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A40655	The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of the University of Cambridge snce the conquest.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of Waltham-Abby in Essex, founded by King Harold.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2416_PARTIAL; Wing F2443_PARTIAL; ESTC R14493	1,619,696	1,523

Catalogue of the VVorthies of this Island so that neither Lucius Constantine nor Arthur are once named by him But the best evidence that once Arthur lived in Britain is because it is certain he died in Britain as appeared undeniably by his Corps Coffin and Epitaph taken up out of his Monument in Glassenbury in the reign of King Henry the second whereof a Giraldus Cambrensis an eye-witnesse Camden ' s Brit. in Somersetshire Caer-lion a principall Staple of Learning Religion many Persons of Quality were eye-witnesses 3. The entire Body of the British Church at this time was in VVales where Banchor on the North and Caer-lion on Vsk in Monmouthshire on the South were the two Eyes thereof for Learning and Religion The later had in it the Court of King Arthur the See of an Arch-Bishop a Colledge of b Thomas James out of Alexander Elsebiensis 200 Philosophers who therein studied Astronomie and was a Populous place of great extent But Cities as well as their Builders are mortall it is reduced at this day to a small Village But as Aged Parents content and comfort themselves in beholding their Children wherein their Memories will be continued after their Death so Caer-lion is not a little delighted to see herself still survive in her Daughter c Camden's Brit. in Monmouthshire Newport a neighbouring Town raised out of the Ruines of her Mother Whil'st the other stood in Prime there was scarce an Eminent man who did not touch here for his Education whom we will reckon in order the rather because all the Church-History of this Age seems confined to some principall Persons Dubritius afore-mentioned was the Father and Founder of them all late Bishop of Landaffe now Arch-Bishop of Caer-lion a great Champion of the Truth against Pelagius and he had the honour here to crown two Kings Vter and Arthur Being very old 516 he resigned his Arch-bishoprick to David his Scholar and that he might be more able and active to wrastle with Death he stript himself out of all worldly employment and became an Anchoret in the Island of d Fra. Godwin in Episc Menevensibus pag. 600. Bardsey Six hundred yeares after namely May the 20 1120 his Bones were translated to Landaffe and by Vrban Bishop thereof buried in the Church towards the North side thereof 4. David S. David an advancer of Monastick life the next Arch-Bishop of Royall Extraction was Uncle to King Arthur He privately studied the Scriptures 10 years before he would presume to preach 519 and alwayes carried the Gospels about him He kept a Synod against the Pelagian Errour a second Edition whereof was set forth in his time and confirmed many wavering Souls in the Faith By leave obtained from King Arthur he removed the Archiepiscopall Seat from Caer-lion to Menevea now called S t. Davids in Pembrokeshire In which exchange his Devotion is rather to be admired then his Discretion to be commended leaving a Fruitfull Soile for a bleach Barren e Giraldus Cambrensis place though the worse it was the better for his purpose being a great promoter of a Monasticall life And though the place was much exposed to the Rapine of f Camden's Brit. in Pembrokeshire Pirats yet this Holy man laid up his heavenly Treasure where Thieves do not break through nor steal 5. Yet I am sensible that I have spent to my shame so much precious time in reading the Legend of his Life One paramount miracle of S. David that I will not wilfully double my guiltinesse in writing the same and tempt the Reader to offend in like nature This g Flowers of the English Saints p. 222. Miracle I cannot omit David one day was preaching in an open Field to the Multitude and could not be well seen because of the Concourse though they make him four h Balaeus Cent. prima Nu. 55. Cubits high a man and half in Stature when behold the Earth whereon he stood officiously heaving it self up mounted him to a competent Visibility above all his Audience Whereas as our a Matth. 5. 1. Saviour himself Anno Dom. 519. when he taught the people was pleased to chuse a Mountain making use of the advantage of Nature without improving his Miraculous Power He died aged 146 yeares on the first of March still celebrated by the Welsh with * Several reasons hereof assigned by Authours wearing of a Leek perchance to perpetuate the memory of his Abstinence whose contented mind made many a savoury Meal on such Roots of the Earth 6. A wonder it is to see how many Methusalahs extreme Aged men these times did produce Reasons why men in this Age lived so long S t. Patrick b See Balaeus in their general lives died aged 122 Sampson aged 120. David 146. Gildas Badonicus 90 c. Some Reason whereof may be alleaged because living Retired in a Contemplative way they did not bruise their Bodies with embroiling them in Worldly Affairs or it may be ascribed to their Temperate Diet whil'st many of our Age spill their Radicall Moisture through the Leaks of their own Luxury Nor is it absurd to say that God made these great Tapers of a more firm and compacted Wax then ordinary that so they might last the longer in burning to give Light to his Church and bestowed on them an especiall strong naturall Constitution 7. About the same time Accurateness in computing years is not to be expected The discreet devotion of Cadocus for never were more Doublings and Redoublings made by a hunted Hare then there are Intricacies in the Chronology of this Age going backward and forward flourished Cadocus Abbot of Llancarvan in Glamorganshire Son of the Prince and Toparch of that Countrey This godly and learned man so renounced the World that he c Ioan. Tinmuthensis in ejus vitae reteined part of his paternall Principality in his possession whereby he daily fed three hundred of Clergy-men Widows and Poor people besides Guests and Vistants daily resorting to him He is equally commended for his Policy in keeping the Root the Right of his Estate in his own hands and for his Piety in bestowing the Fruit the Profits thereof in the relieving of others It seems in that Age wilfull Poverty was not by vow entail'd on Monasticall life Nor did this Cadocus as Regulars in after-times with open hands scatter away his whole Means so foolishly to grasp his First full of Popular Applause He is said afterwards to have died at Beneventium in Italy 8. Iltutus comes next into play Iltutus abused with Monkish forgeries a zealous man and deep Scholar who not far from Cadocus at Llan-lwit in Glamorganshire contractedly for Llan-iltut preached Gods Word and set up a Colledge of Scholars being himself a great observer of a Single Life It is reported of him that when his Wife repaired to him for due Benevolence or some ghostly Counsell he d Balaeus de

is wanting The date of the year how wanting therein and that mainly materiall namely the Year when he died Strangely is that Watch contrived and is generally useless which shews the Minute of the Hour not the Hour of the Day As this Epitaph points at the Day of smaller consequence leaving out the Year of greater concernment This hath put mens Fanisies on various Conjectures Some make it a mere Omission of Bede which notwithstanding is very strange because otherwise he is most Criticall and Punctuall in the Notation of Time Others conceive it a fault of Commission in some of after-Ages who purposely expunged the Year beshrew their Fingers that thrust out the Eyes the Date of this Epitaph lest the same should make too clear Discoveries of Augustine's surviving after the Massacre of the Monks of Bangor which would increase the Suspicion of his having a Finger therein Others place the Neglect in the Monument maker and not in Bede seeing he was but the bare Relater of the Epitaph and therefore loath to add or alter any thing thereof Perchance the Tombe-maker registred the Day as a Nicity most likely to be forgotten omitting the Year as a thing generally universally and notoriously known all men keeping a Record thereof which in processe of time became wholly forgotten Thus those things are not long effectually kept by any which are equally to be kept by All Anno Dom. 610 and not charged on any One mans particular Account Sure I am the setting up of this Land-mark the nothing of the Year of his Death had given excellent Direction to such as travel in the Saxon Chronologie who now wander at Randome for the want of it 26. And now we take our Farewell of Augustine Farewell to S. Augustine of whom we give this Character He found here a plain Religion Simplicity is the Badge of Antiquity practised by the Britans living some of them in the Contempt and many moe in the Ignorance of Worldy Vanities in a barren Country And surely Piety is most healthful in those places where it can least surfeit of Earthly Pleasures He brought in a Religion spun with a Courser Threed though garded with a Finer Trimming made luscious to the Senses with pleasing Ceremonies so that many who could not judge of the Goodnesse were courted with the Gaudinesse thereof Indeed the Papists brag that he was the Apostle of the English but not one in the Stile of S t. Paul a Gal. 1. 1. neither from men nor by man but by Iesus Christ being onely a derivative Apostle sent by the second hand in which sense also he was not our sole Apostle though he first put in his Sickle others reaped down more of the English Harvest propagating the Gospel farther as shall appear hereafter But because the Beginnings of things are of greatest consequence we commend his Paines condemn his Pride allow his Life approve his Learning admire his Miracles admit the Foundation of his Doctrine Iesus Christ but refuse the Hay and Stubble he built thereupon We are indebted to God his Goodnesse in moving Gregory Gregorie's Carefulnesse in sending Augustine Augustine's Forwardnesse in preaching here but above all let us blesse God's exceeding great Favour that that Doctrine which Augustine planted here but impure and his Successours made worse with watering is since by the happy Reformation cleared and refined to the Purity of the Scriptures 27. After the death of Augustine Laurentius succeedeth Augustine Laurentius a Roman succeeded him whom Augustine in his Life-time not onely designed for but ordained b Bede Eccles Hist lib. 2. c. 4. in that Place out of his abundant Caution that the Infant-Church might not be Orphan an Hour lest Satan should assault the Breach of such a Vacancy to the Disadvantage of Religion Such a super-Ordination in such cases was Canonicall it being * Idem Ibidem a Tradition that S t. Peter in like manner consecrated Clement his Successour in the Church of Rome And sure it is the Prophet Elijah no doubt to his great Comfort whilest living c 1 Kings 19. 16. anointed Elishe to minister in his Room in his Propheticall Function In one respect Laurentius exceeded Augustine that he reduced the Recusant Britans and Scots probably demeaning himself more humbly then his Predecessour to some tolerable Conformity to the Romish Ceremonies especially in the Celebration of Easter Now seeing frequent Mention hath formerly been made of the Difference between the Romish and British Churches in Observation of that Festivall we will endeavour as truly as briefly to state the Controversie betwixt them with Arguments each side produceth in their own behalf 28. But The controversie about Easter betwixt Rome and the Britans stated because the Point in hand is so nice rather then necessary that a little Variation therein may be materiall I will carefully follow the truest Copy I can get in stating the Question taking it from a Learned d Iames Usher in the Religion of the ancient Irish cap. 9. pag. 63. Pen exactly skilled therein The Romans kept Easter upon that Sunday which fell betwixt the 15. 21. day of the * Hence is it that Beza tartly termeth the controversie Lunatica quaestio Moon both terms included next after the 21. day of March which they accounted to be the seat of the Vernall Equinoctiall And in reckoning the Age of the Moon they followed the Alexandrian Cycle of 19 yeares as it was explained unto them by Dionysius Exiguus The Britans kept Easter upon the Sunday that fell betwixt the 14. and 20. day of the Moon following in their Account thereof not the 19 yeares Computation of Anatolius but Sulpitius Severus his Circle of 84 yeares It is enough to prove the Practice of Rome was the right that it was the Practice of Rome yea did it not deserve the Stab of Excommunication for any dissenting from her practice tantamountingly to give her the Lie However it seems the Reputation of Rome's Infallibility was yet in the Nonage thereof that the British durst so boldly differ from them without danger of Damnation 29. Yea The Britans their plea. they pretended ancient Tradition on their side from the Primitive Times derived from S t. Iohn himself as by the ensuing Verses which we thought fit to translate may appear Nos seriem a Fridgodus in the life of Wilfrid patriam non frivola scriptatenemus Discipulo * i. e. Sancti ●el Beati eusebii Polycarpo dante Iohannis Ille etenim bis septene sub tempore Phaebae Sanctum praefixit nobis fore Pascha colendum Atque nefas dixit si quis contraria sentit No writings fond we follow but do hold Our Country Course which Polycarp of old Scholar to Blessed Iohn to us hath given For he when th' Moon had finish'd Dayes twice seven Bad us to keep the holy Paschal Time And count Dissenting for an hainous Crime Time was when once the

different as their Opinions some of them being conceived too wise to begin and others too weak to finish so dangerous a Designe The ends they propounded to themselves as they were charged therewith were to kill the King raise Rebellion alter Religion at least gaine a Toleration and procure a forraign Invasion with many more things which may be spoken easier in a Minute than done in an Age especially their Interest being not much at home and nothing abroad Ann. Dom. 1602 They ante-divided all Offices of State betwixt themselves Ann. Reg. Jac. 1. Lord Marshall to one Treasurer to another Master of the Horse to a third Secretary to a fourth c. onely Sir Walter Rawleigh able to discharge any had no particular Office assigned unto him Watson was to be Lord Chancelour being very fit for the place had he but as much skill to decide Causes as write Quodlibets There wanted nothing to estate them in all these Offices but onely their getting of them 17. Wonder not that this Treason was discovered so soon The two Priests executed but covered so long The two Priests alone Nov. 29. with G Brook were executed who to use the words of King Iames in his Letter to Sir Benjamine Tichbourne Sheriff of Hantshire for the Plague being in London Terme was removed to Winchester where they were tried Vaire the principall Plotteris and Intisaris of all the rest to the embracing of the saidis treasonabil Machinations The rest were pardoned their Lives not their Lands We must not forget that the Priests pleaded the silliest for themselves of all that were arraigned alledging that their Practise against the King could not be Treason because done against him before he was crowned Watson instancing in Saul who was anoynted in e 1 Sam. 10. 1. Ramah and afterward made King in f Ibid. ver 24. Mizpeh Clark insisted on Rehoboam as being no King till the People had g 1 King 12. 1 made him so Not remembering what our Lawyers there minded them of the difference betwixt successive Kings deriving their claime from their Ancestors and one newly elected the English Crowne also being as incapable of an Inter-regnum as Nature of a Vacuitie Mean time the Jesuits looked on and laughed at Watson's Execution to see how bunglingly Secular Priests went about a Treason resolving in the next platforme thereof which now they were contriving to rectifie the errours Watson had committed not to ingage in a squint-ey'd company where two did not look the same way but to select a competencie of cordial Catholiques for the purpose 18. No sooner was King Iames setled on the English Throne Mr Cartwright dedicates a Book to King James but Mr. Cartwright presented unto him his Latin Coment on Ecclesiastes thankfully mentioning in his Dedication how he had some twenty yeares before been chosen to be Professour in a Scotch University though declining the acceptance thereof because of his Pastorall Charge being then Minister to the English Congregation at Antwerp Thanks perchance not so proper to the person of King Iames though in Loyalty and good Manners justly tendred unto him as due rather to those who in his minority steered the affaires of Scotland Nor let any wonder that an English man should be proffered preferment in Scotland seeing it was but one for another remembring that I have read in the life of Mr. Knox that he was offered an English Bishoprick in the reigne as I take it of K. Edw the 6. and likewise refused the same 19. But Mr Cartwright survived not long after otherwise Mr. Cartwright his Death no doubt we should have heard of him in Hampton Court-Conference Dec. 27. as the Champion of his Party who died at the age of sixty on the 27. of December following To what we have formerly largely writ of his Character we now onely adde that he was born in Hartford shire Camden in his Eliz. and married the Sister of M. Stubbs whose hand was struck off for writing an interpreted Libel against Queen Elizabeths Marriage with Monsieur This I dare boldly say She was a most excellent Wife if she proved like her Brother whom Mr. Cambden no great friend of Puritans cordially commendeth for a right honest man generally beloved whilest living and lamented when dead He was afflicted towards his old Age with many Infirmities insomuch that he was forced continually to studie upon his * See his Life lately set forth by M. Clark knees My Eares shall be dear to the uncharitable inference of those who impute this extraordinary painfull posture as a just punishment upon him in that he had so bitterly inveighed against the gesture of those as superstitious who reverently received the Sacrament on their knees M. Dod preached his Funerall Sermon 20. And now The Presbyterian Petition to K. Parl. because there was a generall expectation of a Parliament suddenly to succeed the Presbyterian Party that they might not be surprised before they had their tackling about them Ann. Dom. 1603 went about to get hands of the Ministers to a Petition which they intended seasonably to present to the K. and Parl M. Arthur Hildersham and M. Stephen Egerton with some others were chosen and chiefly intrusted to manage this important businesse This was called The millenary Petition as One of a thousand w See M. Hildersam's 〈◊〉 set forth by Mr. Clark though in indeed there were but seven hundred and fifty Preachers hands set thereunto But those all collected onely out of five and twenty Counties However for the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter it passeth for a full thousand which no doubt the Collectours of the names if so pleased might easily have compleated I dare not guesse what made them desist before their number was finished whether they thought that these were enough to doe the deed and moe were rather for oftentation than use or because disheartned by the intervening of the Hampton-Court Conference they thought that these were even too many to petition for a Deniall It is left as yet uncertaine whether this Conference was by the Kings favour graciously tendered or by the mediation of the Lords of his Counsell powerfully procured or by the Bishops as confident of their cause voluntarily proffered or by the Ministers importunity effectually obteyned Each Opinion pretends to Probability but the last most likely 1603 And by what meanes soever this Conference was compassed Hampton-Court was the Place the 14 of January the Time and the following Names the Persons which were employed therein For Conformity Moderator Against Conformity Arch bish of Canterbury Whitgift Biashops of London Bancroft Durham Mathew Winchester Bilson Worcester Babington St. Davids Rudd Chicester Watson Carleil Robinson Peterbor Dove Deans of The a Though all these Deanes were summoned by Letters and present in the Presence Chamber yet onely five viz. of the Chappel Westminister Pauls Chester and Sarisbury

in money and Ten pounds per annum to the Poor of the Parish in the Chancell whereof he lyeth buried under a fair Monument dying on S. Thomas his day in the Threescore and twelfth year of his age 28. Papists now appearing very daring A Conference with Iesuits Dec. 21. a Conference or Dispute if you please was entertained betwixt Doctor White and Doctor Featley Protestants Father Fisher and Father Sweete Jesuits on his occasion Edward Buggs Esq living in London aged seventy and a professed Protestant was in his sicknesse seduced to the Romish Religion But recovering this Dispute was held at his request in the house of Sir Humphrey Linde a learned and religious Gentleman about the Visibility of the Church and the Tenents now maintained by the Protestants to have been before Luther The printed Book hereof may satisfie the Reader as this Conference did so satisfie Master Buggs that renouncing his former wavering he was confirmed in the Protestant-Truth 29. Now hapned the sad Vespers The fat●l Vespers at Black-Fryers Octob. 26. or dolfull Evening-song at Black Fryers in London Father Drury a Jesuite of excellent Morals and ingratiating Converse wanting nothing saving the embracing of the truth to make him valuable in himself and acceptable to others Preached in a great upper-Room in Black-Fryers next to the house of the French-Ambassadour where some Three hundred persons were assembled His Text the 18 Chap. of S. Matthew ver 32. O thou ungracious servant I forgave thee all the debt because thou desiredst me shouldst not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant c. In application whereof he fell upon a bitter invective against the Protestants 30. His Sermon began to incline to the middle Death without giving any warning 1623. the Day to the end thereof when on the soddain the Flore fell down whereon they were assembled It gave no charitable warning-groan before-hand but crackt brake and fell all in an instant Many were killed more bruised all frighted sad sight to behold the flesh and blood of different persons mingled together and the brains of one on the head of another One lackt a leg another an arm a third whole and intire wanted nothing but breath stifled in the ruines Some Protestants coming meerly to see were made to suffer and bare the heavy burden of their own curiosity About Ninety five persons were slain out-right Ann. Reg. Ja. 21 Ann. Dom. 1623. amongst whom Mr. Drury and Mr. Rodiat Priests with the Lady Webbe were of the greatest quality Nor must we forget how when one comforted a Maid-childe about 10 years of age Exhorting her to patience for her Mother and Sister The Childe replied That however it fared with them this would be a great scandall to their Religion A speech commendable in any admirable in one of her age 31. Yet marvellous was God's mercy in the preservation of some there present ● will sing of m●rcy and justice One corner of the first Flore rather hung still than stood without any beams by the relative strength from the side walls and about Twenty persons upon it These beheld that Tragedy wherein instantly they expected to act and which was the worst their fall would not onely kill them but by their weight they should be the unwilling● slayers of others which as yet laboured for life beneath them It was put into their mindes with their knives fright adding force unto them to cut their passage out of a lome-wall into the next chamber whereby their lives were preserved Of those that fell one was kept alive though imbraced by death on either side a chair falling hollow upon her Thus any arms are of proof if Divine Providence be but pleased to put them on 32. Next day was Impannelled a Coroner's Inquest of substantial Citizens to inquire into the cause and manner of their death A fair and true verdict These found it done neither by miracle nor malice no plot or indirect practice appearing as some no lesse falsly than maliciously gave it out the Roof standing Side-wall sound Foundation firm onely the Flore broken by God's wisdome permitting it and their own folly occasioning it Nor could the Carpenter be justly accused for slight and unfaithfull building making it substantial enough for any private purpose and none could foresee that they would bring a Church into a Chamber Twenty of the poorer sort were buried hard by in one Grave and the rest bestowed by their friends in severall places of Sepulture 33. The sad death of these persons Beware wildewishes the Object of Pity to all good and wise men was the Subject of Envy to some so sillily superstitious as to repine at it That they had not a share in this slaughter On this accompt because the Priest or Clerk after every Masse in the City of London solemnly invited the people present with a loud voice to say Three Pater noster's and three Ave Maria's for the souls of such as died in Black-Friers Particularly one Parker * Jo. Gee in his Book called the Foot out of the snare who narrowly escaped the danger there professed That nothing grieved him more but that he had not been one of those that died by the aforesaid mischance But see what hapned this man going over to Doway to take Priestly Orders the week following was drowned in his passage Thus wild-wishes for death prove sometimes such Guests as come home to the Inviters before they be welcome unto them 34. This accident fell on Sunday the 26 of October which according to the new style observed beyond-sea having the speed of ours by ten daies fell upon their fifth of November a day notoriously known in the Popish Calendar Whereupon Master Edward Benlowes a Religious and Learned Gentleman no small Promoter of my former and present Labours thus expressed himself Quinta Novembris eat Graias orsura Calendas Sit quocunque Stilo quinta Novembris eat Illa Dies Letho BRITONUM devoverat Aulam Letho Devotam sospitat illa dies Ista dies duxit Sacra ad Miseranda Misellos Adductos Sacris sustulit ista dies Lapsa repentè domus vos irâ atroce peremit Quêis fuit irâ atrox lapsa repentè Domus Drurie cum Cerebro conspergis Pulpita vano Dum spargis Cerebri Phasmata vana tui Trabe peremptus obis qui Lignea vivus adoras Lignea vivus ades Trabe peremptus obis Ligna Lapísque manus in foedera dantia mactant Hos quibus in sacra sunt foedera Ligna Lapis Quêis Crux coeca Deus tenebrosa Magistra colentes In tenebras Coecos coeca Magistra rapit Ah! erit Exemplum cui non hoc triste timori Tristis hic Exemplum triste timoris erit Haec Romista cave Domus unâ ut corruit horâ Vnâ sic horâ Roma caveto Ruet I have nothing else to adde of this sad disaster A Caveat to Rome save that the news