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A14395	The memorable and tragical history, of the persecution in Africke: vnder Gensericke and Hunricke, Arrian kinges of the Vandals. Written in Latin by the blessed Bishop Victor of Vtica, who personallie (as also S. Augustine the famous doctor) endured his part thereof. With a briefe accomplishment of the same history, out of best authors: togither vvith the life and acts of the holy Bishop Fulgentius, and his conflicts vvith the same nation; Historia persecutionum, quas in Aphrica olim circa D. Augustini tempora, Christiani perpessi sub Censerycho et Hunerycho Vandalorum regibus. English	Victor, Saint, Bishop of Vita, d. ca. 505.; Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1605 (1605)	STC 24714; ESTC S119124	68,537	182

with sighs and teares they clasped their fellowes knees that they might not be drawne away whome neuerthelesse the rude Heretikes parting with their menacing swordes carryed backe to Carthage But though they were dealt with all not by faire meanes as their age seemed rather to require they were found more resolute then for their yeares and least they should sleepe to death they lighted to themselues the lampes of the Gospels light At this the Arrians conceiued grieuous indignation blushing for shame to see themselues ouercome by boyes and enflamed thereby vvill them to be beaten afresh vvith wandes whome fewe dayes before they had cut with many lashes Sores are made vpon sores and the hurts renewed waxe rawe afresh yet came it to passe through our Lordes assistance that their small age tainted not for payne and their courage increased so that they waxed strong in faith whome nowe Carthage honoureth with great affection regarding this Quyre of twelue boyes as of twelue Apostles They dwell togither they table togither they sing togither they rejoyce in our Lord togither CHAP. XII The Martyrdomes of certayne and the euill entreaty of Bishop Eugenius IN those dayes two Marchants of the same City who both had to name Frumentius vvere crowned vvith a notable Martyrdome Seauen brethren also not by nature but by grace as which liued togither in one Monastery accomplishing the agony of their confession came to the garland vvhose flourish neuer vadeth Liberatus the Abbot Bonifacius a Deacon Seruus a Sub deacon Rusticus a Sub-deacon Rogatus a Monke Septimus a Monke and Maximus a Monke For as then more cruelly did the Bishops Priests and Clergie of the Arrians rage then the King and his Vandals For euery where those Bishops vvith their Clergie ranne vp and downe persecuting vs with their swordes by their sides as namely one Antony a Superintendent of theirs somewhat crueller then the rest whose practises against vs vvere so abhominable and incredible that they can not be vttered His residence vvas in a City neare to the wildernesse which joyneth vpon the Prouince of Tripoly As an vnsatiable beast thirsting after Catholikes bloud he ranne here there roaring after his pray and impious Hunricke acquainted vvith his fierce disposition vvould needes banish Eugenius into the coasts of that wildernesse But Antony to whose custody he was committed kept him so close and straight that no man could haue accesse and besides by sondry afflictions guiles and paynes thought to make him away The holy man while he bewayled the sore persecution and wore out his aged limmes by rough haire-cloth and lying on the bare ground watred his couch vvith deuout showers of teares fell at last into the troublesome disease of the palsey At newes whereof the Arrian conceiuing great joy ranne in hast to the Cell of Gods exiled seruant and when he perceiued the true Bishoppe through stopping of his disease to maffle in speech he cast in minde to destroy him out-right as to whome he wished not long life Willing therefore the sharpest vinegre to be brought that could be found he powred the same into the reuerēd old mans jawes notwithstanding that hee abhorred and loathed it For if the Lord of vs all which came to that end to drinke it when he had tasted it refused to drinke howe much rather should this faithfull seruant and Confessor of his reject it when hereticall fury pressed it vpon him By this vinegre encreased that noysome disease of vvhich yet afterwardes Christ of his pity mercyfully assisting he became hole CHAP. XIII The barbarous and vaine outrage of an Arrian Superintendent against a Catholike Bishop BY the like banishment and vsage of Habet-deum and other of our Bishops is easely manifest how grieuously the City of Tamallum wherein Antony made his abode might be vexed For whereas he had vvith sondry afflictions giuen him vexation neyther could make him an Arrian but found the Champion of Christ alwaies constant in his profession neuerthelesse had promised his confederats to ouercome him saying If I make him not of our religion I am not Antony now perceauing that he failed of his boast he inuented thus to doe Tying the Bishop hand and foote with bigge bandes and gagging his mouth that hee might not crie out he cast vpon him water of rebaptization as he counted it as though he could aswell binde his conscience as his body or that he were not present by his grace who heareth the groanes of the fettered and searcheth the secretes of harts or as though the false water could take away such a perfect resolution as the man of God had already sent to heauen teares being the messengers of his hart He then loosed the man of his bandes and with semblance of great ioy merily saide Behould brother Habet-deum you are now made a Christian of ours what can you now doe but consent to the Kinges pleasure to whom Habet-deum answered Nay wicked Antony there is mortall sinne and damnation where consent of will is obtained I stood fast in faith confessing it with often speech maintained with open protestatiō that which I beleeue now alwaies did After that thou hadst bound me with chaines stopping the entrance of my mouth in the tribunall of my hart sent I vp to the view of the heauenly Emperours the actes of this my sufferance the Angels subscribing thereunto CHAP. XIIII More of the Arrians tyr any and how they rebaptized people by plaine violence LIKE violence was generally vsed by the Tyrāts For the Vandals were to this purpose sent about euery where that they might bring al passingers to be destroyed by their Priestes who when they had slaine their soules with that erronious water gaue them a bill or ticket that they might no more haue violence offered For it was not lawefull either to priuate men or to marchants and men of affaires to passe any where except they shewed a testimoniall discouering the death of their owne soules Reuelation whereof Christ long since opened to his seruant Iohn where hee saith It shall be to no man permitted to buy or sell but to him that hath the marke of the beast in his forehead and in his hand Their Bishops also Priests march about townes villages in the night season with a band of weaponed men and theeues of soules as they were breaking open doores entred in with water and sword and whom they found at home some of them peraduenture sleeping in their bedds they sprinkled with their thunder and fierie showre and all at once with Simoniacall crie called them their Christians so that they seemed rather to make a May-game of their hereticall water then a matter of religion Those of least capacity and dul spirit reputed that by this meanes the sacrilegious abhomination was accomplished in them but the wiser sort comforted thēselues in that it could not hurte them which had beene done to them repugning or sleeping Many did presently cast ashes

farther respite of certayne dayes As soone as they shewed themselues ready for the conflict it was the first day propounded vnto them by our reuerēd Bishops that they should directly proue consubstantiality by the diuine Scriptures or at leastwise condemne that which was decided and cut off by more then a thousand Bishops from all partes of the world at the Councels of Arimini and Seleucia which thing they would not doe but drawing the matter to a sedition incensed also the people The second day likewise when we commaunded them to make answere concerning the same faith as it had beene proposed vnto them they enterprised their former rashnesse and misdemeanour perturbing all thinges with sedition and clamour that they might not at al come to the conflict Whereunto we them prouoking haue ordayned that their Churches shall be shut vp with this prouiso so long to remayne closed vntill they assent to proceede vnto disputation Which they waxing obstinate in their wicked deuises haue refused to accomplish So that it is in this case necessary and most iust with all to retourne vpon those men what in the corps of those lawes is expressed which the Emperors by them induced into errour did at seuerall times promulgate The substance of which lawes seemeth to contayne that no Church should be open to any other then to the Bishops of their owne institution that it should be lawful for none other to liue collegially to make assemblies or to haue or build any Churches at all either in the City or yet in the simplest places but that also attempted escheat to the Prince And moreouer that inheritances annexed to any Church of their faith should not any more be paide to their Prelates Nor that such persons should haue licence to passe vp and downe whither them pleased but should be banished from all Townes and Cities neyther haue authority either to baptize or to dispute of religion That also they should haue no leaue to giue orders either to Bishops or Priests or others appertayning to the Clergie a rigorous penalty being set downe that aswell they which should suffer themselues to receiue such honours as those also that were giuers of such orders should euery of them be fined in tenne pound of gold with their farther extension that they should not be permitted to make supplication about it Yea if so be they had by speciall seruice deserued respect yet should they not preuaile But in case that notwithstanding this detriment they persisted then should they by conuenient prosecution be exiled out of their Country Toward the comminalty extended likewise those Emperors their seuerity so that they might neyther bequeath nor giue or take euen that which was cast off and forsaken not as made ouer vpon trust not by legacy not by grantes not by executorship not by any bil or other manner of writinges They also made such as were pensioners in the pallace liable to penalty of an excessiue forfeiture after the rates of their degree and dignity that spoyled of all honourable priuilege they should incurre infamy and finde themselues noted for publike offendors To the offices also of seueral tribunals was prescribed the penalty of thirty pound of siluer which if they who persisted in their errour had fiue times paid then should such persons be conuicted whipped and so banished Next had they giuen in commaundement that the bookes of all those Priests whome they persecuted should be cast into the fire and all other such bookes which in like manner we also nowe commaund to be done with those bookes by meanes of which iniquity hath induced it selfe into errour of that name For as touching the seuerall persons of whome was spoken these ordinances they made that persons of excellency should euery of them forfeit fifty pound of gold the ⸬ honourable fourty pound Senators thirty common Gentlemen twenty Priests thirty decurions fiue marchants fiue common people fiue wandring ruffians tenne and who might happen to continue after this damage their goodes confiscated they should by banishment be punished vpon corporations in Cities procurators also and takers of leases this penalty they inflicted that if they concealed and did not disclose or atach such persons presenting them to iudgement they themselues shall make good the forfeiture Moreouer to those who tooke the landes of the Crowne to farme this mulct was set downe that as much as was their yearely rent to the Kinges houshold so much should they semblably pay into his Exchequor for a fine as in generall the like to be obserued in all either hyrers or possessors of lande which shall be minded to endure in the same superstition I here doe appoint Of Iudges farthermore that who so were found not to be most instant in prosecuting this affaire should be punished by outlawry and losse of life Also of the chiefe officers that three should be punished the rest be amerced and caste in twenty poundes of gold Of necessity therefore must all the Homousians be bound by the very like constitution whome it is euident indeede to haue held and still to hold the substance of ae wicked beliefe vnto whome we nowe by this our decree denounce that they abstayne from all the a fore-said matters which shall be prosecuted throughout all estates in the Cities as likewise vpon Iustices who neglecting the former ordinances can be proued not to haue grieuously punished such as withstand the same To all persons therefore intangled with the errours of the fore-mentioned faith of the Homousians which hath wholy beene heretofore so condemned by a Councell of such a great number of Priests we enioyne and giue commaundement that they abstayne from all the fore-said affaires and contracts Let them knowe that nothing is permitted vnto them but that semblable punishment attendes to inuolue them euery one vnlesse before the Calendes of Iune in the eight yeare of our Raigne they conuert vnto the true Religion which we reuerence and honour Which prefixed day for no other purpose hath our piety afforded then to the end that vnto such as before hand renounce their errour pardon be not denyed and the obstinate be by due punishmentes chastised But whosoeuer shall perseuer in that errour whither they enioy Knight-hood of our house or happely haue charge vnder seuerall Titles and imployments let them be compellable to infliction of those mulcts aboue prescribed according to the qualities of their degrees nothing in the meane season being of any validity which any of them may happen by surreption to obtayne against priuate persons of what calling and place soeuer they be This our proclamation willeth that to be obserued which in the former lawes was concerning such expressed that they may vndergoe congruent punishment Iudges prouinciall slackly putting our ordinances in execution we will that they be sentenced by their superior