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<P>EDOVARDUS <HI>Confe&s;&s;or Redivivus.</HI> THE PIETY and VERTUES Of HOLY <HI>Edward the Confe&s;&s;or,</HI> Reviv'd in the Sacred Maje&s;ty of King James the II. BEING A RELATION of the Admirable and Unexpected finding of a <HI>Sacred Relique,</HI> (viz. the CRUCIFIX) of that Pious Prince; which was found in <HI>We&s;tminster-Abby,</HI> (the place of his Interrment) 622 Years &s;ucceeding; and is &s;ince worn &s;ometimes by his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty. With a COMMENT thereon. Previous to which Relation, are recited many wonderful ca&s;ual Di&s;coveries; All of them being Pre&s;agious, or very Effective.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Cuncta aperit &s;ecreta Dies; ab&s;condita pandet</HI></L>
<L><HI>Adveniens aetas, &amp; tempus operta recludet.</HI></L>
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<L>Long latent Day di&s;covers hidden Things;</L>
<L>And Time to come, to Light clo&s;e Matter brings.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>W. D.</HI> And are to be Sold by <HI>Randal Taylor,</HI> near <HI>Stationers-Hall.</HI> 1688.</P>
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<HEAD>Ad Regiam Maje&s;tatem Jacobi Secundi, (Inclyti&s;&s;imi Regis Jacobi quarti Seri &s;ed veri Nepotis.)</HEAD>
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<L>PArce tuum vatem temerum reputare <HI>JACOBE,</HI></L>
<L>Rex metuende, cui nunqu&agrave;m bella omina de&s;unt;</L>
<L>Et quae &s;emper eram pal&agrave;m profarier au&s;us,</L>
<L>Foelicis Regis, foelicis &amp; omina plebis.</L>
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<L><HI>DRead</HI> Prince, <HI>Thy Fecial Prophet don't di&s;dain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Animadver&s;or of Thy</HI> Omens <HI>plain;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And who to Publi&s;h them has took the pain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As &s;ure Pre&s;ages of</HI> Thy <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed Reign.</HI></L>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE, Without Reading which, the Di&s;cour&s;e and De&s;ign of the en&s;uing Treati&s;e cannot well be under&s;tood.</HEAD>
<P>PRe&s;ently after His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI>'s mo&s;t happy <HI>Inaugu|ration,</HI> I heard of that unexpected <HI>Bene-ominous</HI> Accident, which is the Subject of this pre&s;ent Di&s;cour&s;e: Not One in Ten, but look'd upon it as a mat|ter meerly Fabulous and Feign'd: For my part, (having been abroad in the World) I have met with &s;trange Pa&s;|&s;ages, but read of many more; &s;o, for my better &s;ati&s;|faction, I went to a Loving Friend of mine, Mr. <HI>J. G.</HI> (Famous for <HI>A&s;tronomical</HI> Learning) living near the <HI>Abby,</HI> who a&s;&s;ured me of the Truth thereof; and offered to carry me to the very Per&s;on who was the Di&s;coverer thereof, and receiv'd a Royal Reward; which I refu&s;ed, (for that would have looked as if I had di&s;tru&s;ted my Friends Veracity.) Within two or three days after, my old Friend <HI>T. H. E&s;q; Wind&s;or-Herald</HI> (al&s;o a near In|babitant) re-a&s;&s;ured me of the Truth thereof: &V;pon which, I Penned this en&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e; giving it to one, to u&s;e at his Di&s;cretion, being a <HI>Printer,</HI> my Friend; and I thought it would have found no ob&s;tacle in the Impre&s;&s;ion: But tho&s;e that were Authoriz'd to Licen&s;e, ob&s;tinately refu&s;ed it, as &s;avouring of down right Popery and Super|&s;tition.
<PB REF="3">So I, having occa&s;ion to retire into the Country, acquie&s;c'd, and let it lye, (&s;ubmitting to the Rigour, or Nicety of the Licen&s;ers): But afterward, when I &s;aw many notable, and very acceptable Occurrences fall under His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI>'s Au&s;picious Government, (&s;uch as are men|tion'd by <HI>Tertullus</HI> the Orator, <HI>Acts 24.2.</HI>) I incited my Friend to move afre&s;h: The&s;e Occurrences are &s;uch as,</P>
<P>His Proclamation, <HI>April 4.</HI> declaring, <HI>His Benign Indulging Well-meaning Tender Con&s;ciences in mat|ter of Religion, and Forms and Circum&s;tances of Wor|&s;hip:</HI> Certainly, the means to make People live in more &V;nity, and more free from Envy, that might arrive from &s;ome, to have more Priviledge, Grace and Favour than others. This cau&s;ed a great rejoycing of all People gene|rally, as Mr. <HI>Gadbury</HI> well ob&s;erves. <HI>Annot. Apr. 88.</HI></P>
<P>Then <HI>His paying the Arrears, due to His late</HI> Maje|&s;ty<HI>'s Servants; as far as His pre&s;ent</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>with con|venience could do; He having had no Supplies, but His own ordinary Revenues.</HI> The Payment of their Arrears is the more to be Commended, in that, after the <HI>Mea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Quantum</HI> was Con&s;ider'd and Determin'd, the performance thereof was as &s;peedy as might be: <HI>Qui cito dat, bis dat.</HI></P>
<P><HI>His particular taking into con&s;ideration the Debts due to the City</HI> Orphans <HI>and</HI> Widdows: Strangely have their Monies been &s;quandred and embezled by the Step-Fathers of this Renowned City, once &s;o Memorable for <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tice. Gulielmus Stephanides,</HI> Writing of
<PB REF="4">it, <HI>&s;ub. H. 2.</HI> made it a <HI>City of Prayer.</HI> So <HI>Robert Fabian, &s;ub. H. 7.</HI> in his Prologue to his Second <HI>Chro|nological Volume:</HI> But truly, of late Years, it hath &s;hew'd it &s;elf <HI>Spelunca Latronum</HI> Matt. <HI>21.13.</HI></P>
<P><HI>His Intention to &s;ettle a</HI> Regi&s;try <HI>of Sales of</HI> E&s;tates <HI>and</HI> Chattels, <HI>Real.</HI> About the Year <HI>76</HI> and onward, the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> were upon this Matter; <HI>At Satanus impediit &amp; divertit in peiora; 1</HI> The&s;. <HI>2.18.</HI> For my part, I Wrote to &s;everal Noblemens Chaplains, de|&s;iring them to per&s;wade their <HI>Lords</HI> to Advance it; the Right Reverend the <HI>Lords, Bi&s;hops</HI> of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> can Atte&s;t this to be True: The Honourable <HI>Knights,</HI> Sir <HI>Win&s;ton Churchil,</HI> and Sir <HI>Jo&s;eph Willi|am&s;on,</HI> (then Secretary of State) will acknowledge I put them upon it. &mdash; Certainly it would be a mighty &s;ati&s;|faction and Security to all &s;orts of People, whom <HI>God</HI>'s Ble&s;&s;ing, and their own Hone&s;t endeavour have made capa|ble of Purcha&s;e; and is the u&s;age of the <HI>Low-Coun|tries,</HI> introduc'd by <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>V.</HI> who&s;e Memory the <HI>Netherlanders</HI> greatly Reverence upon this very account. This is mention'd by Sir <HI>William Temple,</HI> P. <HI>200.</HI> of his excellent Di&s;cour&s;e of tho&s;e Parts.</P>
<P><HI>His re&s;toring of an antient Order of</HI> Knight-hood, <HI>many Ages di&s;-u&s;ed,</HI> viz. <HI>The</HI> Thi&s;tle, <HI>&s;o reviving the Honour of His Antient Kingdom of</HI> Scotland <HI>(the Nur&s;e of Brave Men)</HI> It was one of the Prai&s;es of that Good and Great Prince, <HI>Humphry</HI> Duke of <HI>Glo|ce&s;ter,</HI> that Wrote him&s;elf Son, Brother, and &V;nkle of
<PB REF="4"><HI>Kings,</HI> &amp;c. That He was <HI>Amator Honoris,</HI> a Lover of Honour. (See <HI>Weaver, 555.</HI>) But our <HI>Generous Soveraign</HI> is <HI>Lap&s;i Re&s;taurator Honoris,</HI> a Re&s;torer of it when fallen.</P>
<P>But la&s;tly, and above all, What is mentioned by Mr. <HI>John Gadbury,</HI> in his <HI>Ephemeris</HI> for the approaching Year <HI>88. viz.</HI> upon the <HI>23</HI> of <HI>Aug.</HI> His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> began his Royal Progre&s;s for the We&s;t, <HI>where he mo&s;t Mer|cifully vouch&s;afed to heal many Langui&s;hing Men, Women, and Children, of the Evil:</HI> And this indeed was the main matter I pre&s;umed to Pre&s;age from this di&s;cour&s;ed Di&s;covery.</P>
<P>But to conclude my <HI>Preface;</HI> Why may not I pre&s;ume Vaticiniou&s;ly from that pa&s;&s;age I borrow from <HI>Har&ecirc;us,</HI> (mention'd hereafter, <HI>Pag. 24</HI>) to add by the By,
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<L><HI>Po&s;t longos imbres ob&s;curaque nubila quid &s;i</HI></L>
<L><HI>Natio</HI> Jacobo <HI>gaudebit</HI> Hiberna <HI>&s;ereno?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>After long Clouds and Storms, what if we &s;ee</L>
<L><HI>James</HI> the Serene, a Sun to <HI>Ireland</HI> be?</L>
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<P>Let not my <HI>Reader</HI> Cen&s;ure this comes out too too long, <HI>po&s;t factum,</HI> when as Mr. <HI>Payne Fi&s;her</HI>'s mo&s;t excellent <HI>Latin Panegyrick</HI> in Heroick Ver&s;e, upon his Maje&s;ty's Inauguration; Nor Mr. <HI>Sandfords</HI> much and long ex|pected <HI>Pro&s;al</HI> De&s;cription thereof, have not yet &s;een the Light: The former, I &s;uppo&s;e (and 'tis pity) has been hitherto &s;uppre&s;t, <HI>Propter non po&s;&s;e pecuniae; Non propter Papi&s;mum,</HI> as was the Fate of Mine.</P>
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<L><NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="foot">DAy-Fatality, <HI>1679.</HI></NOTE>TEmporibus duris qui Scrip&s;it <HI>Fata-Dierum.]</HI></L>
<L><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="foot"><HI>Flagellum Mercurii Antiducalis;</HI> or, The Author of the <HI>Touch of the Times</HI> Charitably brought to the Whipping-Po&s;t, to prevent his coming to the Gallows, 1679.</NOTE><HI>Mercurium</HI> rigide correxit &amp; <HI>Antiducalem.]</HI></L>
<L><NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="foot">Swans Wellcome, <HI>1679.</HI></NOTE>Omina <HI>Cygnorum Duce</HI> qui redeunte notavit.]</L>
<L><NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="foot"><HI>&V;nio Di&s;&s;identium,</HI> Heir Apparent, and Pre&s;ump|tive made one, 1680.</NOTE>Haeredem <HI>Prae&s;umptivum</HI> uniit <HI>Apparenti</HI></L>
<L>Subdola quos hominum Gens di&s;unire &s;tudebat.]</L>
<L><NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="foot">A <HI>Panegyrick</HI> to His <HI>Royal Highne&s;s,</HI> upon His Maje&s;ty's late Declaration, concerning <HI>Monmouth</HI>'s Preten&s;ions, 1681.</NOTE>Qui po&s;tquam <HI>Carolus Augu&s;tus Monumeten&s;em</HI></L>
<L>Clara&s;&s;et &s;purium, cantavit Carmine laeto.]</L>
<L><NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="foot"><HI>Prince Protecting Providences,</HI> upon occa&s;ion of His <HI>Royal Highne&s;s</HI>'s E&s;cape of Ship-wrack, 1682.</NOTE>Edidit &amp; po&s;thac Protectos <HI>Numine Divos</HI></L>
<L>Selectos aliquos, t&ugrave;m praecipueque <HI>Jacobum</HI></L>
<L>Syrtibus exemptum.]<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="foot"><HI>Chri&s;tian Valour Incou|raged;</HI> or, An Exhortation to the <HI>French</HI> King to Invade the <HI>Turks,</HI> 1684.</NOTE> Monuitque deind&egrave; potentem</L>
<L><HI>Gallorum</HI> Regem, &s;aevos Invadere <HI>Turcas,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ticolis</HI> Stimulos.]&mdash;[Scrip&s;it hunc ip&s;e Libellum,</L>
<L>Qui <HI>Confe&s;&s;oris Crucifixum</HI> tractat <HI>Edardi</HI></L>
<L>Inventum mir&egrave;, reddendum jure <HI>Iacobo.</HI></L>
<L>Non Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ori primo, virtute <HI>Secundo.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>He that Wrote Tho&s;e, This pre&s;ent Piece did Write,</L>
<L>Which of Saint <HI>Edward</HI>'s <HI>Crucifix</HI> doth Treat,</L>
<L>So &s;trangely found, now kept by <HI>JAMES</HI> the Great;</L>
<L>Who, to the Pri&s;tine Owner, no whit is,</L>
<L>In Vertues all, Inferiour I wis.</L>
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<P>&rindx; In <HI>Pag.</HI> 27. I have a Pa&s;&s;age relating to St. <HI>Brightwald;</HI> for the better apprehending the Application whereof, I mu&s;t Inform my <HI>Reader,</HI> This Holy Man was a great Lover of his Country; and &s;eeing St. <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI> had no Heirs of his Body (and knowing the Turbu|lent Ambitious Temper of the Potent <HI>Godwinian</HI> Family) was greatly troubled; fore-&s;eeing what Calamities might happly follow. It plea&s;ed <HI>God</HI> to quiet his Mind by that Vi&s;ion, which I mention <HI>Page</HI> afore&s;aid.</P>
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<HEAD>Edovardus <HI>Confe&s;&s;or Redivivus:</HI> OR, Pious Edward the Confe&s;&s;or REVIV'D in His Pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P><HI>S&V;ETONI&V;S</HI> tells us, The A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination of <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar</HI> was predenounc'd by evident Pro|digies. Certain Men being employ'd to ca&s;t down &s;ome Antient Monuments; in that of <HI>Capys,</HI> (Founder of <HI>Capua</HI>) they found a Bra|zen-Table, in which was written in <HI>Greek</HI> Let|ters this Sentence, <HI>Quandoque o&s;&s;a Capys,</HI> &amp;c. When e're the Bones of <HI>Capys</HI> &s;hould be di&s;covered, it &s;hould come to pa&s;s, That he that was &s;prang from <HI>Julius</HI> &s;hould be Slain by the hand of his own Relations; and that afterward <HI>Italy</HI> &s;hould be Plagued with innumerable Slaughters. And le&s;t that any &s;hould think the matter Fabulous and Commenti|tious, <HI>Cornelius Balbus,</HI> one of <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI>'s Familiars, was the Author of this Report, (as &s;ays the &s;aid Author <HI>Suetonius</HI>). That this came to pa&s;s, all know that have read the <HI>Roman</HI> Hi&s;tories, and the Tragedy of <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Herodotus</HI> relates, That the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> were always overcome by the <HI>Tegaeans:</HI> They asked advice of the <HI>Oracle,</HI> how, and by what means they might plea&s;e the Gods, that they might overcome their Enemies the <HI>Tegaeans? Pythia</HI> an&s;wered, <HI>That</HI> Ore&s;tes <HI>Bones</HI> (who was Son of <HI>Agamemnon</HI>) <HI>were to be brought to</HI> Lacedemon. And they doubting, and being uncertain of the place where they were to be found: The <HI>Oracle</HI> an&s;wered in <HI>Greek</HI> to this effect, (as I have Pa|raphra&s;tically Tran&s;lated it;
<Q><L>In a mean Cottage an <HI>Arcadian</HI> lives,</L>
<L>Where force of Bellows, Art A&s;&s;i&s;tance gives:</L>
<L>There Hammer on the Anvil &s;oundly plies,</L>
<L>And Son of <HI>Agamemnon</HI> Buried lies.</L>
<L>Purcha&s;e that Cottage; for within its Ground,</L>
<L>The Fatal Bones, by digging, may be found.</L></Q></P>
<P>When no Man could under&s;tand the <HI>Oracle,</HI> one <HI>Liches</HI> came to <HI>Tigaea,</HI> and &s;itting in a Brazier's Shop, wondred at his Work; to whom the Brazier &s;aid, <HI>Wonder not at this; How would'&s;t thou wonder, if thou &s;hould'&s;t &s;ee a Sepulchre, (which I di&s;covered by digging a Well) where were Bones &s;even Cubits long, which I have again Religiou&s;ly Buried.</HI> Then <HI>Lyches</HI> in&s;tantly call'd to mind the <HI>Oracle,</HI> and rumi|nating much within him&s;elf, communicated the matter to the <HI>Lacedemonians;</HI> and &s;eigning an e&s;cape, returned to the <HI>Tegaeans,</HI> bought the Bones of the Brazier, and carried them to <HI>Lacedemon:</HI> And then it came to pa&s;s, that the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> overcame their Enemies.</P>
<P>There was a City called <HI>Libethra,</HI> (upon Mount <HI>Olympus</HI>) near which was <HI>Orpheus</HI>'s Tomb. Now the <HI>Oracle</HI> had declared to the <HI>Libethrans, Their City &s;hould be de&s;troyed by a</HI> Swine, <HI>when the</HI> Sun <HI>&s;hould fir&s;t &s;ee</HI> Orpheus <HI>Bones.</HI> They regarded
<PB N="3" REF="6">the <HI>Oracle</HI> the le&s;s, becau&s;e they believed not any &s;uch Bea&s;t &s;hould have &s;o much &s;trength as to de&s;troy &s;uch a City; for, &mdash; <HI>Na&s;citur &acirc; mediis Effectus quilibet aptis.</HI></P>
<Q><L>By means and ways of fit Proportion,</L>
<L>Things are brought to Execution.</L></Q>
<P>But when it plea&s;ed the <HI>Gods</HI> the&s;e things &s;hould come to pa&s;s, a certain Shepherd at Noon-tide, being weary, laid him&s;elf down by <HI>Orpheus</HI>'s Tomb, and falling a&s;leep, began to chant <HI>Orpheus</HI>'s Ver&s;es, in a &s;weet and delectable Tone: Some Shepherds and Plow-men, that were hard by, were much taken, and left their Station to hear the Melody of the Sleeping Shepherd; coming near, and ju&s;tling one a|nother, they threw down the Pillar; whereby the Urn was broken, and <HI>Orpheus</HI>'s Bones lay open to the Sun: The Night following fell much Rain, and the River over-flowing its Banks, ca&s;t down the Walls of <HI>Libethra,</HI> over-turn'd the Holy-Temple and Buildings, and de&s;troy'd the Citizens. (My Author has this Story out of <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> his <HI>Baeotica</HI>). And I mu&s;t not omit the Equivocal meaning of the <HI>Oracle,</HI> the Stream being called by the name of a <HI>Swine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Xerxes,</HI> the Son of <HI>Darius,</HI> having digg'd up an old Mo|nument of <HI>Belus,</HI> found an Urn of Gla&s;s, in which a Corps lay in Oyl; but the Urn was not full. Now, near unto this was a little Column, on which was written, <HI>That it &s;hould go ill with him that opened the Sepulchre, and did not fill the &V;rn:</HI> Which, when <HI>Xerxes</HI> had read, he was taken with much Dread and Horror, and commands Oyl to be poured in; which being performed, it was never the fuller, though often reiterated. The Monument being clo&s;ed, he departed with much Grief; and &s;oon after was mi&s;erably A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated. <HI>Aelianus ex Herodoto, lib.</HI> 3.</P>
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<P>There was a Town of the <HI>Xanthians,</HI> which had a Bridge laid over the &s;mall River <HI>Lycus;</HI> in which were &s;aid to have been Brazen Tables, whereon Letters were Ingra|ven, &s;hewing, <HI>That the Empire of the</HI> Per&s;ians <HI>was &s;ome|time to be overthrown by the</HI> Grecians. Now, a little be|fore <HI>Alexander</HI> the Great had Fought at <HI>Gravi&s;um,</HI> this Bridge was &s;haken down, and the afore&s;aid Tables were fallen into the River. <HI>Alexander</HI> was much moved at the Report of the&s;e Tables; when as for &s;ome time he had &s;tood doubtful, which way to &s;teer the Cour&s;e of his Victories, turned to the Right Hand, and &s;ubdued, with wonderful &s;peed, all the Sea-Coa&s;t, from <HI>Lydia</HI> unto <HI>Phoenicia. Plu|tarchs</HI>'s <HI>Alexand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Procopius</HI> the Tyrant, being Slain by <HI>Valens</HI> the Empe|rour, the Walls of <HI>Calcedon</HI> (becau&s;e the Citizens thereof had favoured <HI>Procopius</HI>'s Party) were thrown down to the Ground. In one of who&s;e Stones was an <HI>Oracle</HI> found, Engraven; averring, <HI>That the &s;aid Walls &s;hould be converted to the &V;&s;e of the Baths in</HI> Con&s;tantinople. <HI>Calcedon</HI> lay over-again&s;t <HI>Con&s;tantinople;</HI> Now, while the Walls were throwing down, the Citizens of <HI>Con&s;tantinople, viz.</HI> the <HI>Bithi|nians, Nicomedians,</HI> and <HI>Nicaeans,</HI> made humble Suit to the contrary; but the Emperour <HI>Valens</HI> took the Suit in ill part, and commanded the Stones to be carried to the u&s;e afore&s;aid, <HI>viz.</HI> to build the Baths called, <HI>Con&s;tantiana,</HI> [So great is the force of De&s;tiny and Fate]. Read <HI>Cu&s;pinian</HI> in the Life of <HI>Valens,</HI> and the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory of <HI>Socrates Schola&s;ticus,</HI> (<HI>lib.</HI> 4. <HI>ch.</HI> 8.) Tran&s;lated out of <HI>Greek</HI> by <HI>Meredith Han|mer,</HI> D. D. who recites the Prophe&s;ie in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ver&s;e of fourteen Feet, not well reli&s;hing to our Poetical Palate at this day; or as <HI>Camden</HI> phra&s;es it, <HI>Apolline minus plenas.</HI></P>
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<P>In the &s;ixth Year of <HI>Ju&s;tine</HI> the Great, <HI>Ede&s;&s;a,</HI> that No|ble and Ble&s;&s;ed City of the <HI>O&s;roenians,</HI> was over flown with the Streams of the River <HI>Scirtus,</HI> that glided by i; in&s;o|much as many Hou&s;es were carried away with the violence thereof, and multitudes of Men were drowned with the Water: [See <HI>Evagrius</HI>'s Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory, <HI>lib.</HI> 4. <HI>chap.</HI> 8.] And <HI>Cedrenus</HI> reports, That at the &s;ame time, in the Bank of the River, a Table of Stone was found, whereon was Written in <HI>Egyptian</HI> Letters to this effect;
<Q><L><HI>Scirtus</HI> the Stream &s;hall Leap and Dance,</L>
<L>And cau&s;e <HI>Ede&s;&s;as</HI> great mi&s;chance.</L></Q></P>
<P>If my Reader be Inqui&s;itive, why <HI>Evagrius</HI> calls <HI>Ede&s;&s;a</HI> that <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed City,</HI> let him know, 'twas becau&s;e King <HI>Agabarus</HI> (that &s;o much de&s;ired to &s;ee our Saviour) lived there: Of which matter, &s;ee <HI>Eu&s;ebius, lib.</HI> 1. <HI>chap.</HI> 14. who di&s;cour&s;es at large of <HI>Agabarus</HI> his Letter to our Saviour, and the An&s;wer thereunto; the &s;ending of <HI>Thadeus</HI> to Him; who Cured his Di&s;ea&s;e, and Converted him, and his People.</P>
<P><HI>Rodericus Toletanus</HI> writes, That before the Coming of the <HI>Saracens</HI> into <HI>Spain,</HI> King <HI>Roderick,</HI> upon hope of &s;ome Trea&s;ure, did open a part of the Palace, long being forbid|den to be touched; but found nothing but Pictures, which re&s;embled the <HI>Moors,</HI> with a Prophecy, <HI>That when&s;oever that part of the Palace was opened, the People there re&s;embled &s;hould overcome</HI> Spain, and &s;o it happened. See <HI>Heylen</HI> after his Catalogue of the <HI>Gothi&s;h</HI> Kings of <HI>Spain.</HI></P>
<P>In the Time of <HI>Ferdinand</HI> the Fir&s;t, King of <HI>Arragon,</HI> the City of <HI>Naples</HI> was in a mo&s;t Flouri&s;hing condition, and the Kingdom free from all Calamity. Now, 'tis ma|nife&s;t,
<PB N="6" REF="8">That one <HI>Cataldus,</HI> about 1000 Years before that Time, had been Bi&s;hop at <HI>Tarentinum;</HI> the Citizens whereof did Wor&s;hip him as their Patron: In the mid'&s;t of the Night he again and again appeared to a Mini&s;ter, (who had lately taken the Order of Prie&s;t-hood, having been Educated under the Vow of Cha&s;tity) charging him, <HI>That he &s;hould, without delay, take out of a certain place, a little Book, which he in his Life-time had Wrote, and privately hid, (contain|ing &s;ome Divine Writings) and bring it to the King.</HI> The Prie&s;t gave little Credit to the Dream, although he &s;aw <HI>Cataldus</HI> in his Sleep, very often, and always of the &s;ame &s;hape and form. After that, he appeared unto him (being all alone in the Temple, early in a Morning) Apparell'd in &s;uch Bi&s;hops Weeds as he u&s;ed in his Life-time, and Adorned with a Mitre; advi&s;ing him, as he de&s;ired to avoid great Puni&s;hment, <HI>That the next day, without further delay, he &s;hould digg for the Book which he had Written and Hidden,</HI> (as he had formerly &s;hewn him by Vi&s;ions) <HI>and bring it to the King.</HI> The Prie&s;t and People went the next day to the place wherein, for many Years, this little Book had been hidden, and found it Bound with a Leaden Cover, and Cla&s;ped; wherein it appeared, that the De&s;truction of the Kingdom, Mi&s;erable Calamities, and Mo&s;t Sad Times were at hand; whereof the King was warned.</P>
<P>We have found, by Experience, (&s;ays my Author) That this Prophecy was fully Executed, and &s;hew'd it &s;elf to be &s;o Divine, that not long after <HI>Ferdinand</HI> him&s;elf, either by the ju&s;tly incen&s;ed Wrath of <HI>God</HI> Almighty, or other in&s;crutable Cau&s;es of his Divine Will, could not avoid what he was &s;o fully admoni&s;h'd of; but, in the very fir&s;t appearance of War, departed this Life; and <HI>Charles</HI> the Eighth of <HI>France,</HI> with a &s;trong Hand, Invaded the King|dom. And <HI>Alphon&s;us,</HI> the Heir of <HI>Ferdinand,</HI> having but
<PB N="7" REF="8">newly entred the Kingdoms Government, was thereof de|prived, ba&s;ely running away, and dying in Flight, as a Bani&s;h'd Man. Then the Second Son of <HI>Ferdinand,</HI> (the hopefulne&s;s of who&s;e Youth had indeared him to all Men) to whom the Kingdom fell, was intangled with a mi&s;erable and fatal War, and died in the Flower of his Age: and afterward, the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Spaniards</HI> dividing the Kingdom, made Havock of all, with deplorable Deva&s;tations. <HI>Alex|ander ab Alexandro, cap.</HI> 15. The Di&s;cour&s;e of Policy and Religion, by Mr. <HI>Fitz-Herbert,</HI> mentions this Matter.</P>
<P>We read in the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Hi&s;tory of one <HI>Emande Daule,</HI> a great <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Prince, that re&s;ting in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Tacut,</HI> a Prince whom he had Vanqui&s;hed, he began to be careful for the Payment of his Souldiers, being without Money, and &s;eeing their In&s;olence to be great, and that they would Mu|tiny if they were delay'd: Being very Pen&s;ive, he laid him down upon a Bed, &s;tudying what cour&s;e to take; where, lifting up his Eyes, he e&s;pyed an ugly Snake at an hole, which did often put forth her Head, and draw it up again: <HI>Daule</HI> being amazed thereat, commanded they &s;hould pre|&s;ently break up the top of the Hou&s;e, and Kill the Snake; which was done; and in doing of it, they di&s;covered a great Trea&s;ure which <HI>Yacut</HI> had hidden there, and which was &s;ufficient to Pay the Souldiers. Soon after, there happened another Accident to <HI>Daule,</HI> which was both Plea&s;ant and Profitable: Having an intent to make &s;ome Apparrel, he caus'd a Taylor to be brought unto him; who being before him, in&s;tead of a Mea&s;ure, he call'd for a Cudgel; the Tay|lor (who had &s;erved <HI>Yacut</HI>) fearing to be Ba&s;tinado'd, be|&s;ought him to Pardon him, and without any Exhortation of the Cudgel, would confe&s;s the Truth; which was, <HI>That he had &s;eventeen Coffers in his Hou&s;e, which</HI> Yacut <HI>had com|mitted
<PB N="8" REF="9">to his Cu&s;tody: Daule</HI> was joyful of this Di&s;covery; and having &s;ent for the Coffers, they were found full of Cloth of Gold, and all &s;orts of Silk of great value; where|of the Taylor had his &s;hare.</P>
<P><HI>Jornandes</HI> writes, That <HI>Attila</HI> relied much upon the Sword of <HI>Mars,</HI> kept along time among the Kings of the <HI>Scythians,</HI> and di&s;covered at fir&s;t, upon this occa&s;ion: A cer|tain Neat-herd &s;eeing one of his Bea&s;ts halting, and not knowing how it came, followed the Tract of the Blood; at the end whereof, he finds a Sword, upon which the Bea&s;t had trod in Feeding: This Sword he takes out of the Ground, and brings it to <HI>Attila;</HI> who, joyful of &s;uch a Pre&s;ent, (for which he rewarded the Neat-herd) being a Man of a lofty Courage, conceived in his Mind, the Monarchy of the World was de&s;igned for him; and that <HI>Mars</HI>'s Sword would bear him out, to make War with every one. <HI>Ca|merarius, lib.</HI> 4.</P>
<P>I will not &s;ay any thing of <HI>Alis</HI>'s Cimitar, &s;o renowned among the <HI>Turks;</HI> but come to <HI>Joan</HI> of <HI>Arc,</HI> and her Sword, &s;o &s;trangely di&s;covered; I will Epitomize it out of <HI>Belle|fore&s;t:</HI> She was Born of very mean Parentage, in the Country of <HI>Barrois:</HI> It plea&s;ed <HI>God,</HI> by means of her, to deliver, not only the City of <HI>Orleance,</HI> but the Kingdom of <HI>France.</HI> This Maid, aged Eighteen, was Sincere and Mode&s;t; and, fearing <HI>God,</HI> had many Revelations, by which &s;he was exhorted to an Enterpri&s;e, differing from, and infi|nitely above the mean Vacation &s;he follow'd, (which was to look after her Father's Cattle) <HI>viz.</HI> to go to the <HI>King,</HI> and Inform him, <HI>God</HI> had ordain'd her for the Party that &s;hould deliver the Kingdom, rai&s;e the Siege of <HI>Orleance,</HI> and cau&s;e his Maje&s;ty to be Sacred at <HI>Rheims,</HI> in de&s;pite of the
<PB N="9" REF="9"><HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Force, then in a mo&s;t Victorious Condition. With this A&s;&s;urance, &s;he Addre&s;&s;ed her &s;elf to <HI>Robert de Bandrie|court,</HI> Governour of <HI>Vancoleur,</HI> to the end he &s;hould Con|duct her (accoutred as a Man) to the King; to whom &s;he was ordered to &s;ay, <HI>That &s;he was &s;ent by</HI> God, <HI>to Succour Him, and Recover His Kingdom; and Reveal things to Him &s;o Secret, that thereby he &s;hould know,</HI> God, <HI>and no other, was Chief of the Enterpri&s;e &s;he undertook.</HI> The Governour, at fir&s;t, was A&s;toni&s;ht, and thought &s;he was Extravagated by &s;ome Melanchohy Humor: But &s;eeing her &s;o di&s;creet in her Propo&s;als, advi&s;ed in her An&s;wers, and re&s;olute in what &s;he &s;aid, began to have her in E&s;teem: But was more &s;ati&s;|fied the Work of <HI>God</HI> was in it, when as the &s;ame day, the <HI>French</HI> were De&s;eared at <HI>Rouveroy;</HI> &s;he averr'd, The King had even then received a great lo&s;s, and 'twas time to ha&s;ten the bu&s;ine&s;s; and that if &s;he were not Conducted to him, the Kingdom would yet &s;uffer more.</P>
<P>The I&s;&s;ue of the matter making him &s;ee the Maid was in the right, he failed no longer to put her in fit Equipage, and to di&s;patch her with two <HI>Champaign</HI> Gentlemen: But they knowing the difficulty, would not (at fir&s;t) enter|pri&s;e the Thing; but <HI>Joan</HI> of <HI>Arc</HI> &s;o a&s;&s;ured them, that they conde&s;cended to her Reque&s;t, and Accompanied her.</P>
<P>She Arrived at <HI>Chinon</HI> (where the King then was), in <HI>March</HI> 1429. and at the very time when the Council had Decreed, (Things being as they were) it were be&s;t for the King to retire into <HI>Dauphine,</HI> and pre&s;erve (if <HI>Orleance</HI> were taken) <HI>Languedock, Lionnois, Auvergne,</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Dauphine,</HI> till it &s;hould plea&s;e <HI>God</HI> to have Compa&s;&s;ion of Him, and his People. In fine, She was brought to the King, whom &s;he knew, tho' he retired him&s;elf behind o|thers, to conceal him&s;elf: To whom &s;he propo&s;ed her bu|&s;ine&s;s, as afore&s;aid. Her Promi&s;es were &s;o great, that the
<PB N="10" REF="10">King remitted her to &s;ome <HI>Lords</HI> of the Council, and <HI>Doctors</HI> in Divinity, to Examine her; to whom &s;he Propo|&s;ed her bu&s;ine&s;s, as afore&s;aid &s;he had done to His Maje&s;ty; and they found nothing in her worthy of Cen&s;ure, although &s;he di&s;cour&s;ed of matters of Faith very high (which &s;he did with great Integrity and Eloquence).</P>
<P>Here <HI>Bellefore&s;t</HI> makes a Pau&s;e, and &s;ays, <HI>The greate&s;t Enemies of</HI> France <HI>have brought more Honour to the Memory of this</HI> Virgin, <HI>than many</HI> French <HI>of our time, who have da|red to &s;oil her Irreprehen&s;ible Life with their foul Be&s;pat|terings.</HI> And he quotes <HI>Meyer,</HI> a <HI>Flemi&s;h</HI> Annali&s;t, (<HI>No Equitable Judge,</HI> &s;ays he, <HI>to the</HI> French <HI>Nation, but an E|nemy to the Blood of their Kings</HI>); who affirms, <HI>What ever &s;he Propo&s;ed in Words, &s;he made good in Deeds.</HI> Quis non videt, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> (&s;ays he;) <HI>Who &s;ees not this to be the Work of</HI> God? <HI>Who can doubt, the&s;e things were not effected by the Immen&s;e Clemency of</HI> God?</P>
<P>Although the King, and His Council, were a&s;&s;ured of the Vertue of <HI>Joan,</HI> and were of re&s;olv'd Opinion, &s;he was in|&s;pir'd by <HI>God;</HI> becau&s;e &s;he had told the King things which he had never Di&s;cour&s;ed to any Body: Yet, not to go over lightly to work with a thing of &s;uch Importance, &s;he was &s;ent to <HI>Poitiers;</HI> where Re&s;ided then the Grand <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>France,</HI> and the <HI>&V;niver&s;ity,</HI> (which before was wont to be the Ornament of <HI>Paris</HI>) to the end the <HI>Parliament</HI> and the <HI>Divines</HI> might enquire further of the Propo&s;als of the Maid, and make Judgment accordingly; who concluded, <HI>That the King ought to Believe and Confide in her, and to furni&s;h her with Monies for her Equipage, to Advance towards the Army.</HI> Being returned to the King, he gave her Arms and Hor&s;es; and &s;he reque&s;ted him to &s;end and &s;earch for a <HI>Sword,</HI> being in the Church of Saint <HI>Katharines</HI> of <HI>Fierbois,</HI> in the Blade of which, near to the Traver&s;e Bar, or Guard,
<PB N="11" REF="10">were five Cro&s;&s;es impre&s;&s;ed; and that no other Sword but This, could &s;erve her turn.</P>
<P>What the Conduct of this Virgin, and her Select Sword (by her &s;o wonderfully di&s;covered) in a &s;hort time effected, I refer to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>French</HI> Chronologers.</P>
<P>The&s;e two In&s;tances of Swords an&s;wer to the latter part of my Title, <HI>viz.</HI> Effective Con&s;equence.</P>
<P>In the <HI>Preface</HI> to my <HI>Introductio ad Latinam Blazoniam.</HI> I tell my Readers, <HI>Arms are the Rewards of Meritorious Deeds, whether Military or Civil, which Deeds &s;oon Die, (how Nobly &s;oever performed:) But the</HI> Rewards <HI>are la&s;ting, out-living the</HI> Actors; <HI>and in their Honorary</HI> Symbols, <HI>con|tinually from Age to Age, accompanying and dignifying their De&s;cendents.</HI> Thus <HI>Charles</HI> the VII. that grateful King of <HI>France,</HI> rewarded this &s;ucce&s;sful <HI>Virgin,</HI> and her Family, with the&s;e Arms following:</P>
<P><HI>D'Azure &agrave; l'E&s;pee, &amp;c.</HI> (B. <HI>a Sword in pale.</HI> Ar. <HI>its Guard,</HI> Or, <HI>Surmounted by a Crown, and Acco&s;ted by two Fleurs lys of the &s;ame.</HI> Her Succe&s;&s;ors bear the Name of <HI>Du Lys.</HI> And I &s;hall have occa&s;ion to &s;peak of the Allu&s;ion of the&s;e En&s;igns, in a Collection I intend &s;uddainly to make Pub|lick, of many of the Arms of the <HI>Europian</HI> Nations; allu|ding either to the Name it &s;elf, or other Circum&s;tances of the Bearer.</P>
<P><HI>Sozomenus, Lib.</HI> 6. writes, That when <HI>Julian</HI> the Apo|&s;tate Sacrificed to the <HI>Gods</HI> of the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> a Crown'd Cro&s;s was found in the Entralls of the Slain Bea&s;ts; upon which, the Mini&s;ters of the Offering, a&s;toni&s;h'd, cryed out, <HI>Illud e&s;&s;e Signum Victoriae &amp; Aeternitatis Chri&s;tianae Religionis:</HI> It was a &s;ign of the Prevalency and Eternity of the Chri|&s;tian Religion.</P>
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<P><HI>Dagobert,</HI> the Son of <HI>Clotherius,</HI> King of <HI>France,</HI> being Young, pulled from <HI>Sadregefillus</HI> (a de&s;erving and worthy Noble-man, whom his Father had de&s;igned Governour of <HI>Aquitain</HI>) his Honourable Robe belonging to his Place and Quality, and grievou&s;ly Beat him; out of a Fond Conceit he had not that Re&s;pect for him, which the Son of a King might expect: Upon this mi&s;-u&s;age he went to <HI>Clotherius,</HI> complaining of the &s;ame, and &s;hewing the Marks of the Blows he received; the King Incen&s;ed, commanded his Son &s;hould be taken, and brought to him: The Prince fearing the Anger of his Father, flies from on Secret place to ano|ther; at la&s;t, the King having but one only Son, and be|thinking him&s;elf he had done &s;ufficient Penance for his Offence, by long Fear and Flight, re&s;olves to Forgive him, and be Reconciled. Tho&s;e whom the King &s;ent to fetch him from the Cave, where he had Ab&s;conded him&s;elf, were taken with &s;uch Fear and Horror, that the Hairs of their heads &s;tood upright, and their whole Bodies trembled, and had no Power to go into the Cave; which was a thing much to be wondered at: But in this place lay Buried the Bodies of the Martyrs <HI>Dioni&s;ius, Ru&s;ticus,</HI> and <HI>Eleutherius;</HI> which, until that time, was not known to any Man; but they ap|pearing to <HI>Dagobert</HI> in his Sleep, advi&s;ed him to Build a Church there, which he afterward performed. But I &s;hould have told you, The Father &s;uppo&s;ing the Me&s;&s;engers unwilling to di&s;ta&s;te the Son, had (to gratifie him) coun|terfeited this Fear, was &s;ain publickly to pronounce his Pardon; and then they could enter, and fetch him out.</P>
<P><HI>Genoueva,</HI> a Virgin of <HI>Paris,</HI> did mo&s;t Reverently frequent the Village <HI>Catula,</HI> where Holy <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> Died; to whom &s;he had Dedicated a Cathedral Church: She went to cer|tain Prie&s;ts with Collected Monies; but they, fearing further
<PB N="13" REF="11">Supplies, and having pre&s;ent want of &s;ome, made their ex|cu&s;e: On the contrary, &s;he (Divinely In&s;pir'd) &s;aid, <HI>I be|&s;eech you go to the Bridge of the City, and what-ever you hear declare it to me.</HI> They going forth, while they &s;tood at|tentively in the Market-place, expecting what to hear, two Swine-herds coming towards them, talked together; &s;ays One, <HI>While I &s;ought a &s;traid Hogg, I found a Furnace of Lime: I al&s;o,</HI> &s;ays the Other, <HI>found another in the Wood:</HI> The amazed Prie&s;ts relate to the Virgin what they heard; &s;he Weeps for Joy; and notice being given to the Citizens, Collections were made, and a Magnificent Temple Built, and Dedicated to <HI>Dioni&s;ius. Bonfinius,</HI> Lib. 5.</P>
<P>There are many over-weaning and credulous Per&s;ons of the <HI>Reformed Religion,</HI> believe the <HI>Pope</HI> grants Pardons to ratifie Murders, and perpetrate Crimes. Now, it plea&s;ed <HI>God,</HI> in the &s;ecret di&s;po&s;ition of his hidden Judgment, to Reveal the contrary, in this wonderful and unexpected Manner. About the Year 1608. 6 <HI>Jacobi</HI> l. as the Sexton was digging a Grave in the Cathedral Church of St. <HI>Paul, London,</HI> to Interr the Corps of Doctor <HI>Stanhop,</HI> he chanced to light upon the Coffin of one Sir <HI>Gerard Braybroke,</HI> Knight, Buried there Two hundred Years before; where finding the Cords whole, the Flowers fre&s;h, he e&s;pied a Charter of <HI>Pardon</HI> or <HI>Indulgence</HI> not Con&s;umed, not Eaten, not Defaced in &s;o long time: You may read this <HI>Charter</HI> in <HI>Latin,</HI> in the <HI>Hi&s;toria Eccle&s;iae Paulinae,</HI> Written by my mo&s;t Loving Friend, and fellow Officer, Sir <HI>William Dugdale,</HI> late <HI>Gar|ter King at Arms.</HI> I will Recite it here, Tran&s;lated into <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> Verbatim.</P>
<PB N="14" REF="12">
<P>BOniface, <HI>Bi&s;hop, Servant of the Servants of</HI> God: <HI>To his beloved Son, the Noble Gentleman,</HI> Gerard Braybroke <HI>the younger, Knight; and to his beloved Daughter in Chri&s;t, the Noble Lady his Wife,</HI> Elizabeth, <HI>of the Dioce&s;s of</HI> Lin|coln, <HI>Salvation and Apo&s;tolical Benediction. It proceedeth from your Affectionate Devotion, with which you Reverence &V;s, and the Church of</HI> Rome, <HI>that We admit Your Petition to a favourable Hearing, e&s;pecially that which concerns the Salva|tion of Your Souls. For this cau&s;e, We being moved to yield to Your Supplications, By the Tenor of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, do grant this Indulgence to Your Devotion: That &s;uch a Gho&s;tly Father, as either of You &s;hall choo&s;e, &s;hall have Power, by Apo&s;tolical Authority, to grant to You (per&s;i&s;ting in the Sincerity of Faith, in the &V;nity of the Holy Church of</HI> Rome, <HI>and in Obe|dience and Devotion towards &V;s, or Our Succe&s;&s;ors, Popes of</HI> Rome, <HI>Canonically entring into that Sea</HI>) <HI>full Remi&s;&s;ion (only once at the point of Death) of all Your Sins, whereof you &s;hall be Contrite and Confe&s;&s;ed; in &s;uch manner, never|thele&s;s, that in the&s;e Ca&s;es, where Satisfaction is to be made to any other, the &s;ame Confe&s;&s;or &s;hall enjoyn You to do it by Your &s;elves, if You Survive, or by Your Heirs, if You &s;hould then Die, which You or They ought to perform, as afore&s;aid: And le&s;t</HI> (<HI>which</HI> God <HI>forbid</HI>) <HI>You &s;hould by this Favour, become more prone to commit unlawful Things hereafter, We declare, That if, upon confidence of this Remi&s;&s;ion or Indulgence, You &s;hall commit any &s;uch Sins, That this pre&s;ent Pardon &s;hall not be any help to You, concerning Them. Furthermore, Let it be Lawful for no Man to Infringe this Writing or Grant of Ours, or with what&s;oever boldne&s;s to Contradict it: And if any &s;hall pre&s;ume to attempt any &s;uch thing, let him know, That he &s;hall Incurr the Indignation of Almighty</HI> God, <HI>and of his Ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tles Saint</HI> Peter, <HI>and Saint</HI> Paul. <HI>Given at</HI> Rome, <HI>at St.</HI> Peters, <HI>under the</HI> Fi&s;hers Ring, 5^o. Junii, <HI>in the Second Year of Our Papacy.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Note,</HI> This was <HI>Boniface</HI> the IX. and the Year was 1400. the Fir&s;t of <HI>Henry</HI> the IV.</P>
<P>Now, Let all that are Opiniated as afore&s;aid, read, and well con&s;ider the Conditions of this <HI>Brieve. Fir&s;t,</HI> It is nece&s;&s;ary to <HI>Per&s;i&s;t in the Sincerity</HI> of the <HI>Faith. Secondly,</HI> To be <HI>Sorrowful and Contrite, and to confe&s;s Our Sins. Thirdly,</HI> To make <HI>Satisfaction</HI> or <HI>Re&s;titution,</HI> if <HI>any be needful. Fourthly,</HI> Not to <HI>Pre&s;ume hereby</HI> to <HI>commit unlawful Things.</HI> I pray, who can be Sorrowful, or truly Confe&s;s, or duly intend to Satisfie, that fully intends to commit Sins? Who can be im|boldned to fall into Sin, in hope of a Plenary Indulgence, when this very Hope and Pre&s;umption is a main Bar again&s;t gaining the &s;ame. <HI>Gregorius Turonen&s;is,</HI> (<HI>lib.</HI> 1. <HI>chap.</HI> 14.) tells us, When the Article of our Re&s;urrection was mo&s;t eagerly Impugned by the <HI>Saducean</HI> Here&s;ie, in the days of <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the Emperour, it plea&s;ed <HI>God</HI> to reveal and awake the Martyrs St. <HI>Maximinian, Malchus, Martinian,</HI> and the re&s;t, after they had Slept 372 Years: For 'twas concluded, <HI>If</HI> God <HI>could rai&s;e from Sleep after &s;o many Years, He could do it after any Number:</HI> and &s;o con&s;equently, having at fir&s;t Created all Things out of Nothing, could again rai&s;e them out of their own A&s;hes.</P>
<P><HI>Baronius</HI> in his Annals (<HI>Anno Chri&s;ti</HI> 357.) relates, That when &s;o many Doubts were made about the Martyr|dom of St. <HI>Foelix,</HI> Pope and Martyr, that his Name was in danger to be blotted out of the Calendar; it plea&s;ed <HI>God</HI> to Reveal his Body, by means of &s;ome who digged at <HI>Rome,</HI> in the Church of St. <HI>Co&s;mus</HI> and <HI>Damianus,</HI> for Trea&s;ure; and, which is very Remarkable, it was the very day before his Fea&s;t was Celebrated.</P>
<P>Even &s;o, The Divine Providence, who with admirable convenience di&s;po&s;eth all things, even then in the Royal
<PB N="16" REF="13">City of <HI>London,</HI> in the chiefe&s;t Church, in the greate&s;t Recour&s;e of &s;uch who were &s;o malevolently Opiniated, di&s;|clo&s;ed this Pardon, in Vindication of the Catholicks, when they were mo&s;t hotly pur&s;ued, and mo&s;t wrongfully con|demned of Crimes of this Nature: This Di&s;covery being as a Witne&s;s produced from Heaven to acquit Them, as it were by the Sentence of <HI>God</HI> him&s;elf.</P>
<P>It will not be ami&s;s to note here, That this Noble Knight, Sir <HI>Gerard Braybroke,</HI> was Brother to Bi&s;hop <HI>Braybroke,</HI> who&s;e Skeleton, or Skinny Bony Remains (by the fall of St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Arched Floor into Sr. <HI>Faiths,</HI> preiently after the Fatal Fire 1666.) was di&s;covered; and is now re&s;erved in (that our admirable piece of Building) the <HI>Con&s;i&s;tory,</HI> and &s;hown as a great Rarity to curious Per&s;ons: And from whence may be Collected, That this Family of <HI>Braybroke,</HI> had an <HI>Egyptian</HI> Humor of De&s;ire, that their bodies might not &s;uddainly Decay; but attend, if po&s;&s;ible, the Re-union of the Soul.</P>
<P><HI>The Ju&s;t Weight of the Scarlet Gown</HI> (a Book full of Curi|o&s;ity) in the Chapter of Cardinal <HI>Fabritio Savelli</HI> tells us, That a little before Pope <HI>&V;rbane</HI> the VIII. Dred, it was verily believed, That the decea&s;ed Cardinal <HI>Savelli</HI> (Unckle to this <HI>Fabritio</HI>) would have been <HI>Pope,</HI> becau&s;e he was a Man of an approved good Life, Charitable, and indued with all the Qualities appertaining to an High Bi&s;hop; not fore deemed to be &s;uch a Pope as lived in the Time of <HI>Se|ba&s;tian Brandt,</HI> a <HI>German</HI> Poet, whom I &s;hall quote here|after, who complains in his Chapter, <HI>De Fidei Catholicae &amp; Imperii Ca&s;u, Turcarumque incur&s;ione;</HI> Thus,
<Q><LG>
<L>Dormitant Reges, proceres, <HI>Palinurus</HI> in undis,</L>
<L>Mortiferis recubat, qui caput orbis habet.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<LG>
<L>Kings, Princes Sleep; nay, the Churches Head,</L>
<L>Like nodding <HI>Palinurus,</HI> takes no heed</L>
<L>Unto his Helm, but &s;its like one that's Dead.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>And this was the rather &s;o believed, becau&s;e that in cer|tain Mountainous places, as one goes towards the Sea-&s;hore of <HI>Siena,</HI> there was a Marble Stone found, with an In&s;crip|tion upon it, which &s;aid, <HI>That in the Year</HI> 1645. <HI>there &s;hould be a Pope of the Family of</HI> Savelli: And in the very &s;ame Stone were the Arms of <HI>Savelli</HI> Ingraven; which were <HI>Bendy</HI> Or G. <HI>a Chief</HI> Ar. <HI>charg'd with a Ro&s;e, between two Lyons Rampant confronting one another, of the Second:</HI> As I learn from <HI>Promptuair Armorial,</HI> a <HI>French</HI> Author, who ex|hibits a &s;hort Alphabet of Arms, of &s;undry Nations, and a Copious one of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>Now, my <HI>Reader</HI> may object; Here's plain Pre&s;age, but the Effects follow'd not: I an&s;wer, I will for once make u&s;e of a Word much in Vogue, whil&s;t the <HI>Exclu&s;ive</HI> Party raged and imagin'd vain Things, and which I &s;ufficiently confuted (as to their Sen&s;e and Acceptation) in my <HI>&V;nio Di&s;&s;identi|um, viz.</HI> He was not an <HI>Apparent;</HI> but <HI>Pre&s;umptive</HI> Pope: Every body hoping and expecting his Vertues would make Him &s;o. But, as to the finding of &s;uch a Stone, in &s;uch un|couth places, I deem and e&s;teem it a wonderful Di&s;covery, and very worthy of Remarque, as &s;trange an Accident as one &s;hall likely read.</P>
<P>Many of the&s;e Things perhaps may (to &s;ome) appear difficult to believe; but they are the Reports of worthy Hi&s;torians; and, for my part, I profe&s;s, I dare not di&s;-believe Them, having had my Self particular and Per&s;onal experi|ence of Things as &s;trange and incredible, as any of Their &s;aid Relations before-recited. I could In&s;tance that Memorable Accident that happened <HI>July</HI> 1671. at St. <HI>Catharines,</HI> near
<PB N="18" REF="14">the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> of a Maid being &s;truk upon the Arm by an Invi&s;ible Hand, with &s;everal Cro&s;&s;es of a Sanguineal hew and colour (making together a Rhombular Form, which <HI>Heralds</HI> call a <HI>Lozenge</HI>); &s;he was &s;truck more than once; for as they began to wear away, &s;he was re-&s;truck: This was &s;een by my Self, and very many Per&s;ons more, (and &s;ome of great Quality, that came from <HI>White-Hall</HI>): For my own part, I have naturally &s;uch an Air of Curio&s;ity to things of this Nature, that I gave notice to very many; among the re&s;t, to One whom Foreign Travel, and all Polite Learning, greatly Adorn; and who&s;e Treati&s;e, <HI>De Ortu &amp; Natura Sanguinis,</HI> &s;hall make him Memorable, as long as Humane Frailty &s;hall have need of <HI>Paeonian</HI> Aid, and the Influence of <HI>Apollo.</HI> I &s;ay, <HI>Apollo.&mdash;Cujus</HI>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Inventum Medicina fuit, opiferque per orbem</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dicitur; Herbarum Subjecta potentia c&ucirc;ique.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who fir&s;t Invented Med'cine; and, through all</L>
<L>The World, they Him the Great Phy&s;ician call.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>He, I &s;ay, was very In&s;trumental in bringing the Maid to her Health and Sen&s;es, which the Fright had very much impaired and di&s;ordered (as Mr. <HI>Robert Garret,</HI> Seniour Brother of St. <HI>Catharines,</HI> and others, can Atte&s;t.) This then, was no Foolery, or Ridiculous Pa&s;&s;age, like that of the Cro&s;&s;es appearing in <HI>Au&s;try</HI>-Church in <HI>Warwick-&s;hire;</HI> which neverthele&s;s was Publi&s;hed in Print, and Vi&s;ited by Thou|&s;ands; whereas the Author had no other Record, than only the Hone&s;t and True Report of &s;uch as &s;aw it, and knew not the Fallacy.</P>
<P>The Cro&s;&s;es of <HI>Au&s;try</HI> being nothing el&s;e but certain re|maining old ones, Painted in Times pa&s;t in durable Colours; and having been (upon Beautifying the Church) whited over, the White in time began, through continued Humi|dity
<PB N="19" REF="14">of the Air, to impair, and wear away; and &s;o the un|der Painting began to appear again. An Accident which I have taken notice of long before, in a Church Mural-Paint|ing, in the County of <HI>Suffolk</HI> di&s;covering the Pourtraicture of the <HI>Patron Saint</HI> of the <HI>Church.</HI></P>
<P>Several were the Opinions concerning this wonderful Percu&s;&s;ion of the Maid of St. <HI>Catharines;</HI> &s;ome thought it the Effect of Witchcraft; others, a Pre&s;age of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Religions Re&s;titution. The Place where it happened, being within the Precinct of a Colledge, left un&s;uppre&s;&s;ed at the general Di&s;&s;olution of <HI>Henry</HI> the VIII. and continuing with Choral Service, even till the latter Times of Queen <HI>Eliza|beth:</HI> The Quire little Inferiour to that of St. <HI>Pauls;</HI> and di&s;&s;olved by the Machination of one Dr. <HI>W.</HI> the then Ma&s;ter: The Stalls yet remain of very Antique Work. As for the &s;elf-ended Di&s;&s;olver, a &s;trange Judgment followed the Action; for his only Son made away him&s;elf in his Mothers Abode within the &s;ame Cloi&s;ters; and &s;he <HI>(Ob cau&s;&s;as quas dicere nolo, mortua e&s;t ex Communicata, &amp; non ab|&s;que Conatu multo interce&s;&s;ioneque magna Chri&s;tianae Sepulturae, Commi&s;&s;a; cadavere interea (in fa&s;tigio Eccle&s;iae plumbeo) faetorem intolerabilem emittente) re&s;ervato: ut audivi &agrave; nativis quibu&s;dam, quibus Parentes haec (horrore) narr&acirc;rant.</HI> So fared it with the Eagle that took a Cole from the Altar, and Fired her own Ne&s;t.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>&rindx; But now to the Matter of Holy <HI>Edward</HI> the Confe&s;&s;or, Relating to His Pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P>AS Preparation was making for the Coronation of our pre|&s;ent King's mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Abby,</HI> the Workmen bu&s;ied about the building of Scaffolds (either by mi&s;chance, or out of Curio&s;ity of In&s;pection) broke the
<PB N="20" REF="15">Coffin, wherein lay the Remains of Holy <HI>Edward</HI> the Con|fe&s;&s;or: After the Coronation was Accompli&s;hed, &s;ome Offi|cer of the Church, or Servant of the <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks</HI> (as curious of In&s;pection as the former) put his Staff into the hole, and &s;tirring, perceived &s;omething to gingle; and taking it out, found it to be a Golden Crucifix, of very con&s;iderable Va|lue. This he dur&s;t not conceal, but revealing it to one of the Superiors of the Collegiate Society, it was made known to the King; who, like Him&s;elf, rewarded the Finder; and &s;ometimes, in Reverence to the Antient Proprietor; wears this Religious Ornament him&s;elf.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Edward</HI> died the Fourth of <HI>January, Anno</HI> 1066. 621 Years ago. It's remarkable, this Crucifix &s;hould lie &s;o long quiet and unknown, and at length be &s;o &s;trangely di&s;covered, and be Pre&s;erved to be Pre&s;ented to our pre&s;ent Soveraign; as if in Him alone, above all his Predece&s;&s;ors, were Vertues agreeable to tho&s;e of the fir&s;t Proprietor, the &s;o Memorable Pious <HI>Edward the Confe&s;&s;or.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Day-Fatality,</HI> &s;peaking of the Au&s;picious Fourteenth of <HI>October,</HI> His Maje&s;ties Birth-Day, concludes a <HI>Latin</HI> De|ca&s;tich, with this Di&s;tich;
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Natali laetare tuo, quam maxime princeps,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fau&s;ta velut haec &s;unt omina &s;emper habe.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Great Prince, rejoyce in this Your Day of Birth,</L>
<L>And may &s;uch Omens &s;till increa&s;e Your Mirth.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>Verily, This hearty Wi&s;h hath not been in vain, but hath &s;ucceeded Pro&s;perou&s;ly; See <HI>Day-Fatality</HI> concerning the Third of <HI>March;</HI> as al&s;o, <HI>The Swans-Welcome,</HI> and <HI>Prince-Protecting Providences.</HI> And forget not, That very many took notice, that at His Maje&s;ties Proclamation, at the ve|ry In&s;tant when 'twas performed at the <HI>Royal-Exchange,</HI> a great number of <HI>Doves</HI> were there Flocked together. To
<PB N="21" REF="15">which is added, The finding of a Sacred Relique, apper|taining to a Dove-like Prince.</P>
<P>Let us hear what Authors &s;ay of King <HI>Edward. Stow</HI> &s;ays, (<HI>Pag.</HI> 94.) For His excellent Holine&s;s, He is, unto this very Day, called <HI>Saint Edward;</HI> who, &s;o &s;oon as he had gotten His Father's Kingdom, relea&s;ed the heavy Tribute of <HI>Dane-Gilt.</HI></P>
<P>And (<HI>Pag.</HI> 95.) he calls Him, Good King <HI>Edward,</HI> and commends him for his Compa&s;&s;ion; and relates a Story, as if <HI>God</HI> had indued Him with the Grace of &s;eeing Vi&s;ions. The De&s;cription of which Vi&s;ion, I have often-times be|held in Painted Gla&s;s, on the <HI>South</HI>-&s;ide of the Body of <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter-Abby Church.</HI> And <HI>Stow</HI> relates it at large, from approved Authors, That when the Officers had Collected the grievous Tribute, called <HI>Dane-Gilt,</HI> and brought it into the King's Trea&s;ury; The King being called to &s;ee &s;o great an Heap and Ma&s;s, was, at the beholding thereof, much a&s;raid; prote&s;ting he &s;aw the <HI>Devil</HI> Dancing thereupon, and making exceeding much Joy; and therefore gave Com|mandment it &s;hould be forthwith rendred again to the for|mer Owners thereof; averring, <HI>That of &s;o cruel an Exaction He would not keep One Farthing to Him&s;elf, but it &s;hould go back from whence it came.</HI></P>
<P>If Pope <HI>Nicholas</HI> the III. called the Money, drawn and &s;quee&s;ed <HI>&agrave; Pauperibus Litigantibus,</HI> from Poor Litigious People, by cunning Solicitors and Attornies, their very <HI>Blood and Souls;</HI> How much more, hard Taxes, which e&s;pe|cially light upon the Trading part of a Nation; who, of all People, ought to be incouraged; as was the Opinion of <HI>Frederick</HI> Marquis of <HI>Mantua;</HI> for <HI>Les E&s;tate du Monde,</HI> tells us, <HI>His Subjects lov'd Him much; for He was Liberal, and would Lend them Money without Intere&s;t, if he fonnd them fit for Traffick;</HI> An Heroick and Princely Humor: But I return.</P>
<PB N="22" REF="16">
<P><HI>Stow</HI> tells us likewi&s;e, King <HI>Edward</HI> was the fir&s;t that Collected from the Ordinances, and Cu&s;toms of the <HI>Mercians, We&s;t-Saxons, Danes,</HI> and <HI>Northumbers,</HI> an excellent Body of Law. <HI>Fox</HI> in his <HI>Martyrology,</HI> &s;ays of them, <HI>That being gathered out of the Be&s;t and Chiefe&s;t of other Laws, they were &s;o Ju&s;t and Equal, and &s;o Serving the Publick Profit and Weal of all E&s;tates and Conditions of Men, that the People long after did Rebel to have the &s;ame Laws again.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Matthew Paris</HI> tells us, That <HI>William the Conqueror,</HI> at his Coming in, did Swear to U&s;e and Practi&s;e the &s;ame Good Laws of King <HI>Edward,</HI> for the Common Laws of the <HI>Realm;</HI> but, being E&s;tabli&s;hed in the Kingdom, broke his Word, and placed the <HI>Norman Laws</HI> in their room. And <HI>Stow</HI> in|forms us, That his Son, <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t, re&s;tored the &s;aid <HI>Laws</HI> again, and amended Them where deficient. In the fir&s;t Chapter of the &s;aid <HI>Laws,</HI> the Duty of a King is excel|lently &s;et forth; but I refer you to <HI>Fox.</HI></P>
<P>But let us hear the <HI>Elogy</HI> the afore&s;aid <HI>Fox</HI> gives this Prince (from approved Authors;) <HI>He was a Man of a Gentle and Soft Spirit, of Nature and Condition &s;o far from all War and Blood-&s;hed, that being in His Bani&s;hment, He wi&s;hed rather &s;o to continue all His Life-time, in that Private E|&s;tate, than by Blood-&s;hed to a&s;pire to His Kingdom.</HI> After He had taken upon Him the Government of the Realm, He guided the &s;ame with much Wi&s;dom and Ju&s;tice Twenty Four Years, &s;ave Two Months; from whom I&s;&s;ued (as out of a Fountain) much <HI>Godline&s;s, Mercy, Pity,</HI> and <HI>Liberality</HI> to|wards the <HI>Poor, Gentlene&s;s</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> towards all <HI>Men;</HI> and, in all <HI>Hone&s;t Life,</HI> He gave a <HI>Vertuous Example</HI> to His <HI>People.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wardner,</HI> in his <HI>Albions England,</HI> &s;ays thus of St. <HI>Edward:</HI></P>
<Q><L>Religious, Cha&s;t, Wi&s;e, Fortunate, Stout, Frank and Mild was He;</L>
<L>And from all Taxes, Wrongs and Foes did &s;et His Kingdom Free.</L></Q>
<PB N="23" REF="16">
<P>Serlo, <HI>of</HI> Paris, <HI>in his</HI> Epitaph, <HI>begins thus of Him;</HI></P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Edovardus probitate potens Pietate verendus.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Powerful in</HI> Goodne&s;s, <HI>and Reverend in His</HI> Piety.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P><HI>Robert</HI> of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> calls him, <HI>Edward the Simple</HI> (under|&s;tand it not in our wor&s;t Acceptation at this day) but with a reference to <HI>Mat.</HI> 10.16. <HI>As Innocent and Harmle&s;s as a Dove:</HI> or, to the Qualification of <HI>Mo&s;es, Numb.</HI> 12.3. <HI>Who was very Meek above all the Men upon the Face of the Earth.</HI> Farther Illu&s;trated, <HI>Ecclus.</HI> 45.1, 2, 3, 4. concluding thus, <HI>That</HI> God <HI>cho&s;e Him for His Faithfulne&s;s and Meekne&s;s, out of all Men,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Meekne&s;s</HI> being an Attribute our <HI>Saviour</HI> a&s;&s;umes to him&s;elf, <HI>Matt.</HI> 11.29. and therefore by no means unbe|coming a King; and which <HI>Robert</HI> of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> &s;hould have called <HI>Sweetne&s;s of Conver&s;ation,</HI> which was made admirably good in that Story <HI>Alluredus Rivallene&s;s</HI> relates of Him,</P>
<P>That as He lay on a Time Waking in His Bed, it chanced, That His <HI>Chamberlain</HI> taking Money out of one of the King's Coffers, left it open, and goes his ways: A Young Servitor, that Waited at the King's Table, &s;pying the Coffer open, and &s;uppo&s;ing the King a&s;leep, thru&s;t a good quantity of Money into his Bo&s;ome, goes away, and lays it up; comes again, and does the like; and when he came the Third time, and the King knew (as 'twas thought) the <HI>Chamberlain</HI> was at hand, and willing the Young-Man &s;hould avoid the danger, cryed out to him; <HI>Thou art too bold, take what Thou ha&s;t, and get Thee gone; for, by</HI> God<HI>'s Mother, if</HI> Hugoline <HI>come</HI> (for that was the <HI>Chamberlain</HI>'s Name, and who&s;e <HI>Epitaph</HI> is men|tioned by <HI>Weaver,</HI> Pag. 483.) <HI>he will not leave Thee one Penny;</HI> whereupon the Thief made ha&s;t away, and was ne|ver di&s;covered by the King: Now, when <HI>Hugoline</HI> came, and perceived much Money to be gone, and by his own neg|ligence,
<PB N="24" REF="17">he began to &s;igh mo&s;t grievou&s;ly; whereupon, the King Ri&s;ing, and making as if he knew nothing of what had happened, asked, <HI>What he ailed to be &s;o Troubled?</HI> which, when the <HI>Chamberlain</HI> had related; the King replyed, <HI>Be not Troubled, certainly he that hath it, has more need of it than Thou and I; let him go, that which remains is enough for &V;s.</HI></P>
<P>Certainly, This is an In&s;tance of great Clemency, Mild|ne&s;s, and good Humor: And, to which, let me add ano|ther out of <HI>Haraeus.</HI></P>
<P>The King Re&s;iding at His Palace, near the Church of St. <HI>Peter,</HI> there came a certain <HI>Iri&s;h-Man,</HI> deprived of the U&s;e of both his Feet; and &s;eeing <HI>Hugoline,</HI> the King's <HI>Chamberlain,</HI> &s;aid unto him, <HI>Six times (as thou &s;ee&s;t, even creeping) have I Vi&s;ited the Thre&s;holds of the Apo&s;tles, and yet have not de&s;erved the Re&s;toration of my Limbs. But I have re|ceived Command from the Prince of the Apo&s;tles, to go to the King; That He, taking me upon His Sacred Shoulders, bear me to the Church, near His Palace; there to receive my Cure, if &s;o be He vouch&s;afes to do it.</HI> (Oh wonderful Humility!) The King takes him on His Shoulders, and carries him: the Man &s;tretches out his Leggs, (his Hams being become Flexible) and is Cured. Thus is the Story related by my Author, who Dedicated his Book to Pope <HI>Sixtus Quintus.</HI></P>
<P><HI>God</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed the&s;e his admirable Vertues with the wonder|ful Gift of Healing the <HI>King's-Evil.</HI> The Author of the Book called <HI>Vita Edovarde,</HI> &s;ays thus: This King <HI>Edward,</HI> of Famous Memory, before the Day of His Nativity, was Elected of <HI>God;</HI> wherefore, as we have known, produced by good and &s;ufficient Witne&s;&s;es, <HI>God</HI> greatly Glorified Him in His Life-time, with wonderful Signs; among the which, this that follows was one: A Young-Woman Mar|ried,
<PB N="25" REF="17">but without Children, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> had a Di&s;ea&s;e about her Jaws, and under her Cheeks, like Kernels; and this Di&s;ea&s;e &s;o Corrupted her Face with Stench, that, without great &s;hame, &s;he could not &s;peak to any body. This Woman was admoni&s;hed in her Sleep, <HI>To go to King</HI> Edward, <HI>and procure Him to Wa&s;h her Face with Water, and &s;he &s;hould be Cured.</HI> To the Court &s;he came; and the King, Informed of the Mat|ter, di&s;dained not to make Tryal: having therefore a Ba&s;on of Water brought unto Him, He dipped His hands therein, and wa&s;hed the Womans Face, oft-times rubbing the Di&s;ea|&s;ed place; &s;ometimes al&s;o &s;igning it with the Sign of the Cro&s;s. Now, after He had thus Wa&s;hed it, the hard Cru|&s;tation or Swelling was &s;oftned and di&s;&s;olved; and the King pre&s;&s;ing with His hand the Tumors, out of them came little Worms (of which they were full) as al&s;o much Corrupt Matter and Blood: The King &s;till per&s;evered with His hands to bring forth the Corruption. This done, He commanded her a &s;ufficient Allowance every day, for all things nece&s;&s;ary, until &s;he had received perfect Health; which was within a Week after: And whereas &s;he was before Barren, &s;he had a Child by her Husband. <HI>Ex libro cui Titulus, Vita Edovardi.</HI></P>
<P>Again, Authors affirm, That a certain Man named <HI>&V;lfuni|us Spillcorne;</HI> when he had hewn Timber in a certain Wood, laid him down to Sleep, after his &s;ore Labour: Now, the Blood and Humors of his Head &s;o &s;ettled about his Eyes, that he was thereof Blind for Nineteen Years: But, admo|ni&s;h'd in his Sleep, he went in Pilgrimage to many Churches, to implore the help of <HI>God</HI> for his Blindne&s;s; and, la&s;t of all, he came to Court; where he &s;tood at the Entry of the King's Chamber, an earne&s;t Suitor for his Royal Help. At length, the King being Informed of the Poor Man's Dream, He &s;aid, <HI>By Our Lady Saint</HI> Mary, <HI>I would do any thing with a good
<PB N="26" REF="18">Will, if it would plea&s;e</HI> God, <HI>by Me, to have Mercy upon this Poor Wretch:</HI> So, being al&s;o much put on by His Attendants, He call'd for Water, and wa&s;hed the Blind-Man's Eyes, and &s;trait-ways the Blood dropped plentifully out; and the Man being Healed, cryed out with a chearful Voice, <HI>I &s;ee Thee, O King!</HI> Thus having recovered his Sight, he kept the King's Palace at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> a long Sea&s;on (for there he was Healed) after King <HI>Edward</HI> was Dead; and Decea&s;ed in the Reign of <HI>William the Conqueror.</HI> Now, although the&s;e things &s;eem &s;trange, yet the <HI>Normans</HI> ever averred, That He often did the like in His Youth, while He remained in <HI>Normandy</HI> in Exile. How much more then, when He came to be a King, in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion (actually a Vicegerent of the Omnipotent <HI>God</HI>), that, by what means &s;oever plea&s;es him&s;elf, works Wonders.</P>
<P>I have been the more large in the Recital of the&s;e Two re|markable Pa&s;&s;ages, becau&s;e our Kings of <HI>England</HI> deduce their Gifts and Faculties of Curing the <HI>King's-Evil</HI> (called in <HI>Latin, Struma,</HI> in <HI>French, Les E&s;croueles</HI>) from <HI>Edward the Confe&s;&s;or,</HI> upon the&s;e Two Cures. And, becau&s;e Cured by Our Kings, we call it the <HI>King's-Evil;</HI> and in our Mo|dern <HI>Latin, Morbus Regius.</HI> And to this will I make par|ticular Application at the End of my Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>Neither will I omit, from the Recitals afore&s;aid, to &s;peak &s;omething in &s;avour of Dreams: <HI>Johannes Spondanus,</HI> in his Comment upon <HI>Penelopes</HI> Dream, (<HI>Lib.</HI> 14. <HI>Hom. Odys</HI>) &s;ays, <HI>Re vera hic te&s;tor,</HI> &amp;c. I do avow, (which al&s;o I have heard made good by Per&s;ons of undoubted Credit, as to them&s;elves) nothing con&s;iderable, either Good or Ill, ever happened to me, but I fore&s;aw it in my <HI>Dreams.</HI></P>
<P>He Dedicated his Book to <HI>Henry</HI> the Third, King of <HI>Navarre;</HI> which was after King of <HI>France,</HI> and known by the Name of <HI>Henry le Grand;</HI> and to whom he dur&s;t not
<PB N="27" REF="18">have uttered any thing but Truth. <HI>Nam Sacra e&s;t Reverentia Regnum.</HI></P>
<P>I could &s;ay &s;omething as to my own particular, very patt to the purpo&s;e: But I e&s;teem it fitter for Private Di&s;cour&s;e, than Publick Edition, and return to the Matter in hand.</P>
<P>The&s;e, before-recited, were the Vertues, Qualifications, and Endowments of the Prince, who&s;e <HI>Crucifix</HI> was &s;o &s;trange|ly pre&s;erved (which being &s;o &s;ecretly found, and not known of before, might ea&s;ily have been detain'd): But as the Vi&s;ion of St. <HI>Brightwald</HI> (&s;ometimes <HI>Monk</HI> of <HI>Gla&s;tenbury,</HI> and after Bi&s;hop of <HI>Wilton</HI>) a&s;&s;ured him, <HI>The Kingdom of</HI> England <HI>was the Kingdom of</HI> God, <HI>and He would give it to whom He plea&s;ed.</HI> So, this <HI>Regium Cimelium,</HI> this <HI>Royal Rarity,</HI> was ordained for One Elect of <HI>God;</HI> whom, though the Numerous and Powerful <HI>Exclu&s;ive</HI> Party in <HI>England,</HI> and a Malevolent Party in <HI>Scotland,</HI> would have put by; yet, maugre all, He is become Saint <HI>Edward</HI> the <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI>'s Succe&s;&s;or to His <HI>Crown, Scepter,</HI> and <HI>This Religious Relique,</HI> &s;o wonderfully pre&s;erved: Which is the more Remarkable, in that the Ma&s;&s;y Silver Head, belonging to the <HI>Royal Image,</HI> covered all over with Silver Plate, guilded, which Queen <HI>Catharine</HI> cau&s;ed to be laid upon the Tomb of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth; was, at the Suppre&s;&s;ion in <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth's Time, when the battering Hammers of De&s;truction made havock almo&s;t in every Church, Sacrilegiou&s;ly purloined forth <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter-Abby;</HI> though one would think, it being &s;o mani&s;e&s;t and obvious a thing, it &s;hould have Incited and Commanded the Care of the Church Officers to its Security and Pre&s;erva|tion from Sacriledge.</P>
<P>No doubt, the having of this Pious <HI>Symbole</HI> and <HI>Badge,</HI> &s;o au&s;piciou&s;ly come by, is an evident <HI>Omen</HI> and <HI>Pre&s;age,</HI> our <HI>Soveraign</HI> (as was its Pri&s;tine Owner) will be Ble&s;&s;ed with
<PB N="28" REF="19">an happy Hand, in the Cure of the <HI>King's-Evil;</HI> Be as &s;pa|ring of heavy Taxes as may be; A great Con&s;ervator of the Laws of he Land; A Pattern of Piety; A Mirrour of Mer|cy; A Fountain of Pity and Liberality towards the Poor; Gentle and Ju&s;t towards all Men: In a word, an <HI>Exchecquer</HI> of all Vertue; as was the former Bearer thereof. I have mentioned before, That <HI>Wardner</HI> &s;ays of St. <HI>Edward, That He &s;et His Kingdom free from all Wrongs and Foes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Serlo,</HI> of <HI>Paris,</HI> &s;ays of Him to the &s;ame Effect:
<Q><LG>
<L>Hic bello &s;ic pace &s;uos exterruit Ho&s;tes,</L>
<L>Prae&s;ump&s;it pacem rumpere nemo &s;uam.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In Peace and War He &s;o o're aw'd His Foes,</L>
<L>None dare His Peace and Quiet di&s;compo&s;e.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>Hear Old <HI>Robert</HI> of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> &s;peaking to the &s;ame effect: <HI>Sooth our Lord nouri&s;hed his Meekne&s;s, and yat him great Gra&s;e that Men &s;hould be addrade of him, that routh not be Wrath; and though Men trowed him to be Slow, he had &s;uch Subjects under him, that at his he&s;t, daunted his Enemies; as</HI> Syward <HI>Earl of</HI> Northumberland, <HI>and</HI> Leofricus <HI>of</HI> Hereford, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Our Legi&s;ts tell us, <HI>Qui facit per alium facit per &s;e,</HI> King <HI>Edward</HI> did His Enemies bu&s;ine&s;s by others. But our Prince (<HI>JAMES</HI> the Good and Ju&s;t) is able to be His own Conduct; to be <HI>Immen&s;i tremor Oceani, Terrarum Arbi|ter;</HI> the Terror of the Ocean, the Ballance and Arbiter of Nations. <HI>Who &s;hall dare to rai&s;e up this Lyon of</HI> England? <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.9.</P>
<PB N="29" REF="19">
<P><HI>Day-Fatality</HI> (Edit. 2. P. 1.) tells us, <HI>Normandy</HI> was Conquered from Duke <HI>Robert,</HI> that Day Forty Years the <HI>Normans</HI> had won <HI>England. Edward the Confe&s;&s;or</HI> came from <HI>Normandy</HI> to Reign in <HI>England,</HI> His Father's King|dom, unju&s;tly detained by His Maternal Brother: Why may not our Dread <HI>Soveraign,</HI> the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of the Holy <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI>'s Religious <HI>Badge</HI> (&s;o &s;trangely and ominou&s;ly Recovered) go out of <HI>England (Si fas &s;it ita loqui)</HI> into <HI>Normandy,</HI> and Recover and Annex it to its Pri&s;tine Union, being His rightly de&s;cended Dukedome? (<HI>Nihil loquor de Andegavia, de Comit' Pontino, Aquitania,</HI> &amp;c.) He being a Prince cer|tainly Born for Great Actions, and Ble&s;&s;ed with a continu|ation of Lucky Omens.</P>
<Q>&V;nanimes cuncti quae &s;emper habeto precemur.</Q>
<P>How Benignly and Courteou&s;ly, by His Means and Incou|ragement, are the Exiled <HI>French</HI> Received by Us? A Royal Brief being granted by His Maje&s;ty, for a Liberal Collection towards Their Relief.</P>
<P>I have by me an Antient Book, written at fir&s;t in the <HI>German</HI> Tongue, by <HI>Seba&s;tian Brandt,</HI> Doctor of both <HI>Laws,</HI> and Profe&s;t <HI>Orator</HI> and <HI>Poet;</HI> and Stiled by him, the <HI>Ship of Fools,</HI> laying open the Folly and Frailty of all &s;orts and conditions of Men; a Book very expedient and nece&s;&s;ary to the <HI>Reader.</HI> This Book <HI>Jacobus Locherus</HI> Tran&s;lated into <HI>Latin</HI> Ver&s;e; and from him one <HI>Alexander Barcklay,</HI> Canon of St. <HI>Mary Ottry,</HI> having Peru&s;ed it in Three Languages, <HI>Latin, French,</HI> and <HI>Dutch,</HI> (as he Solemnly Profe&s;&s;es in his Epi&s;tle) Tran&s;lated into <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Meetre. In his Chapter of the Ruine of the <HI>Holy Catholick Faith,</HI> and Diminution of the <HI>Empire,</HI> by the <HI>Turks,</HI> he Exhorts all <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Princes and Potentates, to joyn Hand in Hand again&s;t the Incroach|ing Infidels. Now, whereas <HI>Brandt</HI> and <HI>Locher</HI> place all
<PB N="30" REF="20">their hope in <HI>Maximilian,</HI> King of the <HI>Romans,</HI> as a mo&s;t fit Leader: Our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Canon transfers it (by a Poetical Di|gre&s;&s;ion and Diver&s;ion) to the Famous King <HI>James</HI> the IV. of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Let us hear fir&s;t the <HI>Latin,</HI> and after the <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> Poetry of that Age; and, fir&s;t, for <HI>Lecher.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>Maxmilianus</HI> ade&s;t, quo major Tempore nullo</L>
<L>Rex fuit, &agrave; digno Stemmate Sceptra gerens,</L>
<L>Invideat quicunque velit, non ju&s;tior illo</L>
<L>Principe, non Heros clarior ullus erat.</L>
<L>Cae&s;areum vultum praefert, inque ore nite&s;cit</L>
<L>Maje&s;tas, mores Nobilitatis habet.</L>
<L>Fraudibus attentat nihil hic; nihil ille Dolo&s;um</L>
<L>Concipit, at plano Tramite vita meat</L>
<L>Hunc non in&s;ani fa&s;tus, &s;ed Candida virtus</L>
<L>Elevat. Hic &s;olus faedera pacis amat,</L>
<L>Hoc duce cre&s;cet Honos terris, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L>
<L>Hoc duce Sarmaticas gentes &s;uperabimus, atque</L>
<L>Euxinum Pelagus Bi&s;tonico&s;que lares.</L></Q>
<P>Now comes in <HI>Barcklay,</HI> who&s;e Tran&s;lation is Paraphra&s;ti|cal; and from whom we gather what an Opinion the World had of <HI>James</HI> the IV. afore&s;aid, Predece&s;&s;or to His Pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>But ye, Chri&s;tian Princes, who&s;oever ye be,</L>
<L>If ye be de&s;titute of a Noble Captain,</L>
<L>Take <HI>James</HI> of <HI>Scotland</HI> for His Audacity</L>
<L>And proved Manhood, if ye will Laud attain;</L>
<L>Let Him have the forward, have ye no Di&s;dain</L>
<L>Nor Indignation; for never King was Born,</L>
<L>That is of War &s;o much a <HI>Unicorn.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="31" REF="20">
<LG>
<L>For if He take once His Spear in Hand,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the&s;e <HI>Turks,</HI> &s;trongly with it to Ride,</L>
<L>None &s;hall be able His Prowe&s;s to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Nor before His Face &s;o hardy to abide:</L>
<L>Yet this His Manhood, Increa&s;es not His Pride;</L>
<L>But ever &s;hews His Meekne&s;s and Humility,</L>
<L>In Word or Deed, to high and low Degree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In Prudence, peerle&s;s is this mo&s;t comely King;</L>
<L>And as for His Strength and Magnanimity,</L>
<L>Concerning His Noble Deeds in every thing,</L>
<L>One found on Ground, like Him, there cannot be:</L>
<L>By Birth born to Boldne&s;s and Audacity,</L>
<L>&V;nder the bold Planet of <HI>Mars</HI> the Champion,</L>
<L>Surely, to Subdue His Enemies each one.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let Him be foremo&s;t; then doubt ye not at all,</L>
<L>For only His Look, &s;o Bold is His Courage,</L>
<L>The <HI>Turks</HI> Pride &s;hall make Decay and Fall.</L>
<L>Like to a Lyon, in Deeds He &s;hall Rage.</L>
<L>Thus He being Guide, the Fury &s;hall a&s;&s;wage</L>
<L>Of the fal&s;e <HI>Turks;</HI> &s;o that they &s;hall be fain,</L>
<L>Our Chri&s;tian Lands to &V;s to yield again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Lyon, His Wi&s;dom and Riches,</L>
<L>Conjoyn with True Love, Peace, and Fidelity,</L>
<L>With the <HI>Scotch Unicorn</HI>'s Might and Hardine&s;s;</L>
<L>There is no doubt, but then all Chri&s;tianity</L>
<L>Shall Live in Peace, Wealth, and Tranquility,</L>
<L>And the <HI>Holy Land</HI> come in Chri&s;tian hand is.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>This our Poet concluded his Tran&s;lation, 1508.23 <HI>Henry</HI> the VII. as he &s;ays, <HI>Pag.</HI> 259. But I perceive, by &s;ome Mar|ginal
<PB N="32" REF="21">Notes, 'twas not Printed till <HI>Henry</HI> the VIII. began His Reign. And I cannot but take notice of his Heraldical Allu&s;ion, expre&s;&s;ing the two Kings of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> the Fir&s;t by His Arms and Supporters; and the La&s;t, by the <HI>La&s;t;</HI> which accidently I imitated in a Di&s;tich I compo&s;ed, when an over-confident Report was of the <HI>French</HI> King's Death, in <HI>Aug.</HI> 85.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Lilia</HI> Flacce&s;cunt, &amp; fit <HI>Carbunculus</HI> ater;</L>
<L><HI>Mars</HI> Moeret, &s;ummus ejus Alumnus obit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>French <HI>Lilies hang their Head, and</HI> Navarrs <HI>Radiant Stone</HI></L>
<L><HI>Grows dark;</HI> Mars <HI>grieves, his deare&s;t and chief Pupil's gone.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Now as to the <HI>&V;nicorn</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the Poets Allu&s;ion afore&s;aid, read <HI>Numb.</HI> 23.22, and 24.8. and <HI>Job</HI> 39.9, and 10. Ver&s;es.</P>
<P>But I return to <HI>James</HI> the IV. He was (as well as very Valiant) a Wi&s;e and Politick Leader; for, at the Battle of <HI>Flodden</HI> Field, ob&s;erving the great number of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e, (and tho&s;e of large and &s;trong &s;ize, the <HI>Scotch</HI> Hor&s;e being &s;mall) He told His Nobles and Commanders, We &s;hall do no good with our Hor&s;es: We are as Valiant and Strong, as to our Per&s;ons, as our Enemies; We mu&s;t make Foot work of it. <HI>Stow</HI> de&s;cribes the Battle at large, and &s;ays, The <HI>Scotch</HI> Spears did twice &s;ore indanger the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Forces; that the King him&s;elf, even in the foremo&s;t Rank, Fought right Valiantly, encouraging His People, as well by Ex|ample as Per&s;wa&s;ions to do their be&s;t. In fine, the Lord <HI>Dacres,</HI> with his Hor&s;e, was the cau&s;e of the <HI>Scotch</HI> Defeat; and the King mo&s;t Valiantly Fighting, was unfortunately Slain. See <HI>Weaver, Pag.</HI> 394. We have heard <HI>Barcklays</HI> Elogiums of this mo&s;t Heroick Prince; and <HI>Stow</HI>'s Te&s;ti|mony of His Valour; let us hear what others &s;ay.</P>
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<P><HI>John John&s;ton,</HI> in his Hi&s;torical De&s;cription of the <HI>Scotti&s;h Kings,</HI> concludes one of his <HI>Stanza's</HI> thus, to his Eternal Prai&s;e:
<Q><LG>
<L>Quod &s;i animis orti&s;que tuis, &s;ors aequa fui&s;&s;et,</L>
<L>Imperii fines ultima Terra daret.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>If to Thy Mind and Aim, Fate had been Ju&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The World unto Thy Rule &s;ubmitted mu&s;t.</HI></L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>Again;
<Q><LG>
<L>Illum fama vehens lat&egrave; Circum&s;ona Olympo</L>
<L>Aequat, pro tumulo maximus orbis erit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The Univer&s;e His Funeral Pile &s;hall be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whom by <HI>Fames</HI> Trump to reach the Stars we &s;ee.</HI></L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>And in <HI>Camden</HI>'s Remains we have an <HI>Epitaph</HI> for him, con|cluding thus, as if &s;peaking to His Royal Self:
<Q><L>Si mihi dent animo non impar fata Sepulchrum,</L>
<L>Augu&s;ta e&s;t tumulo terra Britanna meo.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which intimates That if the Fates had given him a Monument equal to His Great Mind, not a &s;mall rais'd-up heap of Earth; [As Antiently was the Cu&s;tom; See <HI>Weaver,</HI> Pag. 6. and <HI>Virgil, Lib.</HI> 7. &s;peaking of <HI>Caietas</HI> Monument, <HI>Aggere compe&s;ito tumulus;</HI> and &s;o <HI>Aeneid</HI> 11.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash; Fuit ingens monte &s;ub alto</L>
<L>Regis <HI>Dercenni</HI> terreno ex aggere Bu&s;tum.</L></Q>
<P>Thus Tran&s;lated by Doctor <HI>Thomas Twine:</HI>
<Q><L>&mdash; Beneathen Hill full hye,</L>
<L>The Tomb of King <HI>Dercennus,</HI> rai&s;ed up, aloft doth lye;</L>
<L>With mighty Mount of <HI>Laureat</HI> Ground, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L></Q></P>
<P>See <HI>Stone-henge Re&s;tored, Pag.</HI> 27. and 30. quoting <HI>Leland: In Ege&s;tis per campos terrae tumulis, quos Burghos appellamus &s;unt Se|pulti.</HI>] I &s;ay, Not a &s;mall heap of Earth, not a mean Berry or Barrow, but all <HI>Britain</HI> it &s;elf, &s;hould have been His Funeral Mole and Pile.</P>
<P>The Magnanimity of our pre&s;ent Soveraign cannot make us believe otherwi&s;e, than that the Virtual and Warlike <HI>Genins</HI> of this Famous <HI>JAMES,</HI> is, by Generative De&s;cent, I (will not &s;ay, <HI>Pythagorean</HI> Tran&s;migration) &s;treamed down into him&s;elf.</P>
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<P>I mu&s;t not omit one thing: The late Duke of <HI>Norfolk</HI> having the Sword of this Valorous Prince (as an Heir Loom) in his Po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion, taken by his Ance&s;tor; be&s;tow'd it, as a great Rarity, up|on the <HI>Heralds Office.</HI> The pre&s;ent Duke, pre&s;ently after His Late Maje&s;ty's Decea&s;e di&s;cour&s;ing with His Pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty about it, He had a mighty de&s;ire to &s;ee it; &s;o 'twas &s;ent for, and the King Pois'd it &s;everal times in His hands, with more than ordinary Pathetick Impre&s;&s;ion; As I have been a&s;&s;ured by the Porter of the &s;aid <HI>Office;</HI> who, bringing it back, call'd at a place where I was with &s;ome Friends, to whom this accidental Overture of &s;eeing the Sword, was exceeding Acceptable and Diverting: For my part, I have often thought of this Pa&s;&s;age, When I con&s;ider'd the Vertues of the Prince that wore this remark|able Weapon, <HI>viz. James</HI> the Fourth; whom our Chanon of Saint <HI>Mary Ottry,</HI> would have had to have been the Chri&s;tian Prince's <HI>Agamemnon</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Infidels.</HI> &mdash; I have &s;aid before, <HI>Qui facit per alium facit per &s;e.</HI> Now, if what the Chanon would have had done by the Predece&s;&s;or, be done by the <HI>Arriere-Nephew</HI> and <HI>Succe&s;&s;or,</HI> his Wi&s;h is fulfilled; and in Him; the <HI>Lyon</HI> and <HI>&V;nicorn</HI> are united, <HI>viz. Henry</HI> the Seventh, and the mo&s;t Vali|ant <HI>James</HI> the Fourth, <HI>His Royal Names &s;ake</HI> aforementioned.</P>
<P><HI>Poets</HI> are a kind of <HI>Prophets</HI> and <HI>Seers.</HI> Now, Mr. <HI>Payne Fi&s;her,</HI> in an Ode which he made upon his Sacred Maje&s;ty's Inaugura|ration, concludes thus:
<Q><L>&mdash; Oremus</L>
<L>&V;t Rex <HI>Jacobus</HI> diu vigeat,</L>
<L>Nec <HI>Britannus</HI> Orb's indigeat</L>
<L>Rege, nato de <HI>Jacobis</HI></L>
<L>Donec ad&s;it <HI>Shiloh</HI> nobis.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which I pre&s;ume to <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> thus:
<Q><L>Let's Pray our <HI>James</HI> may Live full long,</L>
<L>And that there never may want one</L>
<L>To Rule the <HI>Britains</HI> (Brave) among,</L>
<L>From many Royal <HI>James</HI>'s Sprung,</L>
<L>Till it plea&s;e <HI>God, Shiloh</HI> &s;hall come.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which Ver&s;es plainly Import, as if in that <HI>Name,</HI> &s;ome &s;ecret hidden Vertue lay Divinely couched and en&s;hrined.</P>
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<P>In my <HI>Chri&s;tian Valour Incouraged,</HI> &s;et out 84. when the <HI>Vene|tians</HI> made their Inroad into <HI>Morea;</HI> I &s;trongly In&s;inuate the <HI>French</HI> King was the Man mu&s;t be mainly In&s;trumental to ruine the <HI>Turk:</HI> I recited &s;everal Prophe&s;ies; but e&s;pecially that of <HI>Joachim:</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>The</HI> Turk <HI>&s;hall be De&s;troyed by Three Nations; By the</HI> French, Propter bonos Equites, <HI>for their excellent Cavalry; By the</HI> Engli&s;h, Propter bonos Marinarios, <HI>for their excellent Seamen; and, By the</HI> Venetians, Propter bonum Con&s;ilium, <HI>for their Prudent Councils.</HI> This Prophecy is worthy of Remarque; and the <HI>French</HI> in the Van. <HI>I go on, and add:</HI> The <HI>French</HI> Monarch is become Potent in Shipping; but He is not King of the <HI>Engli&s;h Mariners,</HI> which mu&s;t make up the <HI>Ternary,</HI> according to <HI>Joachim.</HI></P>
<P>Strange Revolutions have happened to <HI>England</HI> &s;ince the Year 78. That Generous <HI>Maximus Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inus,</HI> mentioned in <HI>Day-Fata|lity</HI> (once Great Admiral of <HI>Arragon;</HI> and till the Year 73. High Admiral of <HI>England,</HI> is now again, at length, re-inve&s;ted in all His Honours; and that in &s;pight of that Crew, mentioned in <HI>In|troductio ad Latinam Bla&s;oniam,</HI> Pag. 165. with &s;trange <HI>Propheti|cal Heraldieal</HI> Reflections: He, I &s;ay, is re&s;tor'd; Influenc'd by a Divine Power and Favour, and the Benevolent Rays of Frater|nal Love; The Love of the greate&s;t <HI>Sea Prince</HI> in the World, <HI>Charles le bon, &amp; le grand.</HI></P>
<P>Pray <HI>God</HI> incline the Heart of the Great <HI>French Cyrus;</HI> The Heart of the Great <HI>Charles</HI> of <HI>Great Britain;</HI> And then the <HI>French Cavalry,</HI> and the <HI>Engli&s;h Mariners,</HI> Influenc'd by the Au|&s;picious <HI>Genius</HI> and Succe&s;s of Prince <HI>Maximus Marinus.</HI> His Royal Highne&s;s, will be A&s;&s;i&s;tant to the <HI>Venetian</HI> Coun&s;els and Undertakings.</P></Q>
<P>Thus I, in my &s;aid Little Treati&s;e.</P>
<P>Since which <HI>(Sic dii volu&ecirc;re) Charles le bon</HI> is departed into another World, and <HI>James</HI> the Great is become Sole <HI>Arbiter</HI> of His Brothers Power; and needs none of His Brothers Influence; I &s;ay, no Influence, but that of <HI>God:</HI> Which, let's pray He may never want, to Subdue the Enemies of Cri&s;tendome, as well as Tho&s;e of His own peculiar Kingdoms <HI>(faxit Deus).</HI></P>
<Q><L>Auxilium contra <HI>Turcas</HI> Rex inclite praele:</L>
<L><HI>Anglus <HI>Venetis</HI> Gallus</HI> &amp; addat opem.</L>
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<L>An Liceat optare in&s;uper?</L>
<L><HI>Ferraram</HI> jungas <HI>Mutinae, Rhegioque</HI> celebrem,</L>
<L>(Imperii quam Sacra fames di&s;-junxit iniqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">)</L>
<L>Ducatus rapti quis promptior Arbiter ad&s;it;</L>
<L>Qu&agrave;m qui <HI>Ferrariam Prolem</HI> jam duxit Her&ocirc;us</L>
<L>(<HI>E&s;ten&s;em natam</HI> dico) Succe&s;&s;io cujus</L>
<L>Stemmatis eximii, jam mille cucurrerat annos</L>
<L>Ducento&s;que &s;uper,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Pigna</HI> quae Scrip&s;it.</NOTE> <HI>Pignen&s;ia</HI> chronica firmant.</L></Q>
<P>Thus have I fini&s;hed This &s;mall Piece, Treating of the Won|derful Di&s;covery and Finding of that Sacred Relique, belonging to a Royal <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI> of that Religion, which our mo&s;t <HI>Serene So|veraign</HI> has Re&s;tored, and &s;olemnly Profe&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>When I had Publi&s;hed my <HI>Day-Fatality, Anno</HI> 1679. one whom I am loath to name, (and whom I An&s;wered in a Pamphlet Intituled, <HI>Mercurius Antiducalis Flagella us;</HI> and have al&s;o mentioned with &s;pecial Remark, <HI>Pag.</HI> 157. of my <HI>Introductio ad Latinam Bla&s;oniam</HI>) expo&s;ed me in his <HI>Popi&s;h Courant,</HI> as a <HI>Red-Letter-Man;</HI> and Abus'd me mo&s;t horribly in his <HI>Touch of the Times:</HI> What will he think of me now? I only gently tell him, and all the World:
<Q><L>&mdash; In tali Relligione</L>
<L>Quali plura nitent moralia, cur ego paucis</L>
<L>Offendar dubiis? tolerarier ergo meretur</L>
<L>Nec min&ugrave;s &agrave; no&s;tro jam Rege foverier almo</L>
<L>(Sic reor &amp; raturus ero Stabilitus in aevum)</L>
<L>Diligo Romanae moralia Religionis.</L></Q></P>
<P>I need not <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> this to the Author afore&s;aid, who began that part of his <HI>Popi&s;h Courant</HI> (&s;o Picquant to me) with a Quota|tion out of <HI>Horace.</HI></P>
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<P>PAge 4. Line <HI>ult.</HI> for <HI>Plenas</HI> read <HI>Plenus.</HI> p. 11. l. 22. for <HI>Europian</HI> r. <HI>European.</HI> p. 13. l. 23. for <HI>Cords</HI> r. <HI>Corps.</HI> p. 19. l. 19. r. <HI>Excommunicata.</HI> p. 23. l. 2. for <HI>Edovardus</HI> r. <HI>Edwardus.</HI> Ibid. l. 15. for <HI>Rivallene&s;s</HI> r. <HI>Rivallen&s;is.</HI> p. 24. l. 26. for <HI>Edovarde</HI> r. <HI>Edovardi.</HI> p. 31. l. 27. for <HI>Hand is</HI> r. <HI>Handys.</HI> p. 32. l. 5. for <HI>accidently</HI> r. <HI>accidentally.</HI></P>
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