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A19311	Mnemosynum or Memoriall to the afflicted Catholickes in Irelande Comprehended in 2. boockes. in the one ther is a consolation for the sorovvfull, in the other a resolution for the doubtfull. composed by Iohn Copinger priest, bacheler of diuinitie, vvith an epistle of S. Cyprian vvritten vnto the Thibaritans, faythfullie translated by the said authour.	Copinger, John, b. 1571 or 2.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. Epistle unto the Thibaritans. aut	1606 (1606)	STC 5725; ESTC S118020	76,240	344

vvhich vvas not meāt of the sacrifice of the old lavve for by many places of scripture that sacrifice could not be offered but at Hierusalē therfore it must be verified of the sacrifice of the masse vvhich is the sacrifice of all sacrifices for vvhich Chriest hath ordained priestes vvhen he said do this in remembrance of me vnto vvhom S. Paul said they could not drinck the chalice of Chriest and the deuill and consequentlie this sacrifice must be offered by priestes in Ireland vvhich according to the said alachias are Angells of god that must offer sacrifice and shall applie the vniuersall sacrifice of Chriest vnto our particulier miseries and calamities for as vniuersall causes neuer vvorke vnles they be applied by particuler causes by vvhich they be determined so the oblatiō of the sacrifice of Chriest though it vvas a sufficient expiation for all our offences yet being an vniuersall cause must be applied by particuler causes to vvorke his effect THAT THE PRIMAcie of this church by vvhich the apostolike succession and continuance therof is established vvas founded by Chriest reason and auctoritie confirming the same CAP. III. IN all thinges vvee see a subordination of an inferiour to a superiour in the celestiall and angelicall Hierarchie the inferiour order concerning their intellectu call operation or supernaturall reuelation do depēd of the superiour vvhich are called Archangels euerie corpulent substance in his corporall motion dependeth of a supreme bodie vvhich is called primum mobile amongest lightsome bodies the sunne hath the preeminence vvithout vvhose influence no such thing hath any light so as there is nothing in this vvorld according to the philosopher and as experiēce teacheth that is not reduced vnto his Kinde by vvhich the perfection therof is measured amongest sensible creatures the reasonable creature vvhich is man is the chiefest by vvhich euerie such liuing thing is measured amongest Christians Chriest according his humane nature 〈…〉 hath a supreame iurisdiction de cuius plenitudine nos omnes accepimus of vvhom vve depend in our supernaturall being vvhy should not in the church of god this order be obserued that there should be one church by vvhose direction all churches should be gouerned by vvhich all churches should be tried and ordered so among the apostles there vvas S. Peter vvhich made the first profession of our fayth on vvhō the superioritie vvas instituted and the churche founded Math 16 as vppon a firme rocke Chriest speaking vnto him Math 〈◊〉 Iuc 12 thou arst a rock and vppon this rocke vvill I build my churck the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it c. Tu es as S. Hieron Mart 〈◊〉 expounded vpon thee vnto thee I vvill giue the Keies of the Kingdome of heauen this authoritie is confirmed by many prerogatiues Math ●7 Luci● Io 20 and priuileges that he hath in the gospell that christ did pay the tribute for him self and S. Peter vvhere he praied that S. Peters fayth should neuer faile in the vvorld vvhere he saied vnto S. Peter thou being once confirmed strengthen thy brethren of the successors of S. 〈◊〉 p. 190 Peter this is demanded saith S. Bernard that Chriest commended vnto him thrice the feeding of his flocke Actorum 1.2.3.4.5.6.8 9. 〈◊〉 5 also the aucthoritie he hath in the actes this primacie of S. Peter is auouched and approued by S. Cyp. lib. 4 epist ad Pa pianid lib. 1. ad Coruel Orig Sup. Mat. ●ier lib 1. Pelag in ser●d Petro ad Am● in ser 47 Chrys super ●o 8 ●omi sup Math. Cyprian by S. Hieron by S. Amb. by S. Chrys by S. Aug. contra Ep. Donati by S. Hilarie vppon S. Math. by S. Leo in the anniuersarie sermon by S. Greg. in moralib in registro ad Mauritium Aug. by S. Cyp. de simplicitate praelatorū by S. Aug. in his quest of the nevve and old testamēt by S. Leo ser asce Dominic Bed in homi Ath. ●n Ep. ad Marcū Liber Foelt Eus Caes lact Paul Ansel First the faith vvas taught in Iudea Actor ● 8 Heb. 26 and so came vnto Samaria and to other places omitting the east and the south it is certaine that S. Peter did send vnto Germany to teach the faith Crescētes Eucharius and Valerius vnto France he sent Sixtus Sinitius Amansius Mennius and Martialis and S. Clement did send Dionysius Areopagita vvith Rusticus Eleutherus Sāctinus Exuperius and Eutropius vnto Paris and Guyen the rest of S. Pe. successors did send in all ages pastors vnto other partes of the vvorld to conuert them vnto the faith vnto Eng. Eleuth the Pope did send S. Getmanus in the time of Lucius King of Kent aftervvard by S. Greg. vvere sent vnto England holie monckes S. Aug. and his brethren to reclaime England for that it fell from the first faith as S. Patrick and Paladius by Scelest vnto Ireland Scotlād as these days many are sent vnto the east and vveast South and North by S. Peters successors so as no nation vvas euer Io. conuerted but by the lavvfull mission of S. Peter his successors vnto vvhō Chriest committed the charge and feeding of his Flocke vve neuer red that any natiō vvas brought vnto Chriest by heretickes sauing the Goathes vvhich vveare conuerted or rather subuerted by the Arrians did not continue therin this care and charge of feeding of Chriest his flocke vvas not onlie committed vnto S. Peter but also vnto his successors othervvise Chriest had no care of his flocke nor of his church but during S. Peter his time and he being dead this charge and gouernmēt of his church vvas ended vvith him vvhich should be absurd to thincke vvhen his church must continue to the vvorldes end for if the church should not haue a head vnder Chriest by vvhose order directiō the same shoulde be prudētlie gouuerned it shoulde be a bodie vvithout a head a flocke vvithout apastour a church vvithout a vicar a multitude vvithout vnitie vvhich being vvithout any subordinatiō of an inferiour to a lavvfull superiour is nothing els then a chaos vvithout order and a certaine confusion of a popular tumulte vvithout orderlie direction or discretion and if the church of god be one as it is said in the canticles vna est colūba mea perfecta mea C●● ● vna est matri suae my doue is one the mother hath but one daughter perfectiō of loue consisteth in vnitie all this vnitie is spoken of the church of Chriest vvithout vvhich vnitie it could not be called castrorum acies ordinata an armye vvell trayned Ibin ● a battaile vvell ordered and if chriest praied vnto his father that his flocke should be one and S. Paul saieth that his church should be one bodie misticall Ioh i● Eph. ●● so there should be saieth he one spirit to quicken it one lord to direct it one faith to vvalke therin one baptisme to

others vvhen they them selues are rather deformed then reformed the like vvoe vvas pronounced against Assur and yet by Isaias he vvas called the rod of gods furie and the club of his anger and yet by the said prophet it is said Assur shall fall by the svvoerd Isa 31. and his children shal be slaues god did raise vp Saule as S. Cyprian saies to afflict the people of Israel vvith manifold impositions Cyp. lib. 3 Epl. 9. and exactions for contemning Samuell or rather god in him aftervvardes the said Saul forgetting him self and despising the said Samuel vvas deposed of his kingdome and depriued of his life god suffred Achab to persecute the Prophet Mycheas but Achab vvas slaine aftervvardes of his enimies Iorā the sonne of Achab and all his progenie vvere put to death by Iehu I vvill said the prophet vnto Iehu require the blood of all the seruantes and Prophetes of god at the handes of Iesabell ● Reg. 3i Vvhen Zacharias the prophet vvas murdered in the house of god at his death he said Videat Dominus requirat 3. Reg. 3i let god beholde and reuenge 3 Reg 22 the seruantes of King Ioas by vvhose vvill he dyed insulted vppon the said Ioas 4 Reg 9 and slue him in his bed Amasias King of Iuda 2 para i4 2 para 29 for the like offence had no better ende his sonne Ozias for vsurping the function of the priest vvas strocken vvith a leprosie vvho vvould not feare asvvell the horrible punishmentes of the rebellious conuenticle of Chore Dathā and Abirā vvho for not obeing Moyses and Aaron vvere svvallovved of the earth Ezech 5 as also that of Manasses the persecutor of Isaias and Zedechias the persecutor of Hieremie qui vos tāgit c. Zach ● 4 vvhich toucheth you saieth the holie ghost toucheth the apple of mine eie Lu● il Chriest saith the blood of Zacharias the prophet vvhom you haue killed betvvixt the temple and the alter shal be required at your handes the most grieuouse calamities and horrible punishmentes of the vagabōd dispersed ievves throughout all natiōs their hardenesse of heart and obduration in their infidelitie vnto vvhich their vvilfull and blinde passions haue brought them their incorrigible and vntractable humoures vvhich by no reason or auctoritie of scripture can be reclaymed is nothing els then gods iust iudgment executed vppon them by the Romans to auoid vvhose gouerment they put Chriest to death for the blood of our sauiour according to their ovvne decree sanguis eius supernos c. saieng let is blood light vpon vs and our posteritie Pilat then president of iurie that gaue sentēce of death against him and condemned him vvas partaker of the punishmentes inflicted for the same as Eusebius and Nycephorus do vvrite for being in disgrace by Tyberius the emperour Euse Hyst Eccl. lib. ● c. 7. Nycep lib. 2. c. 10. and banished by Caius and being tormented by his guiltie conscience did kill him self vnto the like miserable ende Anna and Cayphas vvere subiect as those authours do vvright It is recorded by all ecclesiasticall histories that persecutors do seldome escape a bad ende omitting pagan princes I thought good to set dovvne a fevve exāples of hereticall tyrāntes and of some catholickes Constātius the Arrian emperour Atha epi. ad solutariam vi●● agenies and a greaet persecutor of Liberius the Pope of S. Athanasius other catholicke bishops vsurping vnto him selue the determinatiō of ecclesiasticall causes Amiann● Marcell lib. 22. Ambr. lib. 31 ended most miserablie as the said Ath. vvitnesseth Valēs a cruell persecutor of the church and of Isai the mōcke for reprouing him for his crueltie vvas by the Goathes vvith many of his nobilitie burned in flieng from them Valentiman the yonger a great persecutor of S. Ambrose vvas hanged by his ovvne seruantes as the said S. ●●b lib 5 ●pistolarū 32 Ambro. declareth Anastasius a great persecutor of priestes and religious people therfore excommunicated by Gelasius the Pope vvas strocken dovvne by a thunderbolte as Eutropius vvriteth Eutrop 4 ●p 34 Mauritius the emperoure a great disturber of S. Gregorie vvho thus vvritt vnto him if the sinnes of Gregorie saied he be such as they be insufferable the sinnes of S. Peter are not such vvhose place I holde vvas apprehended by an ordinarie souldier of his ovvne called Phoca hauing exalted him self vnto the emperiall throne after killing his vvife and children in his presence did hang him self vppon a gibber and being vppon the ladder he vttered these vvordes iustus es Domine c. Blundus li 3 decad 1 ●aul●sd●● c●●us li ●8 O lord thou arte iust right is thy iudgmēt Constance the nephevv of Heraclius vvhich banished Martine the Pope vvas slayne in Cicilia of his ovvne seruantes the like end did happen also vnto Michael the emperour vvhat should I remember the death of Constantius the sonne of Leo of Henry the 4. S●n a●● to 3 in Cons●●ce 〈◊〉 Mechaele the first emperour of the vveast of Frederick the 2. Frederk Barbarosa Philip Sigober ad ann 778 Otho the 4. Cōradus Manfredus Lodouick the 4. and other emperours and kinges that vvere great persecutors of the church and of the pastors therof as Nauclerus Gene brard Caesar Baro. do vvitnes vvhich also do declare the miserable end of many kinges and princes of England for expelling and banishing bishops out of their seuerall dioces also the said Caesar Baro. Beda lib 4 cap 26 hist Eccles anno Domini 684. and venerable Beda do testifie the miserable end of Efridus king of the North parte of Englād I vvill put dovvne the said Beda his ovvne vvordes translated out of Latin Elfridus hauīg sent Bertus vvith an armie into Ireland vvasted and spoiled most miserablie the innocēt nation alvvaies most freindlie vnto the english so as the svvorde of the enimie did not spare church or monasterie the people of the Iland tesisted them the best they could and called on gods helpe against them to reuenge their affliction and although cursers and ill tongued cannot possesse the Kingdom of heauen yet it is beleued such as vvere cursed for their impietie did the sooner receaue punishment according their deserte god exacting the same vvheras the yeere follovving the said King rashlie and vvithout aduise of his councell and against the vvill of Cutbert of blessed Memorie vvhich vvas of late made bishop inuaded his neighbours dominions and being brought vnto great streightnes and difficultie his armie and him self vvas slayne the yeere of his adge 40. and of his raigne the 15. his freindes did prohibite him to enterprise this vvarre but be cause the yeere before he refused to heare the most reuerend father Egebert that he should not impugne and afflict Ireland hurting him nothing it is giuen him as a pnnishment not to heare those that laboured to vvithdravve him from destructiō from vvhich time the

to this vvorld 2. Timo. 2. according to the apostle that such should not intermedle vvith any vvorldlie busines and according to Naz. in Car ad Hel● S. Nazianzen vvhich do segregate them selues from the conuersation of this vvorld and do cōsecrate their liues vnto god vvhich beinge eleuated aboue the earth and being vvithout vvife or children their intentiue care is to vvorship and honour god vvith hymnes and prayers both day and night in another place he said speaking of those religious people these haue nothing to doo vvith this and yet haue all thinges therin Ora 1. in Iul. vvhich are the lordes of the vvorld these I say for their mortification are immortale and for their litle medling vvith the vvorld are ioyned vnto god and for their solitarinesse in the same do embrace the ioy of the other vvorld this farre Naz. and althoughe many vvicked apostates haue abused this sacred institution by rūning out of it as Luder and Caluine and the rest of their apostles and teachers of their irreligious doctrine haue don that makes not the religion bad but rather good no more then the 9. orders of angellicall Hierarchie for that lucifer and the rest of his follovvers through priede fell from it nor the apostolique order of Chriest for that Iudas throughe couetousnes runne out of it nor the mercie of god the vvorse though it be abused by presumptuous sinners vvho are the more prone to sinne because god is mercifull and trulie if ther vvere no other reason to cōfirme and proue our holie catholick religion then that such detestable and abhominable apostates so vicious in their liues so impious and blasphemous in their doctrine so variable vncertaine and faythlesse in their fayth so confused in their procedings vvho vvithout order auctoritie or apostolicke spirit or commission licentiouslie and excursiuelie do range abroad preaching their irreligious heresies condemned reiected and anathematized by all generall councels and specialie by the famous authenticall generall councell of Trente vvhich vvas an a assembly of all the patriarches Archbishops bishops prelates generales of holie orders Abbotes doctors and diuins of all Christiendome should I say ympugne and disproue the same it should be an euident argumente to confound the heretick and confirme the catholicke Novve let vs come vnto the apostles that did first plant our catholick religion in Irelād some authoures do vvrite that S. Iames Maior vvas in Ireland being by vvind driuen thither Casar Par anno Chrisii 429 is 5 num 8. Paladius the popes legate as Caesar Baronius vvitnesseth did preach in Irelād and aftervvardes Sainct Patrick vvas sēt thither by Celestinus pope as the said Bar. declareth anno Christi 431. num 191. Gigebertus in chronica vvho vvith an a apostolicall spirit seruent prayers long fasting austere mortification sharpe discipline religious obseruation of all spirituall perfection and feruent charitie did subdue that kingdom vnto the standarte of the crosse the svveet yoke of Chriest his lavves his most holie life and the strāge vvounders and miracles that god did vvorke by him vvas an cuident vvitnesse that his doctrine vvas of god othervvise hovv could a poore soule void of all hmaine forces and vvorldlie pollicies subdue in one quarter of a yeare a borbarous vicious and vntractable nation vnto such hard lavves both vnto our capacitie vnreasonable and vnto fleash and blood yrcksom and intollerable vnlesse god vvhose vvorke he had in hand had holpen and cooperat vvithim by strange miracles both vvounderfull to be seene and ympossible to be don by humaine povver vvhat is more dissonant to our grosse sensible iudgment and knovvledge then that Chriest should be the sonne of a virgine and that he vvas god and man and that being god vvhose nature is immortall and ympassible should die should be crucified as a theefe should be dead and buried and that the same god is he that vvee receaue vnder the vaile of accidentes of bread and vvine in the eucharist that being fed vvith Chriest vvee may be purified and sanctified by him and that Chriest according to his deitie is one vvith the father and the holie ghost vnited in one nature substance or essence and perfection only distinct and different from god the father and the holie ghost in certaine notions person or hypostasis and that the bodie being conuerted vnto ashes must appeare before Chriest that vvas so crucihed by man to receaue according to his desertes vvhat is more loathsom vnto fleash and blood then to be crucified and mortified vnto this vvorlde and to be depriued of all corruptible appetites therof to follovve Chriest crucified to vvalke in the streight narrovve vvay of his crosse and to despise detest abhore the broad vvay of the licentious doctrine of these heretikes for if vve leaue of our fayth vvhich according to S. Gregorie hath no merite vvhen humane reason giueth experience the doctrine of those apostates is more agreable vnto our senses and more conformable vnto fleash and blood and more pleasant vnto our corrupt nature vvhich inclineth to follovve licētious libertie and the vvorkes of darcknesse vvhich are voluptuous pleasures beastlie concupiscence vvithout any restrainct of any spirituall lavve vvithout obseruatiō of vovves vvithout any regard of the sacrament of pennance the 3. essentiall partes therof as contrition confession and satisfactiō vvhich is the onlie medicine ordained by Chriest to cure heale the vvoundes of our poore soule corrupted and lāguished vvith sinne vvithout any deuotiō or respect to any religion religious ceremonies sacrifices and sacramētes churches and oratories ordained by our ancetoures for the seruice of god all vvhich they do destroy vvher they haue any poavver and in steed therof do endeuoure to plante a negatiue religion vvhich according to the phplosopher est malignā t is naturae quicquia ante se inueuit destruit is of a malignant nature vvhatsoeuer it findeth besor it doth destroye the same for ther is no religion order obseruation that the church of god had at any time but this infernall heresie laboreth to abolish and overtrovve it quite Novv hauing hearde and to your greatest griefe felt the vvorkes and endeauoures of Luder Caluine vvherin they applied them selues I thought good to speake a litle of our cuntrie sainctes vvhose zeale charitie holinesse of life many nations vvere conuerted vnto the faith of Chriest of vvhich I vvill put dovvne some fevv examples if if vvee may beleue venerable Beda that did vvrite the life of S. Patrick and of other sainctes of Irland said that they vvere a mirour and spectacle of all religious perfection Beda lib. 3 na 4. histo Aug● and sanctitie of S. Columbanus he vvriteth thus Columbanus came out of Ireland in his habite and life a famous mōcke to preach christian religion vnto the Pictes Meilochon being a most mightie king of that nations the yeare of our lorde 565. and conuerted that nation by vvorde and example vnto the fayth of Chriest

before he vvas come into England he founded a most famous monasterie in Ireland vvhich for the abundance of okes is called in the Irish tonge deragh that is to say the fielde of oackes out of vvhich monasteries many other monasteries vvere made by his disciples in England and Ireland anno Chrisli 365. nu 30. Bed lib. 3.27 hist anno Christi 64. the same doth Caesar Baro. confirme In Ireland sayth the said Beda many noble and meane people vvhen Finan and Colman vvere bishops ther departing out of England for obtaininge of diuine knovledge and for embracing a cōtinent life some did enter into religion consecrating them selues vnto the seruice of almightie god others did labour to get and purchase knovvledge and science for vvhom Irishmen most gladlie erected seminaries furnishing them vvith bookces and all other necessaries for their purpose vvithot money or revvarde this farre venerable Beda of the charitie of Ireland tovvardes Englismē D. Ber. in vita S. Malach. S. ●ern also in the life of S. Malach. bishop of lismore saith that ther vvas a monasterie in Irelād vvhich vvas the mother of many thousand monasteries he added also a most holie place fertle of sainctes vvhich most abūdātlie did fructifie vnto god so as one of the children of that holie monasteries ercted 100. monasteries of this vvee may gather hovv many vvere the rest that Ireland yelded so as S. Ber. Psal 64. saith the verse of Dauid vnto Ireland may be applied visitasti terram inebriasti eam multiplicasti eam o lord thovve hast visited the earth thoue hast ovverflovve it vvith sanctitie and thou hast abundantlie enriched the same vvith holinesse and the svvaremes of sāctes did not onlie multiplie in Ireland and in the contries adioyning but also they made their inundatiō into externall nations of vvhich Columbanus came into our pattes of France and made the monasterie of Luxouia so great and so religious that the quier therof vvas neuer any moment both day and night vvithout praysing of god thus farre S. Bern. of the religion of Ireland vvhich calleth S. Malachias a second Moyses and a second Aaron vvho vvas a sufficient vvitnesse of his life and death for he died vvith him in his monasterie of Clareuall vvhose bodie is keipt there vntill this day as amost precious relicke vvhat shall I saye of the blessed S. Romoaldas the king of Ireland his sonne Atchbishop of Mekline in Flanders and Patrone of that cuntrie of Dymna the king of Leinster his daughter that vvas martyred in Flāders of S. Folianus the brother of holie Furseus the apostle of Austria of holie Brandon that hath conuetted vnto Chriest so many Ilandes in the Ocean sea and some of them this day are called the Ilandes of S. Plath de bono status religiosi lib 2. c. 27 Brandon so holie in his life and so miraculous in vvorkes that it is a vvounder so heare therof of the 3 sonnes of Vrbian king of Irelād vvhich vvere called Froseus Folianus and Vltanus all blessed sanctes vvhich ann DCL came into France and vvere receaued most courteouslie of King Clodoueus and obtained of him license to erect a monasterie in France apud Ta●iniac vvhat shall I speake of Killian of vvhom Laurentius Surius speaketh thus Killian of the scotish nation trulie I mean Ireland it is a fertile Iland in the Ocean sea but more fertile of Sainctes and holie men of vvhich Irelie reioyceth for Columbanus Germanie is enriched vvith Gallus ● Iulii France is renovvmed for Killian vvhich did suffer martyrdome and conuetted vnto the fayth all Languedock and the cuntris adioyning this farre Surrius thiese godlie people in nothing did labour so much as in conuerting soules vnto god by mortifieng their bodies by shevving vertuous examples of good life vnto all those vvith vvhome they did conuerse for Ireland in multitude of sanctes in austeritie of life in heauenlie conuersation vvas not inferioure to any natiō in the vvorld exceipt for martyrdome the reason vvherof the Archbushopp of Cashall beinge demaūof Geraldus Cambrensis secretarie to king Iohn in Ireland vvherfore Ireland hauing so many sanctes yeelded no martyrs did shevv that Irish people although they vvere barbaro ' yet vvould neuer embrevv their handes vvith the blood of such people but novve saith he vvhen you are come among vs. vve shall not vvant martyrs truelie you haue had of late dayes constant martyrs as you cānot be ignorāt therof and perhaps ere long you may haue more if your persecution shall continue and also if you be as resolute and determined to perseuere in your anciēt faith as your persecutors be cruell to trye your patience by the effusion of your blood this is the time of your merit by your sufferance novve you are brought vnto the fielde of your combat vnto the skirmish of your coronatiō if you be determined to dye rather then to make a shipvvracke of your faith vvhich haue brought forth so many blessed sainctes of your ovvne nation by vvhose godlie example your faith is confirmed your coūtrie renovvmed and god glorified hold it for certaine that thiese holie people and the broode of Caluine can neuer take rest in one Kingdome Iacob and Esau could neuer agree and although they had one father called Isaac and Rebcca to their mother yet they neuer possessed one inheritance nor enioyed one patrimonie although they vvere in one belly and vvere borne at one time Exod. 32. yet they haue not one heauen Iacob for obeing his mother had the benedictiō of the father vvho praied vnto god that his posteritie should multiplie as the sandes of the sea thiese blessed sainctes forobeing the catholicke church vvhich signified Rebecea haue the fatheres benediction are multiplied as the sandes of the sea the starres of heauen vvhat are the vertuous religious gentlemé that despise the vvorld forsake lādes and great possessiōs deny them selues and embrace the crosse of our sauiour in humilitie in voluntarie pouertie perfect obedience and perpetuall continencie but the posteritie of these blessed sainctes is the fruite of this benediction and the effect of their religion seeing that euety cause is knovven by his effect euerie tree by his fruit and the faith of euery Christian by his charitie vve must thinke that the catholicke religion is the onlie true religion that procureth such heroicall resolutions in mens brestes by vvhich they be so austere in their mortification so mortified in their passiōs so euangelical in their conuersatiō and so charitable in their vvorkes of vvhich vve haue many blessed examples vvas that not a great charitie of F. Thomas vvhit naturall of Clōmel seing many poore scholers of his nation in great miserie in Valodolid in Castile hauing no means to continue their studie nor language to begge hauing giuen ouer his ovvne priuate commoditie did recollect reduce thē to one place vvhich he mayntained by his industrie and begging vntil by his petition to Phillip the second