-1647, engraver.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 20124; ESTC S114966	523,559	659

chastitie and giue twelue V●wes of chastity pleasing vnto God farmes with the land therevnto belonging to the erection and foundation of monasteries yf by his diuine assistance and to his greater honour he should ouerthrow the insolent pride of his Barbarous enemie This sayd with a heart full of cōfidence he prepared him self and his small armie for the battle The number of his aduersaries are reported to haue redoubled thirtie times his all well repoynted and old tried souldiers against whom bouldly marched King Oswy with his sonne Al●frid The battle was fought were the riuer Junet which at that time ouerflowed his banks soe that the Victorie falling with Oswy more by flight were drowned in the water then King Oswy victorious ouer Penda slaine with the sword And herein proud Penda payd death his due with the ouerthrow of all his Mercian power This noble victorie being by gods holy assistance soe nobly or rather miraculously wonne King Oswy gaue infinite thankes vnto allmightie God and for performance of his vow made he deliuered his daughter ELFLED as yet scarse a yeare old to be brought vpp in a monasterie of Benedictine nunnes called Heretheu vnder the pious conduct of S. HILDA And withall he gaue the lands of one hundred and twentie families for the building and maintayning of monasteries But two yeares afterwards S. HILDA purchased the possession of tenne Elfled taketh the habit of S. Benedict families and built the monasterie of Streanshall where ELFLED being come to age first receaued the habit of S. BENEDICTS order and hauing bin long trained vp in this holy schoole of vertue in the continuall exercise of monastical discipline she afterwards succeeded S. HILDA being for her holy life chosen Abbesse of that place and became a mistresse of vertue vnto the whole cōuent gouerning her virgin subiects in the ioyes of virginitie with the care of a motherly pietie and inuiting them to the true obseruance of religion by the vertuous and pious example of her owne life II. WHILST thus she ennobled the nobilitie of her stock with the greater nobilitie of vertue she fell into a grieuous sicknes that made her allmost tast the bitternes of deaths pangs and when the skill of phisick could nothing auayle her suddely by the grace of the She falleth sick diuine phisition she was taken out of the gates of death and freed from all her inward paines yet still remained in soe great weaknes of her limmes that she could nether stand nor goe but was forc't to creepe on all fower in soe much that with sorrow she began to feare a perpetuall lamenes hauing long since despayred of the phisitians helpe Till one day sitting pensiuely in the anguish of her sorrowfull thoughts the great sainctity of S. CVTHBERT whō she loued dearly came into her mind and presently she wished to haue somthing from him firmely beleeuing and trusting thereby to receaue perfect health Not long after there comes one which She recouereth by miracle brought her a linnen gyrdle sent from S. CVTBERT She greatly reioyced with that present and vnderstanding that her desire was made knowne by diuine reuelation vnto the holy man gyrt her self with the same gyrdle and one the morrow after she became able to stand on her feet and the third day she was restored to perfect health to the great admiration of all Within a short time after being desirous to cōmunicate to others the great blessing bestowed vppon her self she applied the same gyrdle vnto one of her Nunnes that was allmost dead with an insufferable payne which dayly increased more more in her head but noe sooner had this holy Virgin of CHRIST bound her about the temples with that gyrdle but the payne ceased perfect health succeeded Afterwards B. S. CVTHBERT Bishop of Linsdisfarne came him self in person to visitt this holy Virgin and to consecrate a Church Where as the holy man sate at table he saw in a vision the soule of a seruant that died at her monasterie at that verie time The holy virgin being desirous to know who it was to morrow replied S. CVTHBERT before I goe to masse thou wilt tell me his name She sent to know and on the morrow as the bishop was dedicating the Church she came running Masse for the dead to him in a womanish amazement as yf she had brought some great newes I desire you my Lord sayd she to be mindfull in your Masse of Hadwald thas was his name who died falling from a tree as he was cutting wood III. WHEN this most noble and holy virgin of CHRIST ELLFED had for manie yeares ruled her monasterie in great Sainctitie and preserued the sacred treasure of her virginitie from her tendrest infancie to the age of threescore yeares she deliuered vpp her pure soule to the most happie and long desired mariage of her heauenly spouse about the yeare of our Lord 714. She was buried in the Church of the same monasterie dedicated to S. PETER togeather with her father King Oswy and Queene Enfleda her mother But by the Danish furie that as manie other monasteries was vtterly destroyed till afterwards it was againe reedified for monkes of S. BENEDICTS order and called by the name of Whiteby And lastly is was translated to the walles of the cittie of Yorke and dedicated to our Lady But after the raigne of William conquerour the sacred reliques of S. ELFLED with others being found amongst those ruines were honourably placed in a more eminent degree worthy the meritts of soe great a sainct Thus much of S. ELFLED we haue gathered chiefly out of S BEDE de gest lib. 3. c. 24. William malmesbury de gest Pōt Ang. lib. 3 Mathew Westmin an 655. NICHOLAS HARPSFIELD hist. Eccl. saec 7. cap. 27. other English writers The life of S. THELIAN Bishop and confessor FEB 9. Out of an auncient Authour SAINCT THELIAN an auncient Britan borne of noble parents ' much more ennobled his stock by the splendor of his vertues He was Scholler vnto Dubricius bishop of Landaff vnder whose holy care he attayned vnto that height of wisedome learning that as yet He was called 〈◊〉 and way but a youth he obtained the name of Helios which in Greeke signifieth the Sunne for his sacred doctrine shined like the sunne and dispersing the darknes of sinne and infidelity lightened the hearts of the faythfull poeple of his countrey with the sacred beames of true religion and vertue But hearing the fame of a prudent and holy man called Paulin he went vnto him and conferred with him concerning the more secret and abstruse places of the holy scripture where he entred into acquintaince with great S. DAVID Bishop of His loue to S. Dauid Meneuia betweene whom the grace of the holy ghost tied soe strict a knott of true loue and friendship that they were esteemed in those dayes as a noble payre of friends of one mind and soule But while they liued togeather in

he continually busied all the powers of his soule and forces of his body V. BVT while these things are thus doeing he fell againe into an other sicknes during which he enioyed the delightfull vision of An other vision Angels that admonished him to proceed with courage and diligence in the happily begunne worke of preaching as allso with an inuincible patience to hold on his accustomed exercise of watching fasting and prayer bicause that his death was certaine but the hower of his death most vncertaine With this vision being much confirmed in his pious courses he hastened to build a monasterie on the land which King Sigebert had giuen him for that purpose which done he instituted it with the regular discipline of a monasticall life vnder the holy rule of of S. BENEDICT The situation of this monasterie by reason of the neerenes of the sea and words was verie pleasant it being built in a certaine old castle called Cnobbersburg that is the towne of of Cnobber it was afterwards by Anna King of that prouince and manie other noblemen verie richly adorned with more stately edifices and enriched with diuers guifts of great worth VI. And in this verie monasterie King Sigebert him self being wearie Harp saec 7. cap. 15. King Sigebert becometh a Benedictin monk of the world and worldly cares and desiring to giue his mind only vnto God put of his princely robes and leauing the gouernment of his King do vnto his cozen Edrick betooke him self to liue vnder the humble weedes of a Benedictin Monke iudging it more honorable in a cloister to conquer him self by obeying then in the world to beare sway ouer others by commaunding But long he had not enioyed this quiet life when wicked Penda King of the Mercians making warre against his forsaken Kingdom he was by force taken out of the monasterie by his owne friends and made Generall of their armie which they presupposed would be much hartened and encouraged with his presence Who to shew that his profession was dearer to him then his life put on no other armour then a good conscience nor taking other weapon then a little rodd in The canfidence of a secure consciēce his hand went securely though vnwillingly against the bloud-thirsting armies of his and CHRISTS enemies where both he himself and King Egrick vnto whom he had left the kingdom happily lost this life to winne a better VII BVT le ts vs returne vnto S. FVRSEVS who now hauing as we haue sayd built a monasterie and established it with the rule and disciple of a monasticall order being desirous to free him self not only from all worldly cares but allsoe from the gouernment of his monasterie gaue vp the whole care thereof vnto his brother Fullanus and being at libertie he soe disposed of him self as meaning to spend and end the remainder of his life in an Anachoreticall or Eremiticall life He had an other brother called Vltanus who out of the continuall probation of the monasticall and claustrall manner of liuing had betaken him self to the solitarines of the desert Vnto him FVRSEVS went alone and togeather with him he liued by the labour of his hands for the space of a whole yeare in continuall fasting and prayer doeing of pennance But perceauing the countrey to be much disquieted by the frequent incursions of Pagans and foreseeing the eminent danger of the monasteries leauing all things in good order he sayled into Fraunce where being honorably entertained by the French King Clouis the second and Erconwald then Prouost of Peronne he built a monasterie in a place called Latiniacum into which were introduced the monkes of S. BENEDICTS order for as yet and manie yeares after there was noe other rule on foote but his in all the Occidentall Church And not long after S. FVRSEVS falling sick he quickly felt the vehemencie of his disease to grow soe strongly vppon him as he plainly perceaued his time to draw neere therefore recommending him self vnto God and lifting vp his eyes towards heauen he yeelded vp his pure soule into the hands of his Redeemer the sixteenth day of January Erconwald caused his bodie to be referued in the Church Porch of Peronne where it remained for the space of twentie fix daies till the consecration of the new-built Church in the same towne was finished at what time being taken vp it was found with no more signe of corruption then if he had died but that verie hower VIII FOWER yeares after a little chappell being erected on the East side of the high aultar and dedicated to S. FVRSEVS his bodie was taken vp againe by the worthy Bishops Eligius and Ausbertus and found to be vncorrupted as before it was translated thither in most honourable manner where it hath most manifestly appeared vnto the world that through his merits diuers miracles haue bene wrought by the allmightie worker of miracles who is wonderfull in his Saincts for euer He flourished about the yeare 636. or as others say 650. VSVARD TRITHEMIVS MOLANVS BARONIVS RABANVS MAVRVS and manie others doe make mention of S. FVRSEVS But this life we haue taken principally out of venerable BEDES historie of England The life of S. HENRY Hermite Confessor IAN. 16. HENRY was borne of the nobler sort of Danes being come to such age as his face betrayed his sexe his parents earnestly sollicited him to marrie whereunto in the beginning he seemed not vnwilling but the appointed day of his marriage drawing nigh it was reuealed vnto him in a vision that he ought to abstaine from all carnall copulation and to keepe him self chast and pure from this world by studieing rather how to please God then a wife Wherevppon suddainly leauing all his friends and freeing He refuseth to marrie him self of the possession of those goods he enioyed he tooke shipping at Tinemouth and sayled about twentie miles into the sea to an Iland on the East side of Northumberland named Cocket from the riuer Cocket running there by this Iland was in auncient times verie famous for a holy Conuent of Monkes that liued there S. HENRY being thither arriued with leaue of the Prior he entred the Iland and hauing built him self a little lodge scarse of force to beate of the iniurie of the weather he began to serue God in great rigour austerity of life For the space of some yeares he fasted continually His rigorous fasting only with bread and water afterwards he eate but thrise a weeke and three dayes in the weeke kept silence In fower yeares before he died he satisfied his hunger only with little cakes dried in the sunne made of barly meale mixed with pure water II. GOEING vppon a time in pilgrimage to Durham he came to the bankes of the riuer Wyre not finding a boate readie to carry him ouer he made his prayer to allmightie God and presently without the helpe of man a boate loosed of its owne accord from the other A strainge miracle

yeare of CHRIST 684. hauing sent an De gest Angl. 4 cap. 26. armie into Jreland which lamentably destroyed that innocent countrey was disswaded from that bloudie enterprise by the meanes and entreaties of saint EGBERT but contemning to yield to his pious admotions he receaued his punishment being miserably slaine the yeare following among his fatall enemies the Picts III. BVT this holy man hauing spent manie yeares in a He resolueth to preach in Germanie rigorous monasticall life being desirous to labour not only for him self but for the good of manie other soules resolued to preach the fayth of CHRIST to those that liued in the blindnes of Idolatrie vnder the bondage and slauerie of the deuill Of this kind he vnderstood manie to be in Germanie whence the English or Saxons had their beginning and therefore to them he prepared him self to announce the glad tidings of the Ghospell Or yf he could reape noe profitt thereby he determined to goe in Pilgrimage to Rome to visitt the sacred shrines of the Apostles But in all these pious intentions he was hindered by the speciall prouidence of allmightie God who had otherwise disposed of him For hauing made choice of men sufficient both in vertue and learning to accompanie him in that holy enterprise and all things being prepared for their sea-voyage sainct BOISILL in times past Abbot of the Benedictin monasterie of Mailros in England appeared to an other monk and commaunded him to bid EGBEGT to desist from that designe He is miraculously hindred from his enterprise for that it was not the will of allmightie God that he should proceed therein because he was ordayned to instruct and reforme the monasterie founded by Sainct COLVMBE in the Isle of Hay EGBERT aduertised of this vision commaunded it to be kept close fearing lest it was but an illusion of the deuill that endeauoured to hinder his good resolution But considering more exactly of the matter he felt in him self a secret feare that tould him it might be true Notwithstanding he ceased not to further his intended voyage towards Germanie But within a few daies sainct BOYSILL againe appeared to the same monk after mattins and sharply reprehended him for his flacknes in fullfilling his commaund And therefore now sayd he goe tell EGBERT againe that will he nill he he must goe to the Monasterie of sainct COLVMBE because their plough goes not straight and he must reduce them to the right way EGBERT hearing this second replie againe commaunded the monk to keepe it secret And howbeit he were allmost certaine of the truth of the vision yet such was his conceipt of his foretaken resolution and soe great was his zeale to gaine soules to God that togeather with his fellowes prepared he aduentured to begin his iourney When hauing expected some daies at sea to haue a ●ind blow with their desires there arose one night a cruell tempest which rudely tost them on that floting element till with the losse of some part of their lading they were forced to returne and desist from that aduenture But whatsoeuer belonged to sainct EGBERT and his fellowes was saued And he as it were alluding to that saying of the holy Prophete Jonas because for my sake this tempest happeneth withdrew him self from that voyage and resolued to stay at home But one of his fellowes Wigbert by name of whom we will speake the twelfth of August went into Frisia where hauing preached two yeares without reaping anie profitt he returned back into Jreland IV But Sainct EGBERT perceauing that himself was detayned frō preaching the fayth of CHRIST amongst the Paynims to profitt the Church other waies and that Wigbert had spent his labour in vaine amongst them he attempted againe to send a mission of vertuous and industrious men to preach the ghospell in the same countrey And to this end he chose out of diuers monasteries twelue learned and deuout English Benedi●tin monks the chiefest whereof was the Egbert sēdeth 12. Benedictctines into Germani worthy S. WILLIBRORD of whom see the seauenth of Nouember and these he sent into lower Germanie by whose pious endeauours as more largely shall be shewed in their liues most part of those countreies were reduced out of the blindnes of Idolatrie to the grace of CHRISTS Ghospell And some of these apostolicall men which greatlie redounds to the prayse of Sainct EGBERT were his schollers bred and brought vp to that eminent calling with the sweet milk of his learning vertue and discipline Afterward in the yeare of our Lord 716. sainct EGBERT following the diuine oracle sent from heauen went to S. COLV●BS monasterie in the Isle of Hay on the west side of Scotland where the monks receaued him with honour and reuerence well becoming the worth of soe holy a man These monks erred in the obseruation of Easter and the Ecclesiasticall He reformeth the Monks of the Iland Hay tonsure then vsed in the Catholick Church But sainct EGBERT being a most sweet master of all truth in vertue and religion and one whose actions were the execution of his owne cōmaunds and lessons was most willingly heard of them all till by his pious adonitions exemplar life he drew them from the inueterate traditiō of their forefathers to obserue the Catholick Easter and to weare their hayre shauen in forme of a crowne And at the very same time by the meanes of S. EGBERT those monks receaued the holy rule of S. BENEDICT which they obserued euer after He remayned the space of thirteene yeares in the same monasterie which with the beames of a new grace of the Ecclesiasticall discipline and the societie and peace of CHRIST he had consecrated to his honour At length vpon Easter day it self whē he had celebrated the solemnities of masse in memorie of our Lords glorious resurrection he departed out of the sepulcher of the flesh to rise to the neuer dying glorie of Paradise and to see him face to face in heauen whom in the morning he had receaued vnder the formes of bread and wine in the sacrament He died the 24. of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 729. and the nineteenth yeare of his age And surely it was not without the peculiar prouidence of allmightie God that this venerable mā not only passed out of this world on the feast of Easter but allsoe on that feast of Easter which neuer before was celebrated on that day in those parts Wherevppon the monks reioyced that they were come to the knowledge of the certaine and Catholicke obseruance of Easter and that they had gayned the patronage of their father in heauen by whose industrie they were first instructed therein This life we haue gathered wholly out of S. Bede de gest l. 3. 5. Iohn Capgraue hath the same besides whom Trithemius in his work of the famous men of S Benedicts order Baronius Nicolas Harpsfield sec 8. cap. 4. Molanus Marcellinus in the life of S. SWIBERT the Roman Martyrologe and others