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A47112	A true and perfect narrative of the strange and unexpected finding the crucifix & gold-chain of that pious prince, St. Edward, the King and Confessor which was found after 620 years interment and presented to His Most Sacred Majesty, King James the Second / by Charles Taylour, Gent.	H. K. (Henry Keepe), 1652-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing K128; ESTC R12288	13,373	40

with great Satisfaction seeing they found things so suitable to their desires and expectations In the Year 1163. Thomas of Beckett afterwards St. Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury out of a peculiar devotion to this pious Princes memory by the Kings Intercession and at his own Expence procured of Pope Alexander the Third his Canonization which was Solemnized after this manner The Usuall Ceremonies having passed at Rome and the Apostolick Letters returned by those who were sent to procure them Laurentius who was then Abbot of Westminster received orders to convocate many reverend and venerable persons as well Bishops as Abbots Noblemen as others to his Church of Westminster and there publiquely to read the said Letters or Breves to the assembly he accordingly performed the same to the well liking and rejoycing of all those who were present at their publication But for as much as the Kings Affairs detained him at this time in Normandy and his presence thought extreamly necessary to the consummation of so grand a Ceremony as the Translation would be it was deferred 'till his arrivall in England almost two years after unto whom the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Abbot of Westminster with some others applying themselves to know his Royall Pleasure therein He at length wholly left the same to the Abbot of Westminster's disposal who being desirous as Gilbert his predecessor had done to see in what condition the Sacred Body lay before he would venture to expose it to the publique called together the Prior with a select number of the Monks who consulting thereon came to this resolution that no one should presume to be present at the sight thereof but those who had beforehand prepared themselves by Fasting Weeping and Prayer for such an occasion and that they only should meet in the Church on the Eve before the Translation with Tapers in their hands Albs on their Bodies and their feet to be all Naked and bare and from thence to proceed in the Search according to their desires which was done accordingly the doors being first shut and all others excluded from coming into the Church at that time they went by way of Procession to the Steps of the high Altar Singing of Psalms and reciting the Litanies with Prayers made on purpose for that Action The Abbot Prior and two of the Brethren leaving the rest at their devotions approched the Tomb and removing the upper Stone of the Coffin they beheld by the help of their lights a man lying in rich Vestments of Cloath of Gold having on his feet Baskins of Purple and Shoes of great price his Head and Face were covered with a Rich covering Interwoven and wrought with Gold with a Beard White and Long inclining to Curl and falling decently on his Breast which sight struck a profound reverence in the Spectators who called the rest of their Brethren whom they had left at the Altar to behold the same Their curiosity ended not here but led them further so that they began with great Piety and Devotion some to touch his Head others his feet and some his Hands which they found without any manner of Corruption or Putrefaction And such was the firmness of this Saints Body that all parts seemed to retain their former brightness and perfection notwithstanding the outward parts of those Vestments which lay next the lid of the Coffin were a little sullied and had lost some of their freshness by the contiguity and moldering of the cement and dust of the Stone which had fallen upon them all which they gently wiped away with a Linnen Cloth resolving to remove the whole Body from that Stone-repository to another of Wood which they had there before prepared for the same purpose so that some assisting at the Head others at the Arms and Legs they lifted it gently from thence and laid the Sacred Corps first on Tapestry spread on the floor and then wrapping the same in divers silken Cloaths of great value they put it into the Wooden Chest with all those things that were found in the former except the Gold Ring which was on the Kings Finger which the Abbot out of devotion retained and order'd it to be kept in the Treasury of the Abby as a commemoration thereof The next day viz. on the third of the Ides of October being Sunday and the appointed time for the more solemn translation of this Saints Body in the Morning Early the Holy Reliques were brought into the Quire of the Church and publickly exposed for all those who out of devotion or curiosity should come to see them The King himself assisted to support the Coffin at the time of Procession to whom were joyned Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Bishop of London Henry Bishop of Winchester c. with many others The concourse of all sorts of people as well Nobles as Artificers and Soldiers being so great that the like had not been seen for many years After the Procession the King with his own hands helpt to deposite the holy Reliques in a Shrine which he had caus'd anew to be made for them all glittering with Gold and Silver This day of his Canonization was solemnly kept for some Ages after this by the Religious of those times and is not forgot at present by many pious and devout Catholiques who come annually on the 13th of October as they do on that of his deposition the 5th of January to perform some part of their Devotions here Once more this Sacred Body was removed from it's Old Habitation and Repose and that was about the Year of Grace 1226. When King Henry the Third pulled down the Old Church built by this Saint and Erected a most Stately Edifice in the room thereof causing a peculiar Chappel likewise to be set apart and Dedicated to him adorning it with several Carvings of Masons work wherein much of his Story History of his Life Miracles are curiously wrought some part thereof remaining on the Architrave on the back-side of the High Altar at this day In the midst of this Chappell there was likewise prepared a Noble and Magnificent Shrine the upper part covered with Plates of fine Gold so Artificially workt by the hands of the most cunning Goldsmiths and set about with Precious Stones all at the Kings cost that it amounted to an inestimable value but the under-part with the curious floor round about it was framed by the command and at the charge of Richard de Ware the then Abbot of Westminster with a part of those Stones and by the same Workmen who compos'd the Pavement before the High Altar and which he brought out of Italy in his way to England when he came to the Government of this Abby The King likewise commanded a Coffin to be made all of pure Gold wherein to inclose anew the Sacred Reliques And on the day of their deposition or placing them in this rich Feretory there was a Solemn Procession The King in Person being there with the Chief of the Bishops Abbots Priors and other Religious and Clergy who were then in Town Moreover further to grace the Action on that day the King made a most Royal Magnificent Feast at his Palace at Westminster where all comers and goers as well Rich as Poor were liberally treated or rewarded Which Royal Feast and grand Solemnity was performed in the Year of our Lord 1269. From this very time we have nothing on Record that takes notice of any other removall or disposall of these Holy Reliques And therefore may conclude they remained safe and undisturbed untill the days of King Henry the Eight when we find in that general Inundation which swept amay all things Sacred this Noble Feretory stript of all its costly furniture and the Body of its Golden-Case to be meanly inclosed in a course Wooden Coffin the same I presume I lately saw and from whence I drew the so often-mentioned Crucifix and Gold-Chain FINIS ☞ ☜ Mat. West Hor. Hist p. 202. Hen. Huntingd Hist Lib. 4. Ingulph Hist p. 961. Jo. Brompton Chro. p. 955. Mat. West Flor. Hist Flor. Wigorn. Gul. Malmsb. de Gest Ang. Reg. Lib. 2. Ailred Abbas Rieval de vita S. Edw. Mirac Gu. Lambard de priscis Angl. legibus edit per A. Whelock p. 136. Hen. Spelman Concil Tom. 1. p. 619. Nicol. Harpsfields Hist Angl. Eccles Pag. 218. Caes Baron Annal. Eccle. Tom. 11. p. 290. N. 9. Joh. Brompton Chron. p. 955. Monastic Angl. Tom 1. Chart. 1. Hen. Spelman Concil Tom. 1. pro Chart. 2. In Archivis West Chart 3 Mat. Paris p. 2 Hen. Huntingdon Hist Lib. 2. p. 367. Mat. Westin Flo. Hist p. 220. Flo. Wigorn. p. 633. Rog. Hov. Ann. pars prior p. 439. Ailred Abbas Rievallis de vita Mirac S Edw. Con. p. 402. Flo. Wigorn. Rog. Hoved. Ann. p. 439. Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 2. Jo. Brompton Chron. p. 950. Ailred Abbas Rieval ut supra p. 402. Now legend Angl. in vita S. Wulstani Lau. surius ad 19 Jan. in vita S. Wulstani auct per Jacob Mosandrum Nicol. Harpsfield Hist Angl. Eccles p. 219. Ailred Abbas Rieval de vita Mira. S. Edw. p. 40● Ibid. Ibid. W. Thorn. Chron. Aug. Cant. p. 2255. Mat. Paris p. 99. Laur. Surius in vit S. Ed. Confess cum Add. Limpomani L. Surius ut Supra Joh. Fleet. de fundat Abb. West Ms in Bib. Westm J. Weever Fun. Mon. p. 455. Nicol. Harpsfields Hist Angl. Eccles Pag. 457. Mat. Paris p. 1005.

same time bestowing several Gifts and Rewards on certain Palmers or Pilgrims that came from far to see him And to the Abbot of Westminster delivered the Ring returned him by St John to be perpetually preserved among the Reliques of that Church The day following tho' very weak he did his endeavour to be Assistant at the Pompous Dedication of his New Church but Nature now almost spent in him deprived him of that Satisfaction So that being in his Bed he had no more strength left then to Sign his three Charters of Privileges Donations and Confirmations which he bestowed thereon And thus languishing 'till two days after the Circumcision he fell into a Trance became Speechless Motionless and lying for dead untill the Eve of the Epiphany following when reviving again with the Chief of the Nobility about him he began to declare what had been revealed to him concerning the future State of the Kingdom during the time of his Extasie at the end of which Discourse gently reposing his Head on his Pillow he expired after he had Reigned 23 Years Six Months and 27 Days to the Sorrowfull Lamentations of those that beheld him and exceeding grief of all his Subjects who soon after found his Predictions verified in the dismal effects of War and Bloud-shed which ensued All things are now preparing for his Funeral Rites the Body washed and Embalmed with sweet scenting Odors and Aromatique Spices wrapped in White and Precious Linnen and those covered with Rich and Costly Vestments a Coronet on his Head a Crucifix on his Breast and other Regal Ensigns of Majesty all which together with the Corps were placed in a Stone Coffin made after the Fashion of those Elder Times hollow within according to the Shape of a Man and Covered with a loose Lidd of the same Stone which the day following his Exit viz. on the Epiphany or Feast of Kings was Translated to his New Church and there according to his Desire before his Departure it was deposited with all the Ceremonies and Grandeur sutable to the Quality of the Person and the Occasion As this Holy and Religious Prince had during his Life time Cured many most Inveterate and Malignant Distempers especially those who had any extraordinary Glandules or hard Swellings in their Necks or Throats so after his Death People affected with the like Diseases coming to his Tomb several received Benefit thereby The Fame whereof drew many to pay a kind of Inferiour Devotion to his Memory Among the rest that good Bishop of Worcester the Pious Wulstan was none of the least And when William Surnamed the Conqueror took Possession of this Land turning out the Old English to make way for his New Normans having already made Lanfranc his Countryman Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the room of Stigand and still placing some and displacing others having the Formality of a National Synod to Countenance and Confirm the same This Wulstan was likewise Cited where it was objected against him That he was Illitterate Insufficient and Unworthy to bear so great and weighty a Charge as that of a Bishop and withall that he had mis-behaved himself therein being admonished to resign up his Pastoral Staff and Ring and to leave the same to the Kings disposal The Good Old Man concerned at these Proceedings took upon him an unusual boldness and standing up acknowledged that he was indeed unworthy so great Honour unsought and unlookt for by him yet as for the discharge of his Duty therein his behaviour had been such that no man with any Honesty or Justice could either tax or blemish And whereas he had received those Ensigns of his Function from so Knowing and so Glorious a Prince as King Edward he would deliver them to none but him And so departing the Councel came to his Masters Tomb where he deposited his Crosier with the profoundest humility imaginable expressing his Condition with much vehemency and concern at last concluding that it would please Almighty God so to make manifest his Innocence that That Pastoral Staff might be delivered to none but those who were worthy of it The Arch-Bishop and Synod being enformed of all that passed sent immediately for the Croysier but he that came for it found it immoveable the Truth whereof being suspected a Learned and Grave Bishop Gumulfus of Rochester by Name was Deputed to ascertain the Truth which likewise he Confirmed At which the King his Nobles the Popes Legat the Arch-Bishops and Bishops with others there Assembled admiring all came to see the Wonder the Arch-Bishop first attempting to displace it but in vain and after many fruitless endeavours of others Wulstan was entreated by the King to attempt it who no sooner toucht the Pastoral Ensign but it fell as it were of it self into his hands Upon which the King with all there present cast themselves at his feet begg'd his excuse for the Injury they had done him and that he would give them his Blessing But the Good old Man o'recome with such Condescention fell likewise on his Knees embraced the King and the rest of the Company and heartily forgave them This was the occasion that William the Conqueror ever after bare so great a Veneration for his Kinsman and Predecessor Insomuch that from thenceforth he Commanded the Coffin to be Inshrined and this Shrine to be covered with Plates of Gold and Silver and further Richly Adorned with Pearls and Precious Stones which was remaining entire and undefaced in the time of Laurentius Abbot of Westminster about one hundred Years after Six and thirty Years after this when Gilbert Surnamed Crispin was Abbot of Westminster certain Discourses and Arguments arose among the Monks concerning the Corruptability or incorruption of this Kings Body So that to satisfie their Curiosity the Abbot was resolved upon ●n inspection whereunto Gumulfus Bishop of Rochester formerly mentioned and now very Antient with other Persons of great Credit and Gravity were invited And coming with mighty expectations to the Tomb the Shrine opened and the upper Lidd of the Stone-Coffin removed such a flagrant Odour proceeded from thence that it scented the whole Church they beheld the upper Vestments that covered the Body as fresh as if newly put on the Hands the Arms the Joynts of the Fingers and Toes as plyant and Supple as but lately deprived of Life the Flesh retaining a lively and beautifull Vigour as if animated again But the Face being covered with an extraordinary Covering none would venture to uncover the same untill the grave Bishop of Rochester undertook it And beginning below his Beard which was long and white as Snow he proceeded to disclose the whole Visage which was so shining and of so unusual a brightness that they were all Strook with admiration wherefore with great reverence they cover'd it again changing the former Vestmonts and putting on others of equal pri●e Incensing the Corps and laying on the cover they all departed