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A61366	Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain derived from the Phœenicians, wherein the original trade of this island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language and customs of the p by Aylett Sammes ...	Sammes, Aylett, 1636?-1679?	1676 (1676)	Wing S535; ESTC R19100	692,922	602

day of the Sabbath which ye do who will not celebrate it upon the first day of the Sabbath Peter solemnized the Lord's day of Easter from the sisteenth Moon till the twenty first which ye do not who observe the Lords day of Easter from the fourteenth to the twentieth Moon so that on the thirteenth Moon at Evening ye often begin Easter Neither did our Lord the Author and giver of the Gospel eat the old passover on that day but on the fourteenth Moon at Evening or deliver the Sacraments of the New Testament to be celebrated in Commemoration of his Passion also the twenty first Moon which the Law especially commends to our Observation ye utterly reject in the celebration of your Easter so that as I said before ye neither agree with John nor Peter Law or Gospel in the solemnizing the great Festival To these things Colman answered Did Anatholius a holy man and much commended in the sore-mentioned Church History think contrary to either Law or Gospel who writ that Easter was to be kept from the fourteenth to the twentieth Is it to be imagined that our most reverend Father Columba and his Successors men beloved of God either thought or acted any thing contrary to Holy Writ When there were many amongst them of whose heavenly Holiness the wonders and powerful Miracles they wrought have given sufficient Testimony who as I ever thought them to be Holy men so I will never desist from following their times manners and discipline Then Wilfrid 'T is evident said he that Anatholius was a man very holy learned and praise-worthy but what does that concern ye when ve do not observe his Decrees for he in his Easter following the Rule of Truth set forth a Circle of nineteen years which ye are either ignorant of or else utterly contemn if ve acknowledg it to be kept by the whole Church of Christ. He in the Lord's Easter so reckoned the fourteenth Moon that he acknowledged that on the same day after the manner of the Egyptians to be the fifteenth Moon at evening so he observed the twentieth day for the Lord's Easter but so that he believed that the day being done to be the one and twentieth of which rule of distinction he proves thee ignorant because sometimes ye plainly keep your Easter before the full Moon that is on the thirteenth Month. As concerning your Father Columba and his Followers whose sanctity ye say ye will imitate and whose rules and precepts confirmed by heavenly signs ye are resolved to follow I might Answer when many at Judgment shall say to the Lord that they have prophesied in his Name and cast out Devils and wrought many wonders the Lord will answer that he never knew them But far be it from me that I should speak this of your Fathers since 't is more reasonable of uncertain things to entertain good thoughts than bad for which reason therefore I do not deny them to be the Servants of God and beloved by God who out of an innocent simplicity and a pious intention love God Neither do I think such an observation of Easter to be much prejudicial to them as long as no body comes among them that can shew decrees of a better institution which they may follow who nevertheless I believe had some Catholick Calculator better instructed them would have followed those things which they knew and had learned to be the Commands of God You therefore and your Associates if you despise to follow the decrees of the Apostolick See when you have heard them nay of the Universal Church and those confirmed by Holy writ without doubt ye sin What though your Fathers were holy are the paucity of these in a corner of the farthest Island to be preferred before the Universal Church of Christ over the World What if this your Columba and ours too if he be Christ's was holy and powerful in Miracles ought he to be preferred before the blessed Prince of the Apostles to whom the Lord said thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it and to thee will I give the Keys of the kingdom of Heaven After Wilfrid had thus spoken the King said Colman is it true that these words were spoken by the Lord to Peter Who answered True O King Then said he Have you any thing that you can bring to prove so great power was given to Columba but he said No we have not The King again said Do both you agree without any controversie on this that these words were principally spoken to Peter and the Keys of the kingdom of Heaven were given him by the Lord They both answered Yes Then the King thus concluded And I say unto you because he is the Door-keeper I will not contradict him but as far as I know and am able I desire to obey his commands in all things lest perchance I coming to the Gates of the Kingdom of Heaven there be no body to open he being turned aside whom you have proved to hold the Keys After the King had said thus both those that sate down and those that stood great and small assented so that the less perfect Institution being abandoned every one made haste to apply themselves to those things they thought better The Dispute being ended and the Assembly dismist Agilbert returned home Colman seeing his Doctrine slighted and his Party despised taking along with him those that were resolved to be of his sect i. e. they that would not admit of the Catholick Easter and shaving of the Crown for there was no little question about that returned into Scotland to treat with his Party what he should do in the business Chad leaving the tract of the Scotish Doctrine returned to his See as acknowledging the observation of the Catholick Easter This Disputation fell out in the year of the Incarnation of our Lord 664 the twenty second year of King Oswy and the 30th year of the Bishoprick of the Scots which they had born in the Province of the English The wife of Oswy was Eanfled Daughter of Edwin King of Northumberland after the death of her husband she spent her daies in the Monastery of Streanshalch where she deceased and was interred in the Church of St. Peter in the same Monastery The Issue of King Oswy by Eanfled was this Elwin was slain in a battel against Ethelred King of the Mercians Elfled the eldest Daughter at a year old according to the Vow of her Father was committed to Hilda Abbess of Streanshalch to be bred up in Religion where she was afterwards Abbess and was buried in the Church of St. Peters in that Monastery Offrid the younger Daughter was married to Ethelred King of Mercia His natural Issue Alkfrid who succeeded Ethelwald in Deira came at last to the whole Crown of Northumberland Alkfled married to Peada Son of King Penda she is taxed by most Writers for the death of her Husband EGFRID

and golden Letters these Verses Syderei montes speciosa cacumina Sion A Libano geminae flore comante Cedri Caelorum portae lati duo lumina mundi Ore tonat Paulus fulgurat arce Petrus Inter Apostolicas radianti luce coronas Doctior hic monitis celstor ille gradu Corda per hunc hominum reserantur aftr a per illum Quos docet iste stylo suscipit ille polo. Pandit iter coeli hic dogmate clavibus alter Est via cui Paulus janua fida Petrus Hic Petra firma manens ille Architectus habetur Surgit in his Templum quo placet ira Deo Anglia plaude lubens mittit tibi Roma salutem Fulgor Apostolicus Glasconiam irradiat A sacie hostili duo propugnacula surgunt Quod fidei turres Vrbs caput orbis habet Haec pius egregio Rex INA refertus amore Dona suo populo non moritura a dedit Totus in affectu divae pietatis inhaerens Ecclesiaeque juges amplificavit opes Melchi-sedech noster meritò Rex atque Sacerdos Complevit verae relligionis opus Publica Jura regens celsa palatia servans Vnica Pontificum gloria norma fuit Hinc abiens illinc meritorum fulget honore Hic quoque gestorum laude perennis erit Sion whose losty Turrets reach the skie Two fair and blooming Cedars bear on high The World 's great Lights Two mighty Thunderers Paul from his mouth and Peter from his Towers Amidst th'Apostle's glorious Circle he Excels in Doctrine This in high Degree The one unlocks the Heart The other Heaven And lets those in who there by Paul are driven Paul is the Way and Peter is the Dore Who ope's what t'other's Doctrine did before This is the Rock but he the Builder is To both of these Temples and Altars rise England rejoyce Thee mighty Rome doth greet Th'Apostles Light in Glascon now does meet The same two Towers are rais'd against thy soes To whose Protection Rome her safety owes These Blessings here for ever to endure INA did by his proper means procure INA whose God-like Vertue constant is Whose daily bounty does the Church increase 'T is He this work did to perfection bring Our true Melchisedec both Priest and King A righteous Prince who Publick works redeems Of Priests th' Example and the Glory seems Departing hence his worth in Heaven doth shine His Name on Earth this Temple shall enshrine He gave moreover to it a stately Altar Chalice Censer Candlesticks Bason Bucket Images and Plate for the Altar The Gold belonging to it amounted to three hundred thirty three pounds weight and the silver to two thousand eight hundred thirty five pounds weight besides precious Jewels set upon the celebrating Vestures Besides this he granted large immunities and priviledges to it and exemption from Episcopal Jurisdiction as may be seen in his Charter of Donation yet extant He founded also a School at Rome for the breeding up of English Youth for the maintenance whereof as likewise for other Charitable uses he laid an Imposition throughout his whole Realm which was at first called the King's Alms afterwards claimed by the name of Peter-Pence After which resigning his Crown he went to Rome and took upon him the habit of a Monk in which not long after he ended his daies after he had reigned thirty seven years Ethelburga his Queen who by a stratagem not worth relating had brought her husband to give-up his Crown took upon her a Nuns Veil and was afterwards Abbess of Barking near London wherein she died ETHELARD ETHELARD to whom Ina at his departure to Rome bequeathed the Kingdom was lineally descended in the fourth degree from Kenbald elder Son of Cuthwin Son and Heir of Ceaulin third King of the West-Saxons though then in his minority put by the Crown In the beginning of his Reign he had a Contest with one Oswald his kinsman who pretended to the Right of succession but the controversie was soon decided by the interest and power of Ethelard and Oswald forced to quit his pretentions and Country to boot leaving Ethelard in the quiet possession of his Kingdom which he governed peaceably without any remarkable Action the space of fourteen years CUTHRED CUTHRED a Prince of the same Lineage succeeded His first beginnings were troublesom having to deal with Edtlbald King of Mercia a subtle and powerful Enemy who not only with open war invaded him but secretly encouraged Rebellion among his Subjects But in the fourth year of this King's Reign they came both to a conclusion of peace and with joynt forces set upon the Welch and overthrew them with great slaughter Seven years after he was engaged in Civil wars with one of his Nobles Adelm or Ethelhun a good Souldier but upon what occasion seditious is not mentioned With him encountring in a set battel he was almost overpower'd though far exceeding in numbers until Adelm receiving a wound minded therewith of his disloyalty slacked fight and was at the same time vanquisht and pardoned and in token of trust two years after in the wars with Edilbald the Mercian he received Commission from the King who reposed much confidence in his Valour which he so well executed that at Beorford now Eurford in Shropshire Edilbald was put to flight with the discomfiture of his whole Army Not long after he fought a battel with the Welch of whom he obtained an easie Victory and the year following died after he had Reigned fourteen years His only Son Kinric a youth of a violent spirit had been slain five years before his Father's death in a Mutiny of the Army as is said for his too rigorous discipline SIGIBERT SIGIBERT no Issue being left of the former Prince stept into the Throne having neither Title nor desert an insolent Tyrant at home bold and daring in wickedness but in the field soft and cowardly Advised of his miscarriages by Cumbrae one of his chief Captains and best Counsellers in recompence for his good will he barbarously flew him But not long after driven out of his Kingdom by consent of People and Nobility and flying into the wood Andredswald to hide himself in obscurity he was discovered at a place called Privetsfloud by a Swineherd of Cumbrae and known to be the King was there slain by him in revenge of his Master's death after he had reigned scarce two years KINWULF KINWULF after the death of Sigibert was with universal joy saluted King being of the Blood-Royal of the West-Saxons and his Right unquestioned The first experiments of his Reign he made against the Welch whom in several fights he often discomfited but in his twenty fourth year in a battel fought with Offa King of Mercia at Benfington or Benton he lost the day and the Town also for which they contended Afterwards governing ingloriously by the space of seven years he at last came to an unfortunate end which was thus occasioned In his latter daies growing loose and amorous and conscious of

lessened and judging withal that Superiority was due to him not only from that but other Kingdoms from the priority of time wherein Kent was settled taking up Arms began to invade his Neighbours and by open claim to assert the Right of an universal Monarchy But not well weighing the strength of his Neighbours and measuring his own Power rather by the number of his Levies than the goodness of his Men by long peace unaccustomed to War he was miserably baffled by Keaulin King of the West-Saxons an old experienced Souldier who with Cutha his Son leading an Army trained up in Wars and well fledged with Victories obtained against the Britains twice defeated him and at last drove him into his own Territories The first place of Battel is not mentioned that which seemeth to be the last was at Wiphandun wherein two Kentish Earls Oslave and Cnebban lost their lives And this is the first War the Saxons had among themselves since their entring the Island Ethelbert taught by these defeats that the success of War depends not on the eagerness of desire to conquer but the steady management of the means referred the repairing of his losses to a more convenient time and the event proved accordingly for being come to riper years and Keaulin his grand Opposer removed by death in a short time he stretched his Empire over the most considerable parts of the Island all the Kingdoms on this side Humber either by force or composition being brought entire under his obedience And he is worthily reckoned the sixth Monarch of the English men Thus grown great he takes to wife Bertha the French King Chilperick's Daughter whom St. Gregory as will appear in his Epistle writ to her calls Adelberga she was a Christian and by Covenant of Marriage was to enjoy the exercise of her Religion to that end she brought over with her Letard a Bishop under whose care and instructions he daily exercised the Christian Profession The King as yet and all his People continued in the worship of the Saxon Idolatry and whether by the negligence of Letard who perhaps contented himself in the freedom of private devotion or that the King taken up in Wars had not the leasure to examine into their Faith or lastly that God in his infinite wisdom reserved the Conversion of our Nation to other hands certain it is that neither the example of the Queen nor the preaching of Letard have left any tokens or Records of effects proportionable to such advantages as might be expected from an open and sincere Profession St. Gregory in one of his Epistles following highly taxes the negligence of the French Clergy in not taking care of the Saxons Cenversion and Bede out of Gildas laies it to the charge of the British But in what capacity as to Life and Manners they were in to perform so charitable an office take out of Gildas himself as it is most elegantly translated by Mr. Milton Nothing better were the Clergy but at the same pass or rather worse than when the Saxons came first in unlearned unapprehensive yet impudent subtle Prowlers Pastors in name but indeed Wolves intent upon all occasions not to feed the flock but to pamper and well line themselves not called but seizing on the Ministry as a Trade not as a Spiritual charge teaching the People not by sound Doctrine but by evil Example usurping the Chair of Peter but through the blindness of their own Worldly lusts they stumble upon the Seat of Judas deadly haters of truth broachers of lies looking on the poor Christian with eyes of pride and contempt but sawning on the wickedest Rich men without shame great promoters of other mens Alms with their set exhortations but themselves contributing ever least slightly touching the many vices of the Age but preaching without end their own grievances as done to Christ seeking after preferments and degrees in the Church more than after heaven and so gained make it their whole study how to keep them by any tyranny Yet lest they should be thought things of no use in their eminent places they have their nicities and trivial points to keep in awe the superstitious Multitude But in true saving knowledge leave them still as gross and stupid as themselves bunglers at the Scripture nay forbidding and silencing them that know but in Worldly matters practiced Cunning jhisters in that only art and symony Great Clerks and Masters bearing their heads high but their thoughts object and low He taxes them also as gluttonous incontinent and daily drunkards And what shouldst thou expect from these poor Laity So he goes on These beasts all belly shall these amend thee who are themselves laborious in evil doings shalt thou see with their eyes who see right forward nothing but gain leave them rather as bids our Saviour left ye fall both blindfold into the same perdition Are all thus Perhaps not all or not so grossly But what availed it Eli to be himself blameless while he connived at others that were abominable Who of them hath been envied for his better life who of them hath hated to consort with these or withstood their entring the Ministery or endeavoured zealously their casting out Yet some of these perhaps by others are legended for great Saints This was the state of the Church among the Britains scarce likely to convert others who were so much perverted among themselves but whether or no they were in a condition among so much hostility to preach the Gospel of Peace supposing they had men well-meaning thereunto amongst them in a thing so far distant is not easily determinable Certain it is that the Conqueror with less prejudice receives Religion from any than the persons conquered And this might be the cause that notwithstanding the Christian Faith shone round about yet the intire Conversion of the Saxons is owing to the See of Rome which at that time was possessed by GREGORY afterwards Sirnamed the Great and for his upright behaviour in this and other like occasions worthily Cannoniz'd for a Saint Now the first occasions of this great work and the methods by which it proceeded because it hath been of so high concern to our Nation as which still bears influence among us I shall not stick more particularly to relate out of faithful Historians and Ancient Records yet extant The Original motives which induced Gregory to this great undertaking Venerable Bede thus relates as he received it down by tradition The Report goeth that on a certain day when upon the coming of Merchants lately arrived great store of Wares was brought together into the Market-place at Rome for to be sold and many Chapinen flocked together for to buy Gregory also himself among others came thither and saw with other things Boyes set to sale for Bodies fair and white of Countenance sweet and amiable having the Hair also of their head as lovely and beautiful whom when he wistly beheld he demanded as they say from what Country or Land they