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A41236	Festa Anglo-Romana, or, The feasts of the English and Roman church, with their fasts and vigils being an exact and concise accompt of their various etymologies and appellations, with the reasons and grounds of their celebration : together with a succinct discourse of several other grand days in the universities, Inns of courts, and the collar and offering days at White-Hall, tending, to the instruction of all persons in all capacities, and the dilucidation of several seeming difficulties in the ancient, as well as modern English and Roman calendar / by a true son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1678 (1678)	Wing F821; ESTC R7435	34,996	146

third in the year following Holy-Cross or Holy-rood-Day St. Matthew On the 21th of this Month is Celebrated the Festival of St. Matthew Heb. Reward an Apostle and one of the four Holy Secretaries of the most Sacred Gospel He was by Birth a Jew by Profession a Publican or Toll-Customer was at length Converted and became a Disciple Apostle Euangelist and Martyr He wrote the Gospel of Christ in the Hebrew Language and delivered it to James the Brother of our Lord who was at that time Bishop of Jerusalem He Preached in the Kingdom of Aethiopia where he was kindly entertain'd by the Eunuch Chamberlain or Chief Governor to Candace Queen of Aethiopia as it is Recorded in the Acts of the Apostles Acts the 8th 27th and was so successful in his Teaching that he prevail'd and perswaded Aeglippus the King and his People to be Baptized but after his Decease there succeeded him one Hyrtacus by name who Detested the Apostle and therefore Commanded him to be run through with a Sword which was accordingly done Anno Dom. 71. This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering St. Michael the Arch-Angel The 29th of this Month is the Feast of St. Michael Heb. who is like God the Arch-Angel who figur'd Christ or Michaelmas that is a Solemnity or Mass in honour of St. Michael Prince of the Heavenly Host and one of the Nine Orders of Angels aswel to Commemorate that famous Battle fought by him and them in Heaven against the red Dragon or the Devil and his Apostate Angels Apoc. 12. in Defence of God's Honour as also say the Romanists to Commend the whole Church of God to their Patronage and Prayers and by them 't is nam'd the Dedication of St. Michael because there is a Church at Rome dedicated on that day to St. Michael by Pope Boniface This is one of King Charles his Offering-Days at His Court of Whitehall And on this day also the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the year ensuing is Elected There is another Feast observ'd by the Romanists call'd the Apparition of St. Michael and is in Commemoration of his Wonderful Appearance on Mount Garganus where as the Papists fondly flatter themselves by his own appointment a Temple was Dedicated to him in the time of Pope Gelasius St. Luke October the 18th is a Day Consecrated to the Memory of St. Luke Heb. Taken the Euangelist Syria was the Place of his Nativity by Profession he was a Physician of Antioch after that an Euangelist and the Holy Penman of the Acts of the Apostles in their Peregrination but especially of St. Paul's He died at Ephesus in the 84th year of his Age where he was inhum'd Anno Christi 74 and was together with Andrew and Timothy Translated to Constantinople many years after in the Reign of Constantius Son of Constantine the Great but Nicephorus the Historian says that he was Hang'd on a Green Olive-Tree This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering The 21th of this Month Dedicated to Ursula Lat. a little She-Bear The Name of a Female Saint heretofore of great Honour and still continued in the Calendar and this Day was kept solemnly in Commemoration of a Famous Religious British Virgin who notwithstanding the Tenderness of her Sex and her Zeal for the true Religion was most Inhumanly Martyred under Attila King of the Huns styled Flagellum Dei a Bloody but Valiant Scythian who over-ran Italy and Gallia and at the Perswasion or rather Intreaty of Pope Leo retired into Hungary St. Simon and Jude The 28th is the Festival of St. Simon and Jude Simon Heb. Hearing or Obedient sirnamed Zelotes Gr. Fervent was born in Cana a Town of Galilee the Son of Mary and Cleophas as Euseb affirms L. 3. C. 11. and taught the Gospel in Aegypt and Persia from thence he returned and succeeded St. James in the Bishoprick of Jerusalem where under the Reign of the Emperor Trajan he was Crucified in the 120th year of his Age and consequently the last Martyr of all the Apostles St. Jude Heb. Jude Judah and Jehudah all three signifie Confession called also Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus Preached the Holy Gospel to the Edessaeans a sort of People of Edessa a City of Syria and throughout all Mesopotamia he was Murdered at Berytus a City of Phoenicia in the Reign of Agbarus King of Edessa according to the most Authentick Tradition where he was very Honorably Sepulchred in the year of our Lord 21. This is one of His Majestie 's Collar-Days without Offering The next day after being the 29th is a day whereon the Elected Mayor for that year accompanied with the Aldermen of London on Horseback to the River of Thames and the Companies of Freemen wait upon him in Barges with Drums and Trumpets to Westminster and there he walks with the Aldermen round the Hall and then goes up to the Exchequer where he is Sworn and returns to the City and at his Landing he is waited upon by several Companies of Soldiers and several stately Pageants are erected and carried about in a Triumphant manner All Saints November 1st Begins with the Festival of All Saints or Allhallows and this time is commonly call'd Allhallontide T is a Solemnity in Honour and Memory of all the Saints as the Papists maintain that so at least they may obtain the Patronage and Prayers of them all since the whole year is much too short to afford us a Particular Feast for every Saint All Souls The next day Novemb. 2d is All-Souls a Day Instituted by the Church of Rome in Commemoration of all the Faithful departed this Life that by the Prayers and Suffrages of the Living they may be discharged of their purging Pains and at last obtain Life Everlasting to this purpose the Day is kept Holy till Noon Hence proceeds the Custom of Soul-Mass Cakes which are a kind of Oat-Cakes that some of the Richer sort of Persons in Lancashire and Herefordshire among the Papists there use still to give the Poor on this Day and they in Retribution of their Charity hold themselves obliged to say this old Couplet God have your Saul Beens and all Both these days were of such eminent observance with our Ancestors that they still continue no Court-days at Westminster-Hall but are the Lawyers and Judges Holy-days All-Saints is one of His Majestie 's Offering-Days at Whitehall and one of the Houshold-days when the Besant is given by the Lord Steward or one of the other White-Staff-Officers November the 5th commonly call'd Gun-Powder-Treason-Day Anno 1605. and in the third-year of the Reign of King James in England of Happy Memory of which take this Brief Narrative Collected out of Sir Richard Baker in the said King's Reign The 19th day of March-was a second Parliament appointed to sit at Westminster the said Parliament beginning the King made a long and Loving Speech to both Houses wherein he signified the Cause of his Calling it but in the time when it should

Quasimodogeniti from the entrance in the 1 Peter 2.2 Quasimodogeniti Infantes Rationabiles sine dolore lac concupiscite St. George April the 23th is the Day Dedicated to the Memory of St. George the Martyr of Cappadocia and is honoured by the Georgians the Inhabitants of a Country call'd Georgia situated between Colchos Caucasus the Caspian-Sea and Armenia heretofore Iberia and Albania they do highly reverence and honour this Saint He also is our Patron and the same Person that the Knights of the Garter have formerly so much honoured they being alwayes on that day only Install'd at Windsor This is one of his Majesties Collar-days without Offering at White-Hall St. Mark The 25th of this Month is St. Mark 's Day A Feast in Honour of the Evangelist who wrote the Life Acts Miracles Death and Resurrection of our Saviour Christ He was the first Prelate of Alexandria where he Taught the Gospel and also all over the adjacent Regions from the Country of Aegypt to Pentapolis He was Martyr'd at Alexandria in the time of the Tyrant Trajan which was thus executed They fastned a Cable-Rope about his Neck wherewith they dragg'd him from the place call'd Bucolus to another term'd Angels where the raging Idolaters burned him to ashes against whom he preached Anno Domini 63. and was Interred at Bucolus praemention'd This is one of his Majesties Collar-dayes without offering Misericordia The second Sunday after Easter is term'd Misericordia from the Entrance of the fifth Verse of the 32 Psalm Misericordia Domini plena est Terra c. Philip and Iacob May-Day or St. Philip and St. James vulgarly but falsly call'd Philip and Jacob Philip is a Greek word and signifies a Lover of Horses Jacob Hebr. a Supplanter May-day 't is call'd because the first of May a day of Mirth and Jollity among the Common Herd and Philip and James because dedicated to the two Apostles and Martyrs of that name The former of the City of Bethsaida who preached in Phrygia and Converted the Eunuch Candaules It is affirm'd by some Authors that he sent 12 Disciples into our Country of Britain to work the Conversion of them In conclusion the Pagans seized him and put him to the Ignominious death of his Lord and Master at the City Hierapolis about the Year of our Lord 53. The later viz. St. James the Lesser James is a Name wrested from Jacob was Son to Alphaeus and Pen-man of that Excellent Epistle which goes under his Name for his Wisdome and Piety sirnamed the Just He was created Bishop of Jerusalem after the Ascension and Governed that Church 30 years compleat where he was most Inhumanely first stoned and afterward being placed on the Top of a Pinacle of the Temple precipitated from thence and being half dead and his Thighes broken and lifting up his hands to Heaven he was knock'd on the head with a great Fuller's Club this Bloody Butchery was Executed on this Saint in the Seventh Year of the Sanguinary Emperour Nero. This is also one of his Majestie 's Collar-days without Offering Holy Cross or Holy-Rood-day May the 3d is Inventio Crucis i. e. the Invention of the Holy-Cross or Holy-Rood-day and is in the Roman tho not in our Rubrick of which there are two call'd Holy-Rood-dayes viz. this being on the 3d. of May and the Exaltation of the Cross on the 14th of September 'T is a Feast in Commemoration as the Romanists believe of the Miraculous and Wonderful Invention or finding out the Holy Cross on which the Blessed Jesus suffered by St. Helen the Mother of Constantine the Great after it had been conceal'd and buried in the Earth by the Painims the space of 180 years in place whereof they had erected a Statue to their wanton Deity Venus 'T is called Holy-Rood-Day and Holy Cross because of the great Sanctity it receiv'd by touching and bearing the Oblation of the most precious Body of Christ and Rood is an old Saxon word signifying a Cross or the Image of Christ on the Cross being compos'd generally of Wood and erected in a Loft for that purpose just over the passage of the Church into the Chancel Fuller The third Sunday after Easter as it falls in course here is styl'd Jubilate from the beginning of Psalm the 65. Jubilate Deo omnis Terra c. The fourth Sunday Cantate from the entrance of the 98th Psalm Cantate Domino Cantieum Novum c. May the 14th our most Gracious and Soveraign Princess Donna Catarina Landed at Portsmouth in order to the confirmation of her solemn Nuptials with His Majesty our Dread Soveraign Charles the Second whom God long preserve in health and happiness Rogation-Sunday Next follows Rogation-Sunday the fifth Sunday after Easter the Week following is call'd Rogation-Week or Vocem Jucunditatis the Institution or Restauration whereof is by Historians attributed to Claudius Mamertus or Mamercus Bishop of Vienne in France Anno Dom. 452. or as some say 466. being the fifth Sunday after Easter from the like entrance Vocem Jucunditatis annunciate audiatur c. and Rogation Sunday or Week which is always the next but one before Whitsunday à Rogando Deum as being once tho we cannot affirm that now Consecrated above all other Weeks of the year in an extraordinary manner unto Prayers Litanies and Supplications and are still enjoyn'd by the Church to all persons among the Roman Catholicks on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with Abstinence from flesh for these Reasons First for a Devout Preparative to the Feast of Christ's most glorious Ascension and Pentecost which is shortly after 2. Because the fruits of the Earth are tender and in danger being in the Blossom 3. For that much about this time of the year Monarchs and Potentates begin to undertake their Wars upon both which Considerations all Good and Pious Christians have great Reason to be frequent with God in Rogations and Prayers at this time particularly and for this cause it is that the Solemnization of Matrimony is prohibited by the Holy Church from the first day in this Week until Trinity Sunday following The Belgians or Dutch-men call it Cruys-Week that is Cross-week and so 't is also nam'd in some Parts of England because the Priest on these days goes in Procession with the Cross before him In the old Saxon 't is nam'd Gangdagas i. e. Dayes of Walking or Perambulation In the North of England Gang-week from the ganging or going in Procession for Gang there as well as in the Saxon signifies to go from an Antient and Commendable Custome tho discontinued in the time of the late Unnatural Rebellion to make Perambulations and Processions with the Young Children in every Parish and Township with us to view and understand the Ancient Limits and Boundaries of every Parish to prevent all manner of Incroachments Contentions and Suits at Law In the Inns of Court 't is known by the name of Grass-week because the Students Commons on some days that Week consist much of Salads

Invasion hapned Their Navy consisted of 130 Ships in which there were 19290 Soldiers 8050 Marriners 2080 Gally-Slaves 2630 Great Ordnance and for the greater Sanctification of the Action 12 of their Vessels were call'd by the Names of the 12 Apostles The Commander in Chief of the Fleet was Don Alphonso Duke of Medina the next in Authority was Martin Recalde an Able Seaman They came out of the Groyn in May but were dispersed and the Queen in the mean time made the following Preparations the Lord Charles Howard Lord Admiral of her whole Navy and Sir Francis Drake Vice-Admiral were to be ready at Plimouth the Lord Henry Seymor second Son to the Duke of Somerset with 40 English and Dutch Ships to guard the Coasts of the Netherlands and keep the Prince of Parma from coming forth for Land-Service Thre were placed along our Southern Coasts 20000 Soldiers and two Armies of Trained Men Levied the one commanded by the Earl of Leicester consisting of 1000 Horse and 22000 Foot who pitch'd his Tents at Tilbury over the other appointed as a Guard to Her Majesties Royal Person consisting of 24000 Foot and 2000 Horse the Lord Hunsdon was General Now all things on both sides being in a readiness the Spanish Navy set forth in May as before but were drawn back and distressed and their first Appearance was July the 21th The Admiral of England coming out of Plimouth sent a Pinnace nam'd The Defiance before which by a Great Shot Challenged the Spaniards to Fight and they speedily fell to it but the English had the better The 23th of this Month they had a second Fight where there was little hurt done by the Spaniards the 24th they rested on both sides and the 25th which was St. James his Day they fell to it the third time and the English got the better after which the Spaniards held on their Course and turn'd no more upon us The 27th of the Month towards evening the Spaniards cast Anchor near Calice the English then having 140 Ships tho but 15 of them bore the brunt of the Battle The 28th the Lord Admiral made eight of his worst Vessels Fire-ships and sent them in the Night to the Spanish Fleet at the sight whereof they made a hideous noise cut their Cables with great confusion and astonishment The Spanish Navy being now destitute of many necessary Provisions and no hope of the Prince of Parma's Assistance resolv'd for Spain Northward in which they lost many Ships and Men the English Navy still pursued closely till they were fain to leave them for want of Powder Thus this Invincible Armada for so it was styl'd in a Spanish Bravado that was three whole years preparing in the space of one Month was often beaten and at length put to flight many of their men slain above half their Ships taken and sunk not above 100 of the English missing at the most not so much as a Ship but Cock's small Vessel thus sailing about all Britain by Scotland the Orkneys and Ireland they return'd to Spain with as great dishonour as they set out with Ostentation for indeed Mendosa in France Triumphed before the Victory in Print Now Q. Elizabeth for this Happy Success appointed Prayers and Thanksgiving in all Churches throughout England and She as it were in Triumph came in Person attended with a numerous Train of her Nobility into the City went into the Cathedral of St. Paul's where the Banners taken from the Enemy were publickly exposed to the view of Spectators and there gave thanks to Almighty God in a most humble manner for so great a Deliverance from and defeat of a Foreign Enemy St. James July the 25th is the Feast of St. James Hebr. the same as Jacob the Apostle sirnamed the Greater Brother to St. John the Sons of Zebedee who was both an Apostle and Martyr This is he that Taught the Gospel to the 12 dispersed Tribes and was Murdered by the Sword or as some say Beheaded in Judaea by Herod Agrippa Anno Dom. 45. where he was buried and consequently the first of the 12 Apostles that was translated to the Kingdom of Christ This is one of the King's Collar-Days without Offering St. Anne The next day being the 26th is by some People Celebrated to the Memory of St. Anne Hebr. Gracious who was the Holy Mother of the Blessed Virgin This Day is not in our but the Roman Rubrick Lammas-Day August begins with a Feast the first being call'd Lammas-Day the Gule or Yule of August St. Peter advincula or St. Peter's Chains 'T is nam'd Lammas qu. Lamb-mass because on that Day in the time of Popery here among us in England the Tenants that held Lands of the Cathedral Church in York which is Dedicated to St. Peter ad vincula were obliged by their Tenure on that day to bring a live Lamb into the Church whil'st they were singing High-Mass or as some conceive it may take its Derivation from the Saxon Hlarmaesse i.e. Loaf-Mass or Bread-Mass so call'd as a Feast of Thanksgiving to God for the first fruits of the Corn and it seems hath been observ'd with Bread made of new Wheat and accordingly it is a Custom in some Places for Tenants to be bound to bring their Lord that years Wheat on or before the first of August Ham. Resol 2.6 Quaeries p. 465. 'T is call'd the Gule or Yule of August which some Conjecture to be only a Corruption of the British word Gwyl-Awst that is the Feast of August Others again conceive and I think more truly that Gule comes from Gula in Latin or Gueule in French a Throat and St. Peter ad vincula for this Reason following which you have in Durand's Rationali Divinor l. 7. Ca. De festo Sancti Petri ad vincula a Catholick Story that one Quirinus a Tribune of Rome had a Daughter who was troubled with a painful Disease in her Throat and therefore I presume other means failing Addressed himself to his then Holiness Alexander the 6th of that Name from St. Peter and desir'd to borrow or see the Chains that St. Peter was chained with under Nero which Request being obtain'd his Daughter kissing the said Chains was as miraculously as Immediately cur'd of her Malady Credat Judaeus Appella Non Ego whereupon Quirinus with his whole Family turn'd Christians and were baptized Tunc dictus Alexander Papa as Durand hath it hoc Festum in Calendis Augusti Celebrandum Instituit in Honorem Beati Petri Ecclesiam in Urbe Fabricavit ubi Vincula ipsa reposuit ad vincula Nominavit Calendis Augusti Dedicavit so that this Day being before only known by the Name of the Calends of August was afterward upon this very occasion termed either of the Instrument that wrought this Miracle the Day of St. Peter ad vincula or of the part of the Daughter namely the Throat whereon the Miracle was wrought the Gule of August This day is kept by the Papists as they say