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A07146	The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1563 (1563)	STC 1755; ESTC S101368	243,805	590

For they are sayth he holy and precious tinhges yea and reliques Guil. Durand Pope Pius the firste commaunded that if any of the Sacramentall wyne should chaunce to fall vpon the groūd or vpon any other place the priestes should licke it vp with their tonges In the yeare c. 147. Durand Lib. Concil Pope Stephen the first ordained that a priest in his diuine seruice should vse none other but halowed garmentes In the yeare of our Lord. 261. Sabel The same pope also appointed that the priestes should not weare their halowed garmētes but only in y e tyme of their diuine seruice Fa● Temp. Durādus Pope Innocent the thyrde bearynge rule it was decreed in the Councel Laterane that men must beleue that although the wordes whiche are recited in the Canon of the Masse be not rehearsed of the Euangelistes in theyr Gospels yet were they spokē of Christ deliuered to his Apostles their successoures and be of equall authoritie with the holy scriptures In the yeare c. ●●95 Dec. 3. tit 41. Cap. 6. Chron. Pope Adrian the first in a Councell holden at Rome made a decree that the Occidētall or weast Churches thorow out all Europe al other fashions of Matte●syng and Massyng set a parte and vtterly put away should onely vse that kinde of seruice which Pope Gregory the firste had tofore ordayned In the yeare of our Lord. 796. Nauclerus Sigesbert Durandus Achiles Carolus Magnus the Emperoure dyd not a little helpe to bryng this matter to passe For he dyd not only cōmaūde by publique edicts y t the decree of y e romish bishop amōg the which Gregoryes seruice hath not the least nor the lasts place should be obserued and kept thorowe out al the Empyre of Rome but he himself also was a most diligent setter forth of the same For he ran about from place to place thorow out all the prouinces of the Empyre compelled all the priests whether they would or not to receaue the seruice which Pope Gregory appointed yea and y t not only with threatning manacyng wordes but also with emprisonment Ioan. Nauclerus Guilielmus Durandus Iacobus de voragine in the life of Pope Gregory the firste telleth a tale concerning this matter In tymes past saieth he when the seruice whiche Ambrose made was more frequented and vsed in Churches than was the seruice whiche Gregory had appoynted the Bishop of Rome called Adrianus gathered a Councell together in the whiche it was ordayned that Gregoryes seruice shoulde be obserued and kept vniuersallye whiche determination of the Councell Charles the Emperoure did diligentlye put in execution whyle he rān about by diuerse prouinces and enforced all the Clergye partlye with threatnyngs and partly with punishementes to receaue that order And as touchynge the bookes of Ambrose seruice he brent them to ashes in all places and threwe into prison many priests that would not consent and agree to the matter Blessed Eugenius the Bishop commyng vnto the Councell founde that it was dissolued three dayes before his commyng Notwithstandyng thorowe his wisedome he so persuaded the Lord Pope that he called agayne all the Prelates y t had bene present at the Councel and were now departed by the space of three dayes Therfore when the Councell was gathered agayne together in this all the fathers did consēt and agree that both the ma●●ebokes of Ambrose and Gregory shuld be laid vpon the altar of blessed Peter the An●●le and the Church doores di●igen●ly shut and most warely sealed vp with the signets of many and diuer● Bishops Againe that they should all the whole night geue themselues to prayer that the Lorde myght reuele declare open and shewe vnto them by some euident signe or token whiche of these ii seruices he woulde haue vsed in the temples Thus they doyng in all points as they had determined in the morning opened y e church doores and founde both the Missals or massebookes open vpon the altare or rather as some saye they found Gregoryes massebooke vtterly plucked a sunder one pece from an other and scattered abroad into thys and that place As touchynge Ambrose booke they onely found it open vpon the altare in the very same place where they had tofor● layd it By this signe they thought thēselues sufficiently instructed taught of God that the seruice which Gregory had made ought to be set abroade and vsed thorowout all the world and that Ambroses seruice should only be obserued kept in hys owne Church which is at Mediolanum where he sometym● was Byshop Hereof came it to passe that Gregoryes seruice hath onely place nowe a dayes in the greatest parte of Europe Iacobus de voragine in vita Gregorij primi Guil. Durand Thus hast thou most gētle Reader howe the masse was begotten conceaued borne euen anone after the Apostles tyme if all be true that the Historiographes write Thou hast also how the masse grewe vp in continuance of time and was encreased by diuerse popes euerye one puttyng vnto it theyr owne fantasye tyll at the laste it was full finished by Pope Gregory the first about the yeare of our Lord. 600 euen aboute the very tyme when Mohommetes secte began in the East parte of the worlde and papacye in the weste Notwithstandyng from Pope Gregoryes dayes vnto the tyme of Carolus Magnus the forme of Gregoryes Masse was vsed onely in the Citie of Rome and in the diocesse of the same aboute two hundred yeares Frō Charles the great vnto y e tyme of Charles the fift the Masse rained ruled ruffled triūphed as a moste puissant and myghty Queene not onely in Italye and Germany in Fraunce and Englande but also in all the Churches of the weste part of the worlde about 700. yeares But in y e daies of the Emperour Charles the fifth and in the most florishyng reygne of the most blessed and Godlye Prince Kynge Edward the sixte Kynge of Englande Fraunce and Irelande c the Masse beynge an olde worne hagge full of sickenesses and disseases died was buryed and went down into Purgatory for the maintenaūce wherof she was moste chieflye deuysed and defended so that now neyther Germamanye nor Denmarke nor England nor Scotlande with many other countreyes and kyngdomes is anye more troubled w t her sorceries witchcrafts neyther are those her Chapplens the Massemongers and Purgatory rakers any more set a worke or had in price And although the Masse seeme yet to pant and to breathe in some places as though she woulde be glad to recouer lyfe and to lyue yet a lyttle longer in thys worlde yet forasmuche as she is no God but an Idoll of all moste vayne she shall neuer so ryse agayne that she shall recouer her olde strengths dignities but rather shall decay dayly more and more and suffer those worthye and deserued plagues which God threatneth her in the reuelations of blessed S. Iohn For this

the example of Helias the Prophet which liued there long solitarye and that they wer fyrst assembled together by Almericus Byshop of Antioche In the yeare of oure Lord. 1170 in the tyme of pope Alexander the thyrd and they were called oure Ladye Fryers by the reason of a chappel of our lady that was in the hil Carmelus Neuerthelesse vpō foure hūdred yeres after in the time of Innocent the thyrde they were reformed by Albertus Byshop of Ierusalem according to the rule of Basilius and the colour of their cope was turned into white by y e Pope Honorius the thyrde where afore it was russet Some write that this order of the Carmelites in his first clothing which they said was of Helias or Heliseus y e prophet was greatly acceptable to the Soldane and endued with many almesses of him but after thei chaūged their rayment he droue them oute of hys kyngdome so that of necessitye they came into Europa This order sayth the Dutche Chronicle is to beg to take of euery mā and to do nothing agayne for it Thys order is to lye to dissemble to enuye and to begile the people with flatteryng wordes vnder the pretence of long prayer Lib. Germ. Polydor. Of Dominikes order called blacke Fryers or the Fryers Preachers POpe Innocent y e thyrde reygning Dominike Calaguritane a Spaniarde began this order of Friers preachers This Dominike was fyrst a regular chanon bicause he could not suffer to haue a superiour and was also wearye of the Cloyster he inuented a new fraternitye named of hys owne name Dominicanes Their order is w t out all shame to begge as the Carmelites and forsake litle by wilful pouertye that they may obtayne muche to waxe rych of other mens labours they themselues beeing idle lasye loytryng lubbers vnprofitable cloddes of the earth Our Lady s. Mary as they fain euen of loue that she bare to thys holy order of swete S. Dominicke deuised the habite which the fryers of that order vse at thys daye and deliuered it to S. Dominicke with her owne hands commaundyng hym and all hys brethren for euer after to weare the lyke Their cote is white their cope coule is black The newe guise of their vestu●e made Innocent Innocentius to wonder But pope Honorius the thyrd by his bull honourably admitted the blacke order of the blacke fryers In the yeare of oure Lorde 1220. And Gregorye the nynthe put the matter al out of doubt cannonised Dominicke and by hys bull vnder lead allowed hym for a saint Of thys Dominickes mother they tel that when she was with childe and had Dominicke in her wombe shee dreamed y t shee had a wolfe in her belly which as I think signifyeth that both he al cloysterers by their professiō are none other thing than wolues deuouryng not only the substance of mē but also y e soules of mē by their hipocrisy false doctrine accordyng to this saying of Christ a wolfe teareth on peces scatereth the shepe abroad This black order began in the yere of our Lord. 1220. Phi. Bergom Mat Palm Lib. Ger. Ioan. Laziardus Poly. c. Of the barefooted Friers otherwise called Minorites or Graye Friers POpe Honorius the third bearyng rule Fraūces an Italian deuised the order of the barefoted friers He was first a merchaūt and a worldly man Afterwarde he determined to forsake all worldly thinges and to folow Christ in so much y t when he was wel shod and girded with a double girdle he remembring these woordes of Christ possesse neither two coates no shoes nor yet staffe c. and who so forsaketh not all thinges cannot be my disciple cast all thyng away from him shoes gyrdle c. so that he went bare-footed and girded himselfe with a cord and continētly began this order in the Mounte Appoeninus in a place named cōmonly Lauerna gathering vnto him many men whiche tooke on them the same religion and are called of barefoted Fraunces barefooted Franciscanes They are named also Minores of the humility and lowlynes of hart that they should haue They write y t this Fraunces was so streight to hymselfe that to chastice his fleshe in winter season he would couer his body with yse snow He called pouertie alwayes his Lady and loued rather to heare himself reuiled than praysed He kept nothynge ouer night His heart desyred martirdome wherupon he went into Siria to the Soldane which receaued him honorablye whereby it is to bee thought that surely he tolde him not the truth For truthe is seldome welcome in courtes and noble mens houses I will here passe ouer the fable howe Christ and his Saintes did marke hym with the fyue woundes After that he had thus chastised his fleshe by the space of eyghtene yeares he dyed at Asia and was afterwarde canonised and admitted for a Sainct by Pope Gregory the nynth Lib. Germ. Polidor Chro. Thys order of Frier Fraunces is diuided into many sectes rules and orders Some go on treen shoes or Pattyns some barefooted some are Regulare Fraunciscanes or Obseruauntes some Minores or Minorites Agayne some are called Minimi eyther of the Gospel or els of the littlenesse of theyr coule They all differ in many things but in superstition and hypocrisy they all accorde Of the Friers obseruantes BArnardine the Gray fryer perceauing the great enormities and wicked synnes whiche Fraunces Fryers without all shame committed agaynst the rule and order of theyr profession began a new reformation of the order in many places in somuche that they whiche were reformed be called Friers obseruantes and are counted of a greater perfection and more holynesse than the common sorte of Grayefryers are whiche are called Minorites The obseruaunt Friers were brought into Englād by kyng Edward the fourth were greatly inhaunced by y e famous Prince king Henry the seuenth but they withall other Monastical sectes were most worthelye and iustlye expelled and extirped with their Babilonicall houses by that most victorious and triumphante Prince King Henry the eight Here follow the seuen priuileges which the Fraunciscanes faine to be geuen of god to S. Fraunces for the aduauncemēt of his order THe first priuilege is that the more numbre of the Fraunciscanes or Grayefriers be encreased the better and the more abundantly shall they be prouided for The second priuilege is that no mā can dye euil that departeth in a Gray-friers habite The thirde priuilege is that in the feast of Sainct Fraunces all the soules of the brethren ▪ frendes and benefactours of the same order shall be deliuered out of the bitter paines of purgatory The fourth priuilege is that the order of saint Fraunces shall endure and continue vnto the day of iudgement The fifte priuilege is that none that liueth euil in that order can abide long in it The sixt priuilege is that the enemies of saint Fraunces order shal neuer liue long