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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08095	The life of the most honourable and vertuous lady the Lady Magdalen Viscountesse Montague written ... by Richard Smith. And now translated into English, by C. F[ursdon]..; Vita illustrissimae Dominae Magdalenae Montis Acuti in Anglia vicecomitissae. English	Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.; Fursdon, Cuthbert.	1627 (1627)	STC 22811; ESTC S95235	39,355	62

Education vnder the Countesse of Bedford CHAP. II. VVHen she was now thirteene yeares of age she was by her Father commended to the Countesse of Bedford to be educated vnder the prudeÌ„t discipline of that Catholique and Religious Lady Of whome she accustomed to make this relation which for the instruction of other women I thought very requisite to commit A barren woman immoderatly desireth children to writing Wheras she was barren had a vehement desire to haue a child she for a long tyme both by her selfe others besought Almighty God to vouchsafe to graunt her a sonne But as Christ sayd to his disciples Nescitis quid petatis yee know not what yee aske as S. Augustine witnesseth God sometymes in anger granteth our petition so this pious woman by the ill euent experienced that she knew not what she asked and insteed of a benefit requested a punishment of God For she brought forth a She is punished by them sonne but such a one as not only fell into heresy which she did extremely abhorre but did oftentimes so impiously behaue himself towards his Mother as that she would sometymes with exceeding griefe and teares publikely confesse that she grieuously offended God when desiring a sonne she had not added this condition If it might be for his glory and her comfort and therfore sayd she I am iustly punished by the thing I immoderatly desyred Which may be a document to pious parents that sterility is not alwayes to be esteemed as a punishment inflicted of God nor that children are alwayes to be reputed as a gift and testimony of diuine fauour and that they should demaund no temporall thing of God but as far forth as his diuine prouidence foreseeth it to be agreable to his pleasure and profitable for them But let vs returne to the La. MoÌ„tague She liued three yeares vnder the said Countesse whome she so diligently attended that she did not only performe the office of her gentlewoman but in the absence of her chamber-mayd discharged her seruice also being ready euery houre of the night whensoeuer the Countesse called which by reason of her old age and infirmities she often did to rise out of her bed and diligently to attend her Yea the right Noble Virgin being delicately educated did not disdaine of her owne accord and vnknowne to the Countesse to performe that base kind of seruice which curious eares refuse to heare related So much had God preuented her with his benedictions and Her rare humility and duty had indued her with such humility euen in that age wherein as being the flower of youth women are ordinarily puffed vp in pride and insolencie And this act she sometimes accustomed to relate to her Grand-children without blushing yea with a kind of complacence by such example to exhort them to humility Of her liuing at the Court vnder Queene Mary and of her Marriage vnto the Viscount Montague CHAP. III. VVHen in this manner she had spent three yeares in all vertue and piety vnder the discipline of the Countesse of Bedford it happened that K. Edward the sixt being dead whose childhood certaine impious men abused to ouerthrow Catholike Religion in England Queene Mary not without euident miracle the great benignity of God against all power and policy of heretikes obtayned the Kingdome of England and expelling perfidious heresy restablished the auncient and true Religion She admitted Magdalen to the Court and to She is Maid of honour to Q Mary the number of her noble wayting-women who are vsually called Ladyes of Honour where her vertue and virginall modesty got not only more ample place to demonstrate it selfe but also found greater occasion and example of progresse and increase For at that tyme the Court of England was a schoole of vertue a nursery of purity a mansion of piety The Queene her selfe did shine What the Court of England vvas vnder Q Mary as the Moone in all kind of vertue whose prayses all histories doe record Her Ladyes and women did glitter as the starres and what shining starres they were the Reader may coniecture by what I will relate of one of them from the mouth of the La. Magdalen She accustomed to arise from her bed very early and attyring her selfe with all possible speed hastened to the Chappell where kneeling against a wall and the other part of her face couered with her head attyre she accustomed to spend certayne houres in deuout prayer and to shed abundance of teares before Almighty God And yet withall would she not be any tyme absent froÌ„ any office of piety prescribed to her her coÌ„panions Neyther was she content in this sort to spend the day but arose from her bed in the night and prostrate on the ground applyed her self to prayer a good part of the night Which when the La. Magdalen had once perceyued she finding her deuotion to be discouered no otherwise then if she had byn apprehended in Rare deuotion of of one of the maydes of honour some notorious Iewd fault falling on her knees with many teares she besought her for the honour of God that she would not bewray her secret exercises of piety to any creature whiles she liued O humble O truly pious virgin and truly a Mayd as she was called of Honour for she was a mayd of Honesty of Purity and of Piety O happy Court with such Courtyers and happy England with such a Court which for vertuous lyfe gaue not place to many Cloysters whence as from a fountain-head examples of piety did flow into all Prouinces of England Would to God this purity had continued in our Virgin Courtiers and the Mother therof the Catholike Religion had still florished then had not the Court of England byn spotted with the notorious infamy of lasciuiousnes as soone after it was But that I may expresse my griefe in this cause I desire my Countrymen to consider the notable purity of the maydes of Honour vnder Queene Mary and the infamous reproches which some The difference of the Court vnder a Catholike and an hereticall Queene of them haue incurred vnder Q. Elizabeth and they will find what difference there is betweene a most chast Religion and a most impure Heresy Vnder such a worthy Queene and with such Companions the La. Magdalen being educated she had scarce liued two yeares in the Court but that the rare vertues and ornaments both of her body and her soule drew the hartes of many principall Courtyers to affect her Among whome two especially at one tyme did earnestly seeke her in the way of Diuers desire to marry the La. Magdalen mariage The one was Syr Iohn Arundell knight coÌ„monly for his great wealth authority called the Great who afterward vnder Q. Elizabeth suffering long imprisonment for the Catholike Fayth dyed a glorious Confessour He was so enflamed with chast affection towardes this Lady that he would neuer desist to sollicite her till he vnderstood

Paulae of grieuous crimes Euery yeare at least once whiles I had care of her she made a generall confession of all her sinnes not vpoÌ„ any scruple but that she might obtaine that which the Prophet hauing alredy obtained pardon of his sinne requested when he sayd Wash me more from my iniquity Psal 50. and clenfe me from my sinne and with all that she might the more humble her selfe and haue her sinnes alwayes before her eyes And albeit she was very sollicitous in discussing her conscience yet she did frequently request me that if I perceiued any vice in her conuersation I should not omit to admonish her therof And she was so seuere towards her selfe that she would desire more pennance then was enioyned her and would say that she neuer She desired more pennance then was enioyned her met with a Confessor that would enioyne her sufficient satisfaction And for that reason perhaps for some Monthes before her last sicknes she accustomed euery weeke after her confession to giue me ten shillings to distribute in almes so to supply that which to her seemed wanting in the imposition of her pennance Concerning which Mony this happened worthy of obseruation that when she was sick could not according to that custome giue An admirable thing concerning the mony she gaue for satisfaction me euery weeke that certaine summe she commaunded one of her seruants to deliuer me such mony as he had of hers which mony came not to a farthing more nor lesse then ten shillings for euery week she liued This then was the piety of this worthy woman in confessing frequently in confessing with great sincerity contrition and desire of satisfying God for her sins wherto was answerable her like deuotion towards the most B. Sacrament of Her piety towards the Sacrament of the Eucharist the Eucharist For when in this manner she had purged her soule from sinne she came with an hungry desire to receiue the bread of life and with what externall reuerence and humiliation of body she both came to the sacred Altar of Christ and returned thence with what teares in her eyes and with what reuerence in her countenance she receiued that sacred banquet they well perceaued who beheld her But with what in teriour piety and with what enflamed charity towards God she entertayned her Sauiour in her heart he only saw who seeth the secrets of harts Of the admirable Prouidence of God towards the La. Magdalen CHAP. XIII AS this holy woman had a peculiar care to serue please God so it appeareth that correspondently he had a particuler prouidence and care ouer her wherof I will alleadge a few examples Whiles she was a marryed woman she fell into an extreme and continuall griefe affliction of mind vpon the ruine of her family procured as she sometimes sayd by him in whome she had placed the hope of best reliefe therof which melancholy affliction being such as exceeded the art of all Phisitians and the counsaile and comfort of her friends almighty God at length compassionating his seruant vouchsafed to cure her by another meanes For in a dreame as she particulerly God cureth her tedious affliction related vnto me it was clearly and manifestly demonstrated vnto her what she should do to be freed of her inward griefe Which when she had performed it being a very pious action she was instaÌ„tly cured of that affliction of mind which no humane art medicine or counsaile could preuaile in Of this triall as she often confessed she obtayned a better knowledge of her selfe and more benefit theÌ„ of any other thing in so much that she confidently affirmed that by her owne experience she had learned that God worketh all things for our good And by this meanes almighty God did meruailously free her from spirituall desolations did conuert them to her aduantage and consolation neither did he lesse protect her from her corporall enemies For wheras some few years before her death certaine ProtestaÌ„ts in hatred of her ReligioÌ„ sought the destruction of her and all her family yet did they not preuaile in their malice For the principall of them Syr The iudgement of God vpon the heretikes that soght the ruine of the La. Mag. Tho. May being a Knight and Iustice of peace and hauing giuen commaundment for apprehending the seruants of the La. Magdalen was himselfe a litle after ignominiously conuented before publike authority and cast into prison for debt where he lay long and at the setting forth of this worke was shamefully dismissed of the Commission of the Peace But the author firebrand of all euils was Nicholas Cobbe who a litle after he began to seeke the ruine of the La. Magdalen had a knife thrust into his belly by his owne wife being for some hainous fact apprehended by officers and euen by heretikes pursued to punishment did at length by letters beg pardon of the La. Magdalen and what affliction yet expecteth him almighty God knoweth The third inueterate Heretike called N. Benet who perceyuing that nothing of what himselfe and his Confederates had conspired agaynst the deuout Lady tooke effect on a market-day held at Battell falling on this knees before the gate-house of the Viscountesse did vomit out his bitter imprecation praying God to confound her and all her family But the dart which the impious fellow cast against heauen did soone fall vpon his owne head For the third day after going early in the morning out of his house he drowned himselfe in a pit at the townes end towards London Whereupon being taken vp by Protestants by their iudgement fouÌ„d guilty of his owne death he was buryed like a dog in the high way At another time also when as before is sayd Note the speedy iudgemeÌ„t of God she was called in question for not going to hereticall seruice she was so farre from incurring any detriment therby as that it wrought her more security then before For the Kings Councell by their publike letters addressed to the Attorny Generall dated the 19. of Aprill 1607. commaunded that no sentence should proceed agaynst her Which letters because they testify both the true allegiance of the Lady Magdalen to the King in temporalityes and also that her molestation was meerly for Religion I will here setdowne part of them out of the originall which is The La. Mag. questioned for religion is otherwise faythfull to her Prince in my custody For so much say they as the Lady Montague the wife of Antony Viscount Montague deceased is lately called in question for default of conformity in Religion according to the lawes of this Kingdome in regard that she is a Noble-woman aged and by reason of her fidelity in the tyme of Q. Elizabeth was neuer called in question it pleaseth the Kings Maiesty that in her old yeares she be free from molestation These therfore shal be to require you that you forthwith doe procure the accusation which is

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