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A03144	The historie of that most famous saint and souldier of Christ Iesus; St. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions, in the middle ages of the Church; and opposition, of the present. The institution of the most noble Order of St. George, named the Garter. A catalogue of all the knights thereof untill this present. By Pet. Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 13272; ESTC S104019	168,694	376

to borrow out of Ovids Metamorph who in his Perseus and Andromeda hath very perfectly express'd the Progresse of the fiction so perfectly that were the names changed and the occasion altered wee might with good reason affirme it for the same as indeed it is But thus the Poet Quam simul ad duras religatam brachia cantes Vidit Abantiades nisi quòd levis aura capillos Moverat tepido manabant lumina fletu Marmoreum ratus esset opus c. This and the rest that followes thus rendred by Sir George Sandys by whom this Author is translated even to the wonder and the envie of his Reader Whom when the Heros saw to hard Rocks chain'd But that warme tears from charged eye-springs drain'd And light winds gently fann'd her fluent haire He would haue thought her Marble Ere aware He fire attracteth and astonisht by Her beauty had almost forgot to flye Who lighting said O fairest of thy kind More worthy of those bands which Lovers binde Than these rude gyves the Land by thee renown'd Thy name thy birth declare and why thus bound At first the silent Virgin was ●fraid To speake t● a man and modestly had made A vizard of her hands but they were tied And yet abortiv● teares their Fountaines hide Still urg'd lest she should wrong her innocence As if asham'd to utter her offence Her Country she discover's and her name Her beauteous mothers confidence and blame c. When as a Gally with fore-fixed prowe Row'd by the sweats of slaves the Sea doth plowe Even so the Monster furroweth with his brest The foaming Flood and to the neere Rocke prest Not farther distant than a man might fling A way-inforcing Bullet from a sling Forthwith the youthfull issue of rich showers Earth pushing from him to the blew skie towre's And as Iove's bird when she from high survaie's A Dragon basking in Apollo's Rayes Descend's vnseene and through his necks blew scales To shun his deadly teeth her talons nailes So swiftly stoopes high pitch'd Inachides Through singing aire then on his backe doth seaze And neare his right sinne sheathes his crooked sword Vp to the hilts who deeply wounded roar'd Now capers in the aire now dives below The troubled Waves now turnes upon his foe Much like a chafed Boare whom eager hounds Have at a Bay and terrifie with sounds He with swift wings his greedy chops avoyde's Now with his Fawchion wounds his scaly sides Now his shell-rough-cast backe now where the taile Ends in a Fish or parts expos'd t'assaile A streame mixt with his bloud the monster flings From his wide throate which wets his heavy wings Nor longer dares the weary Youth relie On their support He sees a Rocke hard by There light 's and holding by the Rocks extent His oft-thrust sword into his bowels sent The shoare rings with th' applause that fils the skie Then came the aged King and Queene with ioy To greet him Conquerour whom now they call The Saviour of their house and of them all And up the Ladie came freed from her chaines The cause and recompence of all his paines So farre the storie out of Ovid. The rest that followes in the Legend is the baptizing of this King his redeem'd Daughter and his people which done and some instructions left among them for their better progresse in the faith hee commended them to God 7 This Fable of the Dragon as it was very gracious with the people of those times so did it quickly spread abroad and in the close when others did neglect it became a principall Pageant in that doughty Historie of the seaven Champions The Author of which Pamphlet to the no small advancement as he takes it of the English name hath made him to be borne of English Parentage and of the royall bloud His Father the Lord Albert Lord Steward of the Kingdome his Mother Daughter to the King his birth-place Coventrey this last most probable for like a Coventrey man hee did his best at first in his so dangerous an encounter with a burning Dragon in the Land of Egypt Mark'd at his birth forsooth with a red bloody Crosse on his right hand a golden Garter on his left leg and a red Dragon on his brest but even as soone as borne conveied from thence by Caleb an Enchantresse of the Woods and there I leave him 8 To this Relation of his being borne of English Parentage our admir'd Spencer although poëtically doth seeme to give some countenance where he brings in his holy Hermite heavenly Contemplation thus laying to St. George the Red-crosse Knight his Parentage and Country 65. I wot quoth he thou spring'st from ancient race Of Saxon Kings that have with mighty hand And many bloudy battailes fought in place High rear'd their royall Throne in Brittaine land And vanquish'd them unable to withstand From thence a Faerie thee unweeting re●t There as thou stepst in tender swadling band And her base Elfin brood there for thee left Such men doe changelings call so chang'd by Faeries theft 66. Thence she thee brought into this Faerie Lond And in an heaped furrow did thee hide Where thee a Ploughman all unweeting fond As he his toile some teame that way did guide And brought thee up in Ploughmans state to bide Whereof Georgos he thee gave to name Till prickt with courage and thy forces pride To Faery Court thou com'st to seeke for fame And prove thy puissant armes as seemes thee best became 9 But to returne againe unto the Legend according as in those times it was commonly receiv'd we have it almost word for word in Antoninus Florentinus Who though in other of his stories he is conceiv'd to give too much credit to popular reports in this particular he hath playd the part of a Relatour onely not 〈◊〉 approover of the Fable For in the Close he tels us that this the Legend of St. George is reckoned by Gelasius inter apocryphas Scripturas For many passages therein which may well be doubted ut de Dracone interfecto filia Regis per eum liberata c. as for example this his encounter with the Dragon Much also to this purpose Raphael Volaterran who flourish'd in the time of Pope Iulio the second anno viz. 1506. to whom his Worke is dedicated S. Georgius Martyr genere Cappadox Tribunus Militum sub Diocletiano merebat Draconem maximum in Africa exercitum terrentem solus Deo ●retus dicitur interemisse quae tamen Historia in Niceno Concilio inter Apocrypha est habita St. George the Martyr by birth a Cappadocian was under Diocletian one of the Tribunes of the Soldiers It is reported of him that he kill'd a great and dreadfull Dragon in the Land of Africa which Storie notwithstanding is in the Nicene Councell he meanes the Canon of Gelasius made in a Councell of 72. Byshops reputed as Apocryphall Where we may note that onely his so memorated conflict with the Dragon is exploded but not

9 The publike service of that Church on St. Georges day 10 Arguments drawne from the Church service of what validitie 11 Saint George continually famous in the Church Christian. 12 And among the Turkes CHAP. V. 1 The honour done vnto the Dead in the decent buriall of their bodies 2 The reliques of the Saints of what esteeme in the Church primitive 3 The care of Gregorie of Tours to preserve his writings and what he testifieth of St. George's reliques 4 What mention there is made of them in Aymonius and others 5 Churches distinguished anciently by the names of Saints and for what reason 6 St. George's Churches in Lydda and in Ramula made afterwards a Byshops Seate 7 St. George's Church built by Sidonius Archbyshop of Mentz 8 That mention'd in St. Gregories Epistles 9 St. George's Church in Rome the title of a Cardinall 10 Churches erected to St. George in Alexandria and elsewhere 11 Of Faustus Rhegiensis 12 And the Pseudo-Martyr in Sulpitius 13 An application of the rule in Lerinensis vnto the businesse now in hand CHAP. VI. 1 St. George how hee became to bee accounted the chiefe Saint of Souldiers 2 St. George when first esteemed a chiefe Patron of Christianity 3 The expedition of the Westerne Princes to the Holy Land 4 The Storie of the succours brought unto their Army by St. George 5 Second apparition to them at the Leaguer of Hierusalem 6 The probability of the former myracle disputed 8 An essay of the famous battaile of Antiochia by way of Poem CHAP. VII 1 The honours done by Kings to others of what reckoning 2 Arguments used by the Iewes in the defence of their Temple of Hierusalem 3 Of Monasteries dedicated to St. George 4 St. George's Canons a Religious order 5 St. George by what Kings honoured anciently as a chiefe Saint of Soldierie 6 The military Order of St. George in Austria 7 The German or Dutch Order call'd Sanct Georgen Schilts 8 St. George's banke in Genoa 9 And his band in Italie 10 The Georgians why so called and of the honour done by them to our Martyr 11 A view of severall places denominated of St. George 12 A recollection of the Arguments before used in the present businesse CHAP. VIII 1 St. George not anciently esteemed the Patron of the English 2 Churches erected to him here in England 3 His apparition to King Richard in the Holy Land 4 What may bee thought in generall touching the apparition of the Saints 5 And what in this particular 6 St. George when he began to be entituled particularly to the English 7 The honours done him here and among the Irish. 8 The institution of the Noble Order of the Garter 9 A briefe view of the chiefe Statutes of the Order 10 St. George the Patron of it 11 Sr. W. Raleighs opinion touching the killing of the Dragon 12 And of them also which desire to haue the George Symbolicall 13 A Catalogue of all St. George's Knights of that most noble Order vntill this present 14 The Conclusion of the whole THE HISTORIE OF That most famous Saint and Soldier of CHRIST IESUS S t. GEORGE of CAPPADOCIA Asserted from the Fictions of the middle Ages of the Church and opposition of the present THE PREFACE 1 The natur● of Curiositie 2 And pronenesse of the present Age to new fancies 3 The opening of the cause in hand 4 The Reasons which induced the Author to vndertake the Patronage of St. George's Cause and Historie 5 His resolution in it and the manner of his proceeding 6 The method of the whole 7 The Authors free submission of himselfe and his performance to the wise and learned 1 IT is a sad Complaint of Melchior Canus that many of us in this more neate and curious Age doe peevishly to say no worse reject those ancient Stories which are commended to us in the best and gravest Authors Plerique nostra hac aetate perversè ne dicam impudenter res quas esse gestas gravissimi autores testati sunt in dubium vocant So hee and certainly he spake it not at randome but as a man which well fore-saw to what extremities that restlesse humour of leaving nothing undiscussed and not so onely but leaving nothing in the state wee found it at the last would bring us For such the nature is of Curiositie especially if once attended with Selfe-love and that vnquiet spirit of Opposition that wee are alwayes watchfull to prie into the passages of former Times and Authors and leaue no path vntroden how crooked and indirect soever which may conduce to the advancement eyther of our cause or credit By meanes whereof as sometimes happily wee doe good service to the Common-wealth of Learning in the correcting of an Errour so for the most part wee involue it in uncertainties or broach new errours vnder a pretence of canvassing the Old or by denying credit to Antiquitie we onely teach posteritie how litle credit may be due vnto our selves 2 I say not this to blunt the edge of any vertuous endeavours nor to the prejudice of those heroicke spirits by whom so many of the ancient Writers which had beene buried in their owne dust and made a prey to moathes and cobwebs have beene restor'd vnto themselues Ill may I prosper in my Studies if I deny the least of due respects to them to whose most fortunate and painfull travailes wee owe no lesse than to the Authors Nor would I gladly be esteem'd a Patron eyther of lazie ignorance or of dull credulitie nor willingly bee thought to countenance those of the vulgar Heard who runne into receiv'd opinions as Calderinus in Ludovic Vives did to Masse Eamus ergo said he quia sic placet in communes errores Not so I know it argue's a degenerous and ignoble mind barely and simply to submit it selfe unto the tyrannie of popular fames or old traditions not daring once to search into them to see at least some shew of reason in our bondage Much like those noble Housekeepers so much commended in the Country who rather choose to haue their judgements question'd in giving entertainment vnto all than that their Hospitalitie should bee accused in excluding any Onely I said it a litle to take downe if possible that height of selfe-conceit and stomacke wherewith too many of vs doe affront those Worthies of the former dayes and set our selves against our Fathers Which humour if it once possesse vs in spight of him that told vs nihil novum est sub sole without regard of him that said it quia vetus est melius we must have every thing as new and moderne as our selves new Organons for Logicke new modells of Divinity scarce any thing which hath beene hitherto resolv'd eyther in Philologicall Theologie or in Philosophie no not in Ecclesiasticall or civill History not new not altered The tendries and decisions of our Ancestours growne as unfashionable as their garments and if we please our selves in any thing it must be somewhat which

haply because they descended of those Georgi which PLINIE nameth among the Caspian Inhabitants Let it suffice that though they take not their denomination from Saint GEORGE yet they affoord him more honour than any other of the Saints the same Authour telling us that when they goe into a Church they give meane respect to other Images but that Saint George is so worshipped we will permit him to make merry with himselfe that his Horses hoofes are kissed of them Michael ab Ysselt more seriously though he erre somewhat in the derivation Georgiani verò vocantur à D. Georgio quem velut patronum praecipuum in suis contra Paganos praelijs velut signiferum propugnatorem ingenti honore venerantur Quocunque enim tendunt turmatim incedunt vexillum D. Georgij insignitum circumferentes cuius ope auxilio in bello maximè se iuvari credunt The Georgians saith hee are so denominated from Saint GEORGE whom as their principall Patron and theyr Champion in their warres against the Pagans they worship with especiall honour For which way soever they employ their Forces they carry with them a faire Banner with the picture of Saint George upon it beleeving that by his assistance they are much comforted and ayded in their warres So the Historian 11 But howsoever we dare not say with him that this Asian people had their appellation from Saint George their Patron yet wee are confident of this that many places both of Asia and Europe have received denomination from him For heere in Asia wee finde a large and spacious Valley not farre from Libanus which is call'd St. George's Valley and we have also noted that the Towne of Lydda or Diospolis was by the Christians called Saint George's and that there is in Europe a St. George's Vally also in the midst of Germanie Adde hereunto that the Thracian Chersonesse is now called commonly St. George's Arme which is remembred by Maginus in his Geographie and hath beene since observed by Sir George Sandys The learned Munster doth transferre this appellation from the Land unto the Sea from the Thracian Chersonesse unto the narrow streight or Arme neere to it which they call Bosphorus Porrò Bosphorus appellatur brachium S. Georgij saith hee and like inough the name is fitted unto both But why this Chersonesse was call'd Saint George's Arme I cannot say unlesse perhaps that Relique of Saint George was there in former times layed up which after by Iustinian the Emperour was bestowed upon Saint German as before I noted Paulus Diaconus makes mention of Saint George's River neare to the Country of the Bulgarians Coeterùm Aprili mense saith hee of Constantine the Sonne of Eirene cum castra moveret contra Bulgares venit ad castellum quod dicitur Probati ad rivum D. Georgij Wee reade in our industrious CAMDEN also that the Irish Ocean which runneth betweene Brittaine and Ireland is called by Sea-men at this day Saint GEORGE'S Chanell And lest that any part of the old World should not have some place in it of this name PATRITIUS tells us in the booke of his owne Navigations that one of the Azores is call'd St. George's Est D. Georgij insula c. 12 To draw up that together which hath beene formerly alleaged in Saint GEORGE'S cause I hope it will appeare that there is no occasion why hee should eyther bee reputed as an Arian or a Counterfeit a Larva nay why hee should not bee accounted to have as high a place in immortalitie as any of the other those blessed Spirits the Apostles excepted onely For if antiquitie may bee thought worthy of any credit wee have antiquitie to friend or if the common suffrages of so many famous and renowned writers successively in every age may bee of any reckoning with us Saint George may challenge as much interest in them as any in the Calendar However put case that they have erred in their relations of Saint GEORGE and that they tooke that evidence which out of them wee borrowed on trust from one another yet what shall bee replyed to this that in the Church of God hee hath beene hitherto reputed as an holy Martyr Shall wee conceive the Church of God would bee so carefull to preserve his memorie in the publike Martyrologies or give him place in their publike Liturgies or take such heed unto his Reliques or honour him with Temples had hee beene such a damnable and bloudie Hereticke or which they say is better if hee had never beene at all Or if hee had beene such may it bee thought that both the Church and all the learned members of it for 1300 yeares almost should be deluded no man in all that time able to see into the fraud or that the Spirit of God should quite abandon all the rest and settle onely on some two or three of later times who though they kept amongst themselves the Band of Peace had not as it appeares the Spirit of Vnitie Or last of all suppose the Monkes and Fryers should joyne together to put a tricke upon the world and that they had prevailed upon the Church to give countenance unto it shall wee conceive so poorely of the greatest Kings and Princes in the Christian world that they were all of them abused and drawne to do● such honours to one which eyther never was a man or was now a Divell All this is hard to bee digested And wee may well bee counted easie of beleefe if onely on the ipse dixit of one man and the conjectures of another were they of greater reputation than they are wee should give faith unto their sayings to one of them I meane for both are not to be beleeved together when such a Cloud of Witnesses affirme the contrarie Catalogus testium veritatis a Catalogue of witnesses in all times and ages If men may be beleeved upon their bare assertion why may not they be credited which say Saint George was once a Martyr and is now a Saint as well as they which say he was not Or if wee will not take up any thing on trust without some reason for it why rather should not they bee worthy of beleefe which have good proofe for what they say than those that build upon conjectures ill-grounded and worse-raised Lastly if that may be beleeved most safely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the words of Aristotle which both the vulgar wits and more excellent spirits have agreed on joyntly still we are where we were and still St. George must be a Martyr But I am now for England where I am sure to finde as ample testimonies for St. George as any other part of the world what ever CHAP. VIII 1 St. George not anciently esteemed the Patron of the English 2 Churches erected to him here in England 3 His apparition to King Richard in the Holy Land 4 What may be thought in generall touching the apparition of the Saints 5 And what in this particular