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A61366	Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain derived from the Phœenicians, wherein the original trade of this island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language and customs of the p by Aylett Sammes ...	Sammes, Aylett, 1636?-1679?	1676 (1676)	Wing S535; ESTC R19100	692,922	602

another Synod or Session was agreed on where a greater number of the British Clergy were present amongst them seven Bishops The old Controversie is again renewed but when Augustine found that he was likely to gain no further he desired they would but conform to him and the Romans in three things only 1. In the observation of Easter 2. In the administration of Baptism 3. In assisting him with their preaching to the English Saxons But they suspecting the pride of Augustine would not bondescend to him in these things neither Lamentable was the event of this Assembly which shall be related when we come in order to the place for the British Church differed in many things from the Roman as appears out of Gildar and Bede and this following discourse Concerning the Manners of Augustine I shall determine nothing he is blamed by our Age and extolled by Antiquity They report him to have been learned pious and an Imitator of Primitive holiness the Apostle of the English often in watchings fastings prayers and alms zealous in propagating the Church of his Age and of Religion and earnest in rooting out Paganism The first Introducer of Roman Monks and other Rites and Ceremonles in repairing and building Churches diligent enough and for working Miracles extraordinary famous From hence by reason of humane frailty his mind perhaps grew more lofty and proud which thing St. Gregory himself seemed to take notice of who admonished him by an Epistle that he should not be puffed up with the greatness of his Miracles He is ill spoken of for the Massacre of the Priest of Bangor and not without a cause if as is reported he excited King Edilfrid to that horrid slaughter Concerning him thus C●●grave in his Life St Augustine was by stature very tall so that he appeared from the shoulders above the rest of the people his face was lovely but majestical withal there 's no body can relate the Wonders and Cures he did among the People He alwaies walked on foot and most commonly he visited his Provinces bare-footed and the skin on his knees was grown hard and insensible through continual kneeling Concerning the time when he died the opinions of Authors are many so that which to fix on is uncertain Stow makes it the 29 of May in the year of Grace 603 Bede in the year 604 Augustine himself in his Leaden Bull if it be truly his cites a Character of King Ethelbert dated the year of our Lord 605 from which 't is manifest that he was then living Thomas Sprot relates that he held a Councel at Canterbury in the year 605 Matthew 〈◊〉 Westminster following Segthert saies that he died in the year of Grace 608 Howden in the year 610 Trevet and Polydore in the year 611 Malmsbury in the year 612 and Savil in Fastis in the year 613. How long therefore he governed the Church of Canterbury so great is the disagreement of Writers that I date not determine any thing concerning it But it appears manisest enough that he began in the year of our Lord 596 in which he was sent by St. Gregory or in the year 597 in which he was received by King Ethelbert and ordained Bishop of Canterbury by Etheri●●s Arch-Bishop of Arles 'T is agreed on that he was buried in a Monastery of his own name which he had built with the assistance of King Ethelbert and in the Porch of that Church dedicated to St. Peter and Paul but not as yet consecrated in a stone Coffin covered over with Iron and Lead with this Inscription Inclytus Anglorum Praeful pius Decus Altum Hîc Augustinus requiescie corpore sanctus The Church afterward being consecrated by Lawrence his Successor his Coffin was brought into the Church and placed on the North side where afterwards was an Altar of his name and this Inscription affixed Hîc Requiescit AVGVSTINVS Dorobernensis Archiepiscopus qui olim huc à Beato Gregorio Romae Urbis Pontifice directus à Deo operatione miraculorum suffultus Ethelbertum Regem gentem illius ab Idolorum cultu ad fidem perduxit completis à pace diebus officii sui Defunctus est 7. Kal. Junii eodem Rege Regnante He was Canonized for a Saint and now holds a place in the Roman Martyrology on the seventh day of the Kalends of June i. e. the 26 day of May. He is said to have written one Book to Gregory of his prosperous success and one Book of the Statutes of his Churches and Eleven Questions which Gregory Answered lib. 12. Tom. 2. which Bede also relates lib. 1. cap. 37. Hist. Angl. Augustine arrives in England is courteously received of Ethelbert King of Kent he imitates the life and doctrine of the Primitive Church he baptizes the King and is honoured with an Episcopal Seè. Bede lib. 1. cap. 25. AUgustine being strengthned by the encouragement of Blessed Father Gregory returns with the rest of the Servants of Christ that were with him to the work of the Word and comes into Britain Edilberth at that time was the most powerful King of Kent who had extended the bounds of his Empire to the Banks of the great River Humber by which the Southern and Northern people of England are separated There is towards the Eastern part of Kent the Isle of Tanet of indifferent bigness the compass of it according to the usual computation of the English is six hundred Families which the River Vantsum parts from the Continent in breadth about three surlongs and in two places omy fordable for it runs its head both waies into the Sea Here landed Augustine the Servant of the Lord with his Companions as is reported about fourty in number they had taken along with them Interpreters of the French Nation as Pope Gregory had commanded them Being arrived he sends to Edilberth giving him to understand that he came from Rome and had brought good tidings with the proffets of Eternal happiness to them that would receive them and an Everlasting kingdom after this life with the true and living God The King hearing this commanded that they should tarry in the Island they had landed in and that all necessaries should be afforded them till he had determined what to do with them for he had heard of the Christian Religion before having married a Christian Wise of the Royal Family of the French by name Bertha whom he had received from her Parents on this condition that she should have free exercise of Religion and liberty to have a Bishop by name Luidhard whom they had given her as an assistant and strengthner of her faith The King after some daies past came to the Island and sitting down in the open Air commanded that Augustine and his Companions should be brought into his presence thither for he feared to admit them into any House being perswaded by his old Superstition that if they brought with them any Charms or Incantations they could not so easily work upon him

than the War advance after the Paschal Feast as to a certain Victory German who had notice of their approach undertakes the conduct of that day and riding out with some selected Troops to discover a place fit for Ambush finds a Vally encompassed with many risings through which the Enemy was to pass Here he placeth his Men and orders them that what word they heard him pronounce the same they should repeat with an universal Shout The Enemy goeth on secretly and German thrice aloud cries Hallelujah which answered by the Souldiers with a sudden noise and clamour is doubly ecchoed from the Hills and Vallies The Saxons and Picts startled hereat and supposing it the noise of a huge Host flung down their Arms and fled and for hast many of them were drowned in the River which newly they had passed The Victory thus obtained without hands gave to the Britains plenty of Spoil and proeured to the Person and Preaching of German greater Authority and Reputation than before The place of this Victory is reported to have been in Flintshire by a Town called Guid-eruc and the River is supposed Allen where a Field retains the name of Maes German unto this day Some have called into question that part of the Relation which maketh mention of the People flocking to be Baptized by German seeing that Pelagianism was never Re-baptized and the Heathenish Religion for a long time before is not so much as heard of in Britain But I think this cannot take away from the truth of this story seeing 't is writ by a Man living so near the times for it is not to be meant of the whole Army of Britains but of some part only and those perhaps Friends and Allies to them For in a mixture of Nations which in War either the taking of Prisoners or the Revolt of disaffected persons naturally causeth what wonder is it if there might be Scots Picts or Saxons in Germans Camp especially if we consider what intelligence he had of the approach of the Enemy and the exact time of their coming which could be given him by none but such who fled over to them and that many of the Scots and Picts were desirous to embrace the Christian Faith and wanted only opportunity to do it may be gathered in that Palladius a Deacon about this time was ordained and sent by Celestine the Pope to be Bishop over them No marvel therefore if many of the Picts entring into Britain and beholding the Lives and Conversations of the Christians here might be converted from their savage Customes and Religions and desire to be Baptized by that Man of whose miraculous Life and Doctrine they had heard such wonderous Relations These Astions happened about the year 430 when German departing the Land the Scots and Picts taking advantage of his absence prepared again for a new Invasion The Britains wearied out with continual Wars and not expecting any more Miracles for their deliverance send to Rome for assistance about the 39th year of Theodosius and of our Lord 446. Their Letters were directed to AEtius or Agitius then President of Gallia with this Inscription TO AETIUS THRICE CONSUL THE GROANS OF THE BRITAINS The Barbarians drive us to the Sea and the Sea drives us back to the Barbarians thus between two kinds of death we are either slaughtered or drowned And the more to express their Miseries and to move Compassion thus they surther urge We the poor Remnant of the Britains and your Vassals besides the Enemy are afflicted by Famine and Mortality which at this time extreamly rageth in our Land Withal they beg him to consider how nearly it concerned the Honour of the Roman Empire to protect and succour a Province which for five hundred years almost had constantly adhered to their Interest that if they were now weakned and in a condition rather to take than give assistance they desire him to call to mind that it was Their occasions not their own that had reduced them to those necessities the strength of the British Youth were exhausted in the Roman Service and the Land lest naked to uphold the grandure of the Empire And besides the loss of their Youth their wealth had been wasted and consumed in maintaining so many Legions in forreign Service and their stores of Corn spent in supplying the Roman Provinces abroad To these their urgent Requests they receive no Answer at all for the Empire sorely infested and overspread with Huns and Vandals was not in any condition to give them assistance insomuch that wearied out with continual Complaining in vain and the Famine daily increasing upon them like Men in a desperate condition their comfort lying only between the choice of two Evils some meerly to get sustenance yield themselves to the disposal of the Enemy whilest others more hardy and resolute maintain their lives with what the Woods and Forrests afford them oftentimes as their Necessities urged or Advantage invited them would they make sallies upon the Enemy and that with good success led on as may be guessed by some worthy Commander who advised them not to trust in their own Power but the Divine assistance And perhaps if computation would permit which in these times is very much confused by the Divine assistance nothing more is here meant than the fore-said miraculous Victory obtained by German near the River Allen But however I shall follow the series of Gildas in setting down the History of these Times The Scots or Irish Robbers for so are they indifferently called finding such stout resistance where they least suspected it for the present depart home with intention to return upon the next fair occasion inviting them The Picts also who not long before as hath been mentioned had seated themselves in the utmost part of the Island even unto the Wall now retired to their new Habitations and saving a few Inroads which now and then they made upon the Borderers lived without any great molestation so that the Britains eased from their Enemies began anew to tyll the Ground which after long discontinuance yielded her fruit in such abundance as the like in no Age before had ever been remembred But the Sore of Famine being healed and skinned others more virulent broke out Riot Luxury and Wantonness the usual attendants of Fulness and Plenty and with them all Vices incident to Humane nature For besides Fornication Adultery Uncleanness Rapes Incest the necessary Companions of Intemperance Contentions Strifes Civil discords arose among them and they who had been feeble and weak in repressing a forreign Enemy in vindicating their private Animosities were eager and obstinate But that which Gildas faith most especially conduced to the corrupting of Affairs and the overturning the state of all goodness in the Land and so continued in his daies was the hatred of Truth and the Maintainers of it the love of Lies with the Forgers thereof Evil they called good and good evil To be wicked and lewd was honourable

midst of the Island though sometimes it found means to toss and almost overturn particular Kingdoms yet staved off by others and constantly kept warm by new Assailants it ever lost behind what it gained forwards and was not at any time able so to keep all employed but that one or other taking breath would return afresh upon it It had on the north the Kingdom of Northumberland and its Limits on that side were the Humber and Mersey from whence it is supposed to have taken name On the East it extended to the Sea through Lincolnshire and South-east had the East-Angles and East-Saxon Kingdoms lying upon it South it reached to the Thames where it was obnoxious to Kent the South and West-Saxons and on the West it was kept in by the Severn and Dee which gave passage to the Britains to break in upon it Thus we see this unwieldy Kingdom which in front would seem to bear down all before it is so coopt up and hem'd in on every side that it rather labours under its own greatness CRIDA WIBBA CEORL THE first beginner of this Kingdom was CRIDA the eleventh from VVoden who having reigned ten years without other memory left it to his Son WIBBA in the year 594 who enlarging the bounds of his Kingdom by continual Conquests upon the Britains reigned twenty years and had Issue three Son Penda Kenwalk and Eoppa and a Daughter Sexburg married to Kenwald King of the VVest-Saxons But he was succeeded by his Nephew CEORL who holding the Scepter twelve years dying left it to the right Heir PENDA PENDA the Son of Wibba at fifty years of Age came to the Crown a war-like Captain but withal bloody and restless His first Wars were with Kingils and Cuichelm joynt Kings of the West-Saxons whom he met at Cirencester and after a battel fought well on both sides made Truce with them in the year 632. He joyned with Kedwalla or Cadwallon King of the Britains against Edwin King of Northumberland slaying him in Battel with his Son Osfrid at a place called Hethfield In the year 642. with his own forces he overcame Oswald the Successour of Edwin who before had victoriously cut off Cadwallon with his whole Host at a place called Maserfield now Oswestre in Shropshire where he slew him He conquered Sigebert Egbert and Anna Kings of the East-Angles and killed them in the field as hath been related in the story of those Princes Next he makes War upon Kenwalch King of the West-Saxons who had taken his Sister in marriage and unjustly put her away him he drives out of his Kingdom When proud with these Successes taking into his Society Ethelherd King of the East-Angles and Ethelwald King of Deira he resolves upon the Conquest of Northumberland but Oswy then King of that Country with a few forces soberly managed cut him off with the greatest part of his Army The news of his death was joyfully received by all the Saxon Princes glad to be well rid of him who during his Life had given them so much trouble He was a Pagan through choice not ignorance and in several Conjunctions with Christian Princes had learnt to despise the Professours of that way as who owning in words a Faith more excellent shewed nothing less in their Actions yet he prohibited not preaching in his Dominions but giving free liberty to all he only hated and despised such who did not obey that God in whom they chose to believe His Male Issue by Kinswith his Queen runs thus Peada his eldest Son Ulfere and Ethelred both Monarchs of the English Merkthel famous for holiness of Life Merwald who had a Principality in Mercia and married Edburga daughter of Egbert King of Kent His Daughters were Kineburg Wife of Alkfrid King of Northumberland Kiniswith Wife of Offa King of the East-Angles both which Daughters afterwards became Nuns PEADA PEADA the eldest Son of Penda succeeded not in the whole Kingdom of Mercia for Oswy King of Northumberland entring the Country took possession in right of a Conqueror but to Peada who had married his Daughter he gave by Donation all on the South-side of Trent and reserved to himself the North. By his Father Penda long before he had been made Prince of the Mid-Angles a particular branch of the Mercian Crown and there with his good liking had planted the Christian Religion to the knowledge of which he came upon this occasion Applying to King Oswy for his Daughter Alckfled he received Answer That unless he turned Christian and admitted that Religion into his Dominions he should surcease his Suit Peada unwilling to be baffled accepts the motion and having heard some Preachers to that purpose professeth himself to be so taken with the Doctrine that whether he receive the Lady or not he resolves to embrace it with all his People which good Intentions of his were furthered by Alckfrid Oswy's Son who besides that he had taken to wife Cymburga his Sister had contracted a near Friendship with him All things therefore agreed he is baptized by Bishop Finan at the King's Pallace on the Wall and then with his Wife and new Religion returns into his own Country most part of which by the assistance of some Priests carried along with him he soon brought to the same profession But now Prenda being dead and his Territory enlarged through the Accession of South Mercia he had not reigned three years when he was cut off by the Treason of his Wife whom he had taken for a special Christian WULFER WULFER the Brother of King Peada succeeded him not only in the Province of South-Mercia but in the entire Kingdom of his Ancestors For Immin Eaba and Eadbert three Potent Earls casting off the Yoke of Oswy restored the whole North into his possession which he maintained during the whole Reign of that Monarch But Oswy dead Egfrid his Son and Successour endeavoured to recover what his Father had lost and invading this Wulfer won from him the Isle of Lindsey and the Countrys adjacent and content with that revenge returns home with his forces But Wulfer was now employed in War with Kenwald King of the West-Saxons against whom he had better success for entering his Country with a powerful Army he laid it waste from one end to the other took away from him the Isle of VVight which with some Countrys of the Meannari adjoyning he gave to Edilwalch the South-Saxon whom he had made a Christian and received at the Font. Afterwards he fought a Battel with Escwin King of the VVest-Saxons at a place called Bedanhafde but which side won the day is not recorded He reigned seventeen years and was buried at Peterborough his Queen Ermenheld after his death vailed her self at Ely He is reported to have had three Sons whereof the eldest named Kenred reigned after his Brother Ethelred his two younger Vulfald and Rufin as the Records of Peterborough report were slain by their Fathers own hands being found in an Assembly of