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A42341	The history of the Church of Peterburgh wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history not unworthy publick view, are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick ...	Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1686 (1686)	Wing G2246; ESTC R5107	270,254	362

troubled for her After Supper she perused her Will and Inventory At her usual hour she went to Bed slept some part of the night and spent the rest in Prayer Her fatal day being come she arose to prepare her self for her last lying down when calling her servants together she read over her Will to them letting them know what Legacies she had bequeathed Then did she apparel her self after this manner In borrowed hair a Bourn having on her head a dressing of Lawn edged with bone-lace and above that a vail of the same bowed out with wire and her Cuffs suitable about her neck a Pomander chain and an Agnus Dei hanging at a black Ribband a Crucifix in her hand a pair of Beads at her girdle with a golden Cross at the end Her uppermost gown was of black Satin printed training upon the ground with long hanging sleeves trimmed with Akorn buttons of Jet and Pearl the sleeves over her arms being cut to give sight to a pair of purple Velvet underneath her Kirtle as her Gown was of black printed Satin her Boddies of Crimson Satin unlaced in the back the skirt being of Crimson Velvet her Stockins of Worsted watchet clocked and edged at the top with silver and under them a pair of white Her Shoes of Spanish Leather with the rough side outward Thus attired she came forth of her Chamber to the Commissioners who were ready in the passage to receive her and to accompany her to the Stage whereon she was to act the last scene of her life making as yet no show of sadness until Melvin her servant presenting himself on his knees bewailing not only hers but also his own misfortune that he was to be a sad reporter to Scotland of her death then with some flux of tears she comforted him that he should shortly see the troubles of Mary Stuart have an end sending by him her commands to her Son and bidding him tell him that she had done nothing prejudicial to his Kingdom of Scotland Then addressing her self to the Commissioners she told them that she had certain requests to make to them viz. that a certain summ of money might be paid to one Curle her servant which Sir Amyas Pawlet had knowledge of That her servants might enjoy such Legacies as by her Will she had bequeathed unto them That they might be fairly used and safely sent into their own Country To the first Sir Aymas Pawlet gave his testimony and promise The rest were also promised and performed Yet said the Queen of Scots I have one request more to make that you would suffer my servants to be about me at my death to which the Commissioners returned a refusal the Earl of Kent saying that their presence would be a disturbance to her and besides he feared there would be some superstition practised in pressing to dip their handkerchiefs in her bloud My Lord said the Queen I will pass my word they shall do no such things Alas poor souls it will do them good to bid their Mistress farwell Your Mistriss meaning Queen Elizabeth being a Maiden Queen for womanhoods sake would not deny me this courtesie and I know she hath not so straitned your Commission but that you might grant me more than this if I were of a far meaner condition Whereupon the Commissioners consulted and granted her the nomination of six persons to be with her so she nominated four men Melvin her Apothecary her Chirurgeon and another old man And two women which used to lie in her Chamber After this she proceeded towards the great Hall in the Castle Melvin bearing up her train two Gentlemen of Sir Amyas Pawlets on each hand one and Mr. Andrews the Sheriff going before The Scaffold at the upper end of the Hall was two foot high and twelve foot broad hanged with black and she seemed to monnt it with as much willingness as ease and took her seat the Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent standing on her right hand Mr. Andrews the Sheriff on her left and the two Executioners opposite before her Then was the Commission read by Beal Clerk of the Council which she seemed as little to regard as if it had not concerned her at all After the reading of the Commission Doctor Fletcher Dean of Peterburgh addressed an Exhortation to the Queen of Scots that she would consider her present condition and withal the vanity of her Religion which he besought her to renounce but she refused professing her readiness to die therein The Lords desiring her to joyn with them in prayers she also refused alledging the difference in their Religions and saying she would pray by her self But the Dean was by the Commissioners desired to pray which he did in these words Dr. Fletcher's Prayer O Most gracious God and merciful Father who according to the multitude of thy mercies dost so put away the sins of them that truly repent that thou remembrest them no more Open we beseech thee thine eyes of mercy and behold this Person appointed unto death whose eyes of understanding and spiritual light albeit thou hast hitherto shut up that the glorious beams of thy favour in Jesus Christ do not shine unto her but is possessed with blindness and ignorance of heavenly things a certain token of thy heavy displeasure if thy unspeakable mercy do not triumph against thy judgment yet O Lord our God impute not we beseech thee unto her those her offences which separate her from thy mercy and if it may stand with thine everlasting purpose and good pleasure O Lord grant unto us we beseech thee this mercy which is about thy throne that the eyes of her heart may be enlightned that she may understand and be converted unto thee and grant her also if it be thy blessed will the heavenly comfort of thy Holy Spirit that she may taste and see how gracious the Lord is Thou hast no pleasure good Lord in the death of a sinner and no man shall praise thy Name in the pit renew in her O Lord we most humbly beseech thy Majesty whatsoever is corrupt in her either by her own frailty or by the malice of the ghostly enemy visit her O Lord if it be thy good pleasure with thy saving health as thou didst the offender at the side of thy Cross with this consolation This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto her soul as thou didst unto thy servant David I am thy salvation so shall thy mercy being more mighty be more magnified Grant these mercies O Lord to us thy servants to the increase of thy Kingdom and glory at this time And further O most merciful Father preserve we most humbly beseech thy Majesty in long and honourable peace and safety Elizabeth thy servant our most natural Soveraign Lady and Queen let them be ashamed and confounded O Lord that seek after her soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish her evil And strengthen still Lord we pray thee

Richard enough is delivered by Roger Bird his Register telling us that they were Benedictine Monks or Monks of the black Order and lived under that rule but when this rule was first received here I cannot positively say though probably it was from the beginning In the time of this Richard strict inquisition began to be made into Discipline how the Monks of this Order observed the rules of their Founder for which purpose the Bishop of Lincoln sometimes visited the Abby of Peterburgh and sometimes the Abbots of this Order visited one anothers Monasteries according to articles agreed upon in their General Chapter which was commonly held at Northampton As the Abbot of Eyneshame in Oxfordshire sent his summons to the Abbot of Peterburgh Johannes permissione divina Abbas Mon. de Eyneshame Ordinis Sancti Benedicti Lincoln Dioc. ad visitanda omnia singula Monasteria nigrorum monachorum dicti Lincoln Dioces In Capitulo generali ejusdem Ordinis apud Northampton c. And so the Abbots of Peterburgh Bardney Thorney Ramsey Trinity Monastery in Norwich the Priory of S. Ethelreda in Ely did mutually visit each other as occasion served Many Corrodies were granted by this Abbot Richard but the Abby for diet got their Lands or other Benevolences Two were remarkable the first of John Delaber Bishop of S. Davids Bird Fol. 45. who was much affected towards this Monastery and for bestowing upon them his Mitre Cross Dalmaticks Sandals Sabbatines Gloves and Mass Book he received a Corrody which he might take at his own choice either at Peterburgh or at the Abbots Mannor of Eyebury with a yearly pension of 32l to be received during his life out of the Abbots Mannor of Kettering in consideration of a great summ of Money which the Abby had borrowed of him and he forgave it The other Corrody was to Alice Garton Widow which I thought fit to mention in regard the pavement of the Church Bird Fol. 63. doth still retain the memory of her and her family which lieth buried in the Body of the Church over against the Cloister door On the first stone are engraven these verses Hic duo sunt nati Thomae Garton tumulati Thomas quinquennis fuit Agnes feretriennis On the second these This Tho. Garton beautified some of the Windows in the Western Cloister with painted glass Corpus sub Lapide Thomae Garton jacet arte Conjugis Aliciaeque suae dextra sibi parte Quorum nunc animae coelesti luce requiescant On the third these Conjugis Aliciae Thomae Garton miserere O pater egregie quiat tecum residere Mantello teste viduali vixit honeste Brigge Fair. Vid. Chartam in App. In the 2 year of this Abbot Richard 1439. King Henry 6 by his Charter bearing date July 14 and the 17 of his Reign granted to the Abbot and Convent of Peterburgh the keeping of a Fair for three days viz. on S. Matthew's day the day before and the day after and that they should hold the said Fair as well in Huntingdonshire as Northamptonshire which Fair is now commonly known by the name of Brigge Fair. And in regard that a Fair was formerly granted to be kept the same day at Northolm in the time of Abbot Godfrey as hath been said 't is probable that the Fair there either by reason of discontinuance or some other inconvenience was setled here at Peterburgh Bird Fol. 14. This Abbot Richard was summoned to sit in Parliament at Westminster and being unable to undertake such a journey he delegated William Tresham and John Kirkby Clerk of the Parliament to sit in his place and to act for him and in his name as if himself were present as appeareth by his Letter to the King dated Febr. 12. 1444. He was summoned again to a Parliament at Coventry where he took the Oath of Allegiance to King Henry in manner and form as followeth Bird Fol. 49. I Richard Ashton Th'abbot of Peterburgh knowledge you most high and mighty and most Crysten Prince King Henry the Sixth to be my most redoubted Severayn Lord and rightwessly by succession born to Reign upon me and all your lege People Whereupon y voluntarily without cohertion promitte and oblish me by the Faith and Trouth that y owe unto God and by the Faith and Trouth and ligeance that y owe unto you my most redoubted Soveraign Lord that I shall be without eny variance True Faithful humble and obeysaunt Subjet and Liegeman unto you my most redoubted Soveraign Lord And that y shall be unto my lifes end at all times and places redy and attending in my most harty wise and maner as eny Liegeman oweth to be unto his Soveraign Lord putting me in my true undelayed Devoir to do all that that may be unto the we le and suerty of your most Royal Person of your most noble Estate And the way conservation and continuance of your most high Autority preheminence and Prerogatyf to the we le suerte and preserving of the Person of the most high and benigne Pryncesse Margaret the Queen my Soveraign Lady and of her most noble Estate she being your wife And also to the we le suerte and honour of the Person of the right high and mighty Prince Edward my right redoubted Lord the Prince your first begotten Sonn And of the right high and noble Estate of the same And faithfully truly and obeysantly in my most humble wise and Maner Honour serve obey and bear mind Allegeance unto my most redoubted Soveraign Lord during your lyfe wich God Fadir of mercy for my most singular recomfort preserve long in prosperity to endure And if God of his infinite power take you from this transitory life me bering lif here in this World that than y shall accept my said redoubted Lord the Prince Edward your said first begotten Sonn for my Soveraign Lord and bere my trouth Feith and Legiaunce unto him as my natural born Soveraign Lord. And aftre him unto his Succession of his Body lawfully begotten And in defaute of his Succession wiche God deffend unto eny other succession of your Body lawfully commyng And that y shall never at eny time for eny manner occasyon colour affinite or cause consent gyf aide assistance or favour or agree to eny thing that y may understond or know by eny meane that may be prejudicial or contrary to the premisses or eny of theym but that y shall as soon as y may so have knowlege put me in my dewe undelayed devoir in my most hearty and effectuous wyse and manner without colour or fayntise with my body goods myght pouer counsell and advertisement to resist withstond and subdue all theym that would in eny wyse presume to do contrary to the premisses or eny of them So God me help and those holy Evangelists In witness whereof y set to these presents my Seal and my Sign Manuel After that Richard had been Abbot here about thirty three years he surrendred his Government