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A61733	The life and gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chancellor of England extracted out of the authentique records of his canonization as to the maine part, anonymus, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, Harpsfeld, and others / collected by R.S., S.I.	Strange, Richard, 1611-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5810; ESTC R14349	107,722	368

all the day and place of his inauguration was pitchd on The day was to be the 8. of Sept. sacred to the Natiuity of the Virgin Mother of God nor could any other haue fallen more suitable to his desyres and the deuotion he had for that glorious Queen whose Natiuity as it brought a deluge of ioy and happynes to all mankind so he might hope it would betyde no ill presage to him who was now to be borne as it were a new man and most willingly did he come into this new world under her patronage vnder which he was to liue and dye as all they doe who liue and dye happily When he had resolu'd who was to consecrate him it was easy to conclude on the place of Confecration the former resolue was easily made according to his owne inclination for connaturally speaking on whome would he sooner pitch then on him to whome he was most beholding after God for what he had both in literature and piety who as he had honourd him in his commencement of Doctour of Diuinity so also Crowne and compleat all with the Character of Episcopacy This was Robert Kilwarby whome we mentiond in the precedent Chapter installd now Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of England who though so great shewd an humble readynes to comply with the desyres of his friend in order to a consecration what soeuer they were or wher soeuer to be performd sealing vpp as it were with this concluding act for shortly after he was calld to Rome all his former endeauors for the Saints aduance in spiritt and piety specifyd in the 4. Chapter onely it is to be noted in a word that the Consecration was made in Christ church Canterbury in the yeare 1275. and of his age about 56. In testimony of the common content receiu'd by this Election and the happynes as well as honour accrewing thence to his See of Hereford it was agreed by all concernd both Chapter and succssours and for an attestation of the generall Sentiment that thence forward all the Bishops of Hereford should giue his coat of Armes as the coat of theyr See to witt G. 3. leopards heads jeasant 3. flouwer de luces Or. So true it is that honour like a shadow followes those that fly it and that no pursuit besydes contempt is the ready way to its purchase XII CHAPTER His Retyrement and Union with God THis new Character made him a new man nor did he look on himselfe with the same eyes as before not puffd vpp like many with the fumes of a swelling exaltation but purely on the score of his new Character beholding himselfe as one consignd ouer therby to the seruice of God They are worse then purblind who look onely on a man as a meer man and make no distinction at all of states and callings being able to penetrate no further then the exteriour lineaments nor distinguish in theyr leuelling humour betwixt a man and a Priest one with a crosyer and a Sword Euen such themselues when qualifyd and raysd to honours look on themselues as some body and will not bate an ace of State why should not the same be done when raysd to a state of Sanctity Bishops are in a state of perfection and sett vpp as lights in the candlestick of the church to shine to others you are sayd Christ of them the light of the Mat. 5. 14. world nothing not squaring with perfection is expected from them This consideration makes them reflect on theyr duty attend to your selues and your whole flock and so did it our Act. 20. 28. B. Saint giuing him subject enough to busy his thoughts on in order to a due discharge of his trust Which the better to performe he recalls all his thoughts home and as he had now contracted a new Espousalle so he wedded all his endeauours to its interest A sheapard till he haue a flock of his owne may diuert himselfe more freely among his neighbours and spend some houres in visiting theyrs but when he himselfe is once Master of one he attends onely to that and may say as did the man in the Ghospell on another occasion uxorem duxi I●c 14. 20. ideo non possum c. When God calls one to a state he furnishes him with thoughts desyres affections sutable therto he giues him light to consider it to ponder its weightynes to see for what he must be answerable when „ redde rationem villicationis Luc. 16. 2. tuae „ calls vpon him All these employ his mind sufficiently and make him retyre with in himselfe and consequently with draw from less necessary exteriour affayres He neuer was in loue with the world nor taken with its fooleryes and therfore easily retyrd from it as from what he little car'd for he was long agoe like one glutted and surfeyting with its dilights euen the choysest of the court and saw too clearly its vanityes to be deluded by them The more he retyrd into himselfe the more he lou'd Retyrement its sweetnes being not knowne but by tasting it and one truth he discouerd therby that a gadding Spiritt wil neuer make a Saint nor wandering thoughts which goe all day on wool-gathering bring home much sanctity He found all in God and contented himselfe with him alone as well he might who to a holy Soule is all in all and it is in solitude that he speaks to such a hart where the choyser sort of vertues dwell not vpon Roads or marketplaces as Lions and Eagles and such generous Creatures are not found in common woods and fields but solitary Wildernesses where they may rule and enioy themselues vncontroulld by the vulgar of inferiour Creatures Heer vpon a great change was obserud in him and his conuersation he was and was esteemd a Saint before but now more noys'dly he had long agoe the world in contempt now in hatred What lay not a little heauy on his hart and was as I may say the burden of his thoughts was his new charge or the sollicitude of its good discharge To comply duly with this was all his care and to doe it well a great supply he knew of vertues was requisite and those chiefly which attend such a function Those he conceiu'd to be in the first place and aboue others Vigilancy he being now a Sheapard that was to keep watch and stand Sentinell ouer his Flock a vertue so propper to one thus entrusted that on it the whole wellfare and safety of the same Flock seems in a manner to depend as to its preseruation and integrity both for the preuenting of mischiefes and giuing redress when incurrd A vigilant Pastour withstands the incursions of wolues and other beasts of prey not onely when they appeare in theyr propper shape but also disguisd in the dress of sheep nor is it his duty onely to preuent and repell euill but also to implant good It happend when men were a sleep that the enemy man found opportunity to sow tares vpon

who besydes other great parts wher with Nature had endowd him was so farr fauourd by grace as to be eminent in sanctity of life in attestation wheroff after death his sepulcher was gracd with many Miracles the blind lame and dumb finding there a present cure Now what wonder if one Saint giue another an honorable reception this is no more then to giue vertue its due and from whome may that be more justly expected then from Saints The legality of Appeales to Rome in Church affayres when a decision cannot be had in an inferiour court is ratifyd by the custome and practise of all nations and ages to her all fly as to a common and disinteressd Mother who holds the weights of the Sanctuary and without byass and partiality diuides a distributiue justice according to equity This is no more then to appeale from an inferiour court to a superiour which the course of justice deemes lawfull nor indeed in our present controuersy which was betwixt a Bishop and his Primate could any other court giue a finall verdict To it therfore our Saint appeald and in prosecution of it made his long journey and as he was allwayes happy in this that he undertook nothing but vpon mature aduise and circumspection grounded on the sound judgment of wise Councellors so he seldome or neuer miscarry'd in any cause but all being well digested the very laying it open prou'd its decision Yett a legall course of law was to be obseru'd and things by degrees brought to an issue and his was such as he desyrd that is an enioyment of the rights he was inuested in by the decrees of former Popes without suffering any infringment therin by his Metropolitane who had not power to explicate Papall Constitutions as our Saint objected to him in the fore mentiond Councell of Redding and vpon his owne explication to lay a clayme Where all proceeds according to rigour of justice fauour pretends no place nor did it heer further then to obtaine a quick dispatch and remouall of those delayes which render law-suites both costly and tedious This was all the fauour that was or could be shewd him and he took it for no meane one longing as he did after a speedy returne his hart being at home where was also the chiefest of his concerns while the rest of his body was at Rome He did t is true by an interiour vnion of mind enioy God euery where hauing long habituated himselfe in the same but yett his content was in Recollection he lou'd not the Ceremonious visitts of courts nor the loss of time that 's made in them they being toylsomly fruitles and fruitlesly toylsome while he was Lord Chancellor he felt the smart of that and the surfeyt causd then made him less able to disgest them all his life after Yett to omitt them would haue bin deemd a solecisme against ciuility and argu'd at the best a stoicall sanctity therfore who can blame a seruant of God if he indeauour to withdraw himselfe out of the concourse of such courtshipps He that touches pitch shall be defild by it XVII CHAPTER Of his Returne homewards and death on the Way HAuing thus obtaynd a fauorable dispatch and taken leaue of that great court he putt himselfe with ioy vpon the way as to himselfe though he left it in a kind of regrett for his departure and the priuation of the sweet odour of his sanctity causd therby What is admird as present is regretted as absent nor doe we ordinarily know the worth of things better then by theyr priuation It cannot be prudently doubted but that according to his settled practise of piety during the space of his abode there he left many monuments both of his Wisdome and Sanctity most richly worth recounting had they come to our knowledg But synce they doe not we must rather content our selues with a patient silence then discourse vpon less groundles conjectures contenting our selues that all is registerd in the book of life or Annalls of heauen to be publishd at the day of judgment Nor can I doubt but according to the vsuall strayne of sanctity which has for its motto „ ama nesciri loue Concealment he playd the silent Eagle not the talkatiue parrot and that the course of his vertuous actions the more profound they were the more silent like deep riuers and with less noyse did they imperceptibly flow and therfore no wonder if they escapd the record Hauing putt himselfe on his journey as soon as the heats would permitt all his endeauours now after Alm. God were to render it as speedy as he could much reioycing in the success of his negotiation and longing earnestly to make the concernd neighbouring Churches at home as well as his owne partake of the same Thus doe the Wisest many times project according to humane reasons and motiues while reckning as I may say without theyr host they propose and God disposes Little did he dreame that his journey was destin'd to a better home and himselfe design'd not for new labours but a fruition of the past the euening being at hand when the Master of the Vineyard was to call his Workman to receyue his hyre and inuite him into the ioyes of our Lord a thing if not sought for yett alwayes wellcome as being the much better home He was resignd for life and death putting both in the hands of God and hauing learnd to possess his soule in patience he was not sollicitous to dye soon or liue long but to liue and dye well which latter can be done but once and giues the vpshott to all He was now in the Clymactericall yeare of his age 63. and his crazy body was worne out with former labours and not onely what he now did but what he had done these diuers yeares was more by the vigour of his spiritt then Corporall strength This is a thing propper to holy soules who measuring theyr ability as indeed they ought rather by the former then the latter make this against its will keep pace with that as hath bin obseru'd in S. Basil S. Gregory and others and eyther by Communicating a new force or reiecting the sleeules excuses of self loue or by a speciall blessing of God they doe wonders in this kind This vigorous resolution had now brought him as farr as the state of Florence and in it to a place knowne by the name of Monte Fiascone but its stock or viaticum being spent could carry him no further Heer his debility destitute of vitalls for a reinforcement causd a distemper that was hightned to a feauer this in its accesses as a certaine fore runner of death by its symptomes told him that the dayes and wayes of his pilgrimage would shortly be ended and so they were in not very many houres Compass all its periods concluding in one poynt to witt Alm. God in whose sight the death of Saints is pretious Now we must look on him a while as deaths victime and learne of

him how to dye well which is one of the most important arts in the world for what auailes it if we gaine the whole uniuerse and suffer shipwrack of our owne Soules This maxime was the study of his whole life and on it all his principles were grounded and so well that he was not a frayd to look death in the face he regarding it no otherwise then as a passage to a better life and therfore amidst all its appalements he sate vpon its Couch as the Phenix on her pile of spices expecting that the same flames which consumd his body should renew his soule to a better and immortall life Of this his passage I shall say no more then I find vpon authentique Record the Process of his Canonization reflecting on two things first his preparation to it secondly the sequels of it And as to the former when he perceiu'd that the euening of life was in a great decline and its sunn neer vpon setting though his whole life had bin nothing else but a preparation to death or disposition to the sleep of Saints by which they rest in our Lord yett the neerer it approachd the more it awakd him to a discharge of his last dutyes And therfore with hart and eyes fixd on heauen the first of his desyres according to the Rytes of H. Church were the last Sacraments or Viaticum of that great journey doing himselfe as he had taught others to doe in that passage These are Confession Communion and Extreme Unction which as no good Christian doth omitt so no good seruant of God but has them in esteem and veneration and the greater the better insight they haue into the Concerns of theyr soule and its happy passage Hauing thus prouided for the substantiall part all the rest of his minutes were lett out at the highest exchange and he vnmindfull of all worldly things inuokd the Spiritt both of life and light by a „ Veni Creator Spiritus to be assistant to him in this last conflict against the Spiritts of Darknes when both life and light lye at the Stake This done he armd himselfe with the signe of the crosse or ensigne of Christianity as formidable to the infernall powers as confortable to a parting soule who whilst he consignd himselfe by it ouer to Alm. God he added these deuout expressions taught him probably in his child hood „ Per signum Crucis de inimicis nostris libera nos Deus noster and againe Per Crucis hoc signum fugiat procul omne malignum and lastly „ Per idem signum saluetur omne benignum All these are put downe verbatim in the record and teach vs how to arme our selues in our last Conflict towards a victory ouer our enemyes This done he calld his retinue about him and imparting to each fayth the lessons of his office the kiss of peace togeather with wholsome instructions for a pious life amidst these embracements he took and gaue the last adieu And now by this time the stock of life being quite spent the pangs of death came stronger vpon him and these increasing he betook himselfe more earnestly to his refuge of prayer making vse of that verse of the Psalmist propper in such a passage in manus tuas Domine commendo Spiritum meum Domine Deus veritatis Commendo Spiritum meum which words whilst he repeated thrice with his hands eleuated towards heaven he renderd his sweet Soule most acceptable to heauen to be receiud according to its meritts into the eternall tabernacles This was the setting of this sweet Sunn shewing much not onely of the Christian but of the Saint and verifying the old saying „ vt vixit sic morixit teaching vs that generall rule without exception he that liues well dyes well Which Sunn though he went downe in a strange horizon yett found a wellcome in the Ocean of bliss or a blessed eternity the true Christian deemes that his Hemisphere where God places him we being all Cittizens of the world and like beggars neuer out of our way while we are tending to Paradise Happy they that can make a happy Conclusion of so important an affayre which when thus concluded our work is done and if not happily all 's vndone and that without redress that is a moment of greatest moment wheron depends eternity Though his festiuity were keept on the 2. of October yett the day of his death happend on the 25. of August or the morrow to the Apostle S. Bartholomew And synce all Authours that I can find vnanimously agree as to the place to witt that it was neer Monte fiascone one would wonder why Bp. God win in contradiction heer of without alledging any ground for his assertion should maintaine that he dy'd at Ciuita Vecchi and in his way to Rome wheras there are vndenyable prooffs both of his arriuall there and obtayning his pretentions returne by land and holy death at the place aforesayd To say the least this cannot but argue a spiritt of contradiction propper to one of his coat and little beseeming the name of a Bishop nor had he more besydes the reuenues Onely it is a knowne trick of such I can call it no better to render the clearest truths disputable and thence doubtfull and so by degrees eneruate all fayth both humane and diuine by vndermining the autority which is theyr basis It happend the night after his decease that one of his officers whome he had left behind him in England his name was Robert of Glocester then his Secretary afterwards Chancellor of Hereford being at that time at London and Lodging in the Bishops owne Chamber had this dreame or vision call it as you please He thought himselfe to be at Lions in France where in the great street of that Citty which leads to the Cathedrall he seemd to behold his Lord and Master going towards that Church whither himselfe was also bound Both being enterd his Lord he thought went into the Sacristy where putting of the vpper garment which he wore he vested himselfe with white Pontificall Robes and those most rich and carrying in his hand the Body of our Lord or most B. Sacrament in forme of a Consecrated Host he appeard suddainly in the midst of a most solemne and stately Procession both of Clergy and religious and those likewise cladd all in white The Procession seemd to moue towards the Cloyster of the Cathedrall while others of that quire enton'd and prosecuted with delicate Musique that part of the Capitulum propper to the Office of S. Peter ad Vincula Occidit autem Jacobum fratrem Joannis gladio But before all were enterd the gate which led into the sayd Cloyster it on a suddain was shutt and Robert who with many others desyrd also to enter were excluded to theyr no small defeatment and left to consider the dreame of which he as the ignorant of the Saints death could look vpon no otherwise then a dreame But when immediately after certaine tydings both of