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A17943	Here begynneth the kalendre of the newe legende of Englande; Nova legenda Anglie. English. Abridgments.	Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Epistle on the medled life.; John, of Tynemouth, d. 1290? Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae.	1516 (1516)	STC 4602; ESTC S107496	190,729	324

vpon the drye groūde by her prayer was anone taken vp with the see and so she escaped and came into an I le called Ippleffec and as she sette her fote vpon a foure square stone her fote sanke into the stone as it hadde bensnowe after by seynt Theodre she was made abbesse to .lxx. nonnes On a tyme the deuyll as she was prayeng blewe out her candell and an Aūgell lyght it agayne She dyed the .iii. I de of Iulye her successours whiche was called Edburgh toke vp her body to remoue it to a more honorable place and founde it vncorrupt more lyke to slepe then to be deed After her monastery was destroyed and was made a parysshe churche her Relykꝭ were brought to Caunterbury but whether they lye in the church of seynt Augustyne or of seynt Gregorie the Legende leuyth it in doute and dyuers myracles be here omytted On a nyght as she was in prayer the holy ghost appered to her lyke aboue satte vpon her hedde with his wynges compassynge her hedde lyke a crowne with suche a lyght that she myght skarsely be seen the space of an houre ¶ De sancta Modwenna virgine abbatissa SEynt Modwen was borne in Irlande and by prechynge of seynt Patryke she entered into Relygyon and fro thens she gaue her self to lernynge to despyse the vanytes of the worlde to kepe her herte stedfast with all dylygence to punysshe her bodye with fastynges and vygylles no thynge she put byfore the loue of god hauynge great desyre to the Ioyes of heuyn with contynuell feere of the paynes of hell and her broder by her example forsoke the worlde and after was made a bysshop She made a monasterye and there lyued with her brother with rawe rotes gettynge her lyuynge with her owne laboure many noble matrones came to her quenes and virgyns to here the worde of god Eyght virgyns Ioyned them selfe to her wherof seynt Bryde and orbila were in the company and when Orbila for her youth fered to take the rule of the monastery vpon her seynt modwen put the gyrdell aboute her and brethyd vpon her and anone her heere waxed hoore and she was lyke an olde woman and thenne she toke the rule of the Monasterye with good wyll She caused a wolfe that had kylled one of her calues to folowe the cowe and kepe her and other wolfes of that kynde vse to do so to this day A great thefe called Glunelach kylled .viii prestꝭ that seynt Patrike had sent to vysyt seynt Modwen and she herynge therof went thyder with .xlix. nonnes to burye theym and Glunelache with .xlix. theuys mette theym and thought to haue rauysshed theym but when they wolde haue layde handes vpon the virgyns they fell sodeynly a slepe and slept .ii. dayes and the spyryte of seynt Modwen and Glunelache were ledde with an Aungell into heuyn hell when Glunelache came to hymselfe agayne he was cōuerted and his neue we also lyued a good and a blessyd lyfe A holy bysshop called Cheuyn was brought in beleue by craft of the deuyll that Glunelach the thefe by prayer of seynt Modwen shuld haue his place in Heuyn and that all was in vayne that he had done in the seruyce of god wherfore the bysshop thought to destroye her and her Monasterye and as he was cōmynge therto she had knowlege therof by our lorde and so she met hym and shewyd hym that his enemye had deceyued hym greatly and anone he sawe the deuyll that brought hym to the temptacyon lyke a blacke Ethyope wherfore he toke great repentaūce Then seynt Modwen to the entent she myght the more surely conferme hym in our lord put her staffe into a welle that she vsed oftymes in the wynter to stande in tyl she had sayd a hole Psaulter she drewe her staffe after her agaynst the hylle the water folowed the staffe into the toppe of the hylle wherupon he depꝑted lyued after a blyssed lyf On a tyme when she entended to go into Englāde she lacked a shyp at her prayer the groūde reysed it self vp about her lyke an I le so cōueyed her her company ouer the see into Englande where she and seynt Edith that was suster to kyng Edgar rered Ositha that was drowned fro deth to lyfe She went thryse to Rome for remyssion of her synnes and she dyed in Irlande the thyrde Nonas of Iulii after whose deth great varyaūce was bytwyxt Englysshemen Irysshemen and Scottes for her bodye and the bysshop Counceyled theym that eyght men shuld take vp her bere that countre that our Lorde wolde haue theym go towardes shulde haue the body and by the wyll of our lorde they went streyght towardes Englande so she was brought into Englande and lyeth at Andreseia After her deth she apperyd to one of the Nonnes after compleyne and tolde her that she herde some of the susters speke in tyme of scylence and that her body yet beyng amonge them vnburyed she meruayled that they forget her doctryne and reguler obseruaunce and bad them nat to breke the leste obseruaūce lest by lytell lytel they fell into greatter defautꝭ sayinge vnto the suster that she appered vnto that she shuld make her redy for after .vii. dayes she shuld come vnto her and so it was done ¶ De sancto Neoto abbate confessore SEynt Neotus comonly called seynt Eed was the kynges sone of west Englande of Kent and when he came to age he forsoke the pryde pompe of the worlde was made a monke at Glastenbury vnderseynt Dunstan̄ where he ascendyd to hygh perfyte relygion he was so lytel of stature that at masse he had a thynge vnder his fete but he was full of vertues and good maners Eloquent of speche discrete of wordes and of great lernynge beynge byloued of all men and to the entent that he wolde eschewe the recourse and fauour of the people he went into Cornewale where he lyued .vii. yeres in a wyldernes whiche after his name is called Neotstoke after he went to Rome and was there honorably receyued of 〈◊〉 Martyne fro thens he retourned into his owne coūtre where he made a monasterye and was ofte vysyted with Aungellys he had a water that had thre Fysshes in it and if he toke one euery day yet alway there were thre Fysshes He tolde the kynge Alfred his broder that for his pryde and tyrauntrye he shulde be put out of his Realme and be as an outlawe but he sayd by his prayers he had opteyned of our Lorde that he shuld be restored agayne and shuld cōuerte his enemy to the fayth it ꝓued after ī euery thyng as he had sayd By seynt Ede the kyng was correct tyrauntrie tourned into sobernes the worshyppyng of deuylles abated and the people of our lorde moche encreasyd in all the countre he lefte this worlde the day before the kalend of August and pa●●e of his Relykes lye at Ramsey the

suche sobrenes that his seruauntes neuer sawe hym excede in mete or drynke he punysshed his body with vigylles fastyngꝭ pryuely vsed to weer the heere and in the yere of our lorde M.CC.lxxv he was made bysshop of Herforde for defence of the right of his church to his great payne he went to Rome where he was honorably receyued of pope Martyn in retournynge home he deꝑted out of this world at Florentyn̄nygh the hylle of Flascon the .vi. nonas of Octobre in the yere of our lorde god M.CC.lxxxvii and .vi. dayes his body was kept and gaue a swete sauoure and then his flesshe was shauen fro the bones and buryed in the Churche of seynt Seuery there and his bones were brought to Herforde Threscore and ten men haue ben reysed fro deth to lyfe by his meryt ▪ and .xii. blyndemen recouered theyr syght with dyuers other cōtracte mute syke of the palsey that haue ben also made hole ¶ De sancto 〈…〉 THe lyfe and hole proses of this gloryous 〈◊〉 seynt 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 and of his fader moder How his moder beynge a pagan came to London fro fer countres and by the goodnes of our lorde was conuerted to the fayth how 〈…〉 was in fauoure with the kynge and was made his Chaunceller And after Archebysshop of Caunterbury where he lyued a blessyd lyfe in good e●ample dedes of charite and how he agreed at Clarendon to certeyn Articles which he after reuoked bycause they were agaynst the lyberte of the Churche and how he was therfore called ꝑiured and of the persecucion that he hadde for the lybertye of the Churche and how al his olde fauoure with the kynge tourned to malyce How he fledde at Northampton and went to Rome where he was as an outlawe .vii. yerꝭ his kynnesfolke banysshed the Realme for his sake all his goodes and possessions seased and his frendes tourned to his enemyes howe he was logged in a place of the Cisteux by the 〈◊〉 assygnement and was put out fro thens for fere leste the kynge wolde haue hurted that Relygion in Englande how he went into Fraunce was there greatly cherysshed how after by the meanes of the kynge of Englande the Frenche kyng tolde hynthe was to wylfull so he knew none other but he shulde be banysshed from thens then the Frenche kynge seyng his constaunce toke hym in more great fauour then he dyd byfore how the Archebysshop of yorke was accursyd for that he toke vpon hym to crowne the kyngꝭ sone where it belonged oonly to the see of Caunterbury whiche was cause of more grugge how he in the ende was 〈…〉 where by whom that the kynge sayd he was nat assentynge to his deth of the great repentaunce that the kynge toke by cause he had so moch attemptyd agaynst hym is so openly knowen to most people that the spekyng of it in this short treatyse shuld but make the story the more darke nat to open as it shuld be wherfore I cōmytte the reder hereof that is disposed to se more of this 〈…〉 to rede his hole Legēde When 〈…〉 in his lyfe lyued moche prayed at his tumbe for helth had it after his desyre After when he was hole he consyderyd that ꝑcase that helthe was nat expedyent to the helth of his soule wherfore he went agayne to his tumbe prayed that if that bodely helth were nat to the helth of his soule that his sykenes shuld co ● agayne so it dyd ¶ De sancto Thoma monacho a gallis occiso WHen Lowys sone to the Frenche kynge at the desyre of dyuers of the noble men of England came with a great hoste into Englāde they founde this blessydmā seynt Thomas at douersyttyng alone in the dormytorie a mā of a venerable age meke sobre fro his you the brought vp ī monastical ●uersaciō al his felowes were fled for fere of the Frenchmē whē he wold nat by fayr wordes neyther by thretes discouer the Riches of the Monastery But also boldely rebuked theym for theyr sacrelege and cruelte with a swerde in great malyce they martyred hym the nonas of August the yere of our lorde M. CC.lxxxxv and at his Tumbe a man of the Frenesy was made hoole Foure men had theyr fyght .v. were reysed fro deth to lyf ¶ De sancta Walburga virgine SEynt Walburgh was suster to seynt Willibrord Wynnybolde and with theym she went out of Englande when they came to seynt Bonyface bysshop of Maguntinēse he made Willibrord bysshop of Heystatense Wynnobolde entered into Religion at Heydanhem and after theyr deth seynt Walburgh was made Abbes of that Monastery had rule of many virgyns And when the keper of the churche at nyght denyed to gyue her lyght and she toke it in great pacyence there was in the dortor where she went a great heuynly lyghte that endured to Matens tyme so that al the susters meruayled at it and she thanked our lorde therof and attrybuted it to the merytes of her bretherne and nat of her owne On a nyght she went vnknowen to a Riche mannes house where a mayde lay syke and when the man sawe her he badde her beware of the dogges and she sayd he that had brought her thyther shuld saue her fro the dogges and when he had lerned what was her name he toke her into his house with great reuerence and when it was tyme to go to reste he asked her where she wolde lye and she sayde there as her suster lay syke where she gaue her to prayers and helyd the mayde and in the mornynge retourned to her Monastery and full of good werkes she went to our lorde the. Kalend of May and was honorably buryed in the same Monasterye She appered After her deth to Otgare bysshop of Heystatense and blamyd hym that he kept the Monastery neclygently and tolde hym that she wolde shewe hym such a token that he shulde ꝑceyue that he had nat done well to her and shortly after at the rofe of a house there was settynge vp the North wall fell and feryd theym moche and then Otgare repayred the Churche and remouyd the body of seynt Walburgh and of her brother Wynnybold to Heystatense ¶ De sancto Walleno abbate SEynt Wallene otherwyse called Walthesse was sone to Syrnon Erle of Huntyngdon his moder was doughter to the Erle of Northumberlāde accordynge to his name he was a good thefe for he stale mekely the kyngdome of heuyn kepynge all his Reuelacions and vertues close when his fader was disheryted and was deed in Fraunce seynt Wallene was made Chanon in the Monastery of seynt Oswalde in yorke and there beyng sexten he was chosen to be Pryor of Kyrkehm̄ and how moche he was in the oppynyon of other men hyer so moche he was in his owne syghte the more meke As he was at masse on Cristenmasse daye and he had spoken the

of .vii. yeres of age into a wodde as for disporte of huntynge and as the childe slept his ruler made a pytte to burye hym in when the childe awoke he tolde hym he shuld nat lye there but in a place ferther of that he shuld se that it was trewe that he sayd he strake his staffe into the grounde whiche anone grewe and after sprange therof a fayre Asshe that is called seynt Kenelmys asshe Then the cursid man had hym into a depe valey in the wodde called Clent and there as it is sayd the yonge kyng sayd Tedeū when he came to the verse Temartyrum candidatus c. The cursyd man vnder a thorne strake of his hede and there buryed hym and oftymes a bryght beame was seen descende vpon the place where he lay at which place a Cowe vsyd oftymes to be coulde nat be kept away frothens and when she came home she gauerwyse asmoche mylke as any of the other after his deth Quendreda toke the rule vpon her and then no man durst speke of the yonge kyng nor seke hym for fere of quendreda tyll a byll was brought by a doue to the pope Leo as he was at masse at rome of this effect ī Englysshe In clent in Cowbach vnder a thorne lyeth kyng Kenelme his hedde of shorne so the pope sent Legates Cardynalles to wylfryde bysshop of Caunterbury other bysshoppes of Englande that they shuld remoue hym so he was taken vp and there as he lay sprang vp of fayre welle as his suster loked out of a wyndowe vpon a sawter boke to haue by enchauntement letted his buryenge sodeynly her iyen fell vpon the boke whiche boke is yet to shewe there she dyed myserably one that was blynde a nother dombe fro theyr Natyuyte by merytes of seynt Kenelme were made hole and he lyeth at Wynchecome ¶ De sancto Kentegerno Ep̄o et confessore THe moder of seynt Kentegerne was borne in the north ꝑte of Brytayne her fader beyng a paynym she by herynge of Sermons was cōuerted how be it she was nat cristened heryng that our lady beyng clene vgyne had a child by a folisshe p̄sumpcōn she desyred in lykewyse to haue a childe in virginyte wherupon she ma●e dyligent prayers after she was with child though of ●routh it was by company of man yet she toke it on her othe ●hat she knewe nat how nor when her fader heryng that she was with childe accordynge to his lawe had her to a hyghe hyll there threwe her downe to haue so torne her to peces she lyftynge her herte to o r lorde made her prayers was saued without hurte then her fader thynkyng she was saued by wychecrafte put her into the see in a lytell shyp of lether wtout ore wherī she was brought to lāde more swyftly then a sayle coulde haue dryuen her and ī a place called Collenrose she was delyuered without helpe the same tyme of her delyueraunce seynt Sarnan harde aungelles synge in the Eyre wherfore in the mornynge he went thyder and founde the moder with the childe whome he brought to his house and cristened theym both and there the childe profyted moche in lernynge and vertue so that seynt Sarnan loued hym moste of all his disciples wherfore his Felowes enuyed hym in somoch that they kylled a byrde that seynt sarnan louyd leyd it by assent to Kentegern̄ he makyng a Crosse vpon the byrde reysed it agayne to lyfe he reysed also seynt Sarnans Coke fro deth to lyfe whiche he was exorted to do by seynt Sarnan by instygacion of his enemyes yet alway his good vertuous lyfe was a norysshynge of more enuye to his enemyes wherfore he lefte that place and went to a place called Glascu and in the way he went thurgh the water of Mallena that deuyded to hym lyke as dyd the redde see to the children of Israel at Glascu he lyued in great abstynence and was there made bysshop and he vsed to weer the heere and laye in a holowe stone for his bedde with some asshes caste vnder hym and the temptacyon of his flesshe by grace was clerely taken fro hym and he gaue all his goodes to pore men absteyned fro flesshe and wyne and fro all that myght distempre hym alway he had a Manuell in his hande redy to do his offyce when nede requyred he caused wylde hartes to go to ploughe and a wolfe that kylled one of the hartꝭ he caused to supplye his place and to bere the same yocke that he dyd he went on fote to preche and euery Lent he went to some deserte place and lyued there with herbes and rotes and somtyme by especyall grace he fasted al the Lent he vsed oftymes to stande in colde water tyll he had sayd the hole Psaulter In his Iugementes he alwayes consydered the mater and nat the ꝑsone he made an Abbey wherin were .ix. C. and .lxv. monkꝭ whiche he deuyded in thre ꝑtes so that alway some were in the Quere when he was at dyuyne seruyce somtyme a whyte doue somtyme a bryght beame where seen descende vpon hym on sher thursday he wold wasshe the fete of pore men and lepoures and kysse theym he conuerted moche people to the fayth in his Dioc he destroyed Idolles made churches and ꝑysshes he was seven tymes at Rome shewyd to seynt Gregory all his lyfe and he confermed his Eleccion supplyinge therwith that that lackyd in his consecracion when he was C. and .lxxxv. yeres olde he dyed without payne in the Idus of Ianuarii syttyng in hote water as he was taught by an Aungell and dyuers of his bretherne went in to the same water as he appoynted theym to doo and they dyed furth with without payne and went with hym into the kyngdome of Heuyn he lyeth at Glascu where our Lorde hath shewyd for hym many myracles ¶ De sancto Kyliano cūsociis suis martiribꝰ SEynt kylyan was borne of noble blode in scotlāde And as he studyed in his youthe for cūnynge he studyed also for vertue and at laste he enteryd into relygyon where he lyuyd in great obedyence with watchyngys and instaūte prayers The bretherne seynge his perseueraunce in vertue electyd hym into the rule of the Mouastery though he knewe well it wolde somwhat mynysshe his deuocyon yet for lowe of Charyte for the profet of other he toke it vppon hym and after his fame sprange farre wherfore he ferynge the fauoure of the people myght be a let vnto hym deuysyd howe he myght leue his owne cūtrey lyue ī some other cūtrey where he myght haue lytyll knowlege be reputyd of a small blod wherupon he toke certeyne of his bretherne with hym that had lyke feruoure as he had and came into great brytayne fro thens to Fraunce and so to almayne that is callydest Fraūce to a towne callyd wirtzburghe And after he went to Rome and