De
sancto
Adriano
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
adryan
was
abbot
of
the
monastery
of
viridian
/
that
is
a
lytle
fro
napuls
And
for
his
●●●tue
/
and
cunnynge
vitalian
/
the
pope
wolde
haue
made
him
archebussope
of
Caunterbury
/
&
he
of
mekenes
refusyd
it
for
his
escuse
desyred
that
saynt
Theodre
myghte
be
elected
therto
/
&
so
he
was
vpon
this
condicion
that
he
shulde
accompany
seynt
Theodre
into
Englonde
and
he
assentyd
and
so
refusynge
the
honoure
he
toke
the
laboure
/
And
when
he
came
into
Englonde
he
had
commyttyd
to
hym
the
rule
of
the
monasterye
of
seynt
Augustyne
of
Caunterbury
and
there
he
gadered
a
great
multytude
of
dyscyples
&
taught
them
metyr
astronomye
arythmetryke
/
&
also
dyuynite
/
&
many
of
his
dyscyples
coulde
greke
&
laten
tonge
as
well
as
theyr
owne
/
&
he
with
seynt
Theodre
taught
the
tewnes
of
syngynge
in
the
churche
of
Englond
which
afore
theyr
tyme
was
onely
vsed
in
Kent
/
&
he
passed
out
of
this
worlde
full
of
good
werkes
/
&
good
exaumples
the
.v.
I●●s
of
Ianuary
/
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
God
seuyn
hundred
●●iii
.
&
lyeth
in
his
monastery
at
Caunterbury
And
after
his
deth
shypmen
of
Englonde
which
were
lyke
to
haue
ben
robbed
by
pyratis
in
the
see
by
prayer
to
seynt
Adryan
were
delyuered
/
he
reysed
a
man
fro
deth
/
&
he
appered
to
one
/
&
bad
hym
shewe
seynt
Dunstane
that
he
dwellyd
in
houses
that
were
well
&
sufficiently
couered
/
but
the
moder
of
almyghty
god
&
he
/
&
other
her
seruauntes
lay
open
to
the
heuyns
wherfore
anone
seynt
Dunstane
repayred
the
Churche
of
our
Lady
/
and
vsed
moche
to
be
there
in
contemplacyon
/
and
on
a
nyght
as
he
was
there
in
prayers
he
sawe
euydently
our
Lady
&
seynt
Adryan
in
the
sayd
Churche
laudynge
&
honourynge
our
Lorde
.
¶
De
sancto
aido
siue
Aidano
abbate
.
A
Man
of
Irlonde
callyd
sedia
/
and
his
wyfe
prayde
certyen
holy
men
to
Praye
for
theym
that
they
mought
haue
a
Chylde
/
&
after
they
had
prayed
/
they
bad
the
man
&
his
wyfe
goo
whom
&
in
the
nyghte
folowynge
the
husband
sawe
a
bryght
sterre
falle
into
the
mouthe
of
his
wyfe
/
And
she
sawe
a
bryght
mone
falle
into
the
mouth
of
her
Husbonde
/
&
after
they
had
a
sone
whom
they
callyd
Aidus
/
or
Aidanus
/
And
when
he
came
to
age
/
he
&
his
felowe
Molassus
entendyd
to
goo
on
Pylgrymage
/
&
they
wiste
not
whether
/
And
by
Inspyracion
of
our
Lord
they
bad
.ii.
great
Trees
growinge
therby
tell
them
what
they
sholde
do
/
And
anon
the
two
Trees
fell
downe
oon
towarde
the
Northe
/
&
the
other
towarde
the
Southe
/
And
so
the
Chyldren
deuyded
/
&
seynt
Aidus
came
into
the
countrey
of
Lagmenciū
/
&
an
An̄gell
brought
hym
to
the
place
where
he
wolde
be
/
and
he
went
vppon
the
water
to
a
place
where
two
chyldren
were
drowned
/
&
by
his
prayers
he
reysyd
them
to
lyfe
/
&
after
he
came
to
seynt
Dauyd
into
Wales
/
&
was
with
hym
a
longe
tyme
/
and
there
for
haste
as
he
went
to
the
wood
he
lefte
his
boke
open
behynde
hym
/
&
though
it
rayned
in
other
places
/
it
rayned
not
vppon
his
Boke
/
And
seynt
Dauyd
as
he
was
by
the
seesyde
blamyd
hym
for
leuynge
his
Boke
behynde
hym
/
wherfore
anon
he
lay
ꝓstrat
before
seynt
Dauyd
/
&
of
mekenes
wolde
not
ryse
tyll
he
were
bydden
/
And
seynt
Dauyd
retournyd
whom
&
for
gate
to
bydde
hym
ryse
/
&
so
the
flowe
of
the
see
came
/
&
as
he
lay
the
see
rose
aboute
hym
&
touchyd
hym
not
/
And
when
seynt
Dauyd
myssed
hym
he
was
moch
heuy
/
and
sent
Bretherne
for
hym
/
&
they
founde
hym
lyenge
in
the
bottome
of
the
see
/
&
drewe
hym
vppe
into
theyr
shyppe
&c.
And
on
a
tyme
when
seynt
Aidus
went
fro
seynt
Dauyd
into
Irlonde
/
he
forgate
his
Cymbale
behynde
hym
in
Wales
/
&
when
he
had
nede
of
it
/
it
was
sodenly
brought
ouer
the
see
to
hym
/
Wherfore
he
thanked
our
Lorde
/
&
a nother
tyme
seynt
dauyd
sent
for
hym
/
&
he
went
to
hym
And
when
he
shulde
goo
agayne
into
Irlonde
/
he
asked
seynt
Dauyd
how
he
shuld
gette
ouer
the
see
/
and
he
bad
hym
goo
to
the
see
syde
/
&
ony
beest
that
he
founde
go
on
hym
to
his
Monastery
/
And
he
founde
a
beest
lyke
a
Horse
&
on
hym
he
went
ouer
the
see
into
Irlonde
/
&
then
the
Beest
wente
agayne
into
the
see
/
He
was
a
great
gyuer
of
Almes
/
and
fastyd
.l.
dayes
.
and
.l.
nyghtes
to
gedyr
/
&
he
dyed
in
great
Age
full
of
good
Werkes
&
vertues
the
day
before
the
fyrste
kalendas
of
Marche
.
And
at
seynt
Dauythys
he
is
callyd
moadoke
/
and
there
his
Feest
is
kepte
with
great
honoure
.
¶
De
sancto
Aidano
episcopo
&
confessore
.
THere
is
a
monastery
in
the
Ile
of
hii
which
of
olde
tyme
belonged
to
Brytayne
nowe
callyd
Englond
/
&
the
pyotys
gaue
it
to
the
scottys
because
they
were
firste
conuertyd
by
them
/
And
se
that
Aidan
beynge
busshope
was
sent
fro
that
I
le
to
preche
to
the
people
of
Englonde
/
and
he
taughte
noon
otherwyse
but
as
he
lyuyd
hym selfe
/
what
so
euyr
was
geuyn
to
hym
by
the
Kynge
or
Rychemen
/
He
gaue
it
to
poure
men
/
he
went
on
foote
to
Preche
and
Rode
not
withoute
great
nede
/
All
that
were
in
companye
with
hym
shuld
Rede
or
Praye
/
And
when
he
was
at
dyner
thoughe
it
were
with
the
Kynge
as
it
was
seldome
he
wolde
goo
fourthe
and
praye
/
he
wolde
alwaye
reproue
Rychemen
when
they
offendyd
/
and
not
forbere
theym
for
fere
/
nor
for
theyr
Auctoryte
/
he
gaue
oyle
to
a
preest
which
was
called
vtta
as
he
was
goynge
to
fette
enflede
doughter
to
kynge
Edwyn
to
be
maryed
to
kynge
oswy
/
And
bad
hym
if
any
tempest
toke
hym
in
the
see
/
that
he
sholde
caste
the
oyle
into
the
see
And
it
shulde
ceasse
/
and
so
it
prouyd
/
and
when
penda
had
thoughte
to
haue
burnyd
the
Cytie
of
bamburghe
for
that
he
coulde
not
wyn
it
by
streyngthe
/
he
leyde
moche
wood
/
and
hey
nyghe
to
the
towne
/
and
seynt
aidan
then
beynge
in
the
Ile
of
Ferne
to
myles
fro
thens
when
he
saw
the
Fyre
aboue
the
Cytie
wallys
prayed
to
our
lorde
for
helpe
/
And
by
his
prayer
the
wynde
chaunged
/
and
so
the
towne
was
saued
/
&
he
dyed
the
day
before
the
kalendas
of
Septembre
the
yere
of
Grace
.vi.
hundred
and
.li.
and
was
buryed
a
lytle
fro
the
sayd
Cytie
/
And
now
parte
of
his
relykys
be
at
Duresme
and
parte
be
had
into
Scotlande
/
and
twyse
the
house
wherein
he
dyed
/
which
was
adioynynge
to
the
churche
was
saued
/
when
the
churche
&
all
the
strete
were
burned
/
&
venerable
bede
that
wrote
his
lyfe
seyth
of
hym
that
he
was
a
great
louer
of
peace
/
and
charyte
&
was
an
ouercomer
of
Ire
&
couetyse
/
a
dispyser
of
vaynglory
/
a
reprouer
of
proude
men
/
and
a
comforter
of
syckemen
and
poore
men
/
and
that
as
farre
as
he
coulde
lerne
this
blessyd
man
omytted
nothyng
〈◊〉
he
lerned
by
the
euangelystys
or
ꝓphyttys
to
be
〈◊〉
fulfyllyd
it
in
that
he
coulde
/
howe
be
it
in
that
he
kepte
〈◊〉
Estre
at
the
due
tyme
/
Bede
prayseth
hym
not
/
〈◊〉
prayseth
hym
for
he
seyth
percase
he
knewe
it
not
〈◊〉
kepte
it
on
a
sonday
/
but
he
praysyth
hym
that
〈…〉
pynge
of
his
Ester
/
he
beleuyd
/
nor
worsh
〈…〉
other
thynge
but
as
we
doo
/
that
is
to
say
the
Redempcion
of
mankynde
by
the
Passyon
/
Resurreccyon
/
&
Assencyon
of
the
medyator
betwixte
God
&
Man
/
our
Lorde
Ihesu
Criste
/
And
in
the
lyfes
of
Seynt
Oswalde
/
and
Oswyn
kynges
/
And
of
Seynt
Cuthbert
dyuerse
thynges
thynges
be
spokyn
of
this
Blessyd
man
.
¶
De
sancto
Albano
martire
.
SEynt
Albon
dwellyd
in
the
Towne
of
verolame
that
now
is
callyd
seynt
Albons
/
And
in
the
tyme
of
the
ꝑsecucyon
of
dioclesyan
seynt
Amphibell
came
into
Brytayne
and
lodged
in
the
house
of
seynt
Albon
/
and
exortyd
hym
to
be
conuerted
/
And
shewyd
hym
sumwhat
of
the
beleue
of
our
lorde
/
and
he
gaue
lytle
credence
to
his
techynge
/
And
the
same
nyght
seynt
Albon
sawe
a
vision
that
betokened
the
Misteryes
of
the
Incarnaciou
/
Passyon
/
Resurreccion
/
&
Assencion
of
our
Lorde
as
in
the
Legende
apperyth
/
And
in
the
mornynge
he
asked
of
seynt
Amphibell
what
his
visyon
betokened
/
&
when
seynt
Amphibell
had
declared
the
hole
misteryes
therof
how
our
Lorde
suffred
Passyon
and
Deth
/
And
how
he
Rose
agayne
and
assendyd
to
Heuyn
/
he
sayd
it
was
all
trewe
that
he
sayde
/
And
anon
he
Beleued
/
and
was
Cristened
/
And
thenne
he
was
complaynyd
on
that
he
was
Cristened
/
Wherfore
he
was
sent
for
/
and
was
Takyn
as
he
was
prayenge
before
a
Crosse
/
And
so
he
was
broughte
to
the
Iudge
/
And
there
constauntly
he
confessyd
that
he
was
a
Cristēmā
/
And
so
he
was
put
in
prison
/
&
there
he
lay
.vi.
Monethes
/
&
in
all
that
tyme
there
felle
no
rayne
And
therfore
the
people
thynkynge
that
the
god
that
Albon
worshypped
ꝓhibited
the
rayne
/
toke
hym
out
of
prysone
/
and
wolde
haue
lette
hym
goo
/
And
he
seynge
that
〈◊〉
wold
haue
let
hym
goo
prayde
our
Lorde
that
his
martyrdome
shuld
not
be
lette
/
And
opynly
dyspysyd
theyr
Idollys
/
and
soo
he
was
had
with
great
vyolence
to
be
behedyd
/
and
as
he
went
a
ryuer
that
wolde
haue
lettyd
theyr
passage
by
his
Prayer
dryed
vppe
/
and
oon
of
the
Knyghtys
that
drewe
hym
to
his
marterdome
seynge
the
great
Myracles
that
our
lorde
shewyd
for
hym
was
conuertyd
/
&
seynt
Albon
was
behedyd
the
.x.
kalendas
of
Iuli
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
.
CClxxx
.
vi
.
And
anon
the
eyen
of
hym
that
strake
it
offelle
owte
/
&
he
was
buryed
at
seynt
Albons
/
&
sumwhat
the
Legend
leuyth
it
for
a
dowte
whether
he
lye
now
at
seynt
Albons
or
at
ely
/
but
it
semyth
to
be
the
more
lyke
that
he
shuld
lye
at
seynt
Albons
/
And
in
the
legend
apperith
how
kynge
Offa
repayred
the
monastery
ofseynt
Albons
/
And
how
the
heresy
of
Pelagian̄
began
at
Bangor
/
and
how
it
was
extyncte
.
¶
De
sancto
Aldelmo
episcopo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
aldelme
was
of
kynne
to
Iue
kynge
of
we
stesaxōs
/
&
in
his
youthe
he
ꝓphyted
moch
in
connynge
/
&
after
he
was
made
monke
at
malmesbury
&
so
preest
/
&
then
Abbot
/
And
his
fame
went
so
ferre
that
it
came
to
the
pope
Sergyus
/
&
he
sent
for
hym
to
Rome
/
&
when
he
had
sayd
masse
in
the
Church
of
lateranense
&
helde
the
vestement
behynde
hym
to
haue
takyn
it
to
one
of
his
seruauntis
/
&
none
was
there
/
it
honge
vppon
a
sonne
beame
a
longe
tyme
/
a
woman
that
was
with
Chylde
defamed
the
Pop●
therwith
/
And
saynt
Aldelme
herynge
that
was
moch
heuy
&
commaundyd
the
chylde
which
was
but
.ix.
dayes
olde
in
the
name
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
criste
to
shewe
if
the
Pope
were
his
fader
&
he
sayd
nay
/
And
so
the
Pope
was
delyuerd
of
the
cryme
/
And
seynt
Aldelme
brought
with
hym
fro
Rome
an
Alterstone
which
by
the
way
brake
/
&
with
his
prayer
&
blessynge
it
was
made
hoole
/
And
as
it
is
sayd
the
same
stone
is
yet
in
the
priory
of
Briton
now
callyd
Bruton
he
was
a
great
wryter
of
Bokes
/
&
meynteyned
moche
the
due
kepynge
of
Ester
/
he
neuer
went
out
of
his
Monastery
without
a
great
cause
/
he
gaue
great
almes
&
wold
stonde
in
the
water
thoughe
it
were
froste
/
&
snowe
tyll
he
had
sayd
a
hole
psalter
/
And
after
he
was
made
busshop
of
Shyryburne
and
in
great
age
full
of
good
werkes
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
.viii.
kalendas
of
Iune
.
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vii.
hundred
&
.ix.
and
lyeth
in
his
monastery
at
Malmesbury
.
¶
De
sancto
alredo
Epo
&
confessore
.
When
seynt
Alrede
was
in
his
Cradell
his
face
shone
lyke
the
sonne
/
And
in
his
chyldehod
he
had
the
spirit
of
ꝓphecy
/
And
tolde
the
very
day
of
the
deth
of
the
Busshop
of
yorke
/
&
he
was
in
so
great
fauoure
with
Dauyd
kynge
of
Scottys
that
he
was
seconde
to
hym
whiche
a
Knyght
enuyed
much
with
great
hatred
insomoche
that
somtyme
in
presence
of
the
kynge
he
wolde
speke
opprobrious
wordys
to
hym
/
&
he
toke
all
paciently
so
that
the
Knyght
meruaylyd
&
toke
penaunce
&
askyd
hym
forgeuenes
/
&
he
tolde
hym
that
he
ought
to
loue
hym
the
more
/
for
by
his
hatred
he
encresyd
the
more
in
the
loue
of
our
lord
/
And
by
hym
his
pacience
was
prouyd
/
And
he
was
so
meke
that
thoughe
he
were
hurte
he
was
not
moche
troubled
therwith
/
and
if
any
accused
hym
he
was
not
prouokyd
to
vengeaunce
/
and
he
dyd
alway
good
for
euyll
/
and
when
the
kynge
wolde
haue
made
hym
busshope
he
for●oke
it
&
entred
into
Relygyon
at
ryeuall
which
is
of
the
ordre
of
cisteaux
and
was
mayster
of
the
nouyces
/
&
a
Nouyce
that
was
vnstable
was
by
his
prayers
twyse
brought
agayne
to
the
Monasterye
when
he
was
goynge
away
/
and
when
he
was
made
Abbot
oftymes
he
counceyled
his
Bretherne
that
noo
foule
worde
shulde
goo
out
of
theyr
mouthe
ne
any
detraccion
/
or
o
the
/
And
he
refourmyd
the
hole
countrey
of
gallway
/
and
wrote
the
lyfe
of
Seynt
Edwarde
Kynge
&
Confessoure
and
dyd
many
other
thynges
/
he
was
of
great
abstynence
/
and
wolde
moche
rede
in
Bokes
that
shulde
moue
compunccion
/
and
he
had
great
sykenes
ten
yeres
before
he
dyed
and
toke
it
in
great
pacience
and
wolde
no
fysyke
and
oftymes
was
visityd
with
Aungells
/
and
he
knewe
the
veray
daye
of
his
Deth
/
he
sayde
to
his
Bretherne
that
after
he
entered
into
Relygyon
/
he
neuer
fret
in
malyce
/
nor
detraccyon
with
any
person
that
for
any
cause
taryed
with
hym
tyll
nyghte
/
and
that
he
had
louyd
alway
peace
/
&
Broderly
loue
/
&
his
owne
espirituell
quietnes
/
&
he
wente
to
our
lord
the
day
before
the
firste
Idus
of
Ianuarye
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a.
M.
a
hundred
.lxvi.
and
dyuers
thynges
be
here
omytted
&c.
¶
De
sancto
Amphybalo
martire
.
WHen
seynt
Amphibell
had
conuertyd
seynt
Albon
/
seynt
Albon
aduertysed
hym
to
go
oute
of
the
Cytie
/
&
so
he
went
into
wales
&
after
when
seynt
Albon
was
martyred
&
a
great
multytude
of
people
sawe
a
bryght
Pyller
ascende
fro
his
toumbe
to
heuyn
/
they
mere
conuerted
and
sent
for
seynt
Amphibell
to
instructe
theym
in
the
feyth
/
&
the
messengers
founde
hym
in
Wales
prechynge
to
the
people
/
and
in
the
meane
tyme
a
noyse
rose
in
the
Cytie
that
some
of
the
Cytye
wolde
goo
with
Amphybell
ouer
the
see
&
caste
away
the
worshyppynge
of
theyr
goddes
/
wherfore
a
great
company
of
the
people
furyously
went
to
hym
&
when
they
founde
hym
they
bounde
his
armes
and
made
hym
goo
before
theyr
horses
barefote
/
and
in
the
way
he
helyd
a
syke
man
/
Aud
when
men
of
verolame
met
hym
they
put
hym
to
cruell
Martyrdome
/
And
many
seynge
his
constaunce
were
conuerted
/
wherfore
they
were
put
to
deth
in
his
syghte
a.
M.
persones
whome
he
commytted
ioyously
to
our
Lord
/
&
as
he
was
stoned
he
was
in
prayer
/
&
sawe
our
Lord
with
many
aungelles
&
seynt
Albon
was
amonge
them
&
a
voyce
sayd
that
he
shuld
be
with
his
discyples
in
ꝑadyse
/
And
so
Aungels
toke
his
sowle
to
heuyn
/
And
all
that
dyd
any
thynge
ageynst
hym
were
greuously
punysshed
by
the
hande
of
god
/
&
the
people
seyng
the
terryble
punysshement
that
folowid
were
all
conuertyd
/
&
many
went
to
Rome
to
do
penaunce
/
&
he
was
buryed
at
Radbourne
&
lay
there
longe
●yme
vnknowen
/
And
by
reuelacion
of
seynt
albon
his
body
was
founde
/
&
brought
to
seint
albons
.
¶
De
sancto
Anselmo
archiepiscopo
.
SEynt
anselme
was
borne
in
the
Cytie
of
Augustam
in
the
mountes
of
Alpey
/
and
in
his
youth
he
came
to
the
monasterye
of
Becceuse
in
Normandye
/
And
there
he
was
.iii.
yeres
vnder
lamfranke
/
&
lyued
a
Religious
lyfe
/
&
when
lamfranke
was
takyn
to
the
rule
of
the
monastery
of
cadomence
anselme
was
made
Pryour
of
Becceuse
/
&
he
abstractid
hys
mynde
fro
the
worlde
&
worldely
thynges
&
gaue
hym
holly
to
study
&
contemplacyon
And
he
assoylyd
many
doutes
in
scripture
/
that
had
not
ben
assoyled
afore
his
tyme
/
And
he
absteynyd
so
moche
that
all
glotony
was
extincte
in
hym
so
that
he
had
no
hungre
nor
desyre
of
etynge
as
other
men
haue
/
a
yonge
broder
of
frowarde
maners
enuyed
hym
/
&
he
suffred
hym
all
that
he
mought
/
not
brekynge
the
rules
of
the
religion
a
longe
tyme
wherby
at
the
laste
the
chylde
began
to
loue
seynt
anselme
/
and
wolde
here
his
monycions
and
at
laste
take
his
correccyons
and
an
olde
broder
that
longe
had
enuyed
hym
when
he
lay
syke
/
cryed
out
and
sayd
that
two
wood
wulphes
were
betwixte
his
armes
that
wolde
strangle
hym
/
and
seynt
Anselme
herynge
that
/
made
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
/
and
so
they
wente
away
&
then
gladlye
he
toke
penaunce
/
Seynt
anselme
wrote
many
Bokes
/
&
the
Deuyll
had
great
enuy
to
them
/
&
somtyme
he
tere
them
in
pecys
/
And
he
shewyd
by
dyuerse
/
godlye
exaumples
that
chyldren
shulde
aswell
be
Instructyd
by
feyre
meanes
/
as
by
rygoure
/
And
after
he
was
made
Abbot
he
vsed
moche
contemplacyon
/
and
appoyntyd
other
approuyd
men
to
haue
rule
vnder
hym
/
&
he
was
dylygent
in
receyuynge
of
gestys
/
And
after
he
came
into
Englond
where
after
the
deth
of
seynt
Lāfranke
he
was
made
archbusshope
of
Caunterbury
in
the
tyme
of
wyllyam
Rufus
which
was
a
great
tyraunte
&
oppresser
of
the
Churche
/
And
by
cause
seynt
Anselme
namyd
Pope
vrban
as
Pope
/
The
kynge
toke
great
displeasour
/
And
anon
dyuerse
of
the
Busshoppes
gaue
vp
theyr
obedyence
to
Seynt
anselme
/
And
after
when
he
had
asked
thryseleue
of
the
Kynge
to
goo
to
Rome
/
the
Kynge
bad
hym
leue
that
purpose
/
or
go
his
wey
without
Retournynge
/
and
after
he
went
to
Rome
/
and
there
he
had
a
decre
for
makynge
of
Busshopes
that
they
sholde
not
be
made
by
geuynge
of
a
staffe
/
and
as
he
came
homewarde
he
sawe
in
vyfyon
that
●l
the
seyntys
of
Englond
complayned
to
our
lorde
of
the
Kynge
/
And
our
lorde
gaue
a
burnynge
Arowe
to
seynt
Albon
/
&
he
sayde
he
wolde
take
it
to
a
wicked
spiryt
that
was
a
taker
of
vengeaunce
for
synne
/
And
so
he
threwe
it
into
the
Erthe
lyke
a
comet
sterre
by
which
vision
seynt
Anselme
knewe
that
the
kynge
was
deed
/
And
after
he
came
into
Englonde
/
&
by
deseyre
of
Kynge
henry
the
furst
he
went
agayne
to
Rome
to
chaunge
the
decre
/
&
when
the
Kynge
knewe
the
Pope
wolde
not
chaunge
it
he
seased
the
Busshopryche
of
Cauterbury
into
his
handys
/
And
after
the
Kynge
and
he
were
agreed
/
And
the
kynge
lefte
the
olde
custome
of
makynge
of
Busshoppes
by
geuynge
of
a
staffe
/
and
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
a.
M.
a
hundred
&
.ix.
full
of
good
werkys
/
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
.xi.
kalendas
of
Maii
/
and
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Audoeno
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
audowen
was
archebusshpe
of
Roane
/
&
after
he
was
chosen
/
he
wolde
not
presume
anon
to
take
it
vppon
hym
/
but
went
fyrste
into
Spayne
/
And
there
prechyd
to
the
people
/
and
by
his
prayer
they
hadde
abundaunce
of
Rayne
that
were
before
.vii.
yerys
withoute
/
And
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
.ix
kalendas
of
september
/
and
was
buryed
in
Roan
/
And
.xxx.
yerys
after
his
body
was
found
vncorrupte
/
And
in
the
tyme
of
kynge
Edgare
foure
clerkys
came
to
his
courte
/
And
tolde
hym
that
they
had
brought
with
them
the
Relykys
of
seynt
Audoen
/
And
when
he
doubtyd
/
and
marueylyd
therat
they
sayde
without
it
appere
by
Myracles
that
it
is
soo
let
theym
be
punysshed
/
and
put
out
of
the
Realme
/
and
the
Kynge
sayde
that
it
belonged
to
Spyrytuell
examynacyon
/
and
not
to
hym
/
And
bad
them
tarye
tyll
the
Archebusshope
odo
came
/
And
whan
the
Archbusshop
came
the
Clerkes
perseuered
in
that
oppynyon
/
and
prayde
that
it
mought
be
tryed
by
the
shewynge
of
almyghty
god
/
And
so
a
Lepour
was
brought
furthe
/
&
with
deuoute
prayer
the
Archebussope
made
a
Crosse
ouer
hym
with
Bones
that
they
brought
/
And
anon
he
was
hoole
/
and
a
man
syke
of
the
palsey
with
the
hede
/
and
with
deuoute
prayer
made
in
the
name
of
seynt
Audoen
was
also
made
hoole
And
so
the
relykys
with
great
honoure
were
had
to
Caunterbury
/
and
the
sayde
clerkys
seynge
the
place
were
made
Monkes
&
they
endyd
theyr
lyues
in
the
seruyce
of
our
Lorde
and
of
seynt
Audoen
/
&
in
his
Lyfe
be
many
notable
thynges
of
his
vertues
counceyles
/
and
myracles
.
De
sancto
Augustino
episcopo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
gregory
sawe
englysshe
Chyldren
to
sell
at
Rome
&
when
he
had
lerned
that
they
were
callyd
Angli
/
&
that
they
were
not
Cristened
/
he
sayde
it
was
great
pyte
that
the
spyryte
of
Derkenes
shuld
haue
so
feyre
People
/
for
he
sayde
they
were
well
callyd
Angli
/
quasi
angeli
/
And
so
he
had
great
desyre
to
haue
prechid
the
seythe
to
them
hymselfe
but
that
the
people
of
rome
wold
not
suffre
hym
to
go
so
ferre
/
&
therfore
when
he
was
made
Pope
he
sent
seynt
Augustyne
&
many
other
into
Englonde
as
he
had
longe
desyred
/
&
they
toke
with
them
interpretours
out
of
Fraunce
/
and
they
landyd
in
the
Ile
of
Tannet
/
and
Ethelbertus
was
then
kynge
in
Kent
/
and
he
had
maryed
a
Lady
of
the
Kynges
blode
of
Fraunce
which
was
Cristened
/
And
when
they
shuld
mete
the
Kynge
they
brought
before
them
a
Crosse
and
an
Image
of
our
Lord
/
And
when
seynt
Augustyne
had
made
a
longe
sermon
to
the
Kynge
/
of
the
power
of
our
lorde
/
of
his
passyon
/
and
resurreccyon
/
&
of
the
entent
of
theyr
commynge
that
it
was
to
haue
hym
forsake
Idollys
/
and
beleue
in
our
lorde
/
and
so
to
come
to
an
euerlastinge
kyngedom
/
the
Kynge
fayde
bycause
they
were
come
fro
farre
countres
to
shewe
hym
that
they
thought
was
best
/
he
wolde
receyue
theym
fauorably
/
and
mynystre
to
theym
suche
as
they
neded
/
but
as
to
chaunge
his
beleue
/
that
his
auncestoures
had
so
longe
kepte
/
he
wolde
take
respyte
therein
/
and
so
he
appoynted
theym
a
lodgynge
in
Caunterburye
/
and
gaue
theym
lycence
to
conuerte
as
many
as
they
coulde
/
and
after
the
Kynge
seynge
theyr
blessyd
lyfe
/
&
Myracles
that
they
dyd
/
was
conuerted
/
And
seynt
Augustyne
was
made
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
/
of
the
Busshope
of
Arelatense
/
and
anone
seynt
Augustyne
sent
to
rome
to
seynt
Gregory
certayn
interrogacions
wherto
seynt
gregory
answered
at
great
length
as
in
the
Legende
apperyth
/
&
also
seynt
Gregory
wrote
dyuers
goodly
Epystles
to
the
Kynge
ethelbert
to
the
quene
/
to
seynt
Augustyn●
&
to
seynt
mellyte
/
&
amonge
other
thynges
he
dispraysyth
moche
the
vse
in
some
contreys
that
women
do
not
norysshe
theyr
owne
Chyldren
/
and
exorteth
theym
to
do
it
/
and
seynt
Augustyne
with
the
helpe
of
the
kynge
Ethelberte
had
a
great
metynge
with
the
Busshopes
/
and
clergye
of
Wales
/
to
refourme
the
tyme
of
kepynge
of
Estre
/
&
dyuerse
other
thynges
that
they
vsed
agaynste
the
good
ordre
of
the
Churche
/
and
to
ha●e
theym
charytably
by
common
assent
/
mynystre
the
worde
of
god
to
the
people
/
and
they
Refused
/
and
whenne
Seynt
Augustyne
hadde
helyd
a
blynde
Man
in
prouynge
that
theyr
Tradycyons
were
not
good
/
yet
they
toke
longer
respyte
to
a nother
day
/
&
at
that
day
they
retourned
without
makynge
accorde
/
by
cause
seynt
Augustyne
rose
not
to
them
when
they
came
which
they
Iudged
to
be
of
pryde
/
and
many
of
the
famous
monasterye
of
Bangor
wherin
were
.xxi.
hundred
Monkys
were
there
at
that
day
/
wherfore
moch
parte
of
them
were
after
destroyed
by
Ethelfrydus
kynge
of
Northamhumbre
a
pagan
bycause
it
was
shewyd
hym
they
came
to
praye
for
a
Kynge
that
was
his
enemy
/
And
seynt
Augustyne
went
to
yorke
on
foote
to
Preche
/
&
there
he
helyd
oon
of
the
Palsey
/
and
there
he
cristened
aboue
.x.
thousande
people
/
And
as
he
went
fro
thens
he
helyd
a
lepoure
/
at
Cerne
in
dorset
shyre
our
Lorde
apperyd
to
hym
/
And
famylierly
spake
to
hym
/
and
conforted
hym
and
sayde
he
was
with
hym
in
all
that
he
dyd
/
and
in
the
place
where
our
Lorde
stode
he
sette
his
staffe
/
and
there
sprange
vppe
a
fayre
Welle
whenne
he
was
at
Cumpton
in
oxforde
shyre
it
was
shewyd
hym
that
the
lord
there
wolde
not
pay
his
tythes
/
&
after
as
he
was
goynge
to
masse
/
he
commaunded
that
no
man
accursed
shulde
abyde
within
the
Churche
/
And
anon
a
deed
Body
arose
and
went
into
the
Churcheyarde
/
and
seynt
Agustyne
went
to
hym
and
askyd
what
he
was
/
&
he
sayde
he
was
somtyme
Lorde
of
that
maner
/
and
because
he
wolde
not
pay
his
tythes
/
he
was
Accursyd
by
the
Curat
/
and
so
he
Dyed
/
And
anon
the
curat
by
commaundement
of
seynt
Augustyne
rose
/
and
there
assoyled
hym
/
&
so
they
fell
agayne
to
Asshes
/
&
when
he
that
denyed
payment
of
his
tythes
had
seen
this
/
he
fell
downe
to
the
foot
of
seynt
Augustyne
/
and
confessyd
his
offence
&
euer
after
was
discyple
to
seynt
Augustyne
/
he
went
alwayes
on
foot
somtyme
barefoot
/
and
with
longe
knelynge
he
had
great
calles
on
his
knees
/
and
in
his
tyme
kynge
Ethelberte
made
seynt
poules
Churche
in
London●
he
made
two
Busshoppes
oon
at
London
&
anoder
at
Rochester
&
he
went
out
of
this
world
the
.vii.
kalendas
of
Iune
&
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
/
&
he
was
translatyd
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
a.
M.
lxxxxi
.
the
thyrde
day
before
the
natyuyte
of
our
Lady
.
¶
De
sancto
Bartholomeo
monacho
.
SEynt
bartylmew
was
borne
in
the
prouynce
of
whithe
/
and
in
his
youth
he
sawe
with
his
bodelye
eye
our
Lady
/
seynt
Peter
&
seynt
Iohn
euangelyst
/
&
our
Lady
with
a
plesaunte
countenaunce
bad
hym
kys
the
steppes
of
her
sone
and
aske
of
hym
mercy
/
and
when
he
lay
ꝓstrate
/
and
cryed
thryse
haue
mercy
on
me
/
our
Lorde
answeryd
I
haue
mercy
on
the
/
and
for
euer
shall
haue
mercy
on
the
/
and
after
he
entred
into
relygyon
at
Duresme
/
And
as
he
knelyd
before
the
crucyfyx
he
sawe
in
spyryte
the
crucyfyxe
bowe
downe
to
hym
/
and
take
hym
in
his
armes
&
kysse
hym
/
And
he
lyued
in
grete
humilite
/
&
obedyence
/
&
suche
werkes
of
god
as
other
Bretherne
dyd
forgette
or
coulde
not
doo
he
wolde
perfourme
for
he
wolde
sey
that
oon
Brother
shuld
euer
helpe
fourthe
a nother
/
And
after
by
monycyon
of
Seynt
Cuthberte
he
wente
to
the
Ile
of
Pharnense
/
for
that
place
he
sayde
was
ordeynyd
for
hym
of
God
/
and
there
he
lyuyd
a
Strayghte
/
and
Blessyd
lyfe
many
yerys
And
a
lyfe
of
great
exaumple
in
his
dyet
Fastynge
/
Prayenge
/
and
in
his
apparell
/
And
he
was
of
suche
reuerence
/
and
goodly
demeanoure
that
Ryche
proude
men
were
aferde
to
appere
afore
hym
/
And
at
his
desyre
wolde
●ote
tymes
cease
fro
hurtyng
of
poure
men
/
And
he
was
full
of
Charyte
to
syke
men
/
&
poure
men
&
alwaye
counceylyd
theym
to
lede
theyr
lyfe
in
Pacyence
the
Deuyll
hadde
great
malyce
to
hym
/
&
apperyd
to
hym
somtyme
lyke
a
Lyon
/
lyke
a
Bulle
/
or
lyke
an
Ape
/
and
ones
he
laye
so
heuy
vppon
hym
and
helde
his
Throte
so
harde
that
he
had
well
nere
fayled
vnder
hym
/
and
as
he
cryed
oure
Lady
helpe
/
he
was
delyuered
/
And
he
was
wonte
to
saye
that
the
wycked
spyryt
was
but
frayle
/
and
lyke
Smoke
and
soon
wolde
be
ouercome
/
And
on
a
nyghte
he
sawe
seynt
Cuthbert
come
vysybly
to
the
Aulter
/
and
make
hym
redye
to
saye
Masse
/
And
he
helpyd
hym
to
Masse
to
the
ende
/
And
the
Ile
of
Pharnense
is
full
of
Byrdys
that
be
callyd
seynt
Cuthbertys
Byrdys
/
And
one
of
theym
hadde
loste
her
Byrde
in
a
Rocke
/
and
she
came
and
pullyd
seynt
bartylmewe
by
the
Skyrte
/
and
ledde
hym
to
the
place
/
And
soo
he
toke
out
the
Byrde
/
and
anone
they
wente
into
the
water
/
and
he
knewe
the
tyme
of
his
Deth
.ix.
yere
before
he
Dyed
/
And
he
dyed
on
mydsomerday
/
&
lyeth
in
the
Ile
of
Pharnense
.
&c.
¶
De
sancto
Benedicto
cognomento
Biscop
.
SEynt
benet
Byscop
was
of
noble
Blode
of
Englonde
/
and
hadde
great
possessyons
geuyn
hym
by
Kynge
oswy
which
he
refused
/
and
entred
into
Relygyon
in
the
Ile
of
lyxmense
/
and
whenne
he
had
ben
there
.ii.
yeres
/
he
wente
to
Rome
/
and
came
agayne
with
Seynt
Theodre
whenne
he
came
into
Englonde
/
and
broughte
with
hym
many
Relykys
/
And
after
he
made
.
two
Monasteryes
/
one
of
Seynt
Peter
/
and
anoder
of
Seynt
Paule
where
venerable
bede
was
broughte
vppe
/
And
he
was
Mayster
to
venerable
Bede
/
and
fyue
tymes
he
was
at
Rome
/
and
alwey
retournyd
with
moche
Rycheses
of
heuenly
thynges
/
and
he
studyed
alway
to
prophyt
theym
that
were
vnder
hym
/
both
in
werke
&
exaumple
/
And
he
yeldyd
vp
his
spyryt
to
our
Lorde
the
day
before
the
Idus
of
Ianuary
/
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
seuyn
hundred
and
thre
.
¶
De
venerabili
Bede
p̄sbitero
.
UEnerable
bede
was
borne
in
Gyrwence
a
lytle
fro
the
ryuer
of
Tyne
/
And
he
was
brought
vpe
vnder
seynt
Benet
Busshope
in
the
monasteryes
that
the
sayde
seynt
Benet
made
by
the
Ryuers
of
Tyn
and
were
/
And
after
he
had
attayned
great
cunnynge
in
lyberall
scyence
he
gaue
hym
to
study
of
scrypture
And
he
lernyd
Greke
/
and
Latten
tonge
of
the
discyples
of
seynt
Theodre
/
and
seynt
Adryan
/
And
as
he
encreasyd
in
connynge
and
wisdome
/
he
encreasyd
also
in
the
drede
of
our
Lorde
/
And
amonge
.vi.
C.
Bretherne
that
were
in
bothe
monasteryes
what
so
euer
any
of
theym
had
in
vertue
it
was
hoole
in
this
blessyd
man
/
&
in
the
.ix.
yere
of
his
age
he
toke
Dekon
/
and
at
Thyrty
prechyd
of
seynt
Iohn
of
beuerlay
/
and
all
that
tyme
he
gaue
study
to
Rulys
of
his
Relygyon
and
to
Scripture
/
and
was
alway
Redynge
/
Wrytynge
/
or
Techynge
/
And
many
came
to
hym
to
be
assoylyd
of
doughtys
in
Scrypture
And
those
that
myght
not
come
sent
to
hym
by
Wrytynge
/
And
his
fame
was
spronge
soo
farre
that
it
came
to
Rome
/
And
the
〈◊〉
wrote
to
his
Abbotte
coylfryde
to
sende
hym
to
Rome
to
assoyle
certeyn
doughtis
there
in
Scripture
/
but
whether
he
went
or
not
it
was
not
expressyd
/
And
.vii.
wekes
before
his
deth
he
had
great
desease
in
his
stomake
/
and
drewe
his
breth
thycke
&
notwithstondynge
he
lost
not
his
study
/
And
all
that
tyme
besyde
his
duty
he
sayde
dayly
certeyne
deuocyons
/
And
he
askyd
of
our
Lorde
that
he
that
had
geuyn
hym
grace
to
ha●●
cunnynge
&
vnderstondynge
of
his
wordys
/
that
he
wolde
geue
hym
grace
to
come
to
the
euerlastynge
welle
of
cunnynge
in
heuyn
/
And
thanne
he
teurned
to
his
bretherne
and
sayd
to
them
that
he
couetyd
to
be
dissoluyd
&
to
be
with
our
Lorde
/
And
prayed
them
if
he
had
any
thynge
laboured
for
them
/
or
prophytyd
in
any
maner
to
that
churche
of
god
that
they
wolde
therfore
haue
hym
in
remembraunce
in
theyr
prayers
and
lyuynge
/
vppon
heere
with
hooll
mynde
/
&
mery
Countenaunce
he
made
a
specyall
Prayer
to
the
holy
Goost
/
And
as
he
sayd
(
Gloria
patry
&
Filio
et
spiritui
sancto
)
with
the
namynge
of
the
holy
Goost
he
yeldyd
vp
his
spyryt
the
.vii.
kalendas
of
Iune
with
so
swete
a
Sauoure
that
all
that
were
presente
thoughte
they
had
byn
in
paradyce
/
And
lyeth
nowe
with
the
Bodye
of
Seynt
Cuthbert
/
And
in
the
legende
appere
two
causes
why
he
was
callyd
venerable
Bede
/
&
not
seynt
Bede
that
for
shortnes
be
here
omytted
/
And
some
men
adde
therto
a nother
cause
that
his
om●lyes
were
of
such
Auctoryte
that
they
were
redde
in
his
lyfe
/
And
then
he
was
callyd
venerable
Bede
/
And
not
seynt
Bede
for
it
hadde
not
ben
conuenyent
/
And
so
that
name
that
he
had
geuyn
hym
in
his
lyffe
contynued
after
his
deth
.
&c.
¶
De
sancto
Benygno
epo
&
confessore
.
AFter
seynt
Benygne
had
ben
many
yerys
a
Busshope
in
Irlande
he
was
warnyd
by
an
Aungell
that
he
shuld
leue
his
owne
Countrey
And
lyue
in
Deserte
/
and
soo
he
lefte
Irlonde
/
and
came
to
Glastonbury
/
And
there
he
founde
seynt
Patryke
/
&
he
bad
hym
goo
forthe
and
set
his
staffe
in
the
grounde
and
if
it
were
the
place
that
was
appoyntyd
for
hym
by
oure
Lorde
it
shulde
growe
/
And
soo
he
went
fourthe
with
one
Chylde
/
and
came
into
the
Ile
of
Ferramoure
And
there
he
sette
his
staffe
in
the
Grounde
which
grewe
and
bare
leuys
/
And
that
place
lackyd
water
/
And
as
the
chylde
was
fettynge
water
farre
of
and
slepte
by
the
way
the
deuyll
stale
away
his
vessell
/
Wherfore
when
he
awoke
he
was
very
heuy
/
And
chargyd
hym
that
had
takyn
it
awaye
in
the
name
of
god
whom
his
Mayster
benygne
dyd
worshyppe
/
that
he
shuld
brynge
it
agayne
/
And
then
the
Deuyll
had
no
power
to
kepe
it
ony
longer
but
brought
it
agayne
/
And
when
his
Mayster
harde
therof
he
prayde
hertely
to
our
Lord
/
and
an
Aungell
apperyd
to
hym
and
bad
hym
sende
his
Chylde
into
the
Eest
parte
of
his
Celle
/
and
byd
hym
sette
his
staffe
in
the
grownde
/
and
he
shulde
haue
water
/
and
soo
he
dyd
and
hadde
Water
in
suche
habundaunce
that
a
Ryuer
is
rysen
therof
where
was
none
before
/
And
he
mette
with
the
Deuyll
on
a
Brydge
/
and
askyd
hym
what
he
dyd
there
/
And
he
sayde
he
came
to
deceyue
hym
and
he
toke
hym
/
&
with
his
staffe
all
to
bete
hym
/
and
after
he
threwe
hym
into
a
depe
Pytte
where
to
this
Daye
no
man
dare
come
/
for
it
is
sayd
it
hath
no
bottom
/
&
he
shewyd
the
Bretherne
the
very
houre
of
his
deth
and
in
theyr
handys
lyftynge
/
vp
his
eyen
into
Heuyn
/
he
yeldyd
his
sowlle
to
our
Lorde
the
thyrde
nonas
of
Nouembre
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
thousande
foure
score
&
aleuyn
his
body
was
takyn
vppe
&
borne
to
the
Churche
of
Glastonbury
/
And
the
Abbot
with
one
of
his
Bones
blessyd
the
people
and
dyuerse
of
theym
were
helyd
of
theyr
diseases
.
De
sancto
Bernaco
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
bernake
was
of
noble
Blode
&
fro
his
you
the
kepte
the
commaundementys
of
God
/
And
had
great
Ryches
whiche
he
forsoke
and
wente
to
Rome
/
and
there
by
his
Prayer
he
dystroyed
a
cruell
Monstre
that
had
dystroyed
moche
people
/
And
when
he
began
to
be
moche
magnyfyed
of
the
people
he
withdrewe
hymselfe
pryuely
and
came
to
lytle
Brytayne
and
there
dyd
many
myracles
/
and
eftsones
eschewynge
the
prayse
of
the
worlde
he
came
alone
to
the
Seesyde
/
and
when
he
founde
no
Shyppe
redy
he
commytted
hymselfe
to
our
Lorde
/
and
vpon
a
stone
he
came
ouer
the
See
in
to
Northwales
and
there
he
droue
away
wicked
spryrytys
fro
a
place
that
he
enhabyted
in
the
whiche
afore
his
tyme
was
inhabytable
/
And
he
punysshed
his
Body
with
great
fastynge
ofte
/
vigyllys
/
and
sharpe
Clothes
/
And
that
he
kepte
fro
hym selfe
he
gaue
to
poure
men
/
He
made
somtyme
Hartys
to
drawe
in
the
chare
/
And
a
wulfe
to
kepe
his
Cowe
/
And
on
a
tyme
when
his
Cowe
was
taken
away
by
the
kynges
commaundement
the
water
that
she
shuld
haue
ben
soden
in
wolde
in
no
wyse
be
hoote
wherfore
the
kynge
came
to
hym
on
his
bare
feet
/
And
asked
forgeuenes
And
he
forgaue
hym
and
afore
them
all
reysyd
the
Cowe
agayne
/
And
for
the
Kynges
souper
of
water
he
made
wyne
/
and
of
stonys
Fysshe
/
And
in
the
mornynge
the
Kynge
discharged
his
place
and
all
therto
ꝑteynynge
fro
all
exaccyons
And
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
.vii.
Idus
of
Apryll
.
¶
De
sancto
Birino
epo
&
confe●●ore
.
SEynt
birine
was
made
Busshope
by
〈◊〉
honoryus
and
wassente
into
Englonde
to
Preche
the
worde
of
god
in
tho
partyes
where
it
hadde
not
ben
prechyd
afore
/
And
when
he
was
on
the
see
he
remembred
that
he
had
forgotten
behynde
hym
his
palle
that
he
was
wonte
to
mynystre
the
blessyd
sacrament
vppon
And
so
he
armyd
hym selfe
with
faythe
/
and
went
out
of
the
Shyppe
into
the
see
&
went
vpon
the
water
/
&
fet
his
palle
&
came
agayne
to
the
Shyppe
&
founde
it
standyng
styll
vnto
his
cummynge
agayne
which
before
went
a
grete
course
/
And
many
in
the
shyppeseynge
that
Myracle
were
conuertyd
.
And
so
.xxxviii.
yere
after
the
commynge
of
seynt
Augustyne
he
came
into
a
porte
amonge
the
people
of
the
westsaxons
that
were
then
all
Paganes
/
And
there
he
helyd
a
woman
that
myght
neytherhere
nor
see
And
cristenyd
the
Kynge
kynegylfus
and
seynt
Oswalde
the
Kynge
that
then
was
come
into
the
partyes
to
mary
the
Kynge
kynegylfus
doughter
was
his
godfader
&
both
the
Kynges
gaue
to
seynt
Byryne
dorchestre
to
make
a
Busshoppes
see
therin
/
And
putte
therin
two
Chanons
seculers
/
And
in
the
tyme
of
Wyllyam
conqueroure
that
see
was
translatyd
to
Lyncolne
by
the
Busshope
remyge
/
And
in
the
tyme
of
Kynge
steuyn
the
Bussope
Alexaunder
put
Chanons
reguler
into
Dorchestre
/
and
bede
de
gestys
Anglorum
wrytyth
that
after
so
that
byryne
had
conuertyd
moche
people
/
&
buylded
many
Churches
he
dyed
&
was
buryed
in
Dorchester
&
that
he
was
after
translatyd
to
wynchester
by
hedda
the
busshope
/
&
thereupon
was
great
sute
bytwixte
Wynchestre
/
&
Dorchestre
for
his
Body
&
the
〈◊〉
●rote
downe
a
Bulle
to
enquere
the
trouthe
/
And
it
apperyth
not
in
the
Legende
what
ende
it
toke
/
but
it
semyth
to
be
the
more
ꝓbable
oppynyon
that
he
lyeth
at
Dorchester
for
it
was
prouyd
that
myracles
had
be
doon
in
his
name
at
Dorchester
.
¶
De
sancto
Bonifacio
epo
&
martyre
.
SEynt
bonyface
was
borne
in
Englonde
/
&
when
he
was
but
fyue
yere
olde
/
he
wolde
heresermōs
and
dylygently
enquere
what
shulde
be
prophytable
to
hym
for
the
lyfe
to
come
/
And
after
he
entered
into
Relygyon
at
huntstell
/
And
there
he
opteynyd
great
lernynge
in
holy
Scripture
/
and
gaue
all
men
exaumple
of
good
lyuynge
so
that
his
name
was
spred
in
all
monasteryes
/
And
vppon
great
delyberacyon
he
askydlycense
of
his
Abbot
to
preche
to
paganes
to
conuerte
them
to
the
fayth
/
And
after
he
went
to
Rome
And
there
he
was
honorably
reseyuyd
of
the
〈◊〉
Gregory
the
seconde
&
was
made
Busshope
/
And
after
he
conuertyd
moche
people
to
the
faythe
in
the
countreys
of
Fryson
/
Turynge
/
Saxony
/
and
Hesson
/
And
diuersemen
of
Englonde
he
rynge
his
fame
came
out
of
Englond
/
and
assysted
hym
moche
in
Wrytynge
/
Redynge
/
and
Prechynge
/
And
after
he
sent
to
Rome
and
made
reporte
to
the
〈◊〉
of
that
he
hadde
doon
/
And
when
he
hadde
Buyldyd
dyuerse
Monasteryes
&
Chyrches
he
went
to
Rome
hymselfe
with
a
great
Cumpany
of
dyscyples
and
there
moche
people
cam
to
here
his
doctryne
/
And
Charlemayne
Kynge
of
Fraunce
made
hym
after
Busshope
of
Magunce
/
And
anon
he
destroyed
Heresyes
there
/
And
enducyd
the
People
to
kepe
the
synodales
after
the
Lawe
of
the
Church●
whiche
afore
his
tyme
were
in
tho
partyes
nyghe
forgo●●on
he
wrote
a
Letter
to
Ethelbalde
kynge
of
Englond
praysynge
hym
moch
in
that
he
was
a
great
geuer
of
ab●●
●●●es
/
And
the
he
punysshed
offenders
/
louyd
peace
/
&
defendyd
Wydowes
&
Orphanes
but
that
he
lefte
his
Wyfe
&
lyuyd
in
aduoutry
/
He
reprouyd
hym
moche
/
&
shewyd
hym
exaumples
of
dyuerse
Kynges
that
for
the
vyce
were
greuously
punysshed
of
almyghty
god
/
&
the
sayd
ethelbald
bycause
he
folowed
not
his
Counceyll
was
slayne
by
a
Tyrant
/
and
was
buryed
at
Repyngedon̄
/
And
when
saynt
Bonyface
was
of
great
age
he
lefte
his
Busshopryche
to
lullo
a
man
of
approuyd
maners
&
sheuyd
hym
that
his
tyme
of
Resolucion
out
of
this
worlde
drewe
nere
/
And
anon
after
he
went
into
the
countrey
of
Frysons
/
&
there
he
conuertyd
many
thousand
is
of
people
/
And
buyldyd
Churches
/
and
made
a
Monasterye
&
ordeynyd
to
them
a
Busshope
/
And
on
a
tyme
as
he
with
his
company
was
lodged
in
a
Medowe
in
tentys
Theuys
supposynge
them
to
haue
moche
Ryches
murdered
them
/
and
for
theyr
stufe
the
theuys
daryed
so
that
one
of
them
kyllyd
another
/
And
at
laste
a
fewe
that
were
lefte
a
lyue
lokyd
in
the
Fardellys
&
founde
nothynge
but
a
fewe
Relykys
&
Bokys
/
And
lullo
brought
his
Body
to
a
Monastery
that
he
had
made
a
lytyll
fro
Magunce
/
he
dyed
in
that
nonas
of
Iune
/
in
the
yere
of
oure
Lorde
god
seuen
Hundred
.lv.
¶
De
scton
Botulpho
abbate
&
confessore
.
AFter
the
sanxons
had
conquered
this
realme
of
Englonde
/
and
after
the
Faythe
was
somwhat
receyuyd
but
that
it
was
moche
grosely
/
many
noble
men
of
Englonde
sente
theyr
Chyldren
into
olde
Saxony
to
be
more
fully
Instructe
in
the
Feythe
&
in
Holy
conuersacion
/
Amonge
whome
Botulphe
and
his
broder
adulphe
were
sent
thyder
which
anon
sought
for
a
Monastery
/
and
entered
into
Relygyon
where
bothulphe
amonge
parfyt
men
was
reseyuyd
to
be
a
mayster
/
And
after
he
dysposyd
hym selfe
to
cum
agayne
into
Englonde
/
And
.ii.
Systers
of
the
Kynge
of
South
englonde
/
which
were
also
sent
into
those
partyes
to
lerne
vertues
sent
by
Bothulphe
to
the
Kynge
theyr
Broder
/
And
desyred
that
he
shulde
gyue
to
Bothulphe
a
certeyn
grounde
to
buylde
a
Monasterye
vppon
/
And
he
agreed
therto
/
And
so
he
buyldyd
a
Menasterye
in
a
deserte
callyd
Ikanhoo
which
then
was
full
of
wyckyd
spiritys
/
And
by
his
prayers
&
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
he
droue
theym
all
away
/
And
anone
he
gaderyd
dyscyples
/
and
that
he
had
lernyd
by
yonde
the
see
he
shewyd
to
his
dyscyples
dylygentlye
/
He
hadde
no
pryde
nor
frowarde
maners
but
in
all
thynge
he
was
humble
/
&
meke
he
dyd
many
Myracles
in
his
Lyfe
/
And
he
had
the
spyryte
of
prophecye
/
and
shewyd
thynges
that
were
to
come
as
though
they
had
ben
paste
/
And
when
he
was
sykelyke
Iobbe
he
was
pacyent
euer
spekynge
for
the
helth
of
soulys
/
&
of
the
Ioyes
of
heuen
/
And
admonysshed
his
bretherne
to
obserue
the
rule
of
theyr
relygyon
and
he
went
fro
the
Pryson
of
this
Lyfe
the
.xv.
kalendas
of
Iune
/
&
was
buryed
in
the
Monastery
that
he
had
made
which
after
his
Deth
was
destroyed
by
Danes
/
And
after
a
prieste
by
commaundement
of
seynt
Ethelwolde
wolde
haue
takyn
vppe
his
Relykes
/
and
they
wolde
not
remoue
tyll
he
toke
vppe
also
the
relykes
of
seynt
adulphe
/
and
the
hed
of
seynt
Botulphe
was
sente
to
Ely
and
his
Bodye
with
the
bodye
of
seynt
Adulphe
were
had
to
thorney
.
¶
De
sancto
Bregwino
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
bregwyn
was
borne
in
saxonye
&
he
was
chosen
of
god
in
his
moders
wombe
/
And
for
loue
of
the
great
lernynge
that
fro
the
tyme
of
seynt
Theodre
flowryd
in
Englonde
/
he
lefte
his
owne
Countre
&
came
into
Englond
/
And
anon
he
prophyted
moche
in
holy
Techynge
&
heuynly
wisdome
/
And
at
last
forsakynge
this
deceytfull
Worlde
/
he
assocyatyd
hym selfe
to
a
college
of
Monkys
/
and
he
was
Busshope
after
seynt
Cuthbert
/
And
shone
soo
clere
in
vertuous
werkes
that
euery
man
myghte
se
in
his
steppys
the
wey
to
lyue
vertuously
/
And
the
thyrde
yere
after
he
was
made
Busshop
he
went
to
heuyn
the
.vii.
kalendas
of
Septembre
/
&
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
/
A
man
without
reuerence
set
his
corne
vppon
seynt
Bregwyns
toumbe
/
and
anone
it
was
throwen
a
good
space
of
/
And
the
seconde
tyme
it
was
sparkled
all
the
pauement
wherfore
his
shryne
was
after
had
in
more
reuerence
/
And
a
lame
man
that
went
of
all
foure
at
his
toumbe
was
made
hoole
.
¶
De
sancto
Brendano
abbate
.
SEynt
brendane
was
borne
in
the
weste
parte
of
Irlonde
/
And
his
Moder
when
she
was
with
chylde
with
hym
sawe
her
bosome
full
of
shynyge
gold
And
hyrtetys
Shynynge
with
a
merueylous
bryghtnes
whiche
vysyon
Ercus
the
Busshope
enterpretyd
to
sygnyfye
that
she
shulde
bere
a
Chylde
of
great
holynes
And
in
the
nyght
when
he
was
borne
Ercus
the
Busshope
sawe
all
the
prouynce
illumyned
with
a
great
lyghte
And
aungells
fleynge
aboute
in
whyte
vesture
/
And
the
Busshope
nourysshyd
the
Chylde
/
and
brought
hym
vp
in
holy
lernynge
&
as
the
Busshope
&
the
Chylde
were
together
a
man
came
faste
rennynge
for
fere
of
his
enem●es
/
And
the
chylde
bade
hym
goo
to
a
stone
therby
&
fe●●
nothynge
/
And
whan
his
enemyes
came
they
stroke
the
stone
takynge
it
for
the
man
/
&
the
man
for
the
stone
/
and
when
they
knewe
the
meruaylous
werke
of
God
therin
they
toke
penaunce
/
&
to
theyr
deth
lyued
with
the
Busshope
Laudynge
/
and
praysynge
our
Lorde
/
And
after
seynt
Brendan
shewyd
the
Busshope
that
he
wolde
goo
lerne
the
Rulys
of
the
holy
Faders
of
that
I
le
/
And
the
Busshope
assentyd
thynkynge
that
that
mocyon
came
of
our
Lorde
/
And
when
he
had
byn
with
a nother
holy
Busshope
an
Aungell
bad
hym
wryte
a
Rule
/
and
soohe
dyd
whiche
contynueth
to
this
day
/
And
after
he
lefte
the
worlde
/
and
was
Fader
of
.iii.
M.
monkys
/
and
he
made
.xiiii.
Rulers
ouer
theym
/
and
lyuyd
hymfelfe
in
an
Oratorye
with
them
/
and
after
he
saylyd
many
longe
wayes
in
the
See
/
and
escapyd
many
peryllys
in
that
iourney
by
the
speciall
assystaunce
of
our
Lorde
/
and
when
he
had
ben
fourthe
.vii.
yere
he
retournyd
agayne
to
his
Monastery
/
and
there
his
staffe
was
leyde
vppon
a
Chylde
that
was
deed
/
&
after
.iii.
dayes
he
rose
agayne
to
lyffe
when
.ii.
kynges
varyed
/
&
entendyd
to
haue
destroyde
others
cuntrey
&
by
his
entreatyce
wolde
not
ceace
by
his
prayers
they
were
made
in
such
case
that
they
coulde
not
goo
out
of
the
place
where
they
were
/
wherby
they
knewe
theyre
defaute
/
and
lefte
theyr
enterpryse
/
And
he
went
oute
of
this
Worlde
full
of
good
Werkys
/
and
great
Myracles
the
.xvii.
kalendas
of
Iune
/
at
cluenarca
.
¶
De
sancta
Brigida
virgine
.
SEynt
bryde
was
borne
in
Irloude
/
&
her
moder
when
she
was
with
Chylde
with
her
was
solde
in
bondage
to
a
wiche
and
she
caste
vppe
all
the
mete
that
she
reseyuyd
of
the
wyches
/
And
he
perceyuyd
it
&
sayd
that
he
was
vnclene
/
and
that
the
Mayde
was
full
of
the
spirit
of
god
/
and
coulde
not
take
his
mete
/
and
so
he
gaue
her
a
Cowe
of
her
owne
with
whose
Mylke
she
was
fedde
/
She
was
full
of
Pyte
/
&
hadde
great
compassyon
to
pore
men
and
gaue
all
that
she
had
to
theym
in
Almes
in
her
youth
she
gaue
Butter
to
pore
men
/
And
whenne
the
wich
which
was
her
Mayster
was
angrye
therwith
by
her
prayer
it
encreasyd
agayne
/
And
he
seynge
that
/
was
conuertyd
and
gaue
her
.xii.
Kyne
/
and
made
her
free
/
and
sent
her
to
her
fader
&
after
her
fader
thoughte
to
sell
her
agayne
bycause
she
gaue
pryuely
to
poure
men
all
that
she
myghte
gette
/
And
offerd
to
selle
hyr
to
the
Kynge
/
And
when
the
kynge
askyd
of
her
why
she
gaue
awaye
her
faders
swerde
/
she
sayde
she
had
geuyn
it
to
our
Lorde
/
and
if
he
askyd
of
her
the
Kynge
&
her
father
both
/
she
sayde
she
wolde
gladly
gyue
theym
both
vnto
hym
/
and
then
the
Kynge
gaue
her
aswerde
to
gyue
her
Father
/
She
was
euer
ententyfe
to
a
hoole
clennesse
/
&
sobrenes
/
And
euer
encreasyd
fro
vtue
to
vtue
And
she
prayde
to
our
Lorde
that
some
deformyte
myghte
falle
vppon
her
/
that
no
man
shuld
aske
her
in
maryage
/
and
anone
●on
of
her
eyen
wente
out
/
And
when
she
was
made
a
Nonne
her
eye
was
hole
agayn
/
Certeyne
Ale
that
she
made
of
a
stryke
of
malte
seruyd
moch
people
all
the
vtas
of
ester
/
she
helyd
Lepours
men
syke
of
the
Palsey
/
blynde
obcessyd
of
deuyllys
/
a
vgyn
that
was
blynde
prayde
seynt
Bryde
to
blesse
her
eyen
that
she
myghtse
/
&
she
dyd
so
Aranon
she
had
hyr
syghte
/
&
then
she
prayde
her
to
close
her
eyen
agayne
for
the
more
that
a
man
is
absent
fro
the
world
the
nerer
he
is
to
God
/
And
then
seynt
Bryde
closyd
her
eyen
agayne
/
and
on
a
nyght
in
frost
&
snowe
when
other
slepte
/
she
went
into
a
Ponde
wepynge
&
prayde
/
And
so
she
thoughte
to
haue
perseueryd
/
but
that
oure
Lord
other
/
wyse
dysposyd
/
And
she
knewe
when
her
tyme
to
passe
out
of
this
worlde
drewe
nere
/
And
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
fyue
hundred
and
.xviii.
she
went
to
our
Lorde
in
the
kalendas
of
February
.
¶
De
sancto
Brythuno
abbate
.
SEynt
brythune
was
borne
in
Englond
/
and
was
Discyple
to
seynt
Iohn
of
Beuerlay
many
yerys
/
And
for
his
holy
Lyfe
/
and
laudable
conuersacion
he
hadde
hym
in
great
famylyaryte
before
other
/
And
he
made
him
Abbot
of
deirwodde
now
callyd
Beuerley
/
He
was
a
Louer
of
vertues
/
and
a
persecutor
of
vyces
/
A
dyspyser
of
the
worlde
/
and
desyrous
of
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
/
and
a
dylygent
instructour
of
the
flocke
to
hym
commyted
a
executoure
of
Iustyce
and
Pyte
/
A
great
gyuer
of
Almes
/
And
a
keper
of
Hospytalyte
and
redye
to
doo
all
thynges
that
he
myghte
please
our
Lorde
with
all
/
And
he
lyued
in
good
Werkys
vnto
grea●
Aege
/
And
endyd
his
Lyfe
in
the
Ious
of
Maii
/
and
was
Buryed
in
his
Monasterye
/
And
after
the
Clergy
and
the
people
seynge
the
great
Myracles
&
Sygnys
that
our
Lorde
shewyd
for
hym
by
a
comyn
assent
translatyd
his
Body
/
and
leyde
it
by
his
mayster
seynt
Iohn
of
Beruerley
.
De
scton
Bertelmo
heremita
&
confessore
.
SEynt
bartelyn
was
sone
of
the
kynge
of
Kynge
of
the
countrey
of
Stafforde
/
&
he
lefte
his
countrey
and
went
into
Irlonde
/
&
there
was
in
grete
famylyaryte
with
a
Kynge
of
Irlonde
/
And
there
by
entysynge
of
the
Goostly
enemy
/
he
gate
the
Kynges
doughter
with
chylde
and
pryuely
brought
her
into
Englonde
/
And
in
a
Forest
she
traueylyd
where
bothe
she
&
the
Chylde
were
kyllyd
with
Wolfes
/
which
he
accompted
to
be
his
defaute
wherfore
he
dyd
great
penaunce
many
yerys
/
and
the
Deuylle
temptyd
hym
to
make
of
stone
Brede
/
and
to
the
contrary
he
made
of
Brede
a
stone
that
yet
remaynyth
at
Bertesmesley
/
and
after
he
wente
with
seynt
Guthlake
fro
kependon
/
to
Croulande
&
there
he
lyuyd
with
hym
many
yerys
in
great
penaunce
doynge
/
And
when
seynt
Guthlake
was
goon
oute
of
this
transytorye
Lyfe
/
And
seynt
Bertelyn
hadde
seen
hym
Buryed
he
retourned
agayne
to
his
Fader
/
And
he
gaue
hym
the
grounde
where
staff
is
now
Buyldyd
them
beynge
growen
with
Busshes
/
&
breerys
to
lyue
therin
a
solytary
Lyfe
/
but
his
fader
knewe
not
that
it
was
his
sone
/
And
after
his
faders
deth
a
Kynge
that
enteryd
the
Realme
by
myght
wolde
haue
takyn
the
grounde
fro
hym
vnder
coloure
of
lawe
/
and
offerde
to
ioyne
batayle
therfore
/
And
by
an
Aungell
that
was
his
champyon
he
defendyd
it
/
and
after
that
the
Kynge
and
all
the
people
louyd
hym
as
theyr
owne
Father
/
And
he
aduoydynge
temporall
honoure
/
Lefte
that
place
and
Lyued
in
Deserte
placys
in
prayers
&
vygyll
&
endyd
this
Lyfe
the
.v.
Ious
of
September
/
And
at
Stafforde
our
Lorde
hathe
she
●●yd
for
this
holy
man
many
great
Myracles
.
De
sancto
Cadoco
ep̄o.
SEynt
cadoke
was
sone
to
Kynge
gundlens
/
and
before
his
byrthe
there
were
seen
in
the
Chaumber
where
is
moder
was
.iiii.
Laumpes
at
.iiii.
corners
of
the
Chaumber
with
a
great
lyghte
/
And
when
he
was
borne
an
Aungell
bad
the
Kynge
take
a
holy
Eremyte
which
on
the
morowe
shulde
come
vnto
hym
to
crysten
his
sone
/
And
the
same
Nyght
of
his
Byrthe
all
the
Cellers
were
founde
full
of
Oyle
and
Hony
/
And
when
he
came
to
age
in
vyle
habyt
he
vsyd
to
be
at
the
Church
And
at
nyghte
he
toke
a
lytell
Brede
and
Water
/
and
all
that
he
had
he
gaue
to
poure
men
/
And
when
he
was
desyryd
to
play
he
wolde
go
to
the
Churche
and
pray
cryenge
out
of
the
blyndenesse
of
man
that
euer
couetyd
transitorye
thynges
/
and
forsoke
thynges
euerlastynge
/
seyinge
that
when
the
dredefull
day
of
our
Lord
shall
come
laughynge
shall
be
tournyd
into
waylynge
/
and
waylynge
into
Ioye
/
This
blessyd
man
was
a
man
of
great
perfeccyon
/
And
had
synguler
gracys
of
oure
Lorde
as
in
his
Lyfe
apperyth
which
be
here
omyttyd
/
he
was
thryse
at
Iherusalem
/
and
.vii.
tymes
at
Rome
/
And
by
the
gyfte
of
our
Lorde
he
spake
in
dyuerse
langages
/
And
by
his
prayer
a
Quene
that
was
Barayne
conceyuyd
&
had
a
sone
that
after
was
his
successoure
/
by
his
prayers
a
great
Derkenes
fell
aboute
a
Kynge
that
wolde
haue
dystroyed
his
Countrey
so
that
the
Kynge
myght
se
nothynge
/
And
when
the
Kynge
repentyd
hym
the
lyghte
came
agayne
/
He
conuertyd
moche
people
in
Scotlande
/
&
there
reryd
a
gyant
that
had
ben
many
yerys
deed
&
was
in
Hell
/
His
monastery
was
in
wales
.iii.
myle
fro
conbrydge
and
as
he
was
comynge
fro
seynt
myghellys
mounte
in
Cornewalle
and
was
very
drye
/
he
strake
his
staffe
in
the
grounde
&
a
fayre
watersprange
vp
/
&
therby
is
a
Churche
buyldyd
in
honoure
of
his
name
/
&
after
by
the
porueyaunce
of
god
he
was
made
Abbot
of
beneuen
tane
beyonde
the
see
/
&
he
was
sodeynly
had
thyder
by
aungels
/
and
there
he
was
namyd
sophye
/
And
after
he
was
made
Busshope
there
/
And
as
he
was
seyinge
masse
he
was
stryken
to
the
deth
by
company
of
a
Tyraunt
that
came
to
destroye
the
Cyte
/
and
he
had
grauntyd
to
hym
of
our
Lord
that
who
so
euerbeynge
in
trouble
callyd
to
hym
for
helpe
/
our
Lorde
shuld
delyuer
hym
/
And
soo
he
yeldyd
his
spirit
to
our
Lord
the
.ix.
kalendas
of
February
.
¶
De
sancto
Carodoco
.
SEynt
carodoke
was
borne
in
wales
/
and
in
his
youth
he
went
to
Lernynge
/
&
after
he
was
in
seruyce
with
the
Prynce
of
south
wales
/
&
there
he
had
the
kepynge
of
two
Greyhoundes
/
&
for
Lesynge
of
them
the
kynge
thret
hym
with
great
Punysshement
of
deth
/
And
then
Carodokesayde
he
wolde
serue
a
Mayster
that
wolde
geue
a
better
rewarde
to
his
sernauntys
And
so
he
went
to
Landanense
/
and
there
he
toke
orders
and
after
went
to
seynt
Dauythys
/
and
there
he
toke
order
of
preesthod
/
and
encreacyd
fro
vertue
to
vertue
/
the
Deuyll
on
a
tyme
apperyd
to
hym
vysybly
in
lykenes
of
a
man
/
&
he
knew
hym
&
feryd
hym
nothynge
/
&
the
deuyll
offeryd
hym
his
seruyce
/
And
he
sayde
he
wolde
none
of
his
seruyce
/
And
after
he
was
in
the
prouynce
of
Rosence
/
at
the
Monastery
of
seynt
Ismaell
/
&
there
the
see
by
his
prayers
went
fro
the
Monasterye
a
great
space
/
and
he
knewe
by
reuelacyon
as
he
was
at
masse
the
certeyne
daye
of
his
Deth
/
&
he
dyed
of
the
Ares
in
the
yere
of
oure
Lord
a.
M.a.
C.
&
.xxiiii.
&
is
buryed
at
seynt
Dauythis
&
many
yerys
after
his
body
was
founde
vncorrupte
/
And
when
a
monke
of
malmesbury
of
deuocyon
wolde
haue
cut
of
oon
of
his
fyngers
for
a
Relyke
/
He
closyd
his
hande
and
drewe
it
awaye
wherfore
the
Monke
ferynge
askyd
mekely
forgyuenesse
.
¶
De
sancto
carantoco
.
SEynt
carantoke
was
sone
to
Kynge
keredicus
/
And
when
the
people
wolde
haue
made
hym
kynge
he
fled
awaye
rather
folowynge
the
wyll
of
God
than
the
fauoure
of
the
people
/
&
a
whyte
doue
wente
before
hym
to
a
place
where
he
made
a
Churche
/
after
he
went
into
Irlande
for
loue
of
seynt
Patryke
about
.xxx.
yere
before
seynt
Dauyd
was
Borne
/
and
he
dyd
many
Myracles
/
And
wyther
soo
euer
he
went
/
an
Aungell
in
lykenes
of
a
doue
accompanyed
hym
/
and
Daylye
/
and
nyghtlye
he
sayde
Innumerable
of
prayers
/
And
when
he
hadde
conuertyd
moche
people
in
Irlande
/
he
came
agayne
into
his
owne
countrey
at
Keretyca
/
And
there
our
Lorde
gaue
hym
an
Aulter
that
no
man
coulde
tell
of
what
Coloure
it
was
/
and
he
put
it
into
Seuerne
and
badde
it
goo
before
hym
thyder
as
oure
Lorde
wolde
he
shuld
fynde
it
/
And
after
at
the
desyre
of
Kynge
arthour
he
kyllyd
a
Serpent
/
And
the
Kynge
of
his
Aulter
wold
haue
made
a
table
/
and
what
so
euer
he
set
appon
it
was
caste
a
way
/
and
then
it
was
caste
into
the
see
/
And
there
as
it
came
vppe
/
the
Kynge
gaue
hym
the
twelfyth
parte
of
the
grounde
/
and
there
he
made
a
Churche
/
and
after
by
monycyon
of
an
Aungell
he
went
agayne
into
Irlande
/
And
there
in
great
Age
full
of
good
werkys
he
went
out
of
this
worlde
the
.xvii.
kalendas
of
Iune
/
and
is
Buryed
in
a
Cytie
callyd
chernac
.
¶
De
sancto
cedd
episcopo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Cedd
/
and
thre
other
Prestys
were
sente
by
Oswy
kynge
of
Northamhumbre
with
peada
Kynge
of
mydle
Englonde
which
hadde
marryed
his
Doughter
to
Instructe
hym
and
his
people
in
the
feythe
/
And
the
sayde
peada
was
Crystenyd
before
/
by
the
Busshope
fynanus
/
And
there
seynt
Cedd
with
his
companye
conuertyd
moche
people
to
the
Faythe
/
&
after
he
was
takyn
fro
thens
by
kynge
Oswy
/
And
was
sent
to
Sabertus
/
Kynge
of
Eest
saxons
to
Preche
the
Feythe
there
/
And
when
he
had
there
conuertyd
moche
people
he
resortyd
into
his
contrey
/
And
there
the
Busshope
Fynanus
made
hym
Busshope
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
then
he
went
agayne
and
gatheryd
a
great
company
of
dyscyples
/
and
taught
them
regular
discyplyne
as
theyr
rudenesse
myght
bere
/
And
he
resortyd
ofte
into
his
countrey
of
Northamhumbrorum
/
And
the
Kynge
there
gaue
hym
a
grounde
to
make
a
Monasterye
whiche
he
callyd
lestyngey
/
and
he
enfourmyd
his
dyscyples
there
after
the
manner
of
the
Monasterye
of
Lyndyffernens
that
he
was
brought
vppe
in
/
And
before
he
beganne
the
foundacyon
he
Fastyd
/
and
Prayed
that
the
Grounde
myght
be
clensyd
fro
the
olde
synnes
/
And
there
he
went
to
oure
Lorde
and
lefte
his
Broder
cedda
Abbotte
after
hym
/
and
it
is
not
knowen
what
daye
/
nor
what
yere
he
Dyed
.
¶
De
sancto
Ceddaep̄o
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Chadde
broder
to
seynt
Cedd
was
dyscyple
to
seynt
Aidan
/
And
he
was
sent
by
Kynge
Oswy
to
Caunterbury
to
be
made
Busshope
of
yorke
/
And
bycause
the
see
of
Caunterbury
was
voyde
/
he
was
consecrate
by
wyne
Busshope
of
westsaxons
/
For
at
that
tyme
there
was
no
Busshope
in
all
Englonge
laufully
made
Busshope
but
wyne
/
And
anon
he
gaue
grete
dylygence
to
Redynge
/
Prayinge
/
and
in
humylyte
/
&
went
on
Prechynge
in
his
dyocyse
on
Foot
/
and
not
on
horsbacke
/
And
when
seynt
Theodre
tharchebusshope
was
sent
frome
/
&
sayd
he
was
not
duely
consecrate
/
he
answeryd
mekely
that
if
he
thought
he
was
not
duely
consecrate
he
was
contentyd
to
resygne
/
And
he
seynge
his
humylyte
sayde
he
hought
not
to
leue
his
Busshopryke
/
but
rather
to
haue
his
eleccyon
confermyd
/
And
after
he
was
desyred
by
wlferus
Kynge
of
Marshlonde
to
be
Busshope
there
and
in
Lyndesey
and
so
he
was
/
And
he
had
a
see
in
Lychefelde
/
and
in
a
place
two
myle
fro
thens
he
was
wonte
to
be
ofte
in
Prayers
/
And
the
Kynge
gaue
hym
a
certeyne
grounde
in
the
Prouynce
of
Lyndesey
where
he
made
a
Monastery
callyd
barwe
he
was
full
of
the
drede
of
god
in
soo
moche
that
when
he
harde
any
contraryous
weder
he
woldelye
prostrate
in
prayer
for
hym
and
for
the
people
for
fere
of
Punysshement
/
for
he
callyd
it
a
Thretnynge
of
God
and
feryd
that
punysshement
shulde
ensue
/
And
a
lytyll
before
his
departynge
oute
of
this
worlde
oon
of
his
Dyscyples
herde
a
swete
voyce
of
Aungellys
syngynge
that
cam
fro
heuyn
downe
to
the
house
where
seynt
Chadde
was
in
prayer
/
And
they
taryed
there
nyghehalfe
an
our
&
after
they
went
agayne
to
Heuyn
/
And
the
Aungellys
shewyd
hym
that
the
.vii.
Daye
folowynge
he
shulde
departe
out
of
this
worlde
/
And
then
he
admonysshyd
his
Bretherne
that
they
shulde
kepe
Loue
and
Peace
amonge
theym
/
and
kepe
the
rulys
of
theyr
Relygyon
/
and
in
the
.vii.
Daye
whiche
was
the
.vi.
nonas
of
Marche
as
the
Aungell
hadde
shewyd
hym
/
he
gaue
vppe
his
soule
to
our
Lord
as
the
Aungell
had
shewyd
hym
.
¶
De
scton
Claro
presbytero
&
martyre
.
IN
the
tyme
of
the
gloryous
Kynge
Edmonde
a
man
of
orchester
callyd
Edwarde
and
his
wyfe
prayed
to
our
Lorde
with
great
deuocyon
that
they
myght
haue
a
Chylde
that
shulde
be
obedyent
to
his
wyll
/
And
so
they
had
a
sone
whome
they
callyd
clare
/
&
they
instructyd
hym
in
lernynge
/
And
when
he
came
to
age
they
porposyd
to
haue
maryed
hym
wherfore
he
fled
ouer
the
see
into
Normandy
/
And
there
he
helyd
an
Eremyte
that
was
sore
woundyd
/
and
wente
to
a
Monasterye
where
seynt
odebert
was
/
And
after
he
was
desyred
by
the
Eremytys
to
shewe
theym
howe
they
myght
saue
theyr
soullys
/
And
he
bad
theym
here
the
wordys
of
our
Lorde
that
seyed
he
that
wyll
folowe
me
let
hym
forsake
hym selfe
take
his
Crosse
&
folowe
me
/
&
also
loue
thy
Lorde
god
with
all
thy
Hart
&
Mynde
/
&
thy
Neyghboure
as
thy selfe
/
And
he
sayd
to
loue
God
aboue
all
thynge
is
to
withdrawe
thy
mynde
fro
all
erthely
thynges
&
to
put
all
his
hooll
Entente
besyly
in
oure
Lorde
/
&
after
he
wente
aboute
moch
parte
of
Fraunce
and
buyldyd
a
Monasterye
at
wicassyno
/
and
there
he
lyued
only
with
Rotys
of
Erbys
/
and
after
of
malyce
he
was
behedyd
the
.iiii.
daye
of
Nouember
/
And
he
bere
his
hed
to
his
Monastery
/
and
there
he
lyeth
Buryed
where
our
Lord
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
.
¶
De
scton
Clytanco
Rege
&
martyre
.
SEynt
clytanke
was
Kynge
in
south
walys
/
and
kepte
Iustyce
and
peace
amonge
his
subiectys
And
a
virgyn
that
was
Doughter
to
a
myghty
man
Louyd
the
yonge
Kynge
/
and
sayde
she
wolde
neuer
be
maryed
but
vnto
hym
/
and
oon
of
the
Kyngys
seruauntys
kendlyd
with
the
Fyre
of
lybydyousnes
which
carnally
louyd
the
sayde
damesell
herynge
that
answere
of
malyce
/
as
the
Kynge
was
by
a
Waters
syde
in
his
prayers
and
deuocyon
abydynge
/
a
company
of
Hunters
kyllyd
hym
traytorously
/
And
when
they
wolde
haue
remouyd
hym
ouer
the
water
his
Body
was
so
heuy
that
it
wolde
not
remoue
tyll
by
goodnes
of
our
Lord
it
was
hadde
to
a
place
that
our
Lord
shewyd
vnto
them
/
And
in
the
nyghte
folowynge
a
Pyller
of
Fyre
was
seen
ascendynge
fro
his
Toumbe
to
heuyn
/
where
a
Church
is
buyldyd
in
the
honoure
of
his
name
.
¶
De
sancto
Colfrydo
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Colfryde
was
made
Abbot
in
the
monasterye
of
seynt
Paule
by
the
Ryuer
of
Tyne
/
And
also
in
the
Monastery
of
Seynt
Peter
.v.
myle
●o
thens
whiche
were
foundyd
by
Seynt
Benet
byscop
/
And
he
was
a
man
of
great
wytte
/
and
great
dyscressyon
and
feruent
in
Loue
of
Relygyon
/
And
by
desyre
of
the
Kynge
of
Pyctes
he
wrote
an
Epystell
to
hym
of
the
tyme
of
obseruaunce
of
Estre
for
in
tho
dayes
were
dyuerse
oppynyons
therin
/
And
also
for
the
tonsure
of
Clerkys
/
And
whenne
the
Epystell
was
redde
before
the
Kynge
and
his
Lordys
it
was
of
suche
Prophytte
Truthe
/
and
profounde
sentence
/
and
soo
hoole
grundyd
in
scrypture
that
the
Kynge
knelyd
downe
/
and
thankyd
our
Lorde
that
hadde
sente
hym
suche
a
werke
out
of
the
Londe
of
Englonde
/
And
after
moche
Spyrytuall
exercyse
in
techynge
/
Fastynge
/
and
Prayenge
in
his
decrepit
age
he
went
towarde
Rome
/
And
by
the
way
at
Lingonas
he
was
buryed
/
He
dyed
the
.vii.
kalendas
of
octobre
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
seuyn
hundred
and
syxtene
/
And
in
his
Iourney
dayly
he
sayd
twyse
the
Psalter
besyde
his
houres
canonycalle
/
And
euery
daye
Masse
excepte
one
day
whenne
he
was
on
the
See
/
And
thre
Dayes
before
he
dyed
.
¶
De
sancto
Columba
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
columbe
was
borne
of
noble
Blode
in
Irlande
/
And
he
came
into
great
Brytteyne
into
the
Northe
pyctes
to
preche
to
theym
the
worde
of
God
the
yere
of
oure
Lorde
fyue
Hundred
.lxv.
And
the
south
pyctys
were
before
that
tyme
conuertyd
by
seynt
Ninian
/
And
whenne
he
hadde
couuertyd
theym
to
the
faythe
he
made
a
Monasterye
in
the
Ile
of
Hii
/
he
was
a
man
of
Aungellys
aspecte
and
of
great
Eloquence
/
he
suffred
no
houre
to
passe
but
he
was
Prayenge
/
Redynge
/
or
Doynge
some
good
werkys
/
He
had
the
spyryte
of
prophecye
/
and
shewyd
thynges
to
come
/
as
thoughe
they
hadde
ben
paste
/
He
was
on
a
tyme
accursyd
wrongefully
/
And
when
he
came
to
the
counceyll
seynt
Brendan
rose
to
hym
/
&
dyd
hym
reuerence
/
&
he
was
blamyd
for
that
he
dyd
reuerence
to
a
man
accursyd
/
And
he
sayd
he
sawe
a
bryght
Pyller
of
Fyre
before
hym
/
and
Aungellys
accompanyenge
hym
wherfore
the
other
began
to
Honoure
hym
/
he
sawe
a
great
companye
of
blacke
Deuyllys
come
to
his
Monasterye
/
And
by
his
Prayers
they
were
all
dreuyn
a
waye
fro
thens
/
&
they
wente
streyghte
to
a nother
Monastery
/
and
brought
thyder
Sykenes
/
and
Pestylence
/
and
kyllyd
many
/
and
Appuls
that
were
Bytter
by
his
prayer
were
made
swete
/
his
Face
was
oftymes
seen
veray
bryght
Shynynge
/
And
on
a
tyme
he
was
very
mery
countenauncyd
/
And
anon
very
heuy
/
and
by
great
instaunce
he
shewyd
the
that
our
Lord
longe
tyme
before
hadde
promysyd
hym
that
that
Daye
he
shulde
haue
you
to
Heuyn
wherfore
he
was
gladde
and
by
Prayer
of
odermen
/
and
to
prophyt
to
other
oure
Lorde
shewyd
hym
that
he
shuld
tary
foure
yerys
lenger
/
wherfore
he
was
Heuy
and
thre
Dayes
he
was
in
a
Chaumber
without
mete
/
and
drynke
/
and
was
conforted
by
Aungellys
and
harde
there
many
great
Secrecys
of
god
shewyd
vnto
hym
/
and
his
voyce
was
somtyme
herde
farre
of
/
that
to
theym
that
were
present
was
but
smalle
And
he
dyed
in
the
Ile
of
Jona
the
.v.
I
de
of
Iune
/
and
in
the
Monastery
there
he
was
buryed
with
great
honoure
/
and
many
notable
thynges
be
here
omyttyd
.
De
sancto
Columbano
abbate
et
confessore
.
SEynt
Columbane
was
borne
in
Irlande
/
And
whenne
he
in
his
youthe
hadde
prophyted
moche
in
vertue
he
entendyd
to
forsake
the
worde
/
And
toke
leue
of
his
Moder
/
and
his
company
/
And
his
Moder
wolde
in
no
wyse
assent
to
his
goynge
/
but
stoude
on
the
Tbressholde
/
and
Stoppyd
his
waye
/
And
he
sayde
Moder
haue
ye
not
harde
the
wordys
of
our
Lorde
/
that
sey
the
he
that
louyth
his
Fader
and
Moder
more
thenne
me
/
he
is
not
me
worthye
/
And
anone
his
Moder
wepte
/
and
waylyd
/
and
laye
prostrate
and
sayde
She
wolde
neuer
assent
/
And
he
wente
ouer
Her
and
prayde
Her
be
merye
/
and
sayde
She
shulde
neuer
see
hym
agayne
in
this
worlde
/
And
so
he
wente
to
the
Monasterye
of
Benechor
/
And
there
he
was
made
Monke
/
And
when
he
was
.xx.
yerys
of
age
/
He
wente
into
Fraunce
/
And
there
prechyd
the
worde
of
God
/
And
he
hadde
meny
Bretherne
/
and
if
any
of
his
Bretherne
hadde
onythynge
in
propre
/
he
shulde
be
put
oute
of
theyr
companye
/
and
no
man
durste
Speke
to
other
a
hasty
worde
soo
that
they
lyuyd
an
Aungellys
lyfe
/
And
in
a
wyldernes
callyd
vosague
he
made
a
Monasterye
/
He
made
also
dyuerse
other
Monasteryes
in
Fraunce
/
And
in
Almayne
/
And
in
some
of
theym
as
it
is
sayde
they
Amytte
none
but
Irysshe
men
/
Nyne
yere
he
and
his
Bretherne
hadde
none
other
mete
but
Rootys
/
and
Herbys
/
and
then
an
Abbot
by
monycyon
of
our
Lorde
sente
them
mete
/
And
a
Monke
that
broughte
it
sayde
if
it
be
the
wylle
of
god
that
they
shulde
haue
it
/
the
Horse
shall
goo
to
the
Monasterye
the
streyght
way
without
ledynge
/
&
so
he
lette
theym
goo
in
the
wyldernes
at
large
and
they
went
streyghte
to
the
Monasterye
of
seynt
Columbane
he
was
wonte
to
say
that
they
that
seruyd
oure
Lord
shuld
not
perysshe
&
so
it
prouyd
/
for
oftymes
when
he
&
his
Bretherne
lackyd
they
had
helpe
of
our
Lord
in
so
moche
that
somtyme
theyr
barnys
were
sodenly
fyllyd
with
Corne
somtyme
mete
was
sent
sodenly
/
somtyme
brede
multyplyed
/
And
somtyme
Byrdys
were
sent
sodenly
fro
heuyn
that
none
suche
had
ben
seen
/
And
for
Iustyce
he
suffered
great
persecucion
/
&
he
departyd
this
worlde
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
syx
hundred
&
.xv.
the
.ix.
kalendas
of
Decembre
.
¶
De
scton
Cuthberto
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
cuthbert
was
a
Kyngessone
of
Irlonde
/
And
at
his
byrthe
the
House
was
full
of
a
heuenly
lyght
wherfore
a
holy
Busshoppe
thankyd
out
Lorde
/
&
desyred
to
haue
the
bryngynge
vp
of
the
Chylde
/
And
after
the
deth
of
the
Busshop
seynt
cuthbert
went
with
his
Moder
into
Bretayne
to
Seynt
Columbe
and
by
the
waye
his
Boke
fell
into
the
see
and
a
Fysshe
swalowyd
it
vp
/
And
whan
they
landyd
caste
it
vp
to
theym
safe
to
Londe
/
And
after
his
Moder
lefte
hym
with
two
Busshoppes
that
were
her
bretherne
in
Scotlande
/
and
went
to
Rome
/
And
the
chylde
in
the
nyghtys
wolde
be
in
prayer
in
a
Hylle
where
he
droue
a
waye
the
Deuylle
with
his
staffe
/
And
theyr
steppys
be
seen
there
yet
/
And
as
he
was
kepynge
Bestys
on
a
nyghte
beynge
in
prayer
he
sawe
the
sowle
of
seynt
Aidane
had
into
heuyn
&
ther
vpon
he
lefte
the
kepynge
of
Bestys
&
entryd
into
Relygyon
at
the
monastery
of
maylros
/
where
anon
he
was
lyke
to
his
felowys
in
redynge
/
syngynge
/
prayenge
/
&
workyng
/
&
after
in
the
monastery
of
Rypon
he
was
put
into
the
offyce
to
receyue
gestys
/
&
there
he
receyuyd
an
Aungell
as
a
geest
/
And
anon
he
wesshed
his
feet
/
and
gaue
hym
water
to
his
Handys
/
&
went
to
fet
hym
brede
&
ar
he
came
agayne
the
Aungell
was
goon
leuynge
behynde
hym
in
the
House
ameruaylouse
swete
sauoure
/
And
thre
louys
of
Brede
which
were
whyte
as
a
Lylye
/
And
they
sauouryd
lyke
Roses
that
neuer
noon
suche
had
ben
seen
in
that
countrey
/
&
fro
that
tyme
fourth
he
was
oftymes
vysytyd
with
Aungellys
/
And
when
he
was
made
Abbot
of
lyndyffernense
oftymes
he
argued
with
his
bretherne
of
theyr
Rule
&
sufferyd
somtymes
Iniuryes
of
theym
pacyently
/
But
neuerthelesse
he
wolde
a noder
tyme
gyue
the
same
monycyon
as
he
dyd
before
/
tyll
by
lytell
and
lytell
with
sobrenes
he
brought
them
to
reformacyon
/
He
was
a
man
of
great
pacyence
/
and
hauynge
troubles
he
neuer
bere
the
more
heuy
Countenaunce
/
He
vsyd
suche
contynuall
knelynges
/
that
he
had
great
drusyd
Flesshe
vppon
his
knees
/
and
he
toke
so
lytyll
hede
to
his
Body
/
that
some
yere
he
chaungyd
his
Shone
but
ones
/
No
man
wente
fro
hym
without
comforte
the
sorowe
that
they
brought
went
not
with
theym
fro
hym
/
And
at
a
Counceyle
in
presence
of
the
Kynge
/
and
of
the
archebusshope
Theodre
he
was
made
Busshope
of
Lyndefernens
though
he
moch
refusyd
/
But
the
Kynge
on
his
knees
desyryd
hym
to
take
vppon
hym
/
And
anon
he
defendyd
the
people
to
hym
commyttyd
with
dylygent
prayers
and
techynges
/
and
as
he
taught
he
dyd
/
And
at
his
departynge
oute
of
the
worlde
he
sussered
great
sykenes
pacyently
/
And
venerable
Bede
was
with
hym
in
his
sykenes
/
And
he
yeldyd
vp
his
spyryte
the
.xiii.
kalendas
of
Apryll
in
the
yere
of
oure
Lord
syx
hundred
.iiii.
score
and
seuyn
/
and
.xi.
yere
after
that
he
was
Buryed
his
Body
was
founde
hoole
more
lyke
to
be
a
slepe
/
then
to
be
deed
/
and
his
senewys
were
flexyble
and
his
Clothis
vnhurte
/
And
also
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
Thousand
a
hundred
and
foure
/
his
Body
was
agayne
founde
vncorrupte
/
And
he
lyeth
now
at
Duresme
in
the
latter
ende
of
seynt
Cuthbertys
Lyfe
is
made
mencyon
of
many
Kynges
in
Englond
that
haue
lefte
theyr
Kyngdomes
/
And
some
entered
into
Relygyon
/
some
went
on
Pylgrymage
to
Rome
or
otherwyse
made
a
blesyd
ende
as
in
the
Legende
apperyth
.
¶
De
sctam
Cuthburga
regina
&
virgyne
.
SEynt
cuthburge
was
Syster
to
Ibe
kynge
of
westsaxones
/
And
alfryde
Kynge
of
Northamhumber
herynge
the
fame
of
her
beauty
&
vertusent
Ambassatoures
to
her
Broder
/
desyrynge
to
haue
her
in
maryage
/
And
when
her
Broder
had
shewyd
to
her
the
message
/
she
Answeryd
that
if
she
myght
lyue
after
her
owne
Appetyte
there
shulde
no
Husbonde
in
all
Bretayne
please
her
/
but
she
sayde
she
wolde
not
be
dysobedyent
to
hym
if
he
otherwyse
ordeynyd
lest
it
shulde
be
a
dysobedyens
to
god
puttynge
her
truste
only
in
our
Lorde
and
so
she
was
maryed
/
And
whan
her
Husbond
&
she
came
into
the
Chaumber
/
she
shewyd
hym
her
purpose
of
kepynge
virginyte
/
and
exortyd
hym
therto
in
such
maner
with
such
great
charyte
/
&
mekenes
that
he
was
therto
contentyd
/
And
so
she
lefte
all
pompe
of
the
worlde
and
buyldyd
a
Monasterye
in
wymburne
and
there
she
punysshed
her
Body
with
fastyngys
/
and
watchyngys
/
and
vsyd
contynuall
prayers
/
and
was
very
meke
to
god
and
man
/
and
in
her
monasterye
she
gatheryd
many
virgyns
/
And
whenne
she
knewe
that
her
tyme
drewe
nere
to
go
out
of
this
worlde
she
exortyd
her
systers
to
consyder
desceytfulnes
of
the
worlde
/
And
with
all
dylygence
to
kepe
theyr
hert
/
for
of
that
lyfe
procedyth
/
And
to
loue
all
that
our
Lorde
which
is
theyr
spouse
Louyth
/
and
to
hate
all
that
he
hatyth
and
to
loue
eche
other
/
and
alway
to
desyre
the
euerlastynge
Lyfe
/
and
when
she
had
made
theym
a
longe
exortacyon
she
chaungyd
thys
lyfe
the
day
before
the
kalendas
of
September
.
¶
De
sancto
Cinigaro
heremyta
.
SEynt
cinigar
was
sone
to
the
Emperour
of
Constantynople
/
and
to
the
Empryse
lucyna
/
And
when
he
shulde
haue
ben
maryed
to
a
great
kyngys
Doughter
/
he
wente
a
way
pryuely
in
poure
apparell
/
And
the
Emperoure
sent
messangers
after
hym
/
but
our
Lorde
sauyd
hym
fro
theym
/
And
soo
he
came
into
Fraunce
/
and
so
to
Englonde
and
with
all
his
dylygens
he
entendyd
to
kepe
a
solytary
Lyfe
/
and
beynge
in
that
porpose
he
came
into
somerset
shyre
/
And
by
monycyon
of
an
Aungell
he
came
to
a
place
now
callyd
Cungresbury
he
were
the
heer
/
and
dylygently
kepte
Fastyngys
/
&
Prayers
/
and
euery
mornynge
he
stode
in
the
water
tyll
he
had
sayd
thre
Pater
nosters
/
And
at
.ix.
of
the
cloke
he
refresshyd
hymselfe
with
harley
Breed
/
The
kynge
Iue
gaue
hym
the
terrytorye
about
Cungresbury
/
And
there
he
made
a
temple
of
.xii.
Chanons
/
&
by
reason
of
his
great
Myracles
there
was
suche
great
Resorte
to
hym
that
for
his
more
quyetnes
/
he
lefte
that
place
/
and
went
into
Wales
/
And
in
a
place
shewyd
to
hym
by
an
Aungell
/
he
made
an
Oratory
/
and
after
he
went
on
pylgrymage
to
Rome
/
&
so
to
Iherusalem
/
And
at
Iherusalem
he
chaungyd
his
Lyfe
/
And
as
it
is
sayde
his
Company
brought
his
Body
with
theym
into
Englonge
to
cungresbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Dauyd
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
dauyd
was
sone
to
the
Kynge
of
Nortwales
/
And
his
moders
name
was
Nunnyta
/
And
as
seynt
Patryke
was
in
the
vale
of
Rosyn
where
is
nowe
seynt
Dauithis
/
An
aungell
apperyd
to
hym
and
sayd
that
that
place
was
not
ordeynyd
for
hym
/
but
for
oon
that
shulde
be
Borne
.xxx.
yerys
after
/
And
when
seynt
Patryke
was
therwith
astonyed
that
he
was
soo
abiectyd
for
oon
not
yet
borne
/
an
Aungell
shewyd
hym
beynge
in
Wales
all
the
lande
of
Irlande
and
tolde
hym
that
in
that
Countrey
he
shulde
suffre
moche
for
our
Lorde
/
And
that
our
Lorde
shulde
be
with
hym
in
all
that
he
dyd
/
And
when
the
Chylde
was
Borne
all
the
place
where
he
was
shone
with
a
great
clerenes
/
And
a
stone
at
the
feet
of
Nonyta
in
her
traueyle
gaue
place
to
her
Feet
as
if
it
had
ben
waxe
/
And
in
the
same
place
a
Churche
is
made
/
And
when
he
was
at
scole
his
felawes
sawe
a
Doue
with
a
golden
byll
fleynge
before
his
face
/
and
Techynge
hym
/
and
he
helyd
his
Mayster
that
was
blynde
/
He
made
.xii.
Monasteryes
/
and
came
to
Glastonbury
and
made
the
churche
/
And
with
his
blessynge
puryfyed
waters
at
Bath
and
made
them
contynually
to
be
hote
and
holsome
to
be
wasshed
in
/
when
brede
poysonyd
was
seruyd
to
hym
he
Blessyd
it
/
and
gaue
oon
parte
to
a
Lytyl
dogge
which
strayghte
way
dyed
/
&
a
nodre
parte
he
gaue
to
a
Crowe
which
also
Dyed
/
&
the
thyrde
parte
he
ete
hym
felfe
&
had
no
hurte
/
an
Abbot
vpon
a
Horse
that
he
borowyd
of
seynt
Dauyd
and
trustynge
on
his
Blessynge
rode
on
hym
ouer
the
See
safe
on
a
tyme
whenne
his
dyscyples
and
he
had
sufferyd
a
great
wronge
/
He
sayd
to
theym
that
he
that
wyll
serue
oure
Lorde
shall
suffre
trybulacyon
/
but
he
may
not
be
ouerome
with
euyll
/
but
he
muste
ouercome
euyll
with
goodnes
/
for
he
sayd
if
oure
Lorde
be
with
vs
who
shal
be
agaynste
vs
/
he
wolde
haue
all
his
discyples
laboure
seyinge
with
the
appostell
he
that
wyll
not
laboure
/
shall
not
ete
/
and
as
they
laboured
they
other
prayed
or
thought
some
thynge
plesaunte
to
almyghty
god
/
and
they
lyuyd
with
Breed
and
Lekys
/
&
toke
Mylke
for
theyr
drynke
/
&
when
laboure
was
doon
they
wolde
be
Prayenge
/
redyng
/
or
wrytynge
/
he
wolde
take
no
thynge
of
theym
that
shulde
be
resceyuyd
amonge
theym
into
Relygyon
/
and
after
by
monycyon
of
an
Aungell
he
went
to
Iherusalem
with
seynt
Thelyans
and
seynt
Patrone
/
And
there
they
prechyd
agaynste
the
Iewes
and
strengthyd
many
in
the
faythe
/
And
euery
man
vnderstode
theym
in
theyr
owne
tonge
/
and
there
he
was
made
an
Archebusshope
&
the
patryarke
gaue
hym
an
Aulter
/
a
staffe
/
a
belle
/
&
a
cote
coueryd
with
Golde
wherby
great
Myracles
haue
been
don
/
And
when
he
was
come
home
agayne
/
He
was
desyryd
to
Preche
agaynste
the
Heresye
of
Pelagyen
/
and
as
he
stode
amonge
the
people
he
had
a
Chylde
that
he
hadde
Reysyd
by
the
way
fro
deth
to
Lyfe
ley
his
napkyn
vnder
his
feet
&
standynge
therupon
he
began
to
Preche
/
And
as
he
prechyd
the
grounde
that
he
stoude
on
rose
with
hym
lyke
a
Hyll
wheruppon
a
Churche
is
buldyd
/
And
by
his
prechynge
the
people
were
confermyd
/
And
all
the
Clergye
toke
there
doctryne
at
hym
/
And
he
was
as
a
Father
to
all
the
people
/
And
he
knewe
the
verye
Day
of
his
Deth
And
at
his
departynge
our
Lorde
apperyd
vnto
hym
with
a
great
company
of
Aungellys
/
And
he
sayde
to
hym
Lorde
take
me
with
the
/
And
so
he
wente
with
oure
Lorde
in
the
kalendas
of
Marche
and
he
was
Buryed
at
Seynt
Dauythys
/
and
oure
Lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
Myracles
bothe
in
his
lyfe
/
and
after
his
Deth
/
And
foure
hundred
and
.xxi.
yere
after
his
departynge
out
of
this
worlde
his
Body
was
translatyd
to
Glastonbury
as
in
the
latter
ende
of
seynt
Patryckys
lyfe
apperyth
.
¶
De
sancto
decimiano
heremyta
&
martyre
SEynt
Decymyan
otherwyse
callyd
Dekeman
was
borne
in
the
west
parte
of
Walys
and
when
he
was
paste
yerys
of
Chyldhode
he
suffred
not
his
mynde
to
be
vagarant
/
But
kepte
it
vnder
discyplyne
/
And
when
his
felowes
wolde
goo
on
huntynge
/
he
wolde
goo
to
the
Churche
and
pray
/
he
sette
not
his
pryncypall
intent
to
great
connynge
/
but
to
good
Lyfe
and
contemplacyon
/
and
after
for
that
he
moughte
the
more
quyetly
serue
our
Lorde
/
he
thoughte
to
leue
his
Countrey
/
And
soo
he
dyd
and
whenne
he
came
to
Seuerne
he
had
no
Shyppe
to
goo
ouer
/
And
vppon
a
borden
of
Roddys
that
he
made
/
he
came
ouer
into
Englonde
nygh
to
the
Castell
of
Dorochester
where
was
thenne
a
great
wyldernes
and
there
he
lyuyd
with
Herbys
/
&
Rootys
with
Fastyngys
and
Prayer
/
and
vsyd
the
heer
/
And
the
lesse
that
he
was
vysytyd
with
men
the
more
he
was
visyted
with
Aungellys
/
&
a
cursyd
man
for
enuy
that
he
had
to
his
holy
Lyfe
stroke
of
his
hed
/
and
he
toke
vp
his
heed
&
bare
it
to
a
well
that
he
was
wonte
to
wasshe
his
Heed
in
/
and
there
he
was
founde
and
was
buryed
honorably
.
¶
De
sancto
Deusdedit
archiep̄o
.
SEynt
deusdedyt
was
of
the
Countrey
of
Westsaxones
in
Englonde
/
His
very
name
was
Frythona
but
for
his
great
merytys
the
people
chaunged
his
name
/
and
caullyd
hym
Deusdedith
that
is
god
sent
hym
/
And
after
the
Deth
of
the
Archebusshope
honoryus
/
he
was
made
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
/
And
he
was
a
Louer
of
vertues
/
a
destroyer
of
vyces
/
a
dylygent
sower
of
the
worde
of
god
/
And
was
busy
in
prayers
/
fastyngys
/
and
in
gyuynge
of
Almes
/
And
with
grete
studye
laboured
for
the
people
commytted
to
hym
/
And
after
that
he
had
takyn
the
Ordre
of
preesthode
/
he
had
alwayes
his
mynde
fyxyd
to
our
Lorde
/
and
refresshyd
poure
men
/
Clothed
the
nakyd
/
vysytyd
the
syke
/
&
had
perseueraunt
Loue
to
god
/
and
to
his
neyghboure
/
and
was
full
of
the
spyryt
of
wysdome
/
and
mekenes
/
and
that
that
seynt
Augustyne
/
seynt
Laurence
/
seynt
Mellytus
iustus
/
&
Honoryus
succedynge
one
after
a nother
had
begon
/
this
Blessyd
man
by
Prechynge
/
Admonysshynge
/
correccyon
&
hygh
charyte
more
fully
stablysshed
/
and
when
he
had
brought
all
thyngys
to
good
ordre
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
syx
.
hundryd
.lxiiii.
in
the
Idus
of
Iuly
he
went
to
our
lorde
/
And
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Dubry
con
epo
&
confessore
.
THe
moder
of
seynt
Dubryce
had
no
Husbonde
wherfore
her
Fader
whiche
was
a
Kynge
in
Wales
perceyuynge
her
to
be
with
Chylde
in
great
woodnes
caste
her
into
the
water
in
a
vessell
of
glasse
/
and
as
ofte
as
she
was
caste
in
/
she
was
brought
agayne
safe
to
Londe
/
And
thenne
her
Fader
caste
her
into
a
great
Fyre
/
and
in
the
mornynge
whenne
they
thoughte
she
had
ben
all
to
brent
they
founde
her
safe
/
and
her
sone
newe
borne
in
hir
armys
/
and
not
one
heer
of
hyr
hurte
/
And
the
Kynge
herynge
therof
sent
for
theym
/
And
as
he
kyssyd
the
Chylde
/
&
the
Chylde
with
his
Hande
touchyd
the
kynges
Face
/
anon
he
was
made
hooll
of
a
grete
desease
that
he
had
in
his
Mouthe
/
&
when
he
was
set
to
lernynge
he
prophytyd
so
moche
therin
&
in
good
maners
that
men
of
great
cunnynge
came
to
here
hym
/
amonge
whom
was
seynt
Thelyans
/
Sampson
/
Aidanus
/
&
many
other
/
and
after
the
Kynge
made
hym
Archebusshope
of
the
Cytie
of
Legyons
/
And
in
the
yere
of
oure
Lord
.v.
C.
&
.xii.
he
went
out
of
this
worlde
/
and
now
he
lyeth
at
Landanense
/
&
in
his
Legende
be
dyuerse
goodly
thynges
of
Kynge
arthur
of
Stonthynges
/
and
of
dyuerse
Myracles
here
omyttyd
.
¶
Desc●ō
Dunstano
archiep̄o
.
SEynt
dunstane
was
borne
of
noble
blode
of
Englonde
of
the
countrey
of
westsaxons
in
the
tyme
of
Kynge
Ethelstane
in
the
whiche
tyme
the
lyfe
of
obedyence
was
lytell
desyred
/
And
the
name
of
an
Abbotskaresly
knowen
/
seynt
Aldelme
archebusshop
of
caunterbury
vncle
to
seynt
Dunstane
commyttyd
hym
to
the
kynge
Athelstone
/
of
whom
he
was
moche
cherysshyd
/
&
somtyme
he
vsyd
Prayers
/
some
tyme
Iudged
causys
of
the
people
/
And
so
he
vsyd
hym selfe
that
he
dipleased
no
man
that
lyuyd
well
/
As
he
was
makynge
avestemēt
for
a
preest
/
his
harpe
without
touchynge
sownyd
the
(
antiphone
gaudent
in
Celis
)
And
though
all
the
company
thought
it
was
by
veyll
connynge
yet
he
toke
it
for
a
warnynge
that
it
was
the
wyll
of
our
lord
that
he
shulde
lyue
a
harder
lyfe
/
And
after
certeyn
malycyous
persones
by
entysement
of
the
Deuyll
persuadyd
the
kynge
to
beleue
that
Dunstan
dyd
nothynge
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
But
by
wichecrafte
&
so
he
lefte
the
courte
/
and
went
to
his
vncle
elphegus
Busshope
of
wynchester
&
there
he
toke
order
of
preesthode
/
&
was
made
Monke
at
glastonbury
/
and
there
as
he
was
workynge
in
a
forge
the
deuyll
apperyd
to
hym
lyke
a
woman
to
tempte
hym
/
And
he
by
spyryt
knowynge
who
it
was
toke
hym
by
the
nose
with
his
hote
Tongys
so
sore
that
he
cryed
out
so
terrybly
that
it
feryd
all
the
Inhabytauntys
in
the
towne
/
The
deuyll
had
great
enuy
to
hym
because
of
his
blessyd
lyfe
/
and
he
had
suche
especyall
grace
that
he
knewe
euer
in
Spyryte
the
leest
thynge
that
the
enemy
dyd
/
And
euer
he
had
the
victorye
/
And
he
lyuyd
.vii.
Kynges
dayes
Athelstan
/
Ede●
Edred
/
Edwyn
/
Edgare
/
Edwarde
the
martyr
/
&
Ethel
drede
his
Broder
/
he
was
in
suche
fauoure
with
Edrede
that
he
preferryd
hym
aboue
all
Men
in
soo
moche
that
there
was
nothynge
doon
in
the
Realme
without
hym
&
he
dyd
Iustyce
and
equyte
in
all
the
Realme
/
And
after
the
deth
of
Edred
he
reprouyd
Edwyn
of
his
abhomynable
auoultre
wherwith
the
Kynge
toke
displeasure
and
banysshyd
hym
the
Realme
/
and
so
he
taryed
in
Flaunders
all
the
dayes
of
Edwyn
/
and
there
he
lyuyd
a
blessyd
Lyfe
in
the
Monasterye
of
Gandanense
/
And
after
the
deth
of
Kynge
Edwyn
kynge
Edgare
brought
hym
agayne
with
great
honoure
/
And
after
the
deth
of
Odo
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
elsynus
which
longe
had
labouryd
for
it
/
by
corrupcyon
of
money
was
made
Archebusshope
/
wherefore
as
he
was
goynge
towarde
●ome
he
dyed
of
Colde
in
the
snowe
/
And
shortly
after
seynt
Dunstane
was
electyd
archebushope
/
And
he
fet
his
pall
at
rome
/
and
the
fyrste
daye
that
he
came
home
and
was
howselynge
the
people
/
sodeynly
a
Clowde
came
ouer
the
Churche
and
a
whyte
Doue
was
seen
descende
vppon
hym
/
And
after
on
a
tyme
he
came
to
Kynge
Edgare
&
reprouyd
hym
for
kepynge
of
a
Nonne
/
And
when
the
Kynge
wolde
haue
had
hym
syt
downe
by
hym
/
he
sayd
he
wolde
not
be
frende
with
hym
to
whom
our
Lord
was
Enemy
/
And
the
Kynge
herynge
that
was
aferde
/
And
anon
knowlegyd
his
offence
and
askyd
penaunce
&
forgyuenesse
/
And
seynt
Dunstane
gaue
hym
in
Penaunce
that
he
shuld
not
were
his
Crowne
of
.vii.
yere
/
and
that
he
shulde
faste
twyse
euery
weke
/
whiche
Penaunce
the
Kynge
dyd
/
And
after
seuyn
yere
he
were
his
Crowne
agayne
/
whiche
Penaunce
doynge
was
great
Ioye
to
all
the
realme
/
And
this
blessyd
man
full
of
good
werkys
wente
to
oure
Lorde
the
.xiiii.
kalendas
of
Iune
/
And
he
was
Buryed
at
Caunterbury
/
and
after
was
translatyd
to
Glas●●●bu●y
/
And
he
prophycyd
that
great
and
longe
Punysshement
shulde
falle
vppon
the
people
of
Englonde
by
estraunge
nacyons
and
that
there
in
the
ende
of
dayes
the
mercy
of
our
Lorde
shulde
fall
●ppon
theym
.
De
sancta
Eauswida
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
eauswyda
was
doughter
to
the
Kynge
son
to
kynge
ethelbert
Edbaldus
/
And
fro
her
youthe
she
forsoke
the
pompys
of
the
worlde
/
and
enducyd
her
Fader
to
make
her
an
Oratorye
at
Folkstan
that
she
myghte
in
virgynyte
serue
our
Lorde
/
And
as
the
oratory
was
in
buyldynge
/
the
kynge
of
Northamhumbrorum
which
was
a
paynym
/
desyryd
to
haue
her
in
maryage
and
her
Father
counceylyd
her
therto
/
and
praysyd
the
Kynge
moche
/
And
she
sayd
if
he
coulde
in
the
name
of
his
goddys
make
a
beame
of
her
Oratorye
which
was
to
shorte
longe
I
nough
she
wolde
assente
to
hym
/
if
not
she
desyryd
to
be
let
alone
/
And
the
kynge
trustynge
in
his
Goddes
gladly
assentyd
/
And
when
he
hadde
longe
Prayde
/
all
was
in
vayne
that
he
dyd
/
and
soo
he
went
away
with
shame
/
And
thenne
the
virgyn
Prayed
in
the
name
of
oure
Lorde
/
And
anone
her
Prayer
was
herde
/
and
the
Bame
made
longe
Inoughe
/
And
so
the
Kynge
departyd
/
And
by
her
prayer
water
came
agaynste
the
Hylle
fro
a
Towne
callyd
Swecton
to
her
oratory
/
And
it
came
by
a noder
Ryuer
and
yet
Ioynyd
not
with
it
/
foure
Bretherne
of
great
Ryches
denyed
to
geue
Dysmes
to
seynt
Eauswyda
/
And
after
many
yerys
.
iii.
of
theym
were
compuncte
/
and
aduertysyd
the
.iiii.
to
goo
with
them
to
her
sepulcre
to
doo
penaunce
/
and
make
satysfaccyon
/
and
he
denyed
it
/
And
anon
the
Deuyll
enteryd
into
hym
/
And
soo
his
Bretherne
bounde
hym
And
broughte
hym
to
her
Aulter
/
And
anone
he
was
made
Hoolle
and
Payed
his
Tythes
/
And
she
wente
fro
this
present
lyfe
the
day
before
the
kalendas
of
september
And
bycause
her
church
was
dystroyed
with
the
see
her
bodye
was
brought
to
Folkstane
.
¶
De
sancto
Eata
epo
&
confessore
.
WHen
seynt
Oswalde
had
opteynyd
the
kyngdomes
of
Deyre
&
Bernysshe
/
&
had
sent
for
seynt
Aidan
to
instructe
his
people
in
the
feythe
of
our
Lorde
/
seynt
Aidan
toke
.xii.
Englysshe
chyldren
to
Instructe
whereof
●ata
was
oon
/
which
anon
folowyd
the
exaumples
&
techynges
of
his
maister
And
after
he
enteryd
into
Relygyon
/
and
was
made
abbot
of
May●rose
otherwyse
callyd
menrose
/
And
thenne
he
shewyd
to
his
Bretherne
moo
tokyns
of
mekenes
and
charyte
then
he
dyd
before
/
And
he
made
many
monasteryes
/
and
gaderyd
many
dyscyples
wherof
seynt
Cuthbert
was
oon
/
And
after
he
was
made
Abbot
of
lyndyffernens
that
nowe
is
callyd
the
holy
Ilonde
/
And
after
he
was
electyd
Busshope
of
hagustaldense
with
great
gladnes
of
all
the
people
he
was
busy
in
prayenge
/
dylygent
in
exortynge
the
people
/
&
ententyffe
to
geue
Almes
/
And
what
soeuer
he
knew
by
the
holy
goost
was
to
be
don
besyly
/
&
deuotlye
he
wolde
se
it
to
be
doon
/
And
he
endyd
this
lyfe
of
a
sykenes
callyd
the
Dyssentory
by
longe
/
and
greuous
contynuaunce
/
And
lyeth
at
Hagustaldense
/
Thomas
archbusshope
of
yorke
wolde
haue
translatyd
hym
to
yorke
/
And
on
the
nyghte
before
he
wolde
haue
translatyd
hym
seynt
Eata
apperyd
to
hym
and
tolde
hym
that
he
had
attemptyd
to
do
that
that
was
not
the
wyll
of
our
Lorde
shulde
be
doon
/
And
so
he
cessyd
that
enterpryse
.
¶
De
sancta
Ebbavirgyne
&
abbatissa
.
SEyntebba
was
syster
to
Kynge
Oswy
/
And
she
forsoke
the
worlde
/
and
all
the
pleasure
therof
/
&
was
made
a
Nonne
of
seynt
Fynan
Busshope
of
Lyndyffernense
/
and
after
she
was
Abbes
of
the
Monastery
of
Coludy
now
callyd
coldynghm
.vi.
mylys
fro
Berwyke
/
And
it
is
enhabytyd
with
Monkys
of
Durham
/
And
she
made
a noder
Monasterye
vppon
〈◊〉
callyd
Ebbcester
/
which
was
destroyed
by
Danes
/
And
seynt
Etheldred
was
her
dyscyple
/
&
though
seynt
Cuthbert
fro
his
youth
fledde
the
company
of
women
as
Pestylens
/
yet
he
wolde
speke
with
this
blessyd
Woman
/
&
tary
with
her
to
informacyon
of
her
/
and
of
her
company
certeyn
tymes
/
And
she
went
to
our
Lorde
.iiii.
yere
before
seynt
Cuthbert
the.
viii
.
kalendas
of
September
and
was
buryed
in
her
Monasterye
/
And
after
her
Monasterye
was
destroyed
for
synne
&
wretchydnes
as
it
was
shewyd
to
her
it
shuld
be
/
And
her
Relykys
were
hadde
to
the
Churche
of
our
Lady
/
A
yonge
man
that
hadde
a
Bone
in
his
Throte
wasshyd
his
throte
at
her
well
and
receyuyd
helthe
/
And
wiste
not
where
the
Bone
became
/
she
helyd
dyuerse
that
were
mute
blynde
obsessyd
of
Deuyllys
/
and
of
dyuerse
other
diseasys
.
¶
De
sancta
Edburga
virgin●
&
martyre
.
SEynt
edburgh
was
doughter
to
Kynge
Ethelbert
and
she
was
great
graūtmoder
to
Seynt
Myldrede
/
And
after
seynt
Myldredis
deth
she
toke
the
rule
of
the
Monastery
&
was
made
Abbasse
/
and
amonge
the
wauys
●o
the
worlde
she
confortyd
her selfe
with
holy
scrypture
/
prayers
/
and
geuynge
of
Almys
/
And
all
the
pleasure
of
this
worlde
she
dyspysyd
/
she
reputyd
Golde
and
Syluer
but
oonly
for
ornamentys
of
the
Churche
and
for
other
thynges
/
for
deuyne
seruyet
as
donge
/
And
couetyd
to
be
dyssoluyd
/
and
to
be
with
our
lorde
/
And
she
endyd
this
lyfe
in
the
Idus
of
december
/
And
lyeth
now
at
Caunterbury
/
she
helyd
a
Chylde
that
was
mute
/
&
a
these
that
toke
wytnesse
of
her
that
he
was
not
gyltye
/
And
prayde
god
if
he
were
that
he
shulde
neuer
goo
ferther
/
Anon
expyryd
a
wrytynge
of
hers
after
her
Dethe
was
vnauysydly
throwen
into
the
Fyre
with
other
scrowes
/
an
it
wolde
not
burne
.
¶
De
sctam
Edytha
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
edyth
was
Doughter
to
Kynge
Edgare
/
And
her
Moder
mulstrudys
after
she
was
borne
enteryd
into
Relygyon
at
wylton
/
where
she
was
made
Abbesse
/
And
Edyth
beynge
in
kepynge
of
her
moder
/
by
assent
of
the
Kynge
Edgar
her
Fader
also
enteryd
into
Relygyon
vnder
her
Moder
/
And
she
was
moche
mouyd
and
comfortyd
therto
by
the
blessyd
lyfe
of
her
Aunte
callyd
also
edyth
which
in
tho
dayes
lyuyd
a
blessyd
Lyfe
in
Polles
worthe
/
as
she
dyd
at
wylton
she
was
full
of
Pyte
/
and
compassyon
/
and
the
more
dyfformyte
of
sykenes
that
she
saw
in
any
creature
the
more
charytable
and
helpynge
she
wolde
be
vnto
hym
/
And
vnder
her
vtter
apparell
that
was
sumwhat
precyous
she
were
the
heer
/
And
seynt
Ethel
wolde
sayde
vnto
her
that
suche
apparell
was
not
the
way
to
please
her
spouse
And
then
she
shewyd
hym
the
trouche
what
she
were
inwardly
wherfore
he
was
gladde
/
consyderynge
that
all
was
oon
purpure
and
sacclothe
so
that
the
mynde
be
clene
/
And
after
she
was
made
ab●esse
of
thre
monasteryes
Wynton
/
Barkynge
/
and
another
/
But
she
sent
spirituell
moders
for
her
to
euery
place
/
and
taryed
her selfe
in
obedyence
vnder
her
moder
/
and
seynt
Edyth
vsed
alway
whatso
euer
she
dyd
to
make
a
Crosse
●her
forhede
/
and
seynt
Dunstane
when
he
came
to
halow
a
Church
of
seyn●nys
that
she
had
buyldyd
/
seynge
her
soo
ofte
make
Crosses
in
her
forhed
prayde
our
lord
that
that
thumbe
shuld
neuer
rotte
that
made
so
many
Crosses
/
And
at
the
masse
he
had
knowlege
geuyn
to
hym
by
our
Lorde
when
she
shulde
dye
/
And
he
sayde
the
wretchyd
worlde
was
not
worthy
to
haue
such
a
lyghte
/
And
he
was
present
at
her
deth
/
which
was
the
.xvi.
kalendas
of
october
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.ix.
C.
fourscore
&
.iiii.
And
she
lyeth
a●
wyltone
in
the
Church
of
seynt
Denys
that
she
had
made
/
&
.xiii.
yere
after
her
departynge
she
apperyd
to
Seynt
Dunstan
/
and
tolde
hym
it
was
the
wyll
of
oure
Lorde
that
her
Bodye
shulde
be
translatyd
/
And
it
was
truthe
/
and
no
illusion
/
She
tolde
hym
that
he
shulde
fynde
all
her
Bodye
vncorrupte
/
as
it
was
vncorrupte
fro
Lybydiousnes
&
Glotony
/
And
that
her
Feet
/
Ieu
/
&
Haudys
which
in
her
youthe
she
had
mysusyd
were
corrupte
excepte
her
thumbe
that
she
had
vsyd
to
Crosse
her
with
/
&
he
founde
all
as
she
sayde
/
A
monke
of
Glastonbury
boldly
cut
of
a
pece
of
her
Cote
/
And
it
happenyd
to
touche
her
Body
and
the
Blood
folowed
as
if
she
had
ben
alyue
And
an●n
he
fell
prostrate
and
wepte
for
his
offence
and
when
he
r●se
agayne
the
blod
was
go●n
.
¶
De
sancto
Edmundo
epo
&
confess●●●
.
SEynt
edmonde
was
borne
in
abyugd●●●n
seynt
Edmondys
day
the
kynge
/
and
martyr
/
And
after
hym
he
was
callyd
Edmonde
/
hys
Fader
enteryd
into
relygyon
/
And
his
moder
lyuyd
a
blessyd
lyfe
●he
were
the
here
&
a
haberieouvppon
it
/
And
she
taught
her
sone
to
kepe
vyrgyn●te
and
to
were
the
heer
/
and
e●ery
holyday
or
he
e●e
he
sayd
the
hooll
●auyth●is
Psalter
And
especyally
he
auowyd
hymselfe
to
oure
Ladye
/
he
vsyd
to
Faste
euery
Frydaye
Brede
and
Water
/
And
he
was
so
broughte
vp
in
vertue
that
in
maner
naturally
he
forsoke
all
euyll
/
our
Lorde
apperyd
to
hym
lyke
a
chyld
And
(
iesus
nazarenus
rex
iudeorum
)
was
Wrytten
in
his
forhed
/
And
after
that
tyme
he
toke
in
vse
euery
oure
to
remember
sumwhat
of
the
Passyon
/
as
he
was
studyinge
arythmetryke
/
his
moder
then
latlye
deed
apperyd
to
hym
and
made
in
her
ryght
hand
.iii.
serklys
/
And
wrote
in
theym
the
Fader
/
the
sone
/
and
the
holy
goost
and
bad
hym
fro
thens
forthe
take
hede
of
the
fygures
/
The
herys
of
his
hed
and
berde
/
for
great
abstynence
went
away
he
wolde
hexe
no
Seculercausys
/
He
wolde
make
couenaunte
with
his
seruauntys
that
they
shulde
be
●lene
of
theyr
Bodyes
/
or
departe
his
seruyce
he
had
such
honoure
to
holy
scrypture
that
he
neuer
openyd
the
Byble
but
be
kyssyd
it
/
his
olde
herys
if
they
were
leyde
in
the
Fyre
wolde
not
burne
/
As
he
studyed
in
the
nyght
his
candell
fell
vppon
his
byble
and
it
burned
not
/
And
he
was
electyd
Busshope
of
Caunterbury
or
he
were
ware
/
And
he
sayd
but
that
he
dred
that
he
shulde
haue
dyspleasyd
almyghtye
god
if
he
had
refusyd
he
wolde
neuer
haue
ass●tyd
/
he
was
all
tymes
redye
to
forgeue
them
that
had
offendyd
hym
/
And
to
take
theym
agayne
into
famylyaryte
/
And
some
aboute
hym
sayde
he
gaue
therbye
occasyon
to
the
people
to
offende
hym
/
And
he
sayde
our
Lord
dyd
not
resy●●e
/
And
seyde
that
the
punysshement
of
offensys
is
to
be
referryd
to
hym
and
not
to
be
doon
by
man
This
blessyd
man
had
great
trouble
&
dyspleasure
for
the
lybertyes
of
the
Churche
wherfore
he
toke
counceyle
of
other
prelatys
what
was
to
be
doon
therin
/
And
it
was
thought
that
he
shuld
admonysshe
the
Kynge
/
and
other
offenders
to
ceas●
/
And
so
he
dyd
/
and
the
Kynge
toke
a
day
of
aduysement
/
And
at
that
day
no
amendement
was
had
and
yet
pacyently
he
taryed
many
dayes
/
And
when
he
sawe
there
was
noon
admendement
he
gaue
sentence
into
other
offenders
/
And
sparyd
the
Kynge
/
And
when
he
sawe
that
yet
they
were
not
compū●te
/
he
thought
better
to
geue
place
to
theyr
malyce
then
to
do
the
streyghtnes
of
the
lawe
specyally
seynge
the
〈◊〉
legate
was
then
in
Englonde
and
myght
percase
haue
adnullyd
all
that
he
had
doon
wherfore
he
went
ouer
the
see
to
pontiniacum
/
And
there
he
fell
syke
/
And
so
he
wente
to
fasyacum
And
promysyd
to
be
there
agayne
at
pontiniacum
in
the
feest
of
seynt
Edmonde
Kynge
&
martyr
/
And
so
he
was
to
be
buryed
and
there
he
lyeth
/
And
at
his
departynge
he
had
suche
great
honour
and
feruour
to
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
that
it
may
be
exaumple
to
other
men
/
At
his
toumbe
Blynde
men
haue
recoueryd
theyr
syghte
/
Lame
men
theyr
goinge
/
dome
men
theyr
speche
/
deffe
men
theyr
herynge
/
Men
obsessyd
of
deuyllys
haue
ben
delyueryd
/
And
deed
men
haue
ben
reysyd
fro
Deth
to
Lyfe
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a
Thousande
two
hundred
and
fyftye
.
the
monkes
at
pontynyacense
cut
of
his
Arme
for
what
concyderacyon
it
is
not
knowen
/
and
after
the
Myracles
cessyd
.
¶
De
sancto
Edmundo
rege
et
martite
.
SEynt
edmonde
was
borne
in
saxony
/
And
was
sone
to
the
kynge
Alcmunde
whiche
was
of
kynne
to
offa
kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
as
kynge
Offa
hauynge
no
chyldren
was
goynge
to
Iherusalem
/
he
went
by
kynge
alkmūde
/
And
there
seynt
Edmonde
gaue
hym
suche
dylygent
attendaunce
that
he
lykyd
hym
moche
/
And
when
he
departyd
he
shewyd
to
Edmonde
a
Rynge
/
and
bad
hym
if
he
sent
to
hym
by
the
tokyn
/
the
he
anon
shulde
execute
that
he
desyryd
/
And
when
Kynge
Offa
at
the
arme
offeynt
George
fell
syke
to
the
deth
he
delyueryd
the
Rynge
to
his
seruauntys
/
and
bounde
theym
by
an
othe
that
they
shulde
delyuer
it
to
Edmonde
/
And
take
hym
with
theym
/
And
make
hym
kynge
of
●est
Englonde
/
and
so
they
dyd
/
And
anone
he
was
humble
/
&
benygne
to
his
subiettys
goynge
in
the
veray
ryght
way
of
a
Kynge
/
And
was
a
fader
to
wydowes
and
orphanes
/
And
to
all
men
that
were
de●tytute
a
specyall
re●uge
and
helpe
/
And
after
in
the
tyme
of
the
persecucyon
of
the
danes
for
that
he
wolde
not
forsake
the
fayth
of
our
Lorde
he
was
taken
by
the
Danes
hunguar
/
and
hubba
and
was
bounde
to
a
stocke
and
shot
with
arrowes
so
that
he
was
lyke
to
an
Irchyn
/
And
when
they
sawe
that
in
all
that
marterdome
he
cryed
vppon
our
Lord
/
they
stroke
of
his
hedde
/
and
hyd
it
in
a
wood
/
And
when
the
warre
was
sumwhat
appesyd
/
crysten
men
sought
the
hedde
in
the
wood
/
And
asoon
of
them
cryed
to
anoder
where
arte
thou
/
the
hed
answeryd
thryse
here
here
here
/
and
so
it
was
founde
/
And
a
great
Wolfe
kepte
it
bytwyxte
his
Leggys
/
And
so
it
was
takyn
vp
and
leyde
to
the
Body
And
was
buryed
honorably
/
And
after
when
his
Body
was
remouyd
he
was
founde
vncorrupte
/
And
his
Hed
was
growen
agayne
to
his
bodye
/
And
nothynge
apperyd
of
the
Cu●tynge
but
a
lytell
redde
serkyll
aboute
his
necke
/
After
when
swanus
kynge
of
Danes
destroyed
the
Countrey
/
and
blasphemyd
seynt
Edmonde
and
askyd
a
great
Trybute
of
the
people
/
they
feryd
moche
/
And
a
Monke
that
then
was
very
deuoute
to
seynt
Edmonde
/
went
to
seynt
Edmonde
wasshyd
his
body
and
kembed
his
hed
as
he
had
ben
a
Lyue
/
And
prayed
hym
of
Helpe
And
he
spake
to
hym
famylyarlye
/
and
bad
hym
goo
to
swanus
And
commaunde
hym
in
his
name
to
ceasse
/
&
when
the
monke
had
soo
doon
/
and
it
nothynge
auayled
but
that
he
had
moch
a
doo
to
skape
with
his
lyfe
/
the
same
nyght
the
Kynge
swanus
was
kyllyd
amonge
his
people
with
seynt
Edmondys
swerde
&
no
man
knew
howe
Wherfore
kunt
that
was
swanus
sone
fro
thensfourthe
delt
more
mekely
with
seynt
Edmonde
/
And
made
a
dyke
aboute
his
grounde
dischargyd
it
of
all
trybutys
/
And
made
a
Chyrche
ouer
his
Body
/
and
enduyd
it
with
grete
possessyons
.
De
sancto
Edwardo
rege
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Edwarde
was
sone
to
kynge
Etheldrede
And
for
fere
of
the
Danys
he
was
sent
into
Normandye
&
there
he
wolde
be
ofte
at
the
Churche
in
prayers
/
he
was
Chast
of
Bodye
/
trewe
of
dede
/
and
of
lytell
speche
/
He
wolde
vysyt
Monasteryes
/
and
accompany
hymselfe
with
those
Monkys
that
he
sawe
moost
vertuous
/
And
when
he
sawe
howe
he
was
destytute
of
all
worldly
helpe
/
his
Father
ded
his
Brother
kyllyd
his
Moder
maryed
to
his
enemy
with
deuout
prayers
he
commyttyd
hym
hooly
to
oure
Lord
/
And
after
the
Dethe
of
Kynyte
he
was
sent
for
and
was
chosen
Kynge
&
enoyntyd
with
great
gladnes
of
all
the
people
/
And
anone
all
thynges
were
broughte
in
good
ordre
the
Clergye
dyd
theyr
dutye
/
the
people
dyd
theyr
duetye
/
and
Monasteryes
kepte
theyr
relygyon
/
He
was
neuer
seen
enflamyd
with
pryde
or
angre
nor
dyshonestyd
with
glotonye
/
He
was
neuer
the
meryer
for
gettynge
of
money
/
nor
the
soryer
if
he
lost
it
/
He
sawe
oon
of
his
seruauntys
stele
his
Treasure
and
yet
he
wolde
not
dyscouer
hym
/
but
after
thryse
commynge
bad
hym
beware
his
stewarde
/
By
councell
of
his
Lordys
he
toke
to
Wyfe
the
doughter
of
goodwyn
a
Blessyd
vyrgyne
And
they
Lyuyd
chast
all
theyr
Lyues
/
At
the
tyme
of
Leuacyon
he
sawe
the
Kynge
of
Denmarke
as
he
was
commynge
into
Englonde
to
warre
drownyd
in
the
See
/
He
repayryd
the
abbey
of
westmester
/
&
newely
enduyd
it
for
Redēpcyon
of
his
aduowe
to
Rome
/
He
sawe
the
Deuyll
sytte
vppon
Money
that
his
councell
had
gaderyd
of
the
commons
/
&
he
causyd
it
to
be
repayed
/
at
westin
our
lorde
shewyd
hym selfe
Bodely
to
hym
at
masse
/
and
with
his
ryght
hande
blessyd
hym
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
/
As
the
Kynge
&
the
Erle
goodwyn
sate
at
dyner
the
Erle
prayde
God
that
if
he
were
Gyltye
of
the
Dethe
of
Alerude
the
Kynges
Broder
that
a
pece
of
Breed
whiche
he
entendyd
to
Ete
shulde
neuer
goo
thrugh
hym
/
and
the
Kynge
blessyd
it
/
And
anone
as
he
wolde
haue
etyn
it
he
was
stranglyd
therwith
/
And
as
they
sate
at
dyner
he
dyed
/
He
sawe
the
seuyn
slepars
turne
theym
on
the
lefte
syde
that
longe
afore
had
lyen
on
the
Ryght
syde
whiche
betokenyd
great
trouble
to
come
in
the
worlde
/
seynt
Iohn
euangelyst
sent
hym
a
Rynge
by
two
Pylgrymes
whiche
he
had
before
that
ryme
gyuen
to
seynt
Iohn
in
Almys
/
in
lykenes
of
a
poure
man
/
And
he
sent
hym
worde
that
within
syx
monethes
he
shuld
departe
this
worlde
/
and
so
he
dyd
/
our
Lorde
shewyd
for
hym
many
Myracles
in
so
moche
that
the
water
that
he
wasshyd
in
helyd
many
persones
of
dyuerse
sykenes
/
all
his
dayes
was
full
peace
in
Englonde
/
and
Immedyatlye
after
his
dayes
rose
great
trouble
/
He
dyed
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
.
M.lxvi.
the
Daye
before
the
fyrste
nonas
of
Ianuary
/
And
he
lyeth
at
westmester
.xxxvi.
yere
after
he
was
buryed
his
Body
was
founde
vncorrupte
¶
De
sancto
Edwardo
rege
&
martyre
.
SEynt
edwarde
Kynge
/
and
Martyr
was
sone
to
kynge
Edgar
/
And
after
his
Faders
deth
by
helpe
of
seynt
Dunstane
/
&
of
seynt
Oswalde
he
was
made
Kynge
as
his
Fader
commaundyd
/
But
yet
his
mother
in
lawe
Alfryth
coueytyd
to
haue
her
Sone
ethelrede
Kynge
/
&
as
seynt
Edwarde
was
Goynge
to
corffe
Castell
with
a
smalle
company
to
se
his
Broder
ethel
rede
/
&
came
by
his
moder
in
lawe
she
offerd
hym
Drynke
&
causyd
hym
to
be
kyllyd
traytorously
as
he
was
drynkynge
the
.xv.
kalendas
of
apryll
in
the
yere
of
grace
.ix.
C.
foure
score
&
one
/
And
in
the
nyght
folowyng
a
lyght
cam
into
the
Chaumber
where
his
body
lay
that
helyd
a
blynde
woman
that
kepte
hym
/
And
that
knowyn
the
quene
Alfrythe
hyd
his
Bodye
a
yere
in
vyle
placys
/
And
by
a
bryghte
beame
that
shone
there
as
the
Budye
a
laye
/
it
was
knowen
&
was
takyn
vppe
&
buryed
at
warreham
by
the
people
of
that
prouynce
/
And
when
his
myracles
were
knowyn
he
was
takyn
vp
agayne
&
was
founde
vncorrupte
/
&
was
buryed
honorably
with
dyuerse
Busshopes
at
the
monastery
of
Septon
/
His
syster
Edyth
and
her
Moder
wulstrude
beynge
present
/
&
as
it
is
sayde
the
quene
Alfryth
for
her
penaunce
made
the
Monasteryes
of
wharwell
&
Malmesbury
/
And
enduyd
them
with
great
possessions
.
¶
De
scton
Edwino
rege
&
martire
.
SEynt
edwyn
was
sone
to
Elle
kynge
of
Northāhumbre
and
deire
/
And
by
Etherfryde
that
had
maryed
his
suster
Acca
/
he
was
put
oute
of
his
Realme
/
And
soo
he
fled
to
rad
wolde
Kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
what
by
threttys
&
promysse
of
rewardys
he
was
lyke
to
haue
ben
delyuerd
by
Kynge
Radwolde
to
his
broders
handys
/
And
as
he
was
in
great
Heuynes
therfore
/
a
man
cam
to
hym
&
tolde
hym
if
he
wolde
promyse
to
be
cristened
he
shuld
not
be
delyueryd
to
his
broder
but
restoryd
ageyne
to
his
Kyndome
/
And
when
he
had
made
promes
to
be
crystenyd
/
the
man
set
his
ryght
hand
vppon
his
heed
/
and
bad
hym
when
that
sygne
cam
to
hym
not
to
dyffer
to
be
cri●tenyd
/
and
that
doon
he
vanysshyd
away
/
And
so
the
kynge
Radwolde
chaunged
his
mynde
and
after
kyllyd
Ethelfryde
in
Batayle
/
and
sette
Seynt
Edwyn
in
his
Kyndome
/
And
after
the
kynge
Edwyn
maryed
Alburghe
doughter
to
kynge
Ethel●ert
vppon
condycyon
that
he
shulde
nothynge
doo
to
lette
her
kepe
the
cristen
feythe
&
he
assentyd
/
And
seynt
paulyn
was
assygnyd
to
be
with
her
/
And
after
the
kynge
of
westsaxons
vnder
treason
sent
a
messynger
to
the
Kynge
edwyn
which
with
a
venemyd
Knyfe
sholde
sodeynly
haue
kyllyd
hym
/
And
when
the
kynge
was
sauyd
by
meanes
of
a
feythfull
seruaunte
of
his
that
put
hym selfe
bytwene
the
Kynge
and
the
stroke
/
The
kynge
prepayryd
warre
agaynste
that
Kynge
that
had
wrought
that
treason
/
And
promysyd
seynt
pawlyn
if
he
spede
well
in
that
Iourney
he
wolde
be
crystenyd
/
&
a
doughter
that
he
had
them
newely
borne
he
comyttyd
to
our
Lord
&
to
be
in
the
kepynge
of
Paulyn
/
&
he
crystenyd
her
&
callyd
her
eāfledā
which
was
the
fyrste
that
euer
was
Crystenyd
in
tho
ꝑtyes
/
&
after
he
sped
well
in
his
Iourney
&
had
the
victorye
&
neuertheles
he
dyfferryd
to
be
crystenyd
/
And
the
〈◊〉
Bonyface
wrote
a
Letter
to
hym
to
exorte
hym
to
it
/
&
after
seynt
paulyn
by
spyryt
knewe
the
tokyn
aforesayd
&
leyd
his
Ryght
hande
vppon
his
heed
/
&
bad
hym
remember
the
tokyn
/
&
then
he
sayd
he
wolde
counceyle
with
his
Lordys
and
so
he
dyd
/
And
oon
of
theym
sayd
veryly
thys
feythe
that
we
haue
kept
is
of
no
vertue
nor
prophyt
but
veyne
&
the
newe
is
the
better
/
and
all
the
other
were
of
the
same
oppynyon
And
so
the
Kynge
hymselfe
dystroyed
the
Idollys
and
was
crystenyd
at
yorke
on
Ester
day
/
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.vi.
C.
&
.xxvii.
And
all
the
people
folowyd
his
exaumple
/
And
seynt
paulyn
was
made
Archebusshope
of
yorke
And
anon
seynt
Edwyn
had
such
feruoure
to
Crysten
Relygyon
that
he
enducyd
the
Kynge
of
eest
Englonde
to
be
Crystenyd
/
And
soo
greatpeace
was
in
his
Realme
that
a
Chylde
myghte
haue
goon
fro
the
oon
See
to
the
other
withoute
Hurte
/
and
brasen
Uessellys
that
the
Kynge
sette
vppe
at
commen
Wellys
for
ease
of
the
people
noo
man
durste
take
awaye
.
/
And
after
he
was
kyllyd
in
batayle
by
penda
kynge
of
Marchelonde
/
and
cedwalla
kynge
of
Brytons
the
.iiii.
I
de
of
October
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.vi.
C.
and
.xxxiii.
And
his
Hedde
lyeth
at
yorke
in
the
Churche
of
seynt
Petyr
that
he
began
/
&
seynt
Oswalde
his
successoure
perfourmyd
it
.
¶
De
sancto
Edwoldo
confessore
.
SEynt
Edwolde
was
broder
to
seynt
Edmonde
Kynge
and
martyr
/
And
he
was
a
deuoute
folower
/
and
very
heyer
of
vertues
to
his
Broder
/
He
hard
gladlye
spirituall
Doctyre
/
he
worshyppyd
the
Churche
/
he
helpyd
the
nedye
/
And
had
alway
the
pleasurys
of
the
worlde
suspecte
/
And
by
lytell
and
lytell
he
lefte
the
pompe
therof
cleerly
/
And
he
couetyd
moche
to
kepe
the
lyfe
of
an
Anker
/
wherfore
when
all
the
people
after
the
dethe
of
his
Broder
wolde
haue
made
hym
Kynge
he
prayde
to
our
lord
to
sende
hym
counceyle
/
&
it
was
shewyd
vnto
hym
that
he
shuld
seke
a
sylue●
well
at
which
well
he
shuld
fynde
such
a
place
as
he
desyred
/
but
it
was
not
she
wyd
hym
in
what
countrey
the
well
was
/
And
so
he
gaue
all
that
he
had
to
poore
men
/
and
pryuely
lefte
his
countrey
/
And
when
he
had
sought
many
prouyncys
&
coulde
not
fynde
the
sayde
well
/
he
cam
to
Septon
and
there
a
Shepherd
tolde
hym
where
he
shulde
fynde
the
Syluer
well
/
And
when
he
came
thyder
he
set
his
staffe
into
the
grounde
/
And
therof
grewe
a
feyre
tre
/
and
there
he
made
a
Celle
/
And
hyred
the
shepherde
to
brynge
hym
thryse
in
the
weke
barly
bredde
/
and
somtyme
mylke
/
&
gaue
hym
for
euery
tyme
.i.
d.
And
bad
hym
neuer
dyscouer
hym
/
for
if
he
dyd
he
shulde
lose
his
rewarde
/
And
after
the
shepherde
dyscoueryd
hym
/
And
thenne
when
he
came
to
hym
nexte
/
he
gaue
hym
a
peny
and
tolde
hym
it
was
the
laste
that
euer
he
shuld
haue
of
hym
/
And
when
the
shepherde
cam
to
hym
the
next
tyme
/
he
founde
hym
departyd
fro
this
worlde
/
he
dyed
the
.iiii.
kalendas
of
september
/
And
was
buryed
in
his
Celle
.iiii.
myle
fro
the
Abbey
of
Cerue
/
And
after
he
was
hadde
to
Cerue
by
seynt
Dunstane
and
seynt
Ethelwolde
/
And
with
the
water
of
his
welle
dyuers
haue
ben
helyd
of
theyr
dyseases
De
sancto
Egberto
monachr●
.
SEynt
Egbart
was
borne
in
Englonde
/
And
he
went
into
Irlande
to
the
Busshoppes
fynauus
and
colniauus
to
lerne
cunnynge
and
good
lyuynge
as
dyuerse
other
of
Englonde
dyd
in
tho
dayes
/
And
there
in
the
Monastery
of
Rathemaell
he
was
stryken
with
the
pestylence
/
And
when
he
thought
he
shulde
haue
dyed
he
began
to
remembre
his
lyfe
past
with
many
terys
and
great
compunccyon
for
his
synnes
/
And
be
sought
almyghty
god
if
it
were
his
wyll
that
he
myghte
yet
Lyue
and
make
amendys
for
his
neclygencys
/
And
therupon
for
the
more
restraynynge
of
his
owne
affeccyon
he
aduowyd
that
he
wolde
neuer
come
in
Englonde
where
he
was
borne
/
&
that
if
sykenesse
lettyd
it
not
he
wolde
dayly
sey
the
hoole
saulter
/
and
euery
weke
faste
oon
daye
&
nyght
/
And
his
felawe
that
was
then
also
syke
of
a
sykenesse
wherof
he
dyed
/
by
reuelacyon
knewe
his
petycyon
/
and
tolde
hym
that
he
was
herd
of
all
almyghty
god
And
when
he
was
hoole
he
thought
to
haue
goon
into
germania
fro
whens
Englysshe
men
came
to
preche
to
them
the
feythe
for
some
of
them
then
were
paynymmys
/
&
after
one
of
his
bretherne
shewyd
hym
that
his
master
bayfylus
lately
deed
apperyd
to
hym
/
and
shewyd
hym
that
it
was
not
the
wyll
of
god
that
he
shulde
goo
into
germania
but
that
it
was
the
wyll
of
god
that
he
shulde
go
to
the
Monasteryes
of
seynt
Columbe
to
set
them
in
good
order
/
And
when
he
was
twyse
warnyd
by
the
sayde
Broder
therof
/
And
moreouer
that
he
shulde
not
goo
though
he
wolde
/
yet
he
beleuyd
hym
not
but
made
redy
his
company
and
his
shyppys
/
and
when
he
was
apon
the
see
a
contraryouse
wynde
/
&
tempest
rose
agaynste
hym
wherby
he
knewe
it
was
not
the
wyll
of
oure
Lorde
that
he
shuld
goo
theder
/
wherfore
he
sent
thyder
seynt
wyllybrorde
&
aleuyn
other
/
And
he
wente
into
the
Ile
of
Hii
in
the
scottyshe
see
to
the
sayde
Monasteryes
of
seynt
Columbe
to
set
theym
in
good
ordre
/
And
there
he
was
gladlye
receyuyd
/
And
there
he
taughte
theym
the
veray
Catholycall
waye
of
lyuynge
/
And
brought
theym
to
kepe
the
due
tyme
of
Ester
/
And
he
departyd
fro
this
worlde
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vii.
C.
and
.xxix.
the
.viii.
kalendas
of
Maye
which
then
was
Ester
day
/
on
which
daye
he
had
sayde
Masse
/
and
kepte
the
feest
of
Ester
after
the
due
ordre
.
¶
De
sancto
Egbino
monacho
.
SEynt
egbyne
was
borne
in
Brytayne
/
And
after
his
deth
his
Moder
enteryd
into
Relygyon
&
was
made
a
Nunne
of
seynt
sampson
/
&
when
he
harde
the
wordys
of
our
Lorde
in
the
gospell
seyinge
that
he
that
wyll
not
renounce
all
thynge
may
not
be
his
dyscyple
/
he
forsoke
all
thynges
&
was
made
a
monke
in
the
monastery
of
Tanrake
where
seynt
wynwalogus
was
/
&
as
seynt
winwalogus
with
seynt
Egbyn
then
beynge
deken
went
to
sey
masse
a
myle
fro
the
monastery
a
pore
lepourfull
of
sorys
prayed
them
of
helpe
/
&
he
sayd
if
he
had
not
theyr
helpe
he
shulde
dye
/
for
he
sayd
his
nostrellys
were
brennyd
with
the
fyfth
of
his
sykene●
so
that
he
coulde
not
contynue
/
And
then
Egbynus
toke
hym
vppe
in
his
armys
/
&
seynt
wynwalogus
with
his
hande
wolde
haue
clensyd
the
place
/
And
the
poore
man
sayd
not
soo
but
that
he
wolde
with
his
conge
clense
it
/
And
than
he
mekely
assayed
to
do
it
/
and
when
he
thought
to
haue
easyd
the
poore
man
it
was
the
sone
of
god
our
Lorde
crist
Ihesu
/
And
a
merueylous
ston
fell
into
his
mouthe
/
And
as
seynt
Egbyne
helde
our
Lorde
in
his
armys
he
lokyd
vp
and
sawe
beuyn
open
/
and
a
crosse
apperyd
vppon
the
hed
of
our
lorde
/
and
Aungellys
came
to
mete
hym
/
And
so
he
assendyd
seyinge
vnto
theym
bycause
ye
haue
not
refusyd
me
in
my
trouble
I
shall
not
refuse
you
in
the
kyngedom
of
heuyn
/
And
so
he
was
receyuyd
into
heuyn
/
and
seynt
winwalogus
arettyd
it
to
the
merytys
of
seynt
Egbyn
for
his
great
obedyence
/
And
seynt
Egbyn
referryd
it
to
seynt
wynwalogus
for
his
order
of
presthode
/
And
after
seynt
Egbyn
went
into
Irlonde
and
there
made
a
Churche
&
helyd
a
lame
man
/
&
reysyd
a
Chylde
fro
deth
/
and
when
he
was
nyghe
foure
score
yere
olde
&
thre
/
he
yeldyd
his
spirit
to
our
lorde
the
.xiiii.
kalendas
of
Nouember
.
¶
De
sancto
Egwino
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
egwyn
was
of
the
Kyngys
blood
of
marsshes
/
&
lyuyd
a
Relygyous
lyfe
at
worcestre
&
leuynge
all
pleasure
of
Temporall
thyngys
/
He
toke
order
of
Presthod
/
&
gaue
hym
all
to
lyue
a
contemplatyf
lyfe
/
&
by
holle
assent
of
the
Kynge
ethel
drede
/
&
of
his
people
he
was
made
busshop
of
worcestre
/
&
after
that
he
vsyd
moche
prechynge
/
&
here
prouyd
the
people
of
theyr
vnlaw
full
matrymony
/
And
other
synnys
soo
terryble
that
of
malyce
they
rose
agaynste
hym
with
feyned
tales
&
putte
hym
out
of
his
see
/
And
complaynyd
of
hym
not
only
to
the
kynge
but
also
to
the
〈◊〉
And
so
he
disposyd
hym selfe
to
goo
to
Rome
/
And
thoughe
he
knewe
he
had
not
offendyd
the
worlde
yet
for
offencys
doon
to
almyghty
god
he
fetteryd
his
Leggys
to geder
and
lokkyd
the
fetters
/
and
threwe
the
key
into
the
ryuer
of
auyn
/
And
soo
he
wente
feterd
to
Rome
/
&
there
as
he
was
prayenge
in
seynt
peters
Church
/
he
sent
his
seruauntys
to
bye
mete
And
the
key
was
founde
in
a
fysshes
bely
that
his
seruantys
had
bought
/
And
so
he
vnfetteryd
hym selfe
/
And
that
Myracle
fyllyd
all
Rome
&
moche
people
cam
to
se
hym
and
to
haue
his
blessynge
/
And
the
〈◊〉
herynge
of
his
great
laboryouse
Iourney
/
and
of
the
sayd
myracle
sent
for
hym
/
And
had
hym
in
great
famylyaryte
/
a
herynge
the
cause
of
his
commynge
he
sent
hym
Downe
ageyne
to
his
see
/
And
the
kynge
herynge
his
myracles
and
vertues
was
very
gladde
and
restoryd
hym
agayne
to
his
see
/
And
gaue
hym
a
grounde
wherin
he
foundyd
the
abbey
of
Euyshame
/
And
he
buyldyd
it
in
a
place
there
as
our
Ladye
apperyd
to
hym
/
and
also
to
a
shepherde
/
and
for
foundacyon
therof
he
went
agayne
with
off
a
Kynge
of
est
Englonde
/
and
with
kenred
kynge
of
Marshes
to
rome
/
And
had
great
auctoryte
fro
the
〈◊〉
for
the
foundacion
therof
/
he
alway
were
the
heer
/
and
say
often
in
asshes
and
were
a
gyrdell
with
knottys
next
his
bare
skyn
and
with
drewe
his
mynde
holly
fro
the
worlde
/
&
worldly
thynges
/
And
gaue
hym
to
contemplacyon
/
redynges
fastynges
and
vigyllys
/
and
especyally
to
prechynge
/
and
when
he
had
ben
longe
syke
/
And
alwayes
thankyd
our
Lorde
therof
/
He
callyd
his
bretherne
to
hym
&
shewyd
theym
the
very
perfyght
way
of
good
lyuynge
/
and
exortyd
them
to
beware
that
the
worlde
deceyuyd
theym
not
/
&
so
full
of
good
werkys
/
he
lefte
this
present
lyfe
aboute
the
yere
of
oure
Lorde
seuyn
.
C.
&
.xx.
the
thyrde
kalendas
of
Ianuary
/
And
he
lyeth
at
euesham
/
&
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
bothe
in
his
lyfe
/
and
after
his
deth
.
¶
De
sancta
Elfleda
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
Elfied
was
borne
in
Englond
/
And
when
her
moder
was
with
chylde
with
her
/
she
sawe
in
her
slepe
a
thynge
lyke
a
shynynge
beame
of
lyghtenynge
descend
vppon
her
Hedde
/
And
it
taryed
there
a
longe
tyme
/
And
when
she
was
borne
the
more
she
grew
in
age
the
more
she
wantyd
the
Ambycyousnes
of
all
flesshelye
pleasures
/
And
after
her
faders
deth
her
moder
by
her
faders
wyll
gaue
his
mansyon
that
he
dwellyd
in
callyd
clare
to
the
monasterye
of
Romsey
and
after
her
moder
toke
a noder
husbonde
/
And
then
as
is
ofte
seen
in
suche
case
enfled
lakkyd
oftymes
that
that
she
nedyd
wher
fore
Kynge
Edgare
remembrynge
the
good
seruyce
of
her
fader
put
her
to
the
monastery
of
Romsey
vnder
the
Abbesse
merwenne
/
&
she
louyd
her
as
her
owne
doughter
/
And
broughte
her
vppe
in
all
vertue
/
And
on
a
tyme
her
candell
fell
oute
/
and
the
fyngers
of
her
ryght
hande
gaue
lyght
to
all
that
were
aboute
her
/
&
when
she
was
therfore
the
more
honouryd
of
her
systers
she
studyed
to
be
therfore
the
more
Meke
/
&
obedyent
/
And
after
when
she
was
made
abbesse
no
man
can
tell
the
almes
that
she
gaue
/
nor
the
prayers
/
&
wepyngys
that
she
vsyd
aswell
for
her selfe
as
for
the
people
/
&
on
a
tyme
when
she
was
with
the
quene
she
went
in
the
nyghtys
into
the
water
&
was
there
in
prayer
/
And
on
a
nyghte
the
quene
seynge
her
goo
furthe
suspectyd
it
had
ben
for
incontinence
and
folowyd
/
&
when
she
sawe
her
goo
into
the
water
sodenly
/
she
was
astonyed
&
went
in
maner
oute
of
her
mynde
&
turnyd
in
agayne
cryenge
/
&
coulde
take
no
reste
tyll
seynt
Elfled
prayed
for
her
seyinge
lorde
forgyue
her
this
offense
/
for
she
wiste
not
what
she
dyd
/
And
soo
she
was
made
hoole
/
&
when
she
was
reprouyd
as
a
waster
of
the
goodys
of
the
monasterye
certeyn
money
that
she
had
geuyn
in
almys
by
hyr
prayer
was
put
into
the
Baggys
agayne
&
when
she
had
lyuyd
many
yerys
in
good
lyfe
/
she
went
to
our
lorde
the
fourth
kalendas
of
Nouember
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lourde
.ix.
C.
and
.lix.
¶
De
sancto
Elpheger
archiep̄o
&
martyre
.
SEynt
elphege
was
borne
in
Englonde
and
in
his
youthe
he
was
so
apte
to
lernynge
of
connynge
&
vertue
that
his
fader
&
moder
marueylyd
at
his
capacyte
/
&
let
hym
to
scole
/
and
after
his
Faders
deth
he
forsoke
his
enherytaunce
/
and
his
moder
that
louyd
hym
tenderly
he
lefte
/
And
enteryd
into
relygyon
at
deherst
and
he
prophyted
to
all
men
that
he
colde
/
And
those
that
he
coulde
not
prophet
to
/
he
studyed
that
he
hurtyd
theym
not
and
after
he
cam
to
bathe
where
he
lyuyd
a
merueylous
lyfe
of
penaunce
/
And
there
a
great
company
of
Monkys
anon
resortyd
vnto
hym
/
And
when
there
was
great
varyaunce
bytwyrte
the
clerkys
and
monkys
for
eleccyon
of
the
busshope
at
wynchester
seynt
Andrew
apperyd
to
seynt
Dunstane
and
bad
hym
chose
Elphegus
/
And
soo
he
was
electyd
/
And
after
when
seynt
Dunstane
knewe
he
shulde
dye
he
prayed
to
our
lorde
that
Elphegus
myght
be
his
successour
at
caunterbury
/
And
so
he
was
at
this
tyme
Danys
moche
oppressyd
this
Realme
/
And
this
blessyd
man
wolde
preche
to
them
the
worde
of
god
/
&
wolde
redeme
theym
that
were
in
captyuyte
/
and
fede
theym
that
were
oppressyd
with
hunger
/
And
after
when
the
Cytie
of
Caunterbury
was
destroyed
by
Danys
thrughe
counsell
of
helpe
of
Edryke
the
traytoure
/
whome
the
Kynge
had
put
in
great
auctoryte
/
And
bycause
the
Kynge
put
his
broder
to
deth
for
his
offencys
he
went
out
of
the
courte
and
confeterd
hymselfe
with
danes
/
and
they
besegyd
the
Cyte
of
Caunterbury
/
And
when
they
had
wonne
it
they
dyd
Merueylouse
great
cruelte
to
the
people
wherfore
seynt
Elphegus
offerde
hymselfe
to
them
/
and
bad
them
spare
the
people
and
take
hym
/
And
so
he
was
taken
and
put
in
pryson
/
And
there
he
lay
tyll
the
offenders
were
so
punysshed
with
sykenes
by
the
stroke
of
god
that
they
toke
hym
out
of
prysone
&
cryed
hym
mercye
/
and
he
forgaue
them
and
blessyd
Brede
and
gaue
it
to
them
And
anon
they
were
hoole
/
and
when
they
were
hoole
the
rulers
askyd
of
hym
if
he
wolde
haue
his
lyfe
and
lyberte
thre
thousande
marke
/
And
because
he
wolde
not
greue
the
people
to
leue
the
Money
he
denyed
it
/
And
soo
he
was
put
agayne
in
cruell
pryson
and
there
the
Deuylle
apperyd
to
hym
lyke
an
Aungell
of
lyght
and
perswadyd
hym
to
go
out
of
pryson
by
many
exaumples
/
and
soo
he
folowyd
hym
/
and
when
he
had
brought
hym
amonge
waters
in
the
derke
nyght
he
lefte
hym
and
then
he
knewe
it
was
the
crafte
of
the
enemye
wherfore
he
lyftyd
hys
mynde
to
our
Lorde
and
cryed
for
helpe
/
And
anone
a
yonge
man
in
bryghte
shynynge
apparell
apperyd
to
hym
and
had
hym
goo
agayne
to
receyue
the
Crowne
of
martyrdome
and
when
he
came
to
the
pryson
and
there
he
was
truellye
takyn
/
Betyn
.
/
And
foule
Stynkynge
Donge
was
caste
vppon
hym
/
And
thenne
Seynt
Dunstanne
aperyd
to
hym
/
and
comfortyd
hym
/
And
at
the
laste
he
was
betyn
with
stones
/
And
his
owne
godson
with
a
hachet
stracke
hym
in
the
Hed
/
and
soo
martyryd
hym
the
.xiii.
kalendas
of
Maii
/
&
the
punysshement
of
god
felle
vppon
the
offenders
so
that
some
kyllyd
theymselfe
/
And
some
went
madde
/
many
fledde
to
the
see
and
theyr
Shyppys
were
drownyd
about
a
.
C.
and
.lx.
Shyppes
/
And
after
when
Kunt
came
into
Englonde
and
sawe
great
punyshement
fall
vppon
hym
and
his
pleople
he
toke
counceyle
of
some
Englysshemen
that
toke
his
parte
/
&
they
thoughte
it
was
for
the
wronge
don
to
seynt
Elphege
/
And
soo
by
theyr
counceyle
he
promysyd
that
when
he
had
peace
/
he
wolde
brynge
the
body
of
seynt
Elphege
to
caunterbury
And
.xvii.
yere
after
he
founde
his
Body
vncorrupte
And
brought
it
to
Caunterbury
honorably
as
he
had
ꝓmysed
.
¶
De
s●ton
Erkenwaldo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
erkenwalde
and
his
syster
Ethelburghe
/
comonly
callyd
Alburgh
were
borne
in
that
parte
of
Englonde
callyd
Lynsey
/
And
seynt
Erkenwalde
was
conuertyd
to
the
feythe
/
when
seynt
Augustyne
came
into
Englond
and
was
dyscyple
to
the
Busshope
Mellyt
/
And
his
syster
folowed
the
exaumple
of
her
broder
/
And
when
she
was
Cristenyd
she
was
callyd
Ethelburghe
/
And
seynt
Erkenwalde
foundyd
the
Monasterye
of
Chertesey
for
hymselfe
where
he
was
Abbot
/
and
Barkynge
for
his
syster
/
And
after
he
was
made
busshope
of
London
by
seynt
Theodre
Archebussope
of
Caunterbury
/
And
when
a
beame
that
was
ordeynyd
for
the
monastery
of
Berkynge
was
to
shorte
/
he
and
his
syster
Ethelburghe
drew
it
in
length
/
&
made
it
longe
ynough
/
And
as
he
was
goynge
on
Prechynge
in
a
chare
oon
of
the
whelys
went
of
/
and
yet
the
chare
went
vpryghte
/
he
shewyd
the
very
day
of
his
deth
/
and
vnto
his
laste
ende
he
comfortyd
the
people
besylye
with
the
worde
of
god
/
And
he
Dyed
at
barkynge
/
And
there
was
at
his
deth
a
meru●ylous
swete
Sauoure
in
all
the
house
/
And
as
he
shulde
be
brought
to
London
the
water
rose
at
Ilforde
/
and
wolde
not
suffer
theym
to
passe
tyll
the
people
fell
to
prayer
/
And
anone
the
Water
deuydyd
/
and
so●
they
went
thrughe
/
And
all
the
Candellys
that
were
out
lyghtyd
agayne
by
themselfe
/
And
so
he
was
buryed
at
seynt
Poulys
in
London
/
And
was
leyde
in
leed
in
a
Coffyn
of
wodde
/
And
it
was
coueryd
with
a
Palle
of
small
pryse
many
yerys
/
And
after
in
the
tyme
of
Wyllyam
Conqueroure
the
Churche
of
poulys
/
and
great
parte
of
london
was
Brent
/
And
neuerthelesse
the
sayde
palle
and
sepulcre
was
not
h●rte
wherfore
the
people
gaue
Laudys
to
our
Lorde
/
And
thoughe
that
that
punysshement
came
to
theym
bycause
they
had
not
doon
condygne
honoure
to
the
sayd
blessyd
Relyquys
/
And
after
the
Churche
of
Poulys
was
newe
buyldyd
by
thre
Busshoppys
of
London
oon
after
a noder
/
And
by
a
hoole
Deuocyon
of
the
people
his
Body
was
translatyd
to
a
more
honorable
place
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a
Thousande
a
hundred
&
xl
.
the
.xiii.
daye
of
Nouember
/
And
when
the
place
that
was
newe
made
was
to
lyttyll
for
the
Chest
of
leed
whe●in
his
Relykys
lay
fyrst
/
the
people
for
that
neclygence
were
sory
/
And
anon
the
stone
waxyd
more
holow
/
and
gaue
place
to
the
blessyd
relykys
/
And
after
at
his
shryne
were
doon
many
great
myracles
as
in
the
legende
apperyth
at
great
length
which
be
here
omyttyd
.
¶
De
sancta
Ermenilda
regina
.
SEynt
ermenylde
was
doughter
to
Ercomberte
kynge
of
kent
/
&
of
seynt
sexburghe
his
wyfe
she
was
dysposyd
to
all
pytye
&
compassyon
and
endeuouryd
herselfe
with
a
moderly
pytye
to
helpe
the
necessytes
of
euery
man
/
&
there
was
in
hyr
alway
oon
stablenesse
on
Benygnyte
/
on
Charyte
/
on
desyre
to
Heuynly
thingys
She
was
maryed
to
wlferus
/
son
to
penda
kynge
of
Marshyes
which
after
his
Faders
Deth
was
crystenyd
/
&
by
her
exortacyon
/
&
good
maners
she
tamyd
the
wylde
people
and
brought
theym
to
the
feythe
/
&
thruste
downe
Rebellys
myghtyly
/
And
she
ceassyd
not
tyll
the
Idollys
/
&
worshyppynge
of
deuyllys
with
the
helpe
of
the
Kynge
was
clene
put
a
way
/
&
Chyrchys
were
buyldyd
for
Dyuyneseruyce
thrughe
all
the
Realme
/
&
they
had
a
doghter
callyd
werbuxga
/
And
after
the
deth
of
the
Kynge
/
the
quene
Er●●enylde
&
her
Doughter
enteryd
into
Relygyon
at
Ely
vnder
her
moder
sexburghe
/
&
so
for
our
lord
she
forsoke
all
the
pleasurys
/
and
loue
of
the
worlde
/
And
punysshyd
her
body
with
abstynence
prayers
and
lamentyngys
/
and
shewyd
her selfe
moost
lowe
of
all
folkys
/
and
she
endyd
her
lyfe
full
of
good
werkys
in
the
Id●●
of
February
/
And
a
man
that
was
bounden
with
I●●●s
prayed
at
her
tumbe
at
masse
for
helpe
/
and
at
the
gospell
the
Irons
were
strykyn
fro
his
arme
with
such
a
vyolence
that
they
flewe
to
the
A●ter
that
all
m●n
myght
see
.
De
sancto
Esterwino
Abbate
.
SEynt
esterwyn
was
mynyster
to
kynge
Egfryde
/
And
he
lefte
the
/
Temporall
armoure
/
&
toke
Espyrytuall
armour
/
&
enteryd
into
Relygyon
vnder
his
vnkyll
Benet
busshope
in
the
Monasterye
of
seynt
peter
/
but
for
all
the
kynred
/
he
lokyd
not
to
be
anythynge
the
more
honowryd
/
But
he
was
anon
foo
meke
that
he
wolde
wynnow
/
and
thresshe
with
the
bretherne
mylke
Kyen
&
shepe
/
And
be
with
theym
galdlye
in
the
Bakhouse
&
Kechyn
/
&
in
all
other
busynes
of
the
Monasterye
/
And
after
seynt
Coolfryde
abbot
of
the
monasterye
of
seynt
paule
/
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vi.
C.lxxxiii
.
electyd
hym
beynge
in
the
monastery
of
seynt
Petyr
and
made
hym
Abbot
there
/
And
when
he
was
Abbot
he
was
of
the
same
mekenes
that
he
was
before
so
that
when
he
sawe
the
Bretherne
worke
/
he
wolde
put
to
his
hande
as
they
dyd
/
And
he
was
a
man
of
great
strengthe
of
feyre
speche
mery
and
lyberall
/
And
he
ete
of
the
same
mete
as
the
bretherne
dyd
/
and
laye
as
they
dyd
/
And
when
he
shulde
dye
/
he
kyssyd
all
the
bretherne
in
tokyn
of
peas
/
And
instructyd
theym
with
many
Blessyd
monycyons
/
he
wente
to
oure
Lorde
of
the
great
Syknes
in
the
Nonas
of
Marche
.
¶
De
sancto
Ethelberto
rege
&
confessore
.
SEynt
ethelbert
was
the
thyrde
kynge
of
Kent
/
but
he
was
the
fyrste
that
wente
to
Heuyn
/
And
all
that
seynt
Augustyne
dyd
to
the
Encreasynge
of
the
faythe
may
be
also
attrybutyd
to
this
blessyd
kynge
for
as
farre
as
to
man
apperyth
/
if
he
had
not
holpen
seynt
Augustyne
&
other
werkes
in
the
werke
of
〈◊〉
lorde
lytyll
frute
had
come
to
the
Londe
of
Englonde
/
And
when
he
was
conuertyd
with
great
benygnyte
he
●●●yd
other
kyngys
that
were
his
subgyetty
&
or
his
felowys
to
become
crysten
/
And
those
that
beleuyd
he
l●uyd
as
hys
bretherne
and
kynysmen
and
felawys
to
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
/
And
in
all
his
realme
Chirchys
were
bu●●yd
&
placys
of
Idollys
destroyed
or
tournyd
into
Churches
By
counceyll
of
seynt
Augustyne
he
made
the
Churche
of
seynt
sa●youre
in
Caunterbury
/
And
without
the
wallys
of
the
Cytle
he
made
a
monasterye
in
the
honoure
of
seynt
peter
and
poule
whiche
was
a
place
of
buryall
for
Kynges
and
busshoppes
/
he
buyldyd
a
Church
of
seynt
paule
in
london
and
there
was
then
made
a
Busshoppyssee
/
And
he
made
a
Churche
of
seynt
Andrewe
at
Rochester
where
was
also
made
a noder
Busshoppyssee
/
And
he
was
founder
of
Ely
thughe
seynt
Etheldrede
bycause
she
repayryd
it
/
is
takyn
for
foundres
/
his
realme
stretchyd
to
humber
/
And
yet
he
shewyd
hymselfe
poore
and
meke
as
thoughe
he
had
had
nothynge
/
It
was
a
gloryus
thynge
to
see
hym
that
hadde
rule
and
domynyon
in
great
countreys
to
serue
poore
men
/
And
to
see
hym
that
kynges
feryd
to
drede
the
preestys
of
our
Lorde
as
this
blessyd
kynge
dyd
/
And
he
was
a
great
exalter
of
vertue
a
fulfyller
of
the
commaundementys
of
god
/
&
of
werkys
of
pyte
/
And
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
syxte
Kalendas
of
marche
/
And
when
his
feest
was
on
a
tyme
not
halowed
nor
the
place
where
he
laye
adhournyd
with
lyghtys
as
it
was
wonte
to
be
he
apperyd
to
a
preest
that
of
deuocy
on
lay
there
all
nyght
/
and
blamyd
them
of
theyr
necly
-
De
sancta
Ethelburga
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
ethelburgh
commonly
callyd
seynt
Alburgh
was
borne
in
the
prouynce
of
lyndesey
/
&
fro
her
youthe
she
abhorryd
the
bodely
pleasurys
/
&
the
flaterynge
of
the
worlde
/
And
the
auncyent
enemy
enuyenge
her
werkys
styrryd
her
owne
fader
agaynste
her
so
that
he
was
a
cruell
psecutor
of
her
/
wherfore
she
went
ofte
to
a
Chapell
where
she
was
crystenyd
/
And
commyttyd
herselfe
to
our
Lord
with
deuoute
prayer
&
afflictions
/
&
it
is
sayd
the
grasse
is
alway
grene
there
as
she
wente
to
the
sayd
chapell
/
And
after
when
she
shuld
haue
ben
maryed
she
lefte
her
Fader
&
Moder
/
&
with
oon
mayde
went
her
waye
pryuely
/
&
by
the
waye
the
mayde
fell
in
so
great
a
drynes
that
withoute
helpe
she
was
lyke
to
Dye
wherfore
seynt
Alburghe
prayde
for
helpe
to
our
Lorde
And
anon
a
feyre
well
sprange
vppe
that
is
there
to
this
day
/
And
when
certeyne
werke
was
assygnyd
to
her
by
her
hostes
in
Herueste
/
she
went
to
prayer
and
her
werke
was
don
without
leyinge
any
hande
to
it
/
and
her
fader
by
her
was
conuertyd
to
the
feyth
/
&
after
her
broder
seynt
Erken
walde
of
his
patrymonye
made
for
her
the
Abbey
of
Barkynge
where
she
was
abbesse
/
&
there
she
subdued
the
Body
to
the
spyryte
with
contynuell
Fastyngys
/
vygyllys
&
prayers
/
&
she
prechyd
to
the
systers
perseuerant
lye
/
and
after
was
seen
an
Image
bryght
shynynge
in
the
Dormytory
of
the
systers
/
&
bryght
shynynge
cordys
were
seen
stretchynge
into
heuyn
wherwith
the
sayd
Image
was
pluckyd
vppe
/
And
anone
after
seynt
Alburghe
departyd
this
worlde
the
.v.
Idus
of
october
about
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vii.
C.
&
.vi.
&
so
it
apperyth
to
be
for
her
that
the
sayd
Image
was
shewyd
/
her
monastery
hath
ben
often
tymes
p̄seruyd
agaynste
paganys
by
especyall
myracle
somtymes
wylde
bestys
at
the
yatysferyd
that
enemyes
so
that
they
durst
not
come
in
/
sometyme
the
offenders
were
sodeynly
strykyn
/
some
with
woodnes
/
some
with
blyndenes
/
and
some
with
Deth
/
And
dyuerse
Myracles
/
oure
Lorde
hath
shewyd
for
this
gloryous
virgyn
.
¶
De
sancta
Etheldreda
virgine
.
SEynt
etheldrede
commenly
callyd
Seynt
Awdry
was
doughter
to
anna
Kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
agaynste
her
wyll
she
was
maryed
to
Tonbert
kynge
of
the
south
Gyrwyes
where
is
the
Ile
of
ely
/
And
when
she
came
into
the
Chaumber
she
comyttyd
her
virgynyte
to
our
Lorde
/
And
as
her
husbonde
lokyd
in
to
the
Chaumber
it
was
lyke
as
if
all
the
chaumber
had
ben
on
fyre
/
And
so
he
bad
her
fere
no
more
for
he
wolde
not
touche
her
/
for
he
sayd
our
Lorde
was
hyr
defender
/
and
shortlye
after
he
dyed
/
&
she
was
maryed
ageyne
by
her
frendys
to
Egfryde
kynge
of
northamhumbrorum
&
.xii.
yeyerys
she
was
with
hym
not
as
a
wyfe
but
as
a
Lady
/
&
for
her
holynes
he
worshyppyd
her
moch
&
promysyd
to
the
Busshope
wylfryde
great
gyftys
to
make
her
agree
to
hym
in
matrymonye
/
And
the
Busshope
contrarye
wyse
exortyd
her
to
kepe
virgynyte
/
And
at
laste
by
assente
of
the
Kynge
she
enteryd
into
Relygyon
at
Coldyngham
vnder
Ebba
aunte
to
the
kynge
/
And
when
the
kynge
repentyd
hym
/
&
wolde
haue
fet
her
fro
the
monasterye
she
commyttyd
her
to
our
Lorde
/
And
with
to
systers
went
in
to
a
Hyll
/
&
there
our
lorde
brought
the
see
about
theym
/
&
preseruyd
them
there
beynge
in
prayers
with
oute
mete
or
drynke
/
&
when
the
Kynge
sawe
that
/
he
went
away
&
repentyd
hym
of
his
presumpcyon
/
and
after
she
went
to
Ely
that
was
geuyn
to
her
by
her
husbonde
tonbert
/
&
there
she
repayryd
a
Monasterye
/
&
gaderyd
many
sustersgence
that
they
had
not
don
as
was
wonte
to
be
/
And
that
doon
the
preest
wakynge
sawe
hym
goo
into
his
toumbe
agayne
.
¶
De
sancto
Ethelberto
rege
&
martire
.
SEynt
Ethelbert
was
Kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
when
he
had
in
his
youthe
moche
prophytyd
in
lernynge
/
he
gaue
not
his
mynde
to
voluptuous
pleasurys
/
but
to
Prayers
/
almys
dedys
&
other
good
werkys
/
And
when
his
felowys
were
at
Playe
/
he
wolde
be
at
Churche
/
&
after
the
deth
of
his
Fader
Kynge
ethelrede
/
he
was
made
Kynge
/
&
was
profounde
in
counceyll
ryghtwyse
/
and
mercyfull
in
Iudgement
/
&
sober
in
wordys
/
He
wolde
spare
his
subgyettys
/
and
resyst
prowdemen
/
And
after
by
hoole
assent
of
his
commons
he
was
desyryd
to
marye
/
and
for
loue
of
Chyldren
he
assentyd
therto
/
And
he
refusyd
the
doughter
of
a
great
Consulle
/
bycause
her
Fader
was
a
man
full
of
fraunde
/
and
dysceyte
/
&
alienatyd
fro
Truthe
/
And
at
the
laste
it
was
concludyd
that
he
shuld
goo
to
off
a
Kynge
of
mersshes
And
when
he
was
goynge
the
Erthe
quoke
/
&
the
sonne
waryd
derke
so
that
oon
of
them
myght
scarcely
see
a nother
/
And
when
all
a
boute
hym
were
afrayde
&
merueylyd
what
it
shuld
betokyn
/
He
sayde
let
vs
doo
that
is
in
vs
/
&
humble
our
hartys
to
almyghty
god
/
&
praye
that
he
put
awaye
the
derkenes
both
of
Body
and
soule
/
and
that
he
send
vs
the
lyghte
of
his
clerenes
/
And
so
they
laye
prostrate
&
prayed
/
And
anon
the
Derkenes
went
awaye
And
then
he
wente
forth
in
his
Iourney
/
&
when
he
cam
into
the
kyngedome
of
Marshes
he
had
a
meruaylouse
dreme
that
as
he
stode
with
his
counceyll
he
thought
his
house
fell
downe
/
&
anon
he
sawe
a
goodly
tree
that
he
neuer
sawe
any
lyke
to
it
/
&
that
certeyn
persones
were
he
wynge
at
the
tree
to
cut
it
downe
/
&
a
streme
of
blood
folowyd
of
theyr
hewynge
/
&
he
thought
he
hymselfe
was
a
byrde
/
&
that
his
wyngys
were
blody
/
&
he
sawe
a
bryght
beame
bryghter
then
the
sonne
com
out
of
the
south
which
ascendyd
into
heuyn
/
&
he
thought
that
he
flewe
into
the
toppe
of
the
tree
&
sawe
all
that
was
in
the
firmament
/
&
herde
a
songe
of
great
melody
/
&
some
thought
it
shulde
betokyn
the
exaltynge
of
his
kyngdome
/
&
he
sayd
how
so
euer
our
Lord
wold
dyspose
of
hym
he
wold
take
it
pacyently
/
&
when
he
came
to
Kynge
off
a
by
counceyll
of
the
quene
for
ambycyon
of
hys
kyngdome
/
And
to
enhaunce
theyr
owne
blode
his
hed
was
stryken
of
the
.xiii.
kalendas
of
Iune
as
apperyth
in
his
legende
at
great
length
/
And
when
the
virgyne
alfryde
whome
he
shulde
haue
maryed
knew
therof
she
bade
his
seuaūtys
goo
into
theyr
countrey
for
theyre
mayster
was
behedyd
/
&
taught
of
the
holy
goost
/
she
sayde
to
hir
moder
thy
sone
shall
not
lyue
.iii.
yerys
/
&
thy
kyngedome
shall
not
be
stabled
/
&
thou
shalt
not
lyue
in
the
confeffyon
of
god
ouer
thre
moneth●s
/
thou
shalte
be
takyn
with
a
Deuyll
/
&
ete
thyn
owne
tonge
/
and
dye
an
euyll
deth
and
it
folowyd
as
she
sayd
/
and
therupon
that
blessyd
virgyne
auowyd
to
entre
into
relygyon
at
crowlande
/
&
fro
the
tumbe
there
as
the
yonge
kynge
was
buryed
a
bryght
beame
wente
to
heuyn
/
And
when
Kynge
off
a
herde
therof
●e
feryd
greatlye
&
toke
penaunce
/
and
after
his
body
was
broughte
to
herforde
/
And
by
the
way
a
blynde
man
recoueryd
his
syghte
/
&
a
longe
tyme
was
seen
euery
nyghte
a
bryghte
beame
vppon
his
sepulcre
/
the
kynge
Mylfryde
made
a
goodly
chyrche
ouer
hym
/
and
endewyd
it
with
great
possessyons
/
And
was
the
fyrste
kynge
that
made
there
a
Busshoppyssee
.
callyd
wakerynge
to
ramesey
where
they
lye
to
this
day
&
that
translacyon
was
made
the
.xvi.
kalendas
of
nouember
.
¶
De
sancto
Ethelwoldo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
ethelwolde
was
borne
in
wynchester
/
&
his
moder
when
she
was
with
chylde
with
hym
sawe
two
visions
which
signyfyed
that
she
shulde
bere
a
chylde
of
great
perfecyon
/
&
when
his
norse
hauynge
the
chylde
in
her
armys
wolde
haue
goon
to
the
Chyrche
&
coulde
not
for
great
tempest
/
sodenly
she
was
broughte
into
the
Chyrche
&
wiste
not
how
she
came
thyder
/
And
when
the
chylde
came
to
age
he
was
set
to
scole
/
&
he
had
a
quycke
witte
/
&
what
so
euer
he
lernyd
he
kepte
it
in
memorye
/
&
kynge
ethelstane
herynge
his
famesent
for
hym
to
haue
hym
abyde
with
hym
/
&
causyd
hym
to
take
order
of
preesthod
/
And
seynt
Dunstane
and
he
And
oon
Ethelstane
were
made
Preestys
on
oon
daye
by
Seynt
Aldelme
/
and
he
sayde
that
two
of
them
shulde
be
Busshoppes
/
And
the
Thyrde
shuld
geue
hym
to
Uoluptuousnes
&
make
an
euyll
Ende
/
And
soo
it
prouyd
of
the
sayde
Ethelstane
And
after
seynt
Ethelwolde
went
to
glastenbury
&
there
was
made
a
monke
vnder
seynt
Dunstan
where
euer
he
coueytyd
to
the
hyghnesse
of
vertue
/
&
though
he
was
moche
cherysshed
&
belouyd
of
all
men
/
he
ranne
not
therby
in
any
peryll
of
Pryde
/
but
kepte
hym
alwey
in
humylyte
/
And
after
Kynge
edrede
gaue
hym
a
Place
in
abyngdon
/
where
he
renewyd
the
Monastery
of
Abyngedon
And
put
therin
monkys
/
&
there
he
was
Abbot
/
and
after
by
commaundement
of
Kynge
Edgar
seynt
Dunstan
made
hym
Busshope
of
Wynchester
/
&
there
he
put
in
monkys
&
also
at
hyde
/
&
he
made
a
place
of
Nonnys
at
Wynchester
/
&
he
made
Peterburgh
&
thorney
&
wente
aboute
all
monasteryes
to
set
them
in
good
order
&
to
conforte
good
men
/
&
to
correcte
theym
that
were
obstynate
/
&
he
neuer
punysshed
any
of
cruelnes
but
for
loue
/
He
was
a
fader
&
a
shepherde
to
Relygyous
men
/
a
defender
of
virgyns
a
comforter
of
wydowys
/
a
receyuoure
of
pylgrymys
a
refressher
of
poure
men
/
a
helper
of
pupyllys
&
orphanys
&
when
a
great
derth
was
in
all
Englonde
/
he
solde
the
Ornamentys
of
his
Churche
/
&
the
plate
to
helpe
the
poure
people
/
&
he
had
contynuall
sykenes
so
that
many
nyghtys
he
slepte
nothynge
/
And
he
neuer
ete
Flesshe
but
twyse
/
onys
by
commaundement
of
seynt
Dunstane
&
a noder
tyme
in
the
sykenes
that
he
dyed
of
/
His
Candell
burnyd
vppon
his
boke
tyll
it
went
out
/
And
yet
it
hurtyd
not
his
boke
It
is
red
of
hym
in
Cronycles
that
when
he
was
at
grete
feestys
which
began
in
Englonde
at
the
commynge
in
of
the
Danys
he
wolde
ete
no
other
thynge
but
Breed
/
&
wolde
drynke
water
/
And
he
went
to
our
Lord
in
the
kalendas
of
August
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.ix.
hundred
foure
score
and
foure
/
and
he
lyeth
at
wynchester
where
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
Myracles
/
a
man
and
a
Chylde
that
were
blynde
at
his
tombe
receyuyd
theyr
s●gh
¶
Desctō
Felice
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
felix
was
borne
in
Pyes
a
cytie
of
Burgundye
/
&
there
was
made
Busshope
/
&
in
the
tyme
of
the
〈◊〉
honoryus
/
&
of
honoryus
Archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
leuynge
his
owne
countrey
&
the
pompe
of
the
worlde
/
He
came
into
Englonde
to
preche
the
feyth
of
our
Lorde
to
suche
people
as
were
not
then
conuertyd
/
he
was
a
man
of
great
lernynge
/
&
that
he
taught
he
fulfyllyd
in
good
werkys
/
&
the
Archebusshope
honory
us
at
his
commynge
reseyued
hym
moche
charytably
/
but
when
he
knewe
his
entent
was
to
perseuer
in
prechynge
he
was
moch
more
glad
/
&
so
he
went
into
the
ꝓuynce
of
est
Englond
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.vi.
C.lxxiii
.
And
after
that
she
enteryd
into
Relygyon
she
neuer
ware
lynnen
/
she
ete
but
onys
on
a
day
She
was
dylygent
to
vigyllys
/
&
prayers
/
&
before
her
deth
she
had
a
great
swellynge
in
her
Throte
/
&
in
her
cheke
wherin
she
moche
delytyd
/
&
sayde
it
was
a
great
goodnes
of
our
Lorde
/
if
that
peyne
myghte
put
a
way
the
peyne
that
she
was
worthye
to
haue
for
her
pryde
/
and
offencys
in
werynge
golde
&
precyous
stonys
aboute
her
necke
when
she
was
yonge
/
And
when
a
surgeon
had
Cutte
the
sore
place
/
and
that
Easyd
her
for
a
tyme
the
thyrde
day
after
the
peyne
came
agayne
/
And
she
yeldyd
her
soule
to
our
Lorde
the
.ix.
kalendas
of
Iuly
after
she
had
ben
abbesse
.vii.
yere
/
&
when
she
had
lyen
.xvi.
yerys
her
Body
&
all
her
clothys
were
founde
vncorrupte
And
her
necke
was
hoole
&
a
tokyn
apperyd
of
the
Cuttynge
/
&
after
the
monasterye
was
destroyed
by
Inguer
&
hubba
/
&
was
renewyd
agayne
by
seynt
Ethelwolde
by
helpe
of
the
kynge
Edgar
/
A
man
that
had
ben
a
great
vserer
&
full
of●ynne
&
was
in
great
syknesse
entendyd
to
serue
god
in
relygyon
at
Ely
the
resydew
of
his
lyfe
an●
the
Kyngys
mynysters
prohybytyd
it
&
sayde
he
was
a
thyfe
/
&
also
in
the
Kynges
det
/
Wherfore
he
was
had
to
London
/
&
there
he
was
put
in
prysone
/
&
on
a
ny●●t
apryd
to
hym
seynt
Benet
/
seynt
Awdry
/
&
her
suffe
〈◊〉
Sexburghe
/
And
seynt
Benet
onlosyd
hys
Irons
&
the
Myracle
knowyn
he
was
let
goo
/
&
so
he
enteryd
into
relygyon
as
he
before
purposyd
.
¶
De
san●tis
Ethelcedo
&
Ethelbricto
martyrybus
.
SEynt
ethelberte
that
was
conuertyd
by
Seynt
augustyne
had
Issu
Edbalde
/
edbalde
had
two
sonnes
E●men●ed
&
Ercomberte
/
Ermented
had
Issu
theys
blessyd
martyrs
Ethelrede
/
&
Ethelbricte
&
a
doughter
callyd
dompuena
which
was
maryed
to
the
kynge
of
Mershyes
/
&
after
the
deth
of
theyr
fader
&
moder
bycause
they
were
then
but
yonge
they
were
put
to
the
kepynge
of
Egbert
sone
of
the
sayde
Ercombert
to
brynge
vp
/
And
therupon
a
cursyd
man
callyd
thunnir
that
had
grete
rule
vnder
the
kynge
ferynge
that
if
they
lyuyd
they
shulde
be
gretter
in
fauoure
with
the
kynge
then
he
/
enuyed
them
moch
/
&
tolde
the
kynge
many
false
talys
of
them
/
&
sayd
if
they
Lyuyd
they
wolde
put
hym
oute
of
his
Realme
&
Counceylyd
that
kynge
to
let
hym
Kyll
them
pryuelye
/
and
when
the
Kynge
for
drede
of
god
/
&
loue
that
he
had
to
them
wolde
in
no
wyse
assent
/
at
laste
when
the
sayde
Cursyd
man
euer
callyd
on
the
kynge
/
and
he
on
a
tyme
with
dyssymylynge
voyce
sayd
nay
/
that
cursyd
man
toke
boldenes
&
on
a
nyght
kyllyd
them
both
/
&
buryed
them
in
the
Kynges
house
/
&
when
the
kynge
rose
in
the
nyghte
he
sawe
a
grete
lyghte
in
the
heygth
of
the
hall
wherat
he
merueylyd
moch
/
&
dred
for
the
chylderne
&
callyd
thunnir
/
&
when
he
had
lernyd
of
hym
how
it
was
/
he
feryd
greatly
the
Iugement
of
god
/
&
sent
for
his
counceyll
spirituall
&
temporall
&
by
councell
of
them
all
he
sent
for
dompuena
theyr
suster
And
for
the
deth
of
her
bretherne
she
askyd
asmoch
grounde
in
the
Ile
of
tenet
as
her
Hynde
wolde
goo
aboute
seyinge
she
was
so
commaundyd
by
oure
lorde
/
And
when
the
hynde
hadde
goon
a
certeyn
space
and
all
the
people
folowyd
her
Thumnyr
founde
a
great
deffaute
at
the
kyngys
graunte
&
wolde
haue
stoppyd
it
/
&
forthwith
as
he
had
spokyn
the
worde
/
he
fell
of
his
horse
&
brake
his
necke
&
he
was
buryed
in
the
same
place
/
and
a
great
rocke
of
stonys
were
caste
vppon
hym
/
&
it
is
callyd
Thūnerslane
to
this
day
/
&
after
by
Ethelrede
that
was
kynge
Edgares
sone
these
gloryouse
martyrs
were
translatyd
fro
a
place
where
then
regnyd
the
blessyd
Kynge
sygbert
whiche
before
that
tyme
for
fere
of
Redwarde
hadde
fledde
into
Fraunce
/
And
there
he
was
crystenyd
/
And
then
came
agayne
into
his
countrey
/
and
after
made
a
monasterye
by
councell
of
seynt
felyx
and
toke
tonsure
and
there
seruyd
our
Lorde
/
And
in
short
tyme
seynt
Felyx
conuertyd
all
the
people
/
and
was
made
Busshope
of
the
Cytie
of
dominoke
/
And
the
kynge
sygberte
by
helpe
of
seynt
Felyx
made
scolys
for
bryngynge
vp
of
Chyldren
in
all
the
countrey
/
&
he
went
to
our
Lord
full
of
good
werkys
the
.viii.
Idus
of
marche
/
and
was
buryed
in
the
same
Cytie
/
his
Relykys
were
broughte
to
Seham
which
was
after
destroyed
by
Danys
/
And
then
his
Relykys
were
brought
to
Ramsey
where
they
lye
at
this
daye
.
¶
De
scton
Flacrio
heremyta
&
confessore
.
SEynt
fyacre
was
borne
of
noble
blod
in
Irlande
&
bycause
he
desyred
moch
to
kepe
a
solytary
lyfe
he
lefte
his
countrey
/
and
his
Frendys
and
went
into
Fraunce
/
and
so
came
to
seynt
pharao
Busshope
of
Meldees
/
And
when
he
knewe
the
entent
of
his
commynge
he
cherysshyd
hym
moche
/
and
gaue
hym
a
certeyne
grounde
in
the
wood
of
Brodyle
farre
fro
the
recourse
of
people
where
he
buyldyd
a
monastery
in
honoure
of
our
Ladye
/
&
there
dayly
he
encreasyd
in
vertues
/
And
that
he
sparyd
fro
hymselfe
/
he
gaue
it
to
pore
men
/
And
with
only
touchynge
of
his
handys
with
helpe
of
god
he
helyd
many
men
of
dyuerse
sykenes
soo
that
his
fame
sprong●
farre
/
And
bycause
great
people
resortyd
to
hym
/
the
busshope
at
his
desyre
gaue
hym
as
moche
Grounde
adioynynge
to
his
howse
as
he
coulde
with
his
owne
laboure
dyke
aboute
in
a
day
to
make
a
gardeyne
apon
/
&
he
thankyd
hym
moche
/
And
when
he
came
home
/
he
made
his
prayers
&
drewe
his
staffe
after
hym
/
&
with
towchynge
of
the
staffe
the
grounde
voydyd
&
waxyd
holowe
lyke
a
dyke
/
&
all
the
Trees
in
the
cumpasse
fell
downe
/
And
a
woman
seynge
the
Dyke
meruaylyd
greatlye
/
&
tolde
the
busshope
therof
/
&
sayde
that
the
Heremyte
was
a
Wytche
&
a
enchauntour
/
&
not
the
seruaunte
of
god
/
And
came
agayne
to
hym
&
presumptuously
spake
to
hym
contumelyous
wordys
/
&
chargyd
hym
in
the
Busshopys
name
to
ceasse
his
werkee
And
he
herynge
that
was
heuy
/
&
sate
downe
vppon
a
stone
which
waxyd
softe
&
holowe
to
hym
lyke
a
sete
which
remaynyth
there
to
this
day
/
&
by
towchynge
therof
dyuers
syke
men
haue
ben
helyd
/
And
when
the
Busshope
sawe
the
Myracles
that
were
doon
/
he
louyd
seynt
fyacre
moch
the
better
/
&
was
euer
after
the
more
famylyer
with
hym
/
&
neuerthelesse
seynt
Fyacre
prayed
to
our
Lord
that
if
any
woman
euer
came
into
his
Monastery
that
she
shuld
fall
in
some
sykenes
/
&
so
it
prouyd
after
of
dyuerse
women
/
He
went
out
of
this
worlde
the
.xv.
kalendas
of
September
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vi.
C.
&
.xxii.
¶
De
sancto
Finano
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
finane
was
borne
of
the
people
of
Arades
and
seynt
patryke
prophecyed
that
he
shulde
be
a
holy
Busshope
/
wherfore
his
frendys
in
truste
of
seynt
patrykys
wordys
at
a
souper
brought
hym
thre
vessellys
of
smalle
Ale
/
&
by
his
blessynge
it
was
turnyd
into
wyne
/
After
he
was
commyttyd
to
the
busshope
Colman
to
enfourme
/
And
as
he
on
a
tyme
wolde
haue
betyn
hym
an
Aungell
helde
his
hande
styll
vppe
in
the
ayre
wherfore
he
sayde
he
wolde
no
more
bete
hym
/
And
after
a
holy
abbot
also
refusyd
to
haue
hym
to
his
dyscyple
for
he
sayd
he
was
gretter
of
merytys
then
he
/
&
sayd
he
shulde
be
a
holy
busshope
/
&
then
the
Chylde
sayd
a
holy
busshope
was
Commynge
owt
of
Brytayne
that
shuld
be
his
master
&
so
there
was
/
&
he
went
with
hym
to
his
busshopryke
callyd
maguns
where
he
was
made
monke
/
He
helyd
a
man
that
for
his
synnys
had
a
legyon
of
Deuyllys
/
Hedranke
poyson
/
&
it
hurtyd
hym
not
/
after
he
wente
to
Rome
where
he
was
made
preest
/
&
was
there
.vii.
yerys
/
As
he
prechyd
at
Rome
of
enuye
they
range
the
bellys
&
blewe
the
Organes
/
&
his
voyce
was
harde
aboue
them
all
wherof
the
people
thankyd
our
lord
/
He
conuertyd
moch
people
aboute
Italy
/
&
there
the
hande
of
a
Kynge
that
wolde
haue
crucyfyed
hym
stake
fast
to
the
Crosse
tyll
he
&
all
the
people
were
penytent
/
&
were
conuertyd
/
then
he
went
to
his
owne
Countrey
/
&
was
made
Busshope
/
&
in
Irlande
he
dyd
so
many
Myracles
that
no
man
can
tell
/
He
was
syke
a
hole
yere
lyenge
in
his
bedde
/
And
when
his
tyme
drewe
nere
he
reyseyuyd
the
blessyd
Body
of
our
Lord
the
fourth
Idus
of
September
/
And
he
was
buryed
in
Scotlande
at
cumgham
at
a
place
that
after
his
name
in
welche
is
callyd
Kylwynny
.
¶
De
sancto
Foillane
epo
&
martire
.
SEynt
foyllane
busshope
/
&
martyr
was
borne
of
noble
blood
in
Irlond
/
&
he
made
his
blood
more
noble
by
his
good
lyuynge
/
and
lyke
to
the
patryarke
Abraham
/
He
lefte
his
owne
countrey
and
his
carnall
Frendys
/
And
went
into
Fraunce
/
where
he
was
Instructor
to
seynt
geretrude
/
and
she
gaue
to
hym
and
to
his
broder
vltan
a
grounde
callyd
folse
to
make
therin
a
Monasterye
to
receyue
pylgrymes
/
And
vltan
was
made
ruler
therof
/
And
seynt
Foyllan
styll
remaynyd
to
Instructe
seynt
Geretrude
/
&
on
a
tyme
asseynt
Foyllane
with
thre
felowys
went
to
see
his
Broder
vltan
a
mynyster
of
the
Deuyll
met
theym
by
the
waye
and
promysyd
to
brynge
them
to
a
good
lodgynge
vnder
coloure
that
he
myght
murdre
theym
/
And
seynt
Foyllane
by
the
holy
goost
knowynge
his
purpose
gaue
hym selfe
to
prayers
/
and
comfortyd
his
bretherne
to
be
stronge
in
our
lorde
/
And
so
the
sayd
Cursyd
man
with
his
company
strake
of
theyr
heddys
the
day
before
the
kalendas
of
Nouember
/
&
leuynge
theyr
Bodyes
in
a
vyle
place
/
solde
theyr
Horsys
and
apparell
/
And
when
seynt
Geretrude
meruaylyd
of
his
longe
taryinge
she
sent
to
the
monastery
for
hym
and
his
Broder
vltan
sent
her
worde
that
she
shuld
by
her
wysdome
expounde
his
vysyon
/
as
he
was
in
prayer
he
thought
he
sawe
a
whyte
doue
with
blody
wyngys
fly
vppe
to
Heuyn
/
And
more
he
sayde
he
knewe
not
of
hym
/
werfore
anon
she
and
all
the
bretherne
and
fusters
●ell
to
prayer
/
&
by
an
Aungell
it
was
shewyd
vnto
her
/
that
he
was
Martyred
/
And
that
she
shulde
fynde
hym
by
a
tokyn
that
our
Lorde
shulde
shewe
hyr
/
And
so
she
went
furthe
and
founde
hym
and
his
felowes
.
lxxviii
.
dayes
after
theyr
martyrdome
by
a
bryghte
shynynge
crowne
that
apperyd
ouer
theym
/
And
the
same
day
of
his
fyndynge
seynt
Fursee
/
his
broder
dyed
/
and
he
was
buryed
in
the
sayd
Monastery
where
our
Lord
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
.
De
scton
Fremundo
Rege
&
martire
.
A
Chylde
of
.iii.
dayes
olde
prophecyed
that
off
a
thenne
a
Kynge
of
Englonde
in
his
age
shulde
haue
a
sone
callyd
Fremunde
/
that
shulde
conuerte
hym
and
his
Moder
with
all
the
cuntrey
to
the
Feythe
of
our
Lorde
/
And
that
in
his
youth
he
shulde
he
le
lepourys
/
and
blynde
men
/
And
that
at
his
byrthe
shulde
appere
a
bryght
beame
ouer
the
house
/
And
as
he
sayde
it
prouyd
in
euery
thynge
after
/
When
the
kynge
off
a
waxyd
olde
he
made
seynt
Fremunde
kynge
though
he
moche
refusyd
/
And
a
yere
&
a
halfe
he
occupyed
as
Kynge
norysshynge
poore
men
/
encreasynge
peace
/
and
puttynge
downe
of
Rebellys
/
then
he
lefte
all
that
honour
/
&
with
two
clerkys
went
pryuely
in
a
lytell
shyppe
without
sayle
into
the
see
trustynge
in
the
helpe
of
our
lorde
&
not
in
the
wynde
/
And
in
the
.v.
day
they
came
into
a
I
le
callyd
Ilefage
where
no
man
before
his
tyme
durst
dwelle
for
fere
of
Deuyllys
/
And
there
he
lyuyd
vnknowen
.vii.
yerys
by
Rootye
&
Erbys
/
And
his
Apparell
appeyryd
not
in
all
that
tyme
/
after
his
goynge
away
fro
his
Cuntrey
the
Danys
came
into
the
Lande
/
And
when
they
had
martyryd
Seynt
Edmonde
/
his
Fader
was
verye
sore
aferde
/
And
sent
messangers
for
his
son
/
And
when
they
had
founde
hym
and
shewyd
hym
the
entente
of
theyr
message
/
he
gaue
hym selfe
to
prayer
to
knowe
the
wyll
of
our
Lord
therin
&
by
an
Aungell
he
was
admonysshyd
that
he
shulde
goo
with
them
/
And
the
Aungell
shewyd
hym
that
he
shulde
haue
the
victory
/
&
that
euery
man
that
he
toke
with
hym
to
the
batayle
shuld
appere
a
.
M.
men
/
&
soo
he
went
into
his
Contrey
where
he
founde
his
Fader
ouercome
with
the
Infydelys
/
And
then
he
with
his
two
felowys
/
and
.xxii.
other
that
came
for
hym
/
Wherfore
euery
oon
of
theym
apperyd
a
thousande
men
as
the
Aungell
sayde
kyllyd
.
xl
.
thousande
paynymes
/
And
incontynent
after
the
vyctorye
he
went
to
prayer
and
thankyd
oure
Lorde
/
&
then
a
Cristen
man
callyd
Oswy
that
had
ben
in
great
fauoure
with
his
Father
/
which
had
forsakyn
the
Feythe
for
that
he
was
promysyd
by
the
Danes
to
be
Kynge
/
strake
of
his
Hed
the
.v.
Idus
of
May
/
And
the
blood
that
fell
vppon
hym
/
burnyd
hym
with
suche
intollerable
Hete
that
anon
he
fell
prostrate
/
and
cryed
mercy
/
And
the
Hed
spake
&
forgaue
hym
/
And
then
he
toke
vppe
his
owne
Hed
and
bare
it
to
a
place
betwene
Huchyn
/
and
Harburbury
and
there
he
wesshyd
his
Hed
in
a
well
that
sprange
vp
there
by
his
prayer
/
And
after
he
was
had
to
a
place
callyd
of
churche
where
he
was
buryed
and
laye
there
.ix.
yerys
/
And
then
he
was
remouyd
by
monycyon
of
an
Aungell
gyuyn
to
thre
Maydens
that
were
all
thre
made
hoole
of
theyr
dyseasys
to
a
place
bytwene
Charwell
&
Bradmoure
/
And
there
he
laye
vnknowen
many
yerys
tyll
it
was
shewyd
by
an
aungell
to
a
pylgryme
at
Iherusalem
where
he
laye
/
And
then
he
was
takyn
vppe
by
seynt
Beryne
honorably
/
and
as
seynt
Beryne
was
ledynge
hym
to
the
nexte
Monasterye
as
the
Pope
had
commaundyd
the
Pylgryme
in
his
commynge
whome
/
At
redyke
his
Relykys
stoude
styll
&
wolde
no
ferther
/
Wherfore
seynt
Beryne
went
to
Rome
and
shewyd
it
to
the
〈◊〉
/
&
retournyd
agayne
with
the
Popys
bullys
&
there
buryed
hym
in
the
same
place
honorably
the
.v.
kalendas
of
apryll
And
now
i
these
dayes
oon
of
his
armys
/
and
oon
of
his
Rybbys
/
&
a
parte
of
his
Iawe
lye
at
Dunstable
/
And
the
resydue
of
his
Bodye
lyeth
at
Croprede
.
De
sancta
Frideswida
virgine
.
SEynt
frydeswyde
was
borne
in
Oxforde
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
seuyn
Hundred
and
fyftye
And
after
her
Chyldehod
was
paste
she
lyuyd
with
wortys
/
barley
Brede
/
and
Water
/
After
by
assent
of
her
Fader
and
Modershe
was
made
a
Nunne
/
And
by
her
exaumple
.xii.
other
noble
virgyns
enteryd
also
in
to
relygyon
/
And
by
the
helpe
of
the
Kynge
she
made
a
Monasterye
/
where
she
lyuyd
in
Fastyngys
/
and
contynuell
Prayers
/
a
Hundred
tymes
on
the
Daye
/
&
as
many
tymes
of
the
Nyght
she
prayed
knelynge
/
the
Deuyll
enuyed
her
/
And
to
haue
deceyuyd
her
he
apperyd
lyke
our
Lorde
with
Aungellys
/
and
bad
her
come
and
worshyp
hym
whom
she
had
longe
seruyd
/
And
by
Spyryte
she
knewe
hym
and
dyspysyd
hym
/
And
so
he
went
awey
with
a
great
stenche
/
and
she
contynued
in
prayer
quyetlye
and
without
fere
/
And
thenne
the
Deuyll
mouyd
the
Kynge
alger
to
desyre
her
to
his
voluptuous
pleasure
so
that
the
Kynge
sent
his
seruauntys
for
her
&
when
they
coulde
not
haue
her
assente
to
come
to
the
Kynge
/
And
wolde
therfore
haue
takyn
her
by
Strength
/
they
were
anon
strykyn
Blynde
/
And
by
desyre
of
all
the
people
that
came
to
that
spectacle
she
made
them
see
agayne
/
And
the
same
nyght
an
Aungell
apperyd
to
her
and
bade
her
goo
to
Chamyssyde
/
And
there
she
shuld
fynde
a
Bote
and
a
yonge
man
prepayryd
by
our
Lorde
to
conuey
her
/
for
the
Kynge
wolde
come
to
take
her
awaye
/
&
so
she
wente
to
Chames
and
in
an
houre
space
with
two
susters
she
was
conueyed
in
the
sayde
bote
.x.
myles
/
And
sodeynly
the
bote
&
the
rower
were
gon
/
&
there
they
lyuyd
in
a
wyldernesse
.iii.
yerys
in
great
abstynence
/
vigillis
and
prayers
/
And
when
the
Kynge
in
the
Mornynge
coulde
not
fynde
her
in
a
great
Ire
he
studyed
to
destroy
the
Towne
wherfore
when
he
came
to
the
north
yate
/
He
was
stryken
blynde
/
and
for
his
offence
as
it
is
sayde
it
is
prohybytyd
to
Kyngys
of
Englonde
to
come
within
the
Towne
of
Oxforde
to
this
day
/
And
after
.iii.
yerys
she
came
agayne
and
made
an
Oratory
at
thornbury
by
Oxforde
there
by
her
Prayers
sprange
a
feyre
welle
/
On
a
tyme
when
she
came
to
Oxforde
all
the
people
met
her
/
And
a
fowle
lepoure
prayed
her
in
the
name
of
god
to
kysse
hym
and
so
she
dyd
/
and
anon
he
was
made
hoole
/
as
she
was
praynge
an
Aungell
tolde
her
that
she
shuld
dye
the
.xiiii.
kalendas
of
nouember
/
And
so
he
went
fro
her
and
lefte
her
seke
of
the
Axes
/
And
when
her
strength
was
moche
goon
fro
her
/
she
sawe
seynt
Katheryne
and
seynt
Cecylye
/
whom
she
had
euer
moche
worshyppyd
/
And
as
she
cryed
to
theym
I
come
Ladyes
I
come
/
she
went
to
oure
Lorde
the
sayd
.xiiii.
kalendas
of
Nouember
/
And
anon
came
a
great
Lyght
into
the
house
that
fyllyd
all
the
house
/
And
the
towne
full
of
a
goodly
swete
●auoure
/
And
she
Lyeth
in
Oxforde
.
¶
De
sancto
furseo
abbate
&
confessore
SEynt
furse
was
borne
in
Irlonde
/
And
was
broder
to
seynt
Foillane
He
was
feyre
and
chaste
of
Bodye
/
deuoute
in
mynde
/
full
of
Grace
&
good
Werkys
/
And
fro
his
youth
he
was
brought
vppe
in
holy
Letters
/
and
lernynge
of
Relygyon
/
And
on
a
tyme
when
he
was
seke
and
was
seyinge
his
euynsonge
a
grete
derkenes
fell
aboute
hym
/
And
he
was
brought
in
maner
as
he
hadde
ben
deed
/
Then
he
sawe
thre
Aungells
come
to
hym
/
And
he
herde
theym
synge
(
ibunt
sancti
de
virtute
invirtutem
)
and
other
merueylous
swete
songes
And
after
Deuyllys
before
our
Lorde
leyde
many
thyngys
agaynste
hym
/
and
the
Aungellys
defendyd
hym
fro
theyr
accusacyons
/
and
fro
great
terryble
Fyres
that
he
sawe
/
and
fro
all
other
daungers
excepte
that
he
had
takyn
a
gowne
of
oon
that
was
a
synner
to
Praye
for
hym
And
the
Deuyll
threw
that
man
vppon
hym
which
burnyd
his
shulder
so
sore
that
it
was
seen
vppon
hym
euer
after
/
Then
the
Aungellys
bade
hym
loke
into
the
worlde
/
And
he
sawe
the
worlde
lyke
a
great
Ualsy
/
wherin
were
foure
Fyres
/
And
the
Aungellys
sayd
that
tho
Fyres
consume
all
the
worlde
/
The
fyrste
is
the
fyre
of
lyinge
in
that
that
men
at
theyr
Baptysme
promyse
to
forsake
the
Deuyll
and
all
his
werkys
and
do
not
/
The
seconde
is
the
fyre
of
couetyse
when
men
set
the
loue
of
the
worlde
before
the
loue
of
Heuenly
thyngys
/
The
thyrde
is
the
Fyre
of
discencyon
when
men
fere
not
to
offende
theyr
neyghboures
for
veyne
thynges
/
And
the
fourth
fyre
is
of
wyckydnes
when
great
men
fere
not
to
robbe
and
spoyle
pore
men
/
And
as
he
lokyd
vp
he
sawe
a
great
company
of
Aungellys
in
heuyn
&
harde
them
synge
(
sanctus
sanctus
sanctus
dns
deus
sabaoth
)
&
therby
he
was
moch
confortyd
&
sayd
it
was
great
ioy
to
here
that
heuenly
songe
/
&
then
two
holy
Busshoppys
that
lately
were
gon
to
heuyn
apperyd
to
hym
that
he
shuld
goo
to
the
worlde
ageyne
wherfore
he
was
very
heuy
/
And
they
shewyd
hym
that
there
is
no
sacryfyce
more
acceptable
to
our
Lord
then
pacyence
&
myldenes
of
herte
wherby
all
Aduersyteys
/
&
Hurtys
in
truste
of
the
resurreccyon
to
come
be
gladlye
takyn
/
&
many
goodlye
thynges
/
&
notable
lernyngys
be
in
the
vysyon
of
this
blessyd
man
that
for
shortnes
be
here
omyttyd
/
A
yere
after
that
he
was
come
to
hymselfe
/
as
he
was
syke
an
Aungell
apperyd
to
hym
&
sayd
he
shulde
yet
lyue
.
xii
.
yerys
in
prechynge
the
worde
of
god
/
And
so
he
came
to
sygybert
Kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
of
whome
he
was
gladly
receyuyd
/
And
at
knoberesburgh
he
made
a
Monasterye
/
&
when
so
euer
he
talkyd
of
his
vysyon
though
it
were
colde
wynter
he
swette
for
fere
/
And
after
he
lefte
the
cure
of
the
Monasterye
to
his
Broder
seynt
Foyllane
and
he
went
into
Fraunce
/
&
there
made
a
Monasterye
at
Latynyacum
/
He
lefte
this
worlde
the
.xvii.
kalendas
of
February
/
and
lyeth
at
perona
&
.iiii.
yere
after
his
buryenge
his
Bodye
was
remouyd
&
was
founde
vncorrupte
/
He
departyd
about
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.vi.
C.
&
.xxxvi.
¶
De
sancto
Gylda
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
gylda
was
a
Kynges
sone
of
scotlande
&
in
his
youth
he
was
lernyd
in
the
Artes
lyberall
/
after
he
went
into
Fraunce
&
there
he
was
.vii.
yere
/
and
fro
thens
he
came
into
Brytayne
where
many
scolers
resortyd
to
hym
/
He
fastyd
lyke
an
Heremyte
/
And
euer
was
busye
in
Prayers
&
were
the
heer
/
&
he
lyuyd
with
Barly
breed
made
with
asshes
/
&
dranke
water
/
&
neuer
eete
Flesshe
/
And
in
the
nyghtys
he
sayde
certeyne
Prayers
in
the
water
takynge
his
slepe
vppon
a
stone
/
And
the
Heuenly
rewardys
were
alwayes
in
his
desyre
/
And
he
taught
his
dyscyples
to
despyse
all
that
was
transytorye
/
on
a
tyme
as
he
prechyd
in
the
Countrey
of
Epydane
his
voyce
was
stoppyd
sodeynly
/
&
when
all
the
people
merueylyd
therat
/
he
bad
them
all
goo
out
of
the
Church
that
he
myght
knowe
whether
any
of
them
were
the
cause
therof
And
at
laste
Nunnyta
moder
of
seynt
Dauyd
then
beynge
with
Chylde
was
founde
in
the
Churche
/
and
then
he
sayd
that
she
shuld
haue
a
blesshyd
Chylde
/
that
no
man
in
his
tyme
shulde
be
lyke
to
/
And
that
for
presence
of
that
blessyd
Chylde
/
his
speche
was
stoppyd
/
And
so
seynt
Gylda
went
into
Irlande
&
there
he
conuertyd
moch
people
/
And
after
when
kynge
arthure
had
kyllyd
his
broder
ho
well
he
came
into
Brytayne
/
&
there
he
forgaue
kynge
Arthure
the
deth
of
his
Broder
And
he
dwellyd
by
seuerne
/
&
there
he
buyldyd
a
Chyrche
where
he
was
moche
in
prayer
He
wrote
a
Boke
of
the
foure
Euangelystys
that
was
had
in
suche
honoure
that
the
people
durste
not
open
it
/
And
the
people
thought
ther
was
no
accorde
fully
made
bytwixt
enemyes
but
apon
that
boke
/
And
after
he
came
to
glastonbury
/
And
not
farre
fro
thens
he
buyldyd
a
Chyrche
vppon
a
Ryuer
where
he
lyuyd
an
Heremytys
lyfe
/
After
he
felle
syke
wherfore
he
sent
for
the
Abbot
of
glastonbury
&
desyred
that
he
myght
be
buryed
in
his
monasterye
And
so
he
went
out
of
this
worlde
the
fourth
kalendas
of
february
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.
CCCCC
.
&
.xii.
&
a
grete
lyght
was
seen
about
his
Body
/
And
he
lyeth
at
Glastonbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Gilberto
confessore
.
SEynt
gylbert
was
borne
at
sempyngham
/
and
in
his
youth
he
was
so
abiecte
in
his
faders
House
that
the
seruauntys
dysdeynyd
to
sytte
with
hym
at
mete
/
and
at
Scole
he
lytyll
prophytyd
/
And
so
he
wente
into
Fraunce
/
and
there
he
toke
degre
of
Mayster
/
And
when
he
came
ageyne
into
Englonde
he
began
the
ordre
of
Sempyngham
of
men
and
women
/
He
labouryd
all
that
he
coulde
for
the
helthe
of
so
wllys
/
And
to
all
that
he
coulde
he
prophytyd
in
worde
/
dede
/
and
exaumple
/
And
his
father
lykyd
his
conuersacyon
so
well
that
he
presentyd
hym
to
the
chyrches
of
sempyngham
&
tyryngton
on
a
tyme
ther
fell
a
lyghte
temptacyon
bytwyxt
hym
/
&
his
hostys
doughter
/
And
the
nyght
folowynge
he
thought
in
his
slepe
that
he
had
put
his
hande
so
ferre
in
her
bosom
that
he
coulde
not
plucke
it
oute
agayne
/
wherfore
he
feryd
greatly
&
lefte
that
place
/
And
after
that
virgyn
was
oon
of
the
.vii.
that
he
began
his
relygyon
vppon
/
And
all
that
he
had
aboue
his
necessary
lyuynge
he
gaue
to
pore
men
after
he
was
made
preest
/
&
then
went
to
Rome
to
the
pope
engeny
to
haue
the
Relygyon
of
Cisteux
assygnyd
to
haue
rule
of
his
Monasteryes
/
And
the
Pope
wolde
not
assent
therto
/
ne
yet
the
Cysteux
/
And
then
the
Pope
orderyd
that
he
shulde
appoynt
men
therto
hym selfe
/
And
so
he
dyd
/
And
in
that
Iourney
he
was
moche
famylyer
with
seynt
malachye
Busshoppe
of
Irlande
/
and
with
seynt
Bernarde
/
And
to
his
Bretherne
he
appoyntyd
the
ruell
of
seynt
Augustyne
/
And
to
the
susters
the
rule
of
seynt
benedycte
/
and
what
so
euyr
he
myslykyd
in
eyther
of
the
Rulys
he
refourmyd
/
and
sent
his
Rule
to
Rome
where
it
was
confermyd
/
he
made
.xiii.
monasteryes
wherin
at
his
deth
were
aboute
seuyn
Hundred
Bretherne
/
&
fyue
hundreth
susters
/
he
louyd
all
his
placys
lyke
moche
/
and
put
lyke
dylygence
for
the
one
/
as
he
dyd
for
the
other
/
His
rydynge
apparell
was
symple
/
And
his
companye
honest
/
He
absteynyd
alwey
fro
flesshe
but
in
grete
sykenes
/
In
lent
and
Aduenthe
absteynyd
fro
Fysshel
He
hadde
at
his
table
a
dysshe
that
was
callyd
the
dysshe
of
Ihesu
wherin
he
put
mete
for
pore
men
not
of
the
refuse
but
very
good
/
and
after
dyner
hevsyd
Redynge
/
prayer
or
medytacyon
/
he
were
in
Wyntre
/
and
Somerlyke
many
clothys
/
And
he
electyd
one
of
his
dyscyples
to
be
his
mayster
&
was
to
hym
obedyent
/
and
toke
the
habyt
of
a
chanon
/
A
man
with
werynge
of
his
sockys
was
helyd
of
the
gowte
/
Also
fyre
fledde
fro
the
house
where
he
was
prayinge
and
hurte
it
not
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a
thousande
a
hundred
foure
score
and
.ix.
the
day
before
the
Nonas
of
February
full
of
good
werkys
/
and
good
exaumples
he
went
to
our
Lorde
/
and
was
buryed
honorably
in
the
monastery
of
Sempyngham
which
he
had
foundyd
.
¶
De
sancto
Godrico
seruo
dei
&
heremita
.
THe
fader
and
moder
of
seynt
Godryke
dwellid
in
Norfolke
in
a
Towne
callyd
Walpole
they
were
pore
of
worldlye
substaunce
/
and
Ryche
in
vertues
deuoutly
prayinge
to
our
Lord
that
they
myght
haue
a
chylde
apte
to
his
seruyce
/
And
so
they
had
a
sone
whom
they
callyd
Goderyke
/
And
in
his
youthe
he
was
a
marchaunte
vsynge
/
Feyrrys
and
Markettys
/
he
went
to
seynt
Andrewys
in
Scotlande
/
&
soo
to
Rome
&
came
whom
with
marchauntys
by
water
/
And
went
into
Brytayne
/
Flaunders
/
and
Denmarke
/
&
wan
moche
good
And
.xvi.
yerys
he
expendyd
in
suche
busynes
/
And
after
he
went
twyse
to
Rome
oon
tyme
he
went
by
seynt
Gyle
/
And
the
other
tyme
he
toke
his
moder
with
hym
whiche
went
barefote
/
And
when
he
came
whome
at
the
laste
tyme
he
solde
all
that
he
had
&
gaue
it
to
poore
men
&
lyuyd
at
caerlyle
vnknowyn
/
Wher
many
folkys
began
to
worshype
hym
wherfore
he
went
into
a
wood
/
&
lyuyd
there
with
herbys
&
frutys
&
had
no
house
/
after
he
founde
an
olde
heremyte
/
and
eyther
of
them
callyd
other
by
his
name
&
yet
they
neuer
had
herde
of
other
before
/
&
he
taryed
with
hym
tyll
the
other
Heremyte
dyed
/
And
then
seynt
Cuthberte
apperyd
to
hym
&
bad
hym
to
go
to
Ierusalem
and
be
crucyfyed
with
our
Lord
/
&
then
to
come
agayne
to
a
wood
callyd
fynkale
a
lytyll
fro
Duresme
/
And
in
that
Iourney
he
toke
no
sustenaunce
but
drye
barley
breed
&
water
/
And
he
chaungyd
not
his
clothynge
nor
wasshed
theym
/
ne
chaungyd
his
shone
tyll
he
came
there
so
that
stonys
&
grauell
were
growyn
into
his
feet
so
greuouslye
that
the
flesshe
&
bonys
myght
scarcely
hange
to
gedyr
/
And
at
fleme
Iordane
he
chauugyd
hym
&
wyshe
his
Here
/
&
fro
that
tyme
he
were
no
shone
/
Then
he
retournyd
ageyne
to
fynkale
/
&
by
the
ryuer
of
were
he
made
a
lytyll
house
where
he
dwelled
vnknowen
dyuerse
yerys
/
&
lyuyd
with
Leuys
&
Rotys
/
&
after
he
began
to
Laboure
to
get
hym
mete
by
his
laboure
/
he
dyggyd
the
grownde
&
sewe
it
/
&
made
a
Gardeyne
/
he
neuer
lay
in
Bedde
but
on
the
grounde
with
a
here
vnder
hym
/
&
a
stone
vnder
his
Hedde
/
of
all
thyngys
he
eschewed
Idelnes
and
wolde
eyther
be
in
Prayer
/
medytacyon
or
Laboure
/
He
wolde
stonde
in
the
water
thoughe
it
were
Froste
/
&
snowe
sometyme
a
moneth
together
in
the
nyghtys
tyll
the
mornynge
/
&
when
his
teth
chakyid
in
his
heed
/
he
wolde
sey
thys
is
greuous
but
the
fyre
of
Hell
is
moche
more
greuous
/
&
in
the
coulde
wynter
he
wolde
go
barefote
so
that
his
feet
sumtyme
were
cut
so
greuously
that
a
man
myght
put
in
his
fynger
/
he
chose
the
pryor
of
Duresme
to
be
his
mayster
/
&
wolde
not
speke
with
any
man
without
lycense
of
hym
.iiii.
dayes
in
the
weke
sonday
/
monday
/
tuesday
/
&
fryday
&
also
in
festys
&
in
aduent
&
fro
septuagesyme
to
Ester
he
kepte
scylence
/
&
after
he
began
to
enhabyt
that
place
/
He
neuer
went
out
of
it
but
thryse
/
he
had
dyuerse
tymes
great
fowle
deseasys
of
Byles
/
&
of
other
fowle
mater
in
all
his
Body
with
intollerable
payne
/
&
yet
he
wolde
take
no
medycyne
/
for
he
fayde
he
was
worthy
to
suffer
payne
for
his
offencys
/
&
wolde
make
oon
to
rubbe
his
sorys
with
salte
/
&
when
he
had
ben
.xi.
yerys
in
wyldernes
such
a
great
swellynge
toke
hym
in
the
face
&
in
all
the
Body
that
he
coulde
scarcelye
he
knowen
/
&
he
had
great
inwarde
peyne
as
though
wormys
had
consumyd
hym
which
he
alweyes
toke
in
pacyence
/
&
when
his
tyme
drewe
nere
he
callyd
the
bretherne
/
&
they
leyde
hym
vppon
a
here
with
asshes
&
put
on
hym
a
stamyn
&
a
cowle
/
for
he
was
a
lytell
before
made
monke
at
Duresme
/
&
so
he
went
to
our
Lord
the
.xii.
kalendas
of
Iune
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
.
M.C.lxx.
&
many
great
myracles
that
our
Lord
hath
shewyd
for
this
blessyd
man
/
&
the
great
temptacyons
that
he
had
of
the
goostlye
enemye
which
ofte
he
apperyd
to
hym
to
haue
deceyuyd
hym
som
tyme
lyke
a
pylgryme
/
sometyme
lyke
a
woman
&
some
tyme
moche
terrybly
in
lykenes
of
dyuerse
bestys
/
&
howe
with
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
he
had
euer
the
vyctory
/
And
how
our
Lady
&
dyuerse
other
seyntys
many
tymys
apperyd
to
hym
and
confortyd
hym
for
shortnesse
be
here
omyttyd
.
¶
De
sancto
Grimbaldo
abbate
&
confessore
.
ALfrede
kynge
of
weste
saxonyssente
into
Fraunce
for
a
Monke
callyd
grymbalde
&
made
hym
Abbot
in
a
Monastery
that
he
had
newely
made
in
wynchester
&
there
seynt
grymbalde
gaderyd
a
great
company
of
monkys
&
taught
them
diligently
letters
&
good
maners
he
gaue
great
almys
/
he
was
deuoute
in
prayers
/
&
oftymys
vsyd
vygyllys
/
&
full
of
good
ensaumples
/
in
great
age
he
lefte
this
worlde
/
&
went
to
the
Euerlastynge
rewarde
in
Heuyn
the
.viii.
I
de
of
Iuly
aboute
the
yere
of
oure
Lorde
.
viii
.
C.
foure
score
&
.viii.
&
was
buryed
in
his
monasterye
at
wynchester
that
now
by
chaunce
is
callyd
hyde
/
where
he
is
hadde
in
great
honoure
.
¶
De
sancto
Gudwalo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Gudwalle
was
borne
of
noble
Blood
in
the
partyes
of
Brytayne
/
And
in
his
youthe
he
was
put
to
lernynge
/
&
when
he
came
to
age
he
was
made
preest
&
after
Busshope
/
&
he
abhorryd
all
worldly
thyngys
/
And
what
so
euer
came
to
hym
prosperously
of
the
worlde
he
turnyd
it
to
the
honoure
of
god
/
and
at
last
seynge
that
his
bysshopryke
was
in
maner
as
a
cheyn
to
bynde
hym
to
the
worlde
/
He
lefte
it
to
a
dyscrete
man
&
went
to
a
Monasterye
in
his
dyocesse
/
And
nyghe
to
the
Monastery
there
was
a
great
Rocke
lyke
an
Ile
/
and
that
see
went
nyghe
aboute
it
where
seynt
Gudwale
contentyd
with
oon
felawe
made
hym
a
lytyll
House
in
the
stone
/
&
when
he
lackyd
water
he
strake
his
staffe
into
the
Rocke
&
by
his
prayer
a
feyre
wellsprange
out
therof
/
After
he
gatheryd
there
a
Hundred
&
foure
score
Bretherne
the
see
was
so
nygh
the
Monasterye
that
the
grownde
was
verye
lytell
for
so
many
ꝑsonys
wherfore
he
went
to
the
see
syde
/
&
set
his
staffe
in
the
grounde
&
chargyd
the
see
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
Ihesu
crist
that
it
shulde
not
passe
that
marke
/
&
the
see
obeyed
vnto
hym
/
On
a
tyme
he
sent
his
discyples
into
a
place
where
great
rayne
fell
in
all
the
contrey
&
by
his
merytes
there
felle
none
in
the
wey
where
his
discyples
were
/
he
helyd
a
wolfe
that
had
hurte
his
fote
&
commaundyd
hym
he
shuld
neuer
doo
hurte
to
any
creature
&
that
he
shulde
euer
after
ete
Hey
lyke
an
Oxe
&
so
he
dyd
on
a
tyme
a
pore
man
askyd
of
hym
almes
/
&
bycause
he
had
no
other
thynge
at
hande
he
gaue
hym
a
Horse
/
and
when
the
seruauntys
on
the
morowe
grudgyde
at
it
there
came
a noder
Horse
lyke
to
the
same
Horse
in
euery
thynge
/
&
yet
was
not
the
same
whom
they
toke
&
put
to
werke
/
seynt
Myghell
the
arcaungell
apperyd
to
hym
&
tolde
hym
the
veray
daye
that
he
shulde
leue
this
worlde
/
&
anon
as
he
was
gon
/
seynt
Peter
&
seynt
paule
apperyd
to
hym
&
confortyd
hym
/
And
he
dyed
the
.viii.
I
de
of
Iune
/
And
when
his
bodye
was
leyde
in
a
weyne
to
be
caryed
to
a
certeyne
place
to
haue
ben
buryed
the
Oxen
were
made
vnmouable
/
&
coulde
not
goo
nor
styre
/
Wherfore
by
a
commen
assent
two
wylde
kyne
were
put
into
the
weyne
/
And
they
went
streyght
to
an
Ile
callyd
Plecyt
/
where
he
was
honorably
buryed
/
&
after
many
yerys
for
fere
of
enemies
the
people
of
that
I
le
fledde
a
wey
into
dyuerse
countreys
/
And
the
Brederne
seynge
other
men
flee
toke
the
Body
with
them
&
went
into
Fraunce
to
Cleremounte
where
the
blessyd
Relykys
were
leyde
/
And
there
our
Lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
Myracles
.
De
sancto
Gundleo
rege
&
confessore
.
SEynt
gundleus
was
sone
of
the
kynge
of
southe
Brytons
/
&
after
his
faders
deth
he
deuydyd
his
Realme
in
seuyn
ꝑtys
/
And
gaue
his
syx
bretherne
theyr
porcyons
&
they
all
obeyed
to
hym
as
to
theyr
superyor
/
&
he
had
a
sone
callyd
Cadoke
/
&
as
he
&
his
wyfe
lay
in
theyr
bedde
an
Aungell
apperyd
to
them
&
sayd
our
Lorde
wolde
that
they
shulde
turne
them
with
all
theyr
hertys
to
his
seruyce
&
he
shewyd
theym
that
in
the
mornynge
they
shuld
goo
to
a
lytyll
hyll
by
a
ryuer
syde
/
&
where
as
they
saw
a
whyte
oxe
stande
there
they
shuld
abyde
/
&
in
the
mornynge
the
kynge
lefte
his
Realme
to
seynt
Cadoke
his
sone
&
went
to
the
sayd
hyll
/
&
as
the
Aungell
had
sayd
there
he
founde
a
whyte
oxe
&
there
he
made
a
churche
&
lyuyd
in
great
abstynence
/
He
were
the
here
ete
barley
brede
wherof
the
thyrde
parte
was
asshes
&
dranke
water
/
He
wolryse
in
the
nyghtys
&
bathe
hym
in
the
water
/
&
he
wolde
lyue
on
in
his
owne
laboure
/
&
after
his
sone
seynt
Cadoke
them
beynge
Abbot
of
nancarbanense
came
to
vysyte
hym
/
&
seynt
Cadoke
sayd
that
the
kyngedome
of
heuyn
is
not
promysyd
to
them
that
begyn
well
/
but
to
theym
that
perseuer
/
&
for
lacke
of
water
seynt
Gundleus
prayed
&
strake
his
staffe
into
the
grounde
/
&
anon
a
feyre
well
sprange
vp
/
&
when
his
tyme
drewe
nere
he
sent
for
seynt
Dubryce
Busshope
of
Landauēse
/
&
for
his
sone
Cadoke
/
And
when
they
had
comfortyd
hym
/
&
howselyd
hym
/
he
went
to
our
lorde
the
.iiii.
kalendas
of
apryll
/
&
Aungellys
haue
ben
ofte
seen
visytynge
the
place
where
he
was
buryed
/
&
dyuerse
men
haue
ben
greuously
punysshed
for
wronge
doynge
to
his
Chyrche
.
¶
De
sancto
Guthlaco
confessore
.
SEynt
guthlake
was
borne
in
the
tyme
of
ethelrede
Kynge
of
marshes
&
he
was
of
the
kynges
blode
/
&
at
his
byrthe
a
hande
was
seen
at
the
dore
lyke
the
hande
of
a
redde
man
which
was
of
a
heuenly
coloure
makynge
a
crosse
vppon
the
dore
/
&
when
he
was
.xxiiii.
yere
of
age
he
gaue
hym selfe
to
Actys
of
chyualry
/
&
defendyd
hys
Father
myghtely
agaynste
his
enemyes
/
&
bette
downe
castellys
/
&
townys
&
in
his
moost
cruelty
he
was
also
mercyfull
&
wolde
geue
to
his
enemyes
the
thyrde
parte
of
that
he
geet
/
And
after
he
consyderyd
that
the
glorye
of
the
worlde
was
but
as
smoke
/
&
a
vapoure
of
small
abydynge
/
wherfore
he
caste
away
his
Armoure
/
&
went
to
rependon
/
&
toke
orders
geuynge
hym
to
monastycall
lernynge
/
&
he
wolde
drynke
nothynge
that
myght
be
occasyon
of
dystemperaunce
/
And
after
he
went
to
crowlande
where
then
no
man
durste
enhabyte
for
fere
of
wyckyd
spiritis
/
&
there
he
lyuyd
a
blessyd
lyfe
&
sufferyd
great
temptacyons
/
&
persecucyons
of
wyckyd
spiritis
as
in
that
Legende
apperyth
at
great
length
/
&
he
was
ofte
delyuerd
owte
of
trowbles
&
temptacyons
by
seynt
Bartylmew
whom
he
had
in
synguler
deuocyon
/
on
a
tyme
two
Deuyllys
in
lykenes
of
men
came
to
hym
&
ꝑswadyd
hym
to
faste
not
two
or
thre
dayes
but
by
hole
wekys
/
&
put
hym
in
mynde
of
Moyses
&
hely
howe
they
fastyd
/
&
of
the
fastyngys
of
olde
fathers
of
sythye
/
&
then
he
knewe
they
were
wyckyd
spiritis
/
wherfore
he
made
his
prayer
&
anon
they
vanysshed
awey
/
&
then
he
toke
his
sustenaunce
of
Barley
brede
as
he
was
wonte
to
do
/
This
blessyd
man
had
suche
a
hoole
entent
to
god
that
there
was
neuer
in
his
harte
but
pyte
&
charyte
/
&
in
his
mouth
there
was
nothynge
but
our
lorde
Ihesu
Peas
/
mercy
/
&
forgyuynge
/
He
was
neuer
seen
angry
/
prowde
/
or
heuy
but
alwayes
īoon
sobrenes
On
a
tyme
he
sawe
two
deuyllys
wepe
/
&
when
he
askyd
them
the
cause
why
they
wepte
/
they
sayd
bycause
he
p̄uaylyd
so
ofte
agaynste
them
/
&
so
he
made
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
&
anon
they
vanysshyd
away
/
the
busshope
hedda
as
he
was
goinge
to
seynt
guthlake
praysid
moch
the
strayghtnes
of
his
lyfe
/
&
oon
of
his
chapleyns
sayd
that
he
had
seen
many
Heremytes
some
good
&
some
euyll
/
&
if
he
had
ones
seen
hym
he
sayd
he
coulde
tell
whether
he
were
so
good
as
the
fame
ranne
vppon
hym
/
&
when
he
cam
to
seynt
guthlake
he
by
spyryt
knowynge
his
wordys
askyd
of
hym
howe
he
sayd
by
that
man
that
he
spake
of
the
day
before
/
&
then
he
was
abasshyd
&
fell
downe
askynge
hym
forgyuenes
/
&
then
the
Busshope
made
hym
preest
/
he
had
a
suster
callyd
pega
/
whom
he
wolde
not
see
in
this
lyfe
to
the
entent
they
myght
the
rather
mete
in
the
lyfe
to
come
/
&
when
his
tyme
drew
nere
he
shewyd
his
discyple
Bertelyn
therof
&
bade
hym
that
he
shulde
praye
his
suster
to
se
hym
buryed
/
&
then
Bertelyn
prayed
seynt
Guthlake
to
shewe
hym
who
he
was
that
he
had
seen
euery
day
syth
his
fyrste
cummynge
to
hym
spekynge
with
hym
Mornynge
&
euenynge
/
&
he
sayde
that
euer
syth
he
came
to
that
wyldernes
he
had
an
Aungell
to
conforte
hym
&
to
helpe
hym
in
his
temptacions
/
&
that
shewyd
hym
thynges
to
come
with
other
great
secretys
that
it
was
not
laufull
to
speke
&
bade
Bertelyn
kepe
it
secrete
&
not
to
shew
it
to
any
persone
but
to
his
suster
Pega
&
to
a
holy
Anker
callyd
Egbert
/
&
when
he
had
thus
spokyn
there
came
a
swete
smell
out
of
his
mouthe
as
of
Rose
flowrys
or
Balme
/
&
fro
mydnyght
to
the
mornynge
was
a
great
lyght
seen
in
all
the
house
/
&
then
he
sayd
to
his
dyscyple
that
his
tyme
was
come
/
&
lyftynge
vp
his
Ien
&
his
handys
into
Heuyn
he
slepte
in
our
Lorde
aboute
the
yere
of
grace
.vii.
C.
&
.vi.
&
aboute
a
yere
after
his
deth
his
body
was
remouyd
&
was
founde
vncorrupt
with
all
his
clothys
/
a
kynge
callyd
Ethelbalde
which
was
wrongefully
put
out
of
his
Realme
&
had
be
moche
famylyer
with
seynt
gutlake
in
his
lyfe
came
to
his
tumbe
&
prayed
deuoutly
to
hym
for
helpe
&
he
apperyd
to
hym
&
tolde
hym
that
within
two
yerys
he
shuld
be
restoryd
to
his
kyngdom
&
so
he
was
&
then
he
buylded
crowlande
&
endewyd
it
with
great
londes
&
many
lybertyes
as
he
hadde
promysed
to
seynt
Guthlake
in
his
lyfe
that
he
wolde
doo
.
De
sancta
Helena
regina
.
Seynt
helyn
was
doughter
of
cloell
kyng
of
grete
brytayn
/
&
in
tho
dayes
the
senate
of
romesēte
constancyus
which
had
subdued
to
them
the
countrey
of
spayne
to
subdue
also
to
them
brytayne
/
now
callyd
Englonde
And
cloell
ferynge
the
great
wysdome
of
constancius
anon
assentyd
to
pay
the
olde
trybute
&
theruppon
constancyus
toke
the
sayd
helyn
his
doughter
to
wyfe
&
had
by
her
constantyne
whiche
after
the
deth
of
his
fader
went
to
rome
with
great
power
of
brytayne
/
&
toke
his
moder
with
hym
&
put
downe
maxencyus
the
tyraunte
/
&
was
made
Emperoure
/
after
he
was
conuertyd
to
the
feyth
&
also
Crystenyd
by
seynt
syluester
/
wherfore
his
moder
praysyd
hym
that
he
had
lefte
the
worshyppynge
of
Idollys
but
she
thought
he
shuld
rather
haue
receyuyd
the
feyth
of
the
god
of
the
Iues
which
she
had
them
receyuyd
/
then
to
receyue
the
feythe
of
a
man
crucyfyed
/
&
there
vppon
a
tyme
was
appoyntyd
betwyxte
them
to
haue
bothe
lawes
disputyd
/
at
which
day
by
the
ꝓfounde
argumentys
of
seynt
Syluester
&
also
by
myracles
that
our
lorde
shewyd
in
ꝓue
of
the
feyth
seynt
Helyn
&
all
the
docturys
of
the
Iues
that
she
brought
with
her
were
conuertyd
to
the
feyth
/
&
when
she
was
crystenyd
she
encouragyd
her selfe
to
enlarge
the
crysten
feythe
all
that
she
could
&
went
to
Iherusalem
with
a
great
power
where
she
founde
the
holy
crosse
with
the
thre
naylys
&
the
crybbe
that
our
lorde
was
leyed
on
&
parte
of
the
hey
/
&
our
Ladyes
smokke
/
&
she
made
monasteryes
where
our
lord
sufferyd
his
deth
&
passyon
there
as
the
holy
crosse
was
founde
&
at
Bethelem
&
in
many
other
placys
/
After
she
went
to
ynde
she
made
many
churchys
&
brought
with
her
the
Bodyes
of
the
thre
kynges
of
coleyne
/
&
she
broughte
with
her
parte
of
the
holy
crosse
to
constantynople
after
she
went
to
rome
&
grewe
to
suche
hyghe
charyte
that
she
was
as
a
moder
to
all
personys
/
And
after
when
she
laye
syke
she
sawe
heuyn
open
&
our
lord
standynge
with
a
great
multytude
of
Aungellys
with
his
Crosse
meruaylously
shynynge
which
comfortyd
her
moche
/
She
went
to
our
Lord
the
.xv.
kalendas
of
september
/
&
was
honorably
buryed
by
the
Pope
with
great
wepynge
of
all
the
people
/
&
as
it
is
sayd
her
body
was
translatyd
to
constantynople
/
&
now
it
lyeth
at
venys
.
De
sancto
Henrico
heremita
.
SEynt
henry
the
heremyte
was
borne
in
denmarke
/
And
on
a
tyme
when
all
thynge
was
ordeynyd
that
he
shuld
haue
ben
maryed
our
lord
prohybytyd
hym
to
be
maryed
/
&
bad
hym
kepe
hym selfe
clene
&
inmaculate
fro
this
worlde
/
&
that
he
shuld
goo
into
the
Ile
of
Coket
/
&
so
he
came
to
tynmouth
/
&
there
he
had
leue
of
the
pryor
to
go
into
the
Ile
of
Coket
/
And
certen
yerys
he
lyuyd
with
brede
&
water
/
&
after
he
ete
but
thryfe
in
a
weke
&
thre
dayes
in
the
weke
he
kept
o●
cylence
/
On
a
tyme
as
he
wolde
haue
goon
to
duresme
but
that
he
hadde
no
bote
to
goo
ouer
the
water
of
were
he
made
his
prayer
&
a
bote
of
the
ferther
syde
brake
that
that
it
was
tyed
with
&
came
ouer
to
hym
/
&
so
he
went
ouer
therin
/
His
frendys
herynge
where
he
was
sent
to
hym
/
&
mouyd
hym
to
come
agayne
into
his
countrey
seyinge
there
were
dyuerse
solytary
placys
in
that
countrey
more
apte
to
lyue
a
solytary
lyfe
in
then
that
/
&
somwhat
for
affeccyon
to
the
countrey
He
was
mouyd
therto
/
&
in
the
nyght
folowynge
he
made
his
prayers
before
the
crucyfyx
to
knowe
the
wyll
of
our
Lorde
with
great
deuocyon
/
&
the
Crucyfyxe
spake
vnto
hym
&
bad
hym
perseuer
strongly
in
that
he
had
begon
/
&
that
he
shuld
not
leue
that
I
le
to
th
ende
of
his
lyfe
/
&
he
herynge
that
laye
prostrat
&
besought
our
lorde
that
he
shuld
not
haue
power
to
goo
though
he
wolde
/
&
anon
a
great
swellynge
felle
into
his
knee
which
grewe
so
greuous
that
as
he
sate
agaynste
the
sone
/
wormys
came
oute
of
it
/
&
he
wolde
take
them
vppe
&
byd
them
goo
in
agayne
to
that
that
was
theyr
Inherytaunce
&
lyue
of
that
that
had
norysshyd
them
/
&
the
more
greuouse
that
the
desease
grewe
/
the
more
gladde
he
was
yeldynge
euer
thankyngys
to
our
lord
/
&
thoughe
the
sykenes
waxyd
moche
greuous
/
yet
he
wolde
be
alone
abydynge
the
werynes
of
all
the
longe
nyghte
without
helpe
/
And
whan
the
houre
of
deth
came
he
toke
the
bell
rope
in
his
hande
to
rynge
the
bell
&
so
departyd
/
&
a
monke
he
rynge
the
bell
rynge
ranne
thyder
&
founde
hym
deed
syttynge
vppon
a
stone
with
the
bell
rope
in
his
hande
&
a
Candell
standynge
by
hym
lyghtyd
with
a
heuenly
lyghte
/
&
when
his
body
was
clensyd
fro
the
fylthe
anon
it
was
whyte
as
snowe
nothynge
apperynge
of
the
fyrste
desease
/
&
his
face
shone
with
such
a
bryghtnes
that
he
coulde
scarsly
be
knowen
/
He
dyed
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
thousande
a
hundred
and
.xx.
the
.xvii.
kalendas
of
February
&
lyeth
at
Tynmouth
not
farre
fro
the
body
of
seynt
Oswyne
.
¶
De
sctīs
Hewaldo
nigro
&
Hewaldo
albo
mtibus
.
WHen
seynt
wylly
brorde
with
his
felowes
had
conuertyd
moch
people
in
fryselonde
to
the
feyth
two
blessyd
men
borne
in
Englonde
whiche
were
both
callyd
Hewalde
/
&
that
had
longe
tyme
ben
in
Irlonde
went
into
olde
saxonye
to
preche
there
the
worde
of
god
&
for
dyuersyte
of
theyr
here
the
oon
was
callyd
the
blacke
Hewalde
/
&
the
other
the
whyte
Hewalde
/
&
when
they
came
into
Fryselonde
they
were
Harbored
with
a
husbande
man
of
whom
they
desyred
that
they
myght
be
conueyed
to
the
ruler
of
that
countrey
to
do
a
message
to
hym
&
he
ꝓmysyd
them
they
shuld
so
be
&
when
they
had
taryed
with
hym
a
certeyn
tyme
the
harbarouse
people
herynge
that
they
were
of
a noder
relygyon
&
that
they
vsyd
moche
prayers
&
dayly
dyd
sacryfyce
for
they
sayde
dayly
masse
/
they
suspectyd
that
if
they
shuld
speke
with
theyr
Ruler
they
shuld
conuerte
hym
to
the
crysten
feyth
/
&
so
all
the
ꝓuynce
lyke
to
folow
leuynge
theyr
olde
lawe
/
wherfore
they
kyllyd
them
bothe
the
.v.
nonas
of
October
the
whyte
hewalde
by
shorte
martyrdome
/
&
the
blacke
hewalde
by
longe
cruell
tourmentys
/
&
caste
them
into
the
Ryuer
of
Ryne
/
&
when
the
ruler
herde
therof
he
was
very
sore
angry
that
they
wolde
not
let
them
speke
with
hym
&
sendynge
thyder
kyllyd
all
tho
barbarous
people
that
had
kyllyd
the
blessyd
martyrs
&
also
burnyd
the
towne
/
&
the
Bodyes
of
the
sayd
blessyd
men
went
.xl.
myle
ageyne
the
streme
to
a
place
there
as
theyr
felowys
were
/
And
a
bryghte
shynynge
beame
was
seen
euery
nyght
there
as
the
Bodyes
lay
&
so
they
were
takyn
vppe
&
buryed
honorablye
lyke
gloryous
martyrs
/
and
after
pipinus
the
frenshe
kynge
remouyd
theyr
Bodyes
to
Coleyne
&
in
tho
partyes
theyr
feest
is
halowyd
with
great
deuocyon
.
¶
De
sancta
Hilda
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
hylda
was
doughter
to
hereyce
which
was
neuew
to
kynge
Edwyn
/
&
when
kynge
Edwyn
was
conuertyd
by
prechynge
of
seynt
paulyn
/
seynt
hylda
was
also
conuertyd
/
&
anon
she
lefte
her
scler
habyte
&
decreed
to
serue
our
Lord
She
went
to
the
kynge
of
eest
Englond
to
whom
she
was
of
kyn
desyrynge
hym
to
helpe
that
she
myght
go
to
her
suster
hereswida
into
fraunce
that
was
a
Nonne
in
the
monastery
of
Cale
/
&
when
she
had
ben
a
yere
aboute
the
purpose
/
seynt
A●dan
brought
her
agayne
into
her
owne
countrey
/
&
there
she
was
made
Abbesse
at
the
Monastery
of
herthey
whiche
was
foundyd
by
a
blessyd
Woman
callyd
bega
that
was
the
fyrste
Nonne
that
euer
was
in
the
ꝓuynce
of
Northamhumbre
/
After
seynt
Hylda
foundyd
the
Monastery
of
streneshalch
now
callyd
whytbye
And
as
she
had
by
counceyll
of
holy
men
orderyd
her
fyrst
Monastery
with
reguler
discyplyne
/
so
she
orderyd
this
monastery
and
taught
them
prety
abstynence
/
and
other
vertues
/
&
especyall
to
haue
peas
&
charyte
/
And
she
was
of
such
great
wisdome
that
not
only
pore
men
but
also
kyngys
&
pryncys
wolde
aske
counceyll
of
her
/
by
her
prayers
a
great
multytude
of
serpentys
that
feryd
her
susters
soo
that
they
durste
scarcely
come
out
of
theyr
sellys
were
turnyd
into
stonys
/
her
seruaunte
by
her
commaundement
bad
a
grete
flocke
of
gees
that
destroyed
the
Corne
of
her
Monasterye
to
go
into
a
certeyn
grounde
that
was
enclosyd
/
&
without
taryenge
they
went
thyder
before
hym
as
they
were
bydden
/
And
when
she
came
thyder
she
bade
theym
goo
where
they
wolde
/
And
oon
of
the
Byrdys
that
was
deed
she
reysyd
to
lyfe
&
bad
her
goo
after
her
felowys
/
and
so
she
dyd
/
And
by
the
wyll
of
our
Lorde
she
had
great
contynuell
sykenesse
.vi.
yerys
before
she
dyed
/
&
in
the
.vii.
yere
by
great
inwarde
peyne
she
lefte
this
worlde
the
.xv.
kalendas
of
December
/
And
a
Nonne
in
a
Monastery
callyd
Hacanos
which
seynt
Hylda
a
lytyll
before
her
deth
had
foundyd
/
&
that
was
.xiii.
myle
fro
thens
as
seynt
hylda
was
/
sawe
her
sowle
borne
into
Heuyn
with
a
great
company
of
Aungellys
.
¶
De
sancta
Hildelitha
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
hyldelythe
was
Abbesse
of
Barkyng
next
after
seynt
Alburgh
/
&
lyuyd
vnto
great
age
in
kepynge
of
reguler
obseruaūcys
/
And
by
her
exortacyons
&
good
conuersacyon
she
couragyd
all
men
to
Heuenly
thynges
&
next
to
seynt
Alburgh
her
feest
is
solempnysed
at
Barkynge
in
great
honoure
seynt
Hyldelythe
was
not
oonly
had
in
honour
with
seynt
Dunstane
seynt
Ethelwolde
/
&
seynt
elphege
but
also
of
many
other
olde
holy
Faders
/
her
holynesse
is
commendyd
/
&
it
is
wryttyn
of
her
that
she
was
full
of
Charyte
/
a
techer
of
vertue
/
a
gyuer
of
good
exaumples
in
vygyllys
/
fastyngys
/
benygnyte
/
&
mercye
/
&
that
she
with
great
dylygens
ꝓuydyd
for
all
other
that
they
nedyd
bothe
in
Body
&
sowle
so
that
before
god
&
man
/
she
lyuyd
without
offence
/
more
apperyth
not
of
her
lyfe
nor
of
her
myracles
but
the
thre
blynde
Women
that
came
all
at
oon
tyme
/
oon
to
seynt
Alburgh
/
a noder
to
seynt
Hyldelythe
/
And
the
thyrde
to
seynt
Wulfhylde
receyuyd
all
thre
theyr
syghte
.
¶
De
sancto
Honorio
archiep̄o
&
confessore
.
SEynt
honorye
was
discyple
to
seynt
Gregory
&
after
seynt
Iustus
he
was
electyd
to
be
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
/
&
he
was
consecrate
by
paulyn
archebusshope
of
yorke
/
&
the
Pope
honoryus
sent
to
hym
a
pall
with
his
letters
wherin
he
decreyd
that
whether
of
the
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
or
yorke
dyed
furste
that
he
that
ouerlyuyd
shulde
haue
auctoryte
to
make
a
newe
&
not
to
goo
at
euery
tyme
to
Rome
by
so
great
iourneys
And
this
blessyd
man
made
seynt
Felyx
busshope
of
eest
Englonde
which
conuertyd
all
the
Countrey
to
the
feythe
&
when
seynt
Edwyn
was
deed
/
&
all
the
Countrey
of
northamhumbre
was
trowblyd
with
Paganes
/
seynt
paulyn
and
the
quene
Ethelburghe
which
was
wyfe
to
Kynge
Edwyn
went
to
seynt
Honorye
/
&
he
made
seynt
paulyn
Busshope
of
rochester
/
&
the
quene
Ethelburghe
a
Nonne
at
a
place
callyd
lymmynge
where
she
had
foundyd
a
Monasterye
vppon
the
grounde
that
she
had
of
the
gyfte
of
her
Broder
kynge
Edbalde
/
where
she
was
Mother
to
many
virgyns
&
wydowys
/
This
blessyd
man
made
parysshys
/
ordeynyd
clerkys
/
&
p̄chourys
/
&
bad
them
that
they
shulde
instructe
the
people
aswell
by
feyrenes
&
pacyence
as
by
hygh
doctryne
/
so
that
the
rude
people
myght
be
broughte
to
the
loue
of
almyghty
god
aswell
by
swete
techynge
/
as
by
sharpenes
&
drede
/
&
our
Lord
so
adournyd
this
blessyd
man
with
pure
feythe
&
goodlye
conuersacyon
in
many
sygnys
&
vertues
that
he
shone
in
this
Realme
of
Englonde
as
a
lanterne
&
put
away
errours
&
conuertyd
many
paganes
to
the
feythe
/
releuynge
the
wretchydnes
of
the
people
with
prayer
&
consolacyon
/
so
that
his
lyfe
shone
lyke
glasse
to
all
that
wolde
loke
in
it
/
he
was
strayght
&
harde
to
hymselfe
/
&
lyberall
to
the
pore
people
seruynge
our
lord
in
humylyte
&
charyte
/
he
went
out
of
the
prysone
of
this
worlde
the
day
before
the
kalendas
of
october
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
syx
Hundred
fyghtye
and
thre
/
&
lyeth
in
the
monasterye
of
seynt
Peter
and
paule
at
Caunterbury
&
many
yerys
after
when
his
Body
was
remouyd
there
was
so
goodly
as
wete
sauoure
that
all
that
were
there
present
gaue
thankynges
&
laudys
to
our
lorde
.
¶
De
puero
Hugone
a
iudeis
crucifixo
.
IN
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
.
M.CC.
&
.lv.
aboute
the
feestys
of
seynt
Peter
&
paule
/
the
Iewys
of
Lyncolne
stale
a
cristen
Chylde
that
was
aboute
the
age
of
.viii.
yerys
callyd
hugh
/
&
they
put
hym
in
a
secrete
house
&
fedde
hym
.x.
dayes
with
mylke
that
he
myght
abyde
the
gretter
turmentys
/
&
thereupon
they
sent
to
all
the
townys
in
Englonde
,
wherein
were
any
Iewys
to
haue
some
of
them
to
be
at
the
sacryfyce
of
this
Chylde
which
they
entendyd
to
crucyfye
in
despyte
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
/
And
when
they
were
gaderyd
they
appoyntyd
a
Iuge
as
for
Pylat
/
&
so
they
Iugyd
Hym
to
deth
/
And
then
they
bet
hym
soo
that
the
blode
folowyd
/
they
crownyd
hym
with
thorne
they
spyt
vppon
hym
/
and
mockyd
hym
/
and
euery
man
pryckyd
hym
with
his
Knyfe
/
they
gaue
hym
to
drynke
Gall
/
And
with
great
opprobryes
&
blasphemouse
wordys
with
gnasshynge
of
theyr
teth
they
callyd
hym
Ihesus
the
Cursyd
prophet
/
And
after
they
Crucyfyed
hym
/
And
with
a
spere
thruste
hym
to
the
Herte
/
And
when
he
was
deed
they
toke
his
Body
fro
the
Crosse
and
vnbowelde
hym
for
theyr
enchauntementys
/
After
when
they
leyde
his
Bodye
into
the
grounde
/
the
grounde
wolde
not
kepe
it
but
caste
it
vppe
agayne
/
wherfore
they
were
merueylously
aferde
/
And
threwe
hym
into
a
Pytte
/
After
the
moder
of
the
Chylde
which
made
great
sorowe
/
and
dylygentlye
enqueryd
for
hym
harde
say
that
he
was
seen
laste
at
a
Iewys
house
pleyinge
with
Iewys
chyldren
/
And
so
she
went
sodeynly
into
the
House
/
And
there
she
founde
the
Chylde
/
and
vppon
that
suspeccyon
the
man
that
owyd
the
House
was
takyn
/
And
he
confessyd
the
murder
/
wherupon
.xviii.
of
the
Rychest
of
the
Iewys
of
Lyncolne
that
assentyd
to
the
martyrdome
of
the
sayd
blessyd
chylde
were
drawyn
&
hangyd
/
&
the
chanons
of
Lyncoln
askyd
the
Body
of
the
sayde
Chylde
&
buryed
hym
lyke
a
gloryouse
martyr
.
¶
De
sancto
hugone
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
hugh
when
he
was
but
.viii.
yere
olde
was
set
to
Reguler
discyplyne
&
was
euer
broughte
vp
in
vtue
/
he
neuer
knewe
pleasurys
of
the
Worlde
nor
lernyd
any
maner
of
disportꝭ
/
after
he
was
made
a
Chanon
regler
in
a
monastery
in
Grāmiople
where
his
fader
lyued
vnder
reguler
discipline
:
&
as
longe
as
his
fader
lyued
he
wiped
his
shone
&
made
his
bedde
&
was
dylygent
to
hym
in
all
other
thyngꝭ
/
&
after
for
zele
of
a
streyghter
Religion
he
entred
into
relygion
in
the
ordre
of
Chartuc
&
there
he
was
made
prest
And
whan
he
was
at
Masse
he
ordred
hymself
as
if
our
lorde
had
ben
visibly
there
present
/
and
he
vsed
moch
vigylles
fastyngis
and
scorgynges
ofte
fasted
brede
and
water
/
and
weer
the
heere
as
the
vse
of
the
Relygion
is
and
after
when
he
was
made
proctour
he
thought
in
his
slepe
that
he
that
made
hym
prest
came
to
hym
&
opened
his
bely
with
a
Raser
and
cut
fro
hym
a
thyng
lyke
a
bylle
of
fyre
and
he
neuer
after
felt
temptacion
of
the
flesshe
/
but
that
he
myght
lyghtly
despyse
/
After
by
desyre
of
kynge
Henry
the
seconde
he
was
sent
into
Englande
to
be
Pryor
of
Wythm̄
thoughe
he
moche
refused
it
and
on
a
tyme
whan
he
came
to
the
kynge
for
certeyne
thynges
that
they
neded
/
and
the
kynge
gaue
hym
lytell
comforte
but
fayre
wordes
/
one
Gerarde
that
came
with
seynt
Hugh●
sayd
to
the
kynge
that
he
wolde
go
home
agayne
into
his
Countre
/
and
tolde
the
kyng
that
he
sawe
well
that
al
that
he
gaue
for
his
soule
helth
he
thought
it
loste
/
and
seynt
Hughe
bad
hym
leue
suche
wordes
or
holde
his
peace
/
and
then
he
spake
to
the
kynge
in
suche
sobre
&
charytable
maner
that
when
he
had
doon
the
kynge
enbraced
hym
and
sayd
verayly
he
shuld
neuer
go
from
hym
/
but
that
he
wolde
kepe
hym
and
take
counsell
of
hym
for
the
helth
of
his
soule
/
&
anone
he
gaue
to
seynt
Hughe
all
that
he
asked
/
one
a
tyme
when
the
kynge
was
in
great
ꝑell
of
the
see
/
he
had
great
truste
in
the
prayer
of
seynt
Hughe
and
of
his
bretherne
/
and
as
it
is
sayd
he
aduowed
that
if
he
came
safe
to
lande
he
wolde
make
hym
a
bysshop
and
forthwith
the
tempest
ceasyd
when
the
buyldynge
was
done
at
Wytham
he
wolde
euer
be
occupyed
in
prayer
redynge
medytacyon
or
in
some
spirituell
collacion
or
exortacion
/
he
wolde
neuer
lye
in
his
bedde
wakynge
but
eyther
ryse
&
go
to
prayer
or
immediatly
slepe
agayne
/
and
when
the
bysshop
of
Lyncoln
was
translated
to
Rome
seynt
Hughe
was
elected
therto
/
And
he
sayd
he
wolde
in
no
wyse
take
it
vpon
hym
without
assent
of
the
hedde
house
/
and
when
that
was
opteyned
he
wolde
nat
yet
agre
tyll
he
was
aserteyned
of
the
hole
assent
of
all
the
Chanons
of
Lyncoln
/
and
then
the
Dean
of
Lyncoln
&
the
chyef
of
the
Chapiter
came
to
hym
to
wytham
/
&
when
they
had
herde
hym
speke
they
all
desyred
hym
with
great
instaunce
&
deuocyon
to
take
it
vpon
hym
/
&
then
he
assented
the
firste
nyght
that
he
came
into
his
Bysshopryche
he
harde
a
voyce
say
to
hym
in
his
slepe
Egressus
es
īsalutē
ppli
tui
in
salutem
cum
xpo
tuo
:
And
after
seynt
Hughe
accursed
the
kynges
chyef
Forster
for
doynge
agaynst
the
lyberte
of
the
churche
/
wherfore
the
kynge
toke
great
displesure
and
that
mater
nat
yet
determyned
the
kynge
desyred
of
hym
for
one
of
his
clerkis
the
noīacion
of
a
Benefyce
that
was
then
voyde
and
in
the
gyft
of
seynt
Hughe
&
he
denyed
it
/
wherfore
the
kynge
was
more
angry
and
sent
for
hym
/
and
when
he
came
he
founde
the
kynge
syttynge
amonge
his
lordes
&
the
kynge
wolde
nat
suffre
any
of
them
to
ryse
to
hym
/
&
yet
neuertheles
when
he
had
harde
his
answeres
&
his
sayingis
the
kynge
was
contented
/
&
when
he
departed
commytted
hym
to
his
prayers
&
euery
yere
ones
or
twyse
he
wolde
be
at
wytham
and
kepe
his
sell
/
&
somtyme
when
he
came
furth
by
reason
of
the
famylyer
spekynge
with
our
lorde
he
had
two
bryght
beames
came
fro
his
face
/
a
voyce
bad
a
clerke
thre
tymes
that
he
shulde
go
to
the
bysshop
of
Lyncoln
&
byd
hym
speke
to
the
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
that
th
archebysshop
togyther
with
hym
shuld
more
dilygently
helpe
to
reforme
the
clergye
for
our
lorde
was
greatly
displeasyd
with
theim
Curatis
were
made
that
were
vnable
/
&
benesycꝭ
were
set
to
ferme
for
temporall
ꝓfyte
nothynge
regardynge
the
helth
of
the
soules
/
ne
yet
the
conforte
of
pore
men
/
And
when
the
clerke
made
doute
how
the
bysshop
shuld
byleue
hym
bycause
of
his
youth
the
voyce
said
when
he
had
shewyd
to
the
bysshop
that
/
that
he
shulde
se
before
the
Bysshop
as
he
was
at
Masse
he
shuld
byleue
hym
:
And
so
he
went
&
dyd
his
message
/
and
as
the
bysshop
was
at
Masse
he
sawe
the
Hoste
when
it
was
lyft
vp
bytwyxt
the
bysshoppes
handes
tourned
into
the
veray
body
of
our
lorde
Ihu
criste
/
&
it
was
lyke
a
lytell
childe
more
beauteous
then
man
can
tell
/
and
when
he
had
shewyd
this
to
the
bysshop
he
bad
hym
kepe
it
close
and
aduertysed
hym
that
he
that
had
seen
suche
thynges
shuld
neuer
busye
hymselfe
in
the
worlde
/
but
that
he
shuld
entre
into
Relygyo●
and
so
he
dyd
and
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
when
kynge
Rycharde
went
into
Fraunce
to
warre
vpon
the
Frenche
kynge
/
seynt
Hughe
and
the
bysshop
of
Salysbury
denyed
to
gyue
any
thynge
to
the
Kynge
for
they
sayd
they
were
nat
bounde
to
helpe
hym
/
but
oonly
within
the
Realme
/
wherfore
the
Kynge
was
meruaylously
angry
and
commaunded
to
sease
all
that
they
hadde
/
But
there
durste
noo
man
medell
with
seynt
Hughe
for
fere
of
the
punysshement
of
god
/
then
afterwarde
he
went
ouer
the
See
to
the
kynge
/
and
when
he
came
before
the
kynges
presence
where
he
was
at
Masse
/
the
kynge
loked
vpon
hym
with
an
Angry
countenaunce
/
and
wolde
nat
speke
to
hym
and
thenne
he
went
to
the
kynge
and
toke
hym
aboute
the
necke
/
and
hadde
hym
kysse
hym
for
he
sayd
he
had
deseruyd
it
/
and
the
kyng
meruaylynge
his
constaunce
smyled
and
kyssed
hym
:
And
at
that
masse
tyme
the
kynge
perceyued
right
well
that
he
was
a
holy
man
&
when
an
Archebysshop
kyssed
the
kynge
for
the
pax
the
kynge
rose
and
kyssed
seynt
Hughe
/
And
after
masse
he
admonysshed
the
kyng
that
he
shuld
take
hede
to
the
helth
of
his
soule
&
how
he
dyd
inwardly
/
And
when
the
kynge
tolde
hym
that
he
thought
his
conscyens
was
clere
/
but
it
were
for
hatred
to
his
enemyes
/
he
said
there
was
a
commen
sayinge
that
he
kept
nat
his
wedlocke
&
also
that
he
toke
nat
hede
to
make
good
curatis
/
and
when
he
had
admonysshed
the
kynge
of
dyuerse
thyngꝭ
he
gaue
the
kynge
his
blessynge
&
so
departed
/
and
when
he
was
goon
the
kynge
sayd
that
if
there
were
many
such
Bysshoppes
there
durst
no
prynce
do
agaynst
theym
:
And
when
the
kynge
shortly
after
had
a
great
victorye
of
the
Frenche
kynge
he
arected
it
to
the
prayers
of
seynt
Hugh
/
he
helyd
two
persons
that
were
obsessed
with
deuylles
after
he
fell
syke
of
a
greuous
Axes
/
&
when
he
shuld
be
houseled
he
went
bare
fote
in
a
heere
with
a
Coule
and
met
the
sacrament
/
and
made
longe
prayer
&
amonge
other
thynges
he
sayd
that
for
loue
drede
or
hatered
/
or
for
any
other
cause
he
neuer
wyttyngly
went
fro
the
truthe
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
.
M.CC.
and
syx
in
the
octaues
of
seynt
Martyn
the
Bysshop
he
went
to
our
lorde
/
as
he
was
in
caryinge
to
Lyncoln
foure
tapres
burned
contynually
by
the
way
that
neuer
went
out
/
At
bykleswade
by
his
merytis
a
man
was
made
hole
that
had
broken
his
arme
/
and
at
staumforde
a
cordoner
whiche
had
great
deuocion
to
seynt
Hughe
bysought
almyghty
god
that
he
myght
dye
&
go
to
heuyn
with
hym
/
&
so
beynge
confessyd
&
howselyd
he
dyed
fourth
with
and
seynt
Hughe
was
caryed
fourth
to
Lyncoln
&
was
there
buryed
honourably
.
¶
De
sancto
Iohen
de
Bridlyngton̄
.
SEynt
Iohn
of
Brydlyngton̄
was
brone
in
the
Counte
of
yorke
by
the
seesyde
/
and
in
his
youth
he
was
set
to
lernynge
by
his
Fader
and
moder
/
&
he
put
nat
his
mynde
oonly
to
haue
cunnynge
/
but
also
to
heuynly
thynges
somtyme
when
he
was
at
Oxforde
he
wolde
leue
the
sophystycall
argumentis
&
lyft
his
mynde
in
prayer
to
our
lorde
/
and
for
his
cunnynge
and
vertue
a
great
riche
man
toke
hym
to
be
maister
to
his
children
nat
oonly
to
teche
them
cunnynge
but
also
to
eschewe
vyces
/
&
when
he
was
about
the
age
of
.xx.
yeres
he
consydered
the
deceytfull
flateryng
of
the
worlde
wherfore
he
entred
into
Relygyon
at
the
Monasterye
of
Bridlyngton̄
where
he
was
anone
meke
obedient
shynynge
in
Charyte
dispysynge
the
worlde
rygorouse
in
abstynence
endewed
with
Iustice
vsynge
vigylles
and
prayers
&
without
cessynge
seruyng
our
lord
/
&
there
he
was
chosen
to
be
precentour
and
so
almonyser
and
then
suppriour
&
after
when
the
pryor
resygned
he
was
chosen
to
be
pryor
&
he
refused
it
and
sayd
that
knowynge
his
ignoraunce
he
had
leuer
suffer
great
payne
then
to
take
it
vpon
hym
/
and
so
a nother
was
chosen
and
after
his
dethe
seynt
Iohn
was
eftsones
elected
by
hoole
assent
/
and
then
trustynge
in
the
mercy
of
our
lorde
consyderynge
that
the
greatter
labour
shall
haue
the
greatter
rewarde
he
toke
the
charge
vpon
hym
/
In
whiche
offyce
he
kept
the
vygylles
with
the
Couent
in
the
nyght
/
And
also
the
seruyce
in
the
day
and
fedde
the
hungry
/
clothed
the
naked
comforted
theym
that
were
in
heuynes
appesyd
stryffes
and
norysshed
loue
so
vsyng
actiflyfe
that
he
forget
nat
contemplatyfe
/
&
somtyme
when
he
was
at
masse
he
was
in
so
hyghe
deuocyon
that
he
coulde
nat
absteyne
fro
wepynge
/
and
that
he
reputed
to
his
feblenes
often
tymes
he
wolde
admonysshe
his
bretherne
to
be
ware
of
temptacyons
and
to
exclude
women
fro
theyr
company
/
he
wolde
alway
dyne
and
soupe
with
the
bretherne
in
the
fraytour
without
great
company
of
straungers
caused
the
contrarye
/
he
lay
in
the
Dortor
and
wolde
weer
no
furre
but
of
lambe
/
On
a
tyme
one
of
his
bretherne
openly
afore
moche
company
spake
euyll
and
vngoodly
wordes
vnto
hym
and
he
answered
nothyng
agayne
/
and
when
one
of
the
company
meruayled
therat
he
sayd
it
was
nat
best
where
was
to
great
a
fyre
to
ley
to
more
styckes
/
but
he
sayd
by
good
dylyberacion
the
mater
shuld
rightwell
come
to
reformacion
/
and
so
though
he
was
of
Colerike
complexcion
by
grace
he
subdued
nature
to
reason
/
and
agaynst
theym
that
wolde
trouble
his
Churche
he
was
armed
with
great
constaunce
and
on
a
tyme
nat
in
angre
but
charitably
he
sayd
to
a
great
mannes
seruaunte
that
entended
to
do
great
wronge
to
his
Monasterye
that
he
shuld
beware
that
for
his
maysters
pleasure
he
went
nat
hymselfe
to
helle
and
tho
wordes
toke
sueffecte
in
that
man
that
in
the
mornyng
he
sayd
whyle
he
lyued
he
wolde
be
a
frende
to
the
house
/
&
so
his
mynde
chaunged
and
the
varyaunce
ceased
/
our
Lorde
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
he
appered
to
men
in
the
see
that
were
in
ꝑell
and
saued
theym
in
lyke
maner
as
it
is
redde
of
seynt
Nicholas
/
and
they
after
knewe
hym
by
the
Fygoure
that
appered
to
theym
in
the
see
/
By
his
prayer
a
woman
that
by
lykelyhode
of
age
dispeyred
to
haue
children
conceyued
and
had
two
doughters
&
one
of
them
had
a
great
deformyte
in
her
face
/
wherfore
he
hadde
the
Father
that
when
he
came
home
he
shuld
ley
his
thumbe
vpon
the
place
so
deformed
&
he
in
the
meane
tyme
wolde
praye
for
her
and
he
dyd
so
and
within
the
space
of
an
houre
the
deformyte
went
away
.
Also
by
his
blyssynge
whete
in
his
barne
encreased
ten
tymes
asmoch
as
it
was
/
after
he
fell
syke
of
the
sykenes
/
and
then
he
called
his
bretherne
and
exorted
theym
to
kepe
humylyte
vnyte
obedience
and
charite
/
and
theyr
statutes
Reguler
nat
to
breke
the
leest
obseruaunces
of
theyr
Relygion
/
and
bad
them
when
he
was
gone
they
shuld
electe
a nother
tha
shuld
ordre
and
norysshe
the
bretherne
and
they
shuld
welse
that
he
had
nat
habundaunce
of
Ryches
/
and
that
yet
he
was
out
of
dette
/
In
his
sykenes
he
toke
Fysyke
for
he
sayde
he
wolde
do
that
was
in
hym
for
his
helthe
and
thre
dayes
he
was
vysyted
with
Aungellys
/
And
when
he
had
ben
Pryor
.xvii.
yeres
he
went
to
heuyn
In
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
Thousande
thre
hondred
.lxxix.
And
lyeth
in
his
Monasterye
for
whom
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
innumrable
myracles
.
¶
De
sancto
Ioseph
Ab
arimathia
.
WHen
our
Lorde
Ihesu
Criste
was
crucefyed
Ioseph
Ab
Arimathia
asked
of
Pylate
the
bodye
of
our
Lorde
/
and
leyde
it
in
a
clene
Sendell
/
and
put
it
in
a
Sepulcre
that
no
man
had
ben
buryed
in
as
the
Euangelyst
testifie
&
the
Iues
heryng
therof
put
hym
in
a
derke
Pryson
that
had
no
wyndowe
and
Annas
and
Cayphas
locked
the
dores
and
after
when
they
had
thought
to
haue
put
hym
to
deth
they
sent
for
hym
to
the
pryson
and
before
theyr
commynge
on
the
saterday
at
nyght
our
lord
apperyd
to
hym
with
a
great
bryghtnes
as
he
was
in
prayer
&
foure
aungellys
lyfted
vp
by
the
house
that
he
was
in
and
our
Lorde
sayd
to
hym
I
am
Ihesus
whom
thou
hast
buryed
/
and
then
Ioseph
sayd
lord
if
thou
be
he
shewe
me
the
monument
that
I
put
the
in
and
our
lord
toke
hym
by
the
hande
and
ledde
hym
to
the
sepulcre
&
fro
thens
he
brought
hym
into
his
house
at
Arimathe
after
the
Iues
sent
for
hym
&
asked
of
hym
howe
he
came
out
of
pryson
and
he
tolde
them
as
byfore
apperyth
/
and
then
they
let
hym
goo
/
&
he
became
disciple
to
seynt
Phylyp
&
of
hym
he
and
his
sone
Iosefes
were
baptised
and
he
was
a
messenger
fro
Ephese
bytwyxt
seynt
John
Euangelyst
and
our
Ladye
and
was
at
her
departynge
with
other
disciples
he
was
a
Constaunte
precher
of
the
worde
of
god
as
he
had
herde
of
our
lorde
and
of
our
Lady
and
conuertyd
moche
people
after
he
with
his
sone
Iosefes
went
into
Fraunce
to
seynt
Phylyp
/
and
he
sent
Ioseph
and
his
sone
with
.x.
other
into
Brytayne
/
&
at
last
they
came
to
a
place
then
called
Inswytryū
nowe
called
glastonburye
/
and
thyse
verses
be
made
at
Glastonburye
of
theyr
commynge
.
Intrat
Aualloniā
duo
dena
caterua
virorum
/
flos
Arimathie
Ioseph
est
primus
corum
/
Iosefesex
Ioseph
genitus
pr̄em
cōmitat̄
/
hiis
aliisque
decemius
glastonie
ꝓpriat
.
And
after
by
monycion
of
the
Archaungell
gabryell
they
made
a
Churche
or
oratory
of
our
Lady
/
&
there
they
lyued
a
blessyd
lyf
in
vigylles
fastyngis
&
prayers
And
two
kynges
seynge
theyr
blessid
lyfe
though
thy
were
paynymes
gaue
to
eueryche
of
theym
a
hyde
of
lande
whiche
to
this
day
be
called
the
.xii.
hydes
/
and
there
they
dyed
and
Ioseph
was
buryed
nygh
to
the
sayd
oratory
.
¶
De
sancto
Iltuto
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Iltute
was
sone
to
a
noble
knyght
of
kyn
to
kynge
Arthur
and
in
his
youthe
when
he
was
put
to
lernyng
what
soeuer
he
ones
herde
of
his
mayster
he
euer
bere
it
away
/
after
he
went
to
kyng
arthur
where
he
was
honourably
receyued
/
then
he
went
to
the
kyng
of
Morgan
/
and
there
he
was
in
suche
fauour
that
he
was
as
the
seconde
to
hym
/
and
after
heryng
that
the
grounde
opened
and
swalowed
vp
his
seruauntes
for
doynge
wronge
to
seynt
Cadoke
he
askyd
forgyuenes
of
seynt
Cadoke
/
&
then
by
counsell
of
seynt
Cadoke
:
And
also
by
monycion
of
an
Aungell
that
bad
hym
that
he
shuld
neuer
loue
transitory
thingꝭ
he
left
the
world
/
And
of
Dubrice
bysshop
of
Landaffe
he
toke
ordres
then
he
made
a
Churche
where
he
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
in
fastyngis
and
prayer
/
he
wolde
laboure
his
owne
handes
/
and
nat
trust
to
the
laboure
of
any
other
in
the
nyghtꝭ
he
wolde
be
prayng
in
the
water
on
his
knees
halfe
the
nyght
/
seynt
Sampson
paulyne
gyldas
and
Dauid
were
his
disciples
with
many
other
in
so
great
nombre
that
he
appoynted
fyftye
alway
to
be
in
prayer
/
whenne
the
great
wawes
of
the
see
troubled
the
Monasterie
by
his
prayers
the
see
withdrewe
his
course
and
lefte
the
grounde
drye
a
great
spase
whiche
so
enduryth
to
this
daye
&
a
fayre
welle
of
Fresshe
water
sprange
in
the
same
grounde
so
beyngenyghe
vnto
the
salte
water
/
The
kynges
bayliffe
troubled
the
Monasterye
greatly
/
wherfore
he
meltyd
away
lyke
waxe
and
the
kynge
herynge
therof
was
angry
and
wolde
haue
kylled
seint
Iltute
/
wherfore
he
flede
and
hydde
hymselfe
a
yere
in
a
Caue
where
euery
daye
he
had
brought
to
hym
of
the
prouysyon
of
our
Lorde
a
barly
lofe
and
a
pece
of
flesshe
/
Theuys
that
on
a
nyght
stale
his
hogges
in
the
mornynge
came
agayne
to
the
gates
of
the
Monasterye
/
&
when
they
wolde
nat
yet
beware
/
but
stele
agayne
the
nexte
nyght
they
were
tourned
into
stones
that
be
there
to
this
day
/
In
the
ende
of
his
lyfe
he
went
into
lytell
Brytayne
/
And
there
he
dyed
the
.viii.
I
de
of
Nouembre
and
lyeth
at
Dolence
.
¶
De
sancto
Indracto
&
sociis
eius
martiribus
.
SEynt
Indracte
martyr
was
a
kynges
sone
borne
in
Irlande
/
and
he
with
.ix.
Felawes
and
his
suster
Domynyke
went
into
Brytayne
/
and
there
they
made
an
Oratorye
and
lyued
a
strayght
lyfe
in
the
seruyce
of
god
many
yeres
/
he
had
a
water
with
certayne
Fysshes
therin
and
thoughe
one
were
taken
dayly
the
nombre
mynysshed
nat
tyll
one
of
his
felawes
stale
one
of
theym
/
and
then
they
mynysshed
and
heseyng
that
thought
it
was
nat
the
wyll
of
god
that
he
shuld
tarye
any
lenger
there
/
and
so
with
his
.ix.
felawes
he
went
to
Rome
and
after
retourned
to
Glastonburye
to
worshyp
seynt
Patryke
for
in
tho
dayes
Irysshe
men
came
moche
to
Glastonburye
for
loue
of
seynt
Patryke
/
&
as
he
wolde
haue
retourned
into
his
countre
he
with
his
compan●●●●ere
martyred
at
Shapwyke
in
theyr
beddes
by
mynysters
of
●ue
Kynge
of
Westsaxons
that
thought
that
they
had
hadde
moche
Riches
&
the
kynge
as
he
rose
in
the
nyght
thre
nyghtes
togyder
sawe
a
clere
shynynge
beame
ouer
the
place
were
they
were
hydde
in
a
depe
dyke
and
so
they
were
Founde
and
conueyed
honorably
to
Glastonbury
/
and
they
that
martyred
theim
were
taken
with
deuylles
so
wodely
that
they
ete
their
owne
flesshe
a
woman
that
byfore
that
tyme
by
no
maner
of
prechynge
wolde
be
conuerted
when
she
sawe
the
beame
that
the
kynge
sawe
vpon
the
blessyd
sayntis
she
was
conuertyd
&
foure
score
persons
were
also
conuerted
by
the
reporte
that
she
made
of
that
that
she
had
seen
.
¶
De
sancto
Iohen
Beuerlaco
Epo
&
confessore
.
SSeynt
Iohn
of
Beuerley
was
borne
in
Englande
&
in
his
yonge
Age
he
was
commytted
to
seynt
The
oder
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
to
instruct
/
&
he
enformed
hym
in
holy
scripture
/
and
when
he
was
well
instructed
he
prechyd
in
the
countre
in
small
vyllages
to
the
people
/
and
when
Cata
the
bysshop
dyed
he
was
made
bysshop
&
gaue
ordre
of
presthode
to
venerable
Bede
/
he
vsed
euery
Lent
to
prouyde
some
pore
impotent
persone
that
he
myght
do
charyte
vpon
/
&
one
that
was
so
ꝓuyded
whiche
was
mute
fro
his
natiuyte
he
helyd
/
also
with
his
blessynge
he
helyd
a
Nonne
that
with
lettyng
of
blode
in
vnconuenyent
tyme
was
at
the
poynt
of
deth
/
after
the
deth
of
Bosa
Archebysshop
of
yorke
he
was
electetd
thyther
/
and
when
he
came
to
great
age
he
lefte
his
Bysshopryche
and
went
to
his
Monasterye
at
Beuerley
there
he
lyued
a
blessyd
solytarie
lyfe
&
he
dyed
in
the
yere
of
our
lord
.vii.
C.
&
.xxi.
in
the
Nonas
of
Maii
/
for
whom
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
many
great
myracles
/
he
helyd
two
blynde
children
&
two
women
that
were
contracte
/
&
in
the
yere
of
our
lord
.
M.CCC
.
&
.xii.
oyle
came
out
of
his
tumbe
tyll
thre
of
the
cloke
of
the
next
day
that
helyd
many
blynde
men
/
kyng
Ethelstan̄
prayed
vnto
seint
Iohn
that
by
his
prayer
some
euydent
token
myght
appere
that
of
right
Scotlande
shuld
be
subiect
to
Englande
/
&
therupon
with
his
swerde
he
strake
vpon
a
rocke
of
stone
by
Dunbarre
in
scotland
/
&
it
waxed
holowe
with
the
stroke
an
Elne
depe
which
cōtyenuyth
to
this
day
/
as
he
was
praying
this
lyf
in
the
porch
of
seint
Michellꝭ
of
york
the
holy
gost
apperid
to
him
in
lykenes
of
a
Doue
more
bryght
then
the
sonne
beame
/
and
when
the
people
in
the
Churche
meruayled
at
the
lyght
one
of
the
dekons
went
to
the
porche
&
sawe
the
bysshop
there
in
prayer
and
with
the
hete
of
the
holy
ghost
his
face
was
stryken
so
that
the
skyn
shranke
togyther
/
and
then
seynt
Iohn
handeled
his
cheke
/
and
made
it
hole
and
bad
hym
kepe
that
vysyon
secret
.
¶
De
sancto
Ithamar
Epo
et
confessore
.
SEynt
Ithamar
was
of
the
countre
of
Kent
&
was
bysshop
of
Rochester
and
as
Bede
wytnessyth
he
succedyd
to
seynt
Paulyn
and
was
in
vertuous
lyfe
and
cunnynge
lyke
to
his
predecessour
/
and
after
his
departynge
out
of
this
world
almyghty
god
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
dyuers
that
were
vexed
with
the
Axes
/
&
that
had
sore
iyen
by
his
prayers
were
made
hole
/
A
childe
that
with
great
feblenes
was
become
dombe
&
deffe
at
the
tumbe
of
seynt
Ithamar
receyued
perfyte
helth
and
he
lyeth
at
Rochester
/
he
helyd
a
bysshop
of
Rochester
of
a
great
desease
that
he
had
in
his
iyen
/
&
therfore
in
the
fourth
Ide
of
Iune
he
remouyd
his
Relykes
and
put
theym
in
a
newe
cheste
/
&
at
that
day
his
seruyce
is
kept
/
in
remembraunce
of
that
myracle
and
of
other
that
our
lorde
shewyd
for
hym
.
¶
De
sancto
Iuone
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
yue
was
a
Kynges
sone
borne
in
the
Cytie
of
Fryane
in
ꝑsyde
and
there
he
was
made
bysshop
/
after
he
was
made
Archebysshop
of
Asitanda
where
he
was
dylygent
for
the
helth
of
the
people
to
hym
commytted
tyl
for
the
synnes
of
the
people
there
fell
suche
a
derth
that
the
Father
ete
the
sone
the
moder
the
doughter
&
the
prelatis
theyr
subgettes
/
wherfore
seynt
yue
with
.xi.
felowes
relygyous
went
to
Rome
/
and
by
councell
of
the
Pope
they
seuered
in
to
dyuerse
countres
/
&
seynt
Iue
with
Sythyo
his
neuewe
and
Inthyo
his
kynnesman
aboute
the
yere
of
our
lorde
six
hondred
came
into
Brytayne
now
called
Englande
into
a
towne
called
Slepe
thre
myle
fro
Hūtyngdon̄
/
&
there
ended
his
lyfe
seruynge
almyghty
god
in
fastynge
and
prayer
and
other
good
werkes
and
lay
vnknowen
many
yeres
vnto
his
tumbe
was
founde
by
a
husbondman
with
his
plough
And
then
he
by
reuelacion
shewyd
to
a
smythe
who
he
was
and
what
was
his
name
/
wherupon
he
was
translated
to
Ramsey
as
he
appoynted
to
be
/
the
yere
of
our
lorde
a
thousande
&
one
/
in
the
.viii.
kalend
of
Maii
/
and
the
.iiii.
I
de
of
Iune
his
translacion
was
consecrate
/
&
commaunded
to
be
halowed
/
out
of
his
tumbe
spryngyth
fayre
water
that
hath
gyuen
helth
to
man●
people
/
A
childe
toke
of
the
water
to
seth
mete
&
it
wold
in
no
wyse
be
made
hote
though
it
had
great
plente
of
fyre
&
our
lord
hath
shewid
for
hym
many
myracles
¶
De
sancto
ywyo
confessore
.
SEynt
ywyo
was
of
noble
blode
of
the
Brytons
&
was
brought
vp
in
the
Ile
of
Lyndefernens
and
was
disciple
to
seynt
Cuthbert
In
his
youth
he
toke
orders
or
his
fader
or
moder
were
ware
/
and
of
seynt
Cuthbert
he
toke
Dekon
/
he
prophyted
meruaylously
in
cunnynge
so
that
profounde
clerkes
had
hym
in
great
reuerence
/
he
was
oft
in
the
Churche
at
prayer
/
and
as
to
the
world
he
was
nat
studyous
what
shuld
fall
on
the
morowe
he
endeuoured
hym self
to
helpe
the
necessyte
of
euery
man
the
beste
he
coulde
/
he
gaue
almes
to
the
pore
/
he
forgaue
theym
that
had
offended
hym
/
he
clothed
the
naked
and
conforted
them
that
were
in
heuynes
/
as
he
was
helpyng
seynt
Cuthbert
to
masse
a
pore
man
that
was
syke
of
the
Axes
came
lenynge
on
his
staffe
to
offer
&
to
kysse
seynt
Cuthbertꝭ
hande
and
seynt
ywyo
seynge
hym
toke
hym
by
the
hande
to
helpe
hym
and
anone
he
was
hole
/
whiche
he
arected
to
the
holynes
of
seynt
Cuthbert
and
nat
of
his
owne
/
he
gaue
a
man
syder
to
drynke
and
anon
he
was
hole
of
a
desease
that
he
had
longe
had
/
after
dredyng
the
vayne
glorie
of
the
world
he
went
into
lytel
Brytayne
/
&
there
he
helyd
one
of
the
palsey
/
and
there
he
punysshed
his
body
with
oft
vigylles
&
fastynges
&
gaue
example
of
mekenes
and
of
all
vertues
and
the
daye
byfore
/
the
daye
byfore
the
Nonas
of
Octobre
he
passed
to
our
lorde
/
he
lyeth
now
at
Wylton̄
/
and
in
the
Legende
/
in
the
lyfe
of
seynt
Edyth
it
apperyth
how
his
body
was
brought
thyder
.
¶
De
sancto
Iustinano
martire
.
SEynt
Iustinan
was
of
the
noble
blode
of
lytell
brytayne
/
&
after
he
was
made
preest
he
herde
a
voyce
that
bad
hym
leue
his
countre
/
his
kynred
and
the
house
of
his
fader
&
so
he
dyd
&
with
certeyne
felowes
went
into
the
see
ia
shyp
made
of
ledder
and
roddes
/
&
besought
almyghty
god
that
it
myght
brynge
hym
to
a
place
where
he
myght
lyue
a
solytarye
lyfe
/
and
so
he
came
into
a
lande
called
Corm̄
/
where
many
by
his
example
forsoke
the
world
and
yet
he
was
eftsones
warned
to
leue
that
place
/
and
so
he
went
into
the
see
and
as
the
wynde
droue
hym
/
he
came
into
an
Ile
called
Lemonia
/
and
the
fame
of
this
holy
man
came
to
seynt
Dauid
/
the
whiche
was
very
glad
of
the
commynge
of
such
a
holy
man
/
and
sent
messengers
for
hym
/
&
receyued
hym
honorably
chewsynge
hym
to
be
his
ghostly
father
/
and
on
a
tyme
wyckyd
spiritis
in
the
lykenes
of
men
shewyd
hym
that
seynt
Dauid
was
syke
and
had
sent
for
hym
/
wherfore
anone
he
toke
shyp
with
theym
/
and
on
the
see
he
perceyued
they
were
wycked
spirites
and
no
men
/
&
thenne
he
lyfte
vp
his
herte
to
almyghty
god
and
began
the
psalme
Deus
in
adiutorium
meum
intende
.
And
when
he
came
to
this
verse
Confundantur
&
reuereantur
qui
querunt
animam
meam
:
they
vanysshed
away
lyke
blacke
crowes
/
and
left
hym
in
the
see
and
on
a
stone
that
rose
fro
the
bottom
of
the
see
he
was
brought
saufe
to
lande
&
founde
seynt
Dauid
in
good
helth
.
The
deuyll
seynge
he
coulde
nat
pre●ayle
agaynst
hym
by
any
maner
temptacyon
styred
his
seruauntes
agaynst
hym
with
suche
malyce
/
that
they
despysed
his
doctryne
and
stroke
of
his
hedde
and
he
toke
his
hedde
in
his
armes
and
bare
it
vpon
the
see
/
into
a
place
where
he
was
buryed
/
&
there
as
his
hedde
fell
sprange
a
fayre
welle
/
and
the
water
therof
helyd
a
man
that
was
poysoned
/
and
they
that
kylled
hym
were
stryken
leper
and
dyd
great
penaunce
all
theyr
lyues
in
a
hylle
that
yet
is
called
the
lepours
hylle
/
after
seint
Dauid
brought
his
body
to
Menonia
now
called
seynt
Dauidꝭ
/
where
he
buryed
it
honorably
.
¶
De
sancto
Iusto
Archiepo
et
confessore
.
AFter
kynge
Ethelbert
&
his
people
were
conuerted
to
the
fayth
by
seynt
Augustyne
he
sent
worde
therof
to
Rome
to
seynt
Gregorie
/
&
that
there
was
moche
corne
&
fewe
werkemen
wherfore
seynt
Gregorie
alway
diligent
for
Englande
sent
seynt
Iuste
/
and
thre
other
holy
Faders
Mellite
/
Paulyne
/
and
Rufyne
/
into
Englande
to
assiste
seynt
Austyn
in
ghostly
werkes
and
instructyng
of
the
people
and
seynt
Austyne
made
hym
bysshop
of
Rochester
/
After
he
was
dryuen
out
of
his
see
by
Edbald
that
was
kyng
Ethelbertes
sone
and
by
the
thre
sones
of
Sabert
kynge
of
est
saxons
whiche
were
Apostatase
as
in
the
lyf
of
seynt
Mellyte
apperyth
/
wherfore
he
wente
into
Fraunce
/
and
when
Edbald
was
conuertyd
by
seint
Laurence
he
came
agayne
/
and
aftre
seynt
Melyte
was
deed
seynt
Iustus
was
made
Archebysshop
of
Caunterburye
/
he
endeuoured
hymselfe
all
that
he
coulde
to
magnyfie
our
lorde
amonge
the
poeple
by
fayre
speche
by
thretenynges
by
promes
of
euerlastyng
Ioye
by
fere
of
payne
in
all
Charite
/
and
he
conuertyd
moche
people
to
the
fayth
and
was
a
man
of
great
merytes
as
apperyth
by
letters
that
〈◊〉
Bonyface
wrote
vnto
hym
wherin
he
conforted
hym
to
preche
by
the
wordes
that
oure
lorde
sayd
to
the
prechours
I
shall
be
with
you
vnto
the
ende
of
the
worlde
and
he
sent
hym
a
palle
/
and
gaue
hym
auctorite
to
make
other
bysshoppes
where
nede
was
/
he
went
out
of
this
wrold
the
fourth
Idus
of
Nouembre
/
and
was
buryed
at
Caunterbury
/
and
when
he
shuld
be
translated
/
as
soone
as
his
tumbe
was
opened
ther
was
a
goodly
swete
sauour
and
as
for
other
myracles
it
is
nat
moche
matery
all
where
the
good
lyfe
suffycyently
apperyth
.
¶
De
sancta
Iuthwara
virgine
&
martyre
.
SEynt
Iuthwara
virgyne
fro
her
youth
serued
out
lorde
in
good
werkes
perseuerauntlye
/
and
was
veray
dylygent
to
serue
pore
pylgrymes
that
came
to
her
fathers
house
/
her
moder
in
lawe
sought
oftymes
occasions
agaynst
her
and
with
watchynges
/
fastyngis
/
and
longe
prayers
she
waxed
pale
coloured
and
after
her
fathers
dethe
her
moder
in
lawe
vnder
coloure
of
medysyne
aduysed
her
to
ley
new
these
to
her
tetes
to
helpe
the
sykenes
of
the
brest
/
and
so
she
dyd
mystrustynge
no
thynge
/
And
afterwarde
/
her
moder
in
lawe
tolde
her
broder
called
Banam
that
she
was
with
childe
&
bad
hym
loke
on
her
brestis
&
he
shuld
fynde
mylke
in
them
&
therupon
afore
moche
people
in
great
hast
he
demaunded
of
her
who
had
goten
her
with
childe
/
&
she
therwith
astonyed
denyed
&
sayd
she
was
nat
with
childe
/
&
then
her
broder
as
he
was
taught
opened
her
brestis
/
&
when
he
sawe
mylke
aboute
theym
in
a
furyous
wodnes
with
his
swerde
he
strake
of
her
hedde
/
&
she
toke
vp
her
hedde
afore
all
the
people
/
&
bare
it
to
the
churche
&
there
as
her
hedde
was
stryken
of
sprange
a
fayre
welle
&
atre
by
myracle
grewe
vpon
the
same
welle
whiche
many
yeres
after
with
great
wynde
was
blowe
downe
vpon
the
next
house
so
that
the
bowes
stopped
the
commyng
in
/
wherfore
the
owner
of
the
house
wolde
haue
cut
away
the
bowes
and
anone
the
tree
Rose
vpright
agayne
and
toke
a
yonge
man
with
it
that
was
aboute
to
haue
lopped
it
so
that
he
was
fayne
to
crye
for
helpe
/
whiche
all
the
people
referryd
to
the
merytes
of
seynt
Iuthwara
/
At
her
sepulchre
a
knyght
that
was
lame
and
went
with
staues
recouered
his
helthe
.
¶
De
sancto
Kebio
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Kebius
was
borne
of
noble
blod
in
Cornewale
and
after
he
had
studyed
.xx.
yere
in
his
countree
he
went
to
Hillarie
bysshop
of
Pictanens
and
was
with
hym
l.
yeres
where
he
gaue
blynde
men
theyr
syght
clensyd
Lepours
/
helyd
men
that
had
the
palsey
that
were
dombe
or
that
were
obsessyd
with
deuylles
/
and
there
Hillarie
made
hym
bysshop
/
after
by
monycion
of
an
aungell
he
retourned
agayne
into
his
countre
/
&
therwith
his
company
he
lodgyd
in
the
kynges
medowe
&
as
the
kynge
was
commynge
to
haue
dryuen
theym
away
his
hors
fell
sodenly
deed
vnder
hym
&
he
with
al
his
company
were
stryken
blynde
and
by
prayer
of
seynt
Kebius
they
were
all
helyd
agayne
/
and
then
the
kynge
gaue
hym
two
churches
/
fro
thens
he
went
to
seynt
Dauidꝭ
and
so
into
Irlande
where
the
seruauntes
of
a
Rycheman
toke
his
calfe
&
bonde
it
to
a
tre
and
wolde
nat
delyuer
it
/
but
after
by
prayer
of
seynt
Kebius
bothe
the
calfe
&
the
tre
pulled
vp
by
the
rotes
came
fro
the
ryche
man
to
the
dame
whiche
seynt
Kebius
had
ordeyned
for
an
olde
man
that
was
his
kynnesman
that
could
ete
none
other
mete
but
mylke
/
after
the
ryche
man
wolde
nat
suffer
hym
to
abyde
within
his
lande
/
but
remoued
hym
diuerse
tymes
&
was
very
greouse
vnto
hym
/
and
euer
an
aungel
she
wyd
hym
what
he
shuld
do
/
and
in
a
vessell
that
had
no
lether
he
went
ouer
the
see
into
an
Ile
called
Monie
where
he
sent
one
of
his
disciples
to
a
smyth
for
fyre
&
he
wolde
none
gyue
hym
without
he
wolde
bere
it
in
his
bosome
/
&
so
he
dyd
without
hurte
/
&
on
a
tyme
as
the
kynge
was
on
huntynge
a
gote
for
socour
fledde
to
seynt
Kebius
/
and
the
kynge
folowed
&
bad
hym
let
her
goo
or
ellys
he
sayd
he
wolde
put
hym
out
of
that
place
/
then
he
answeryd
that
it
was
nat
in
his
power
to
put
hym
out
of
that
place
/
but
in
the
power
of
god
but
he
sayd
if
the
kynge
wolde
gyue
to
god
and
to
hym
asmoche
grounde
as
the
gote
wolde
go
aboute
afore
his
hounde
&
come
to
hym
agayne
/
he
wolde
let
her
go
wherto
the
kynge
assented
and
she
went
aboute
the
Kynges
Castell
and
came
agayne
to
the
man
of
god
/
wherupon
the
kynge
though
he
somwhat
resysted
at
length
gaue
hym
the
Castell
accordynge
to
his
promesse
/
and
the
.vi.
Idus
of
Nouembre
full
of
good
werkes
he
went
to
our
lorde
.
¶
De
sancta
Keyna
virgine
.
SEynt
Keyne
virgyne
was
doughter
to
the
kynge
of
Breghenoke
in
the
West
parte
of
great
Brytayne
and
nygh
of
kyn
to
seynt
Dauid
/
and
awnte
to
seynt
Cadoke
/
when
her
moder
was
with
childe
with
her
she
sawe
in
vision
her
bosome
full
of
myrre
and
balme
/
and
her
tetes
shynynge
of
a
heuenly
lyght
and
she
thought
that
in
stede
of
a
childe
she
was
delyuered
of
a
fayre
wyght
/
and
when
she
was
first
borne
her
face
was
somtyme
whyte
lyke
snowe
/
somtyme
bryght
shynynge
lyke
the
sonne
at
her
yeres
of
maryage
she
forsoke
all
mariages
aduowynge
to
kepe
virginite
/
&
lyued
in
a
desert
beyonde
seuerne
/
where
by
her
prayers
serpentis
that
byfore
that
tyme
had
made
the
countre
Inhabitable
tourned
into
stones
seint
Keyne
made
many
oratours
&
after
she
went
to
seynt
Myhellis
mount
and
there
she
met
with
seynt
Cadoke
/
&
by
monicion
of
an
Aungell
she
went
into
her
countre
agayne
and
dwellyd
at
the
fote
of
a
Hylle
/
where
by
her
prayers
sprange
a
fayre
welle
wherby
many
haue
ben
helyd
/
she
saw
in
her
slepe
a
beame
of
fyre
descende
there
wher
as
she
lay
on
a
bare
pauiment
with
grene
bowes
vnder
her
&
two
aungelles
appered
vnto
her
&
one
of
them
Reuerently
dyd
of
a
heer
that
she
had
vsed
to
weer
&
appareylled
her
with
goodly
apparell
/
&
bad
her
be
redye
to
go
with
them
into
the
kyngdome
of
her
fader
/
&
when
she
gladly
wold
haue
folowed
theym
she
awoke
felyng
her
selfe
seke
of
the
Axes
/
and
then
she
called
seynt
Cadoke
to
her
and
tolde
hym
she
wolde
be
buryed
in
that
same
place
/
whiche
she
sayd
she
wolde
in
spiryte
ofte
vysyte
/
before
her
deth
she
sawe
a
great
company
of
Aungelles
redy
to
take
her
soule
with
great
Ioy
without
feere
or
parell
/
and
when
she
had
tolde
theym
that
stode
aboute
her
therof
she
departed
the
.viii.
Idus
of
Octobre
/
and
anone
her
face
was
of
a
coloure
lyke
red
roses
and
a
swete
sauour
was
aboute
her
that
all
that
were
there
thought
it
lyke
a
Ioye
of
Paradyse
/
and
seynt
Cadoke
buryed
her
in
her
oratorye
where
she
had
lyued
a
harde
and
a
blessyd
lyfe
many
yeres
.
¶
De
sancto
Kynedo
confessore
.
THe
fader
and
moder
of
seynt
Kynede
were
of
lytell
Brytayne
/
but
seint
Kyned
was
borne
in
great
Brytayne
in
the
tyme
when
kynge
Arthur
reygned
and
his
lyfe
is
so
full
of
the
meruaylous
grete
power
and
goodnes
of
almyghty
god
that
I
leue
to
wryte
of
it
in
this
lytell
kalendre
/
&
refer
it
to
them
that
lyste
to
rede
the
hole
Legend
how
he
was
immediatly
after
his
byrthe
caste
into
the
water
preserued
in
a
lytell
crybbe
in
the
great
wawes
of
the
see
/
and
was
taken
vp
out
of
the
see
by
birdes
and
in
his
youth
dyd
souke
on
a
belle
that
had
a
lytell
thynge
lyke
to
a
tete
/
which
sauoured
to
hym
of
dyuers
maners
as
Manna
dyd
to
the
children
of
Israell
:
and
howe
he
had
nat
the
fylth
that
other
children
naturally
haue
/
&
how
a
man
&
his
wyfe
founde
hym
&
brought
hym
to
their
house
/
wherfore
the
byrdes
destroyed
their
house
&
their
bestis
so
that
they
were
fayne
to
bere
hym
agayn
/
how
he
was
aft
fed
with
a
hynde
that
fylled
the
sayd
bely
with
her
mylke
/
&
how
an
aungell
apperyd
ofte
to
hym
and
tolde
hym
what
mete
he
shuld
vse
and
that
the
harder
that
it
was
the
better
it
was
for
hym
/
And
howe
he
went
fro
that
place
by
monycion
of
an
Aungell
after
he
had
kept
an
Heremytes
lyfe
there
.xviii.
yeres
/
and
how
his
seruaunt
forsware
hym self
vpon
the
bell
wherupon
he
went
madde
&
went
vpon
the
water
to
seynt
Dauides
then
called
Meniuia
where
he
lyued
lyke
a
beest
.vii.
yere
with
herbes
and
rotes
his
heere
couerynge
hym
lyke
a
beest
whiche
after
by
prayers
of
seynt
Kyned
was
made
hole
agayne
and
many
other
thynges
appere
in
the
Legende
/
whiche
be
here
omytted
he
went
to
our
lorde
in
the
kalend
of
August
.
¶
De
sancto
Kenelmo
Rege
&
martire
.
IN
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
Eyght
hondred
&
xix
.
Kenulphus
kynge
of
Mershes
forsoke
the
worlde
&
left
his
sone
Kenelmus
a
yonge
childe
to
be
kyng
after
hym
&
when
his
suster
Quendreda
/
whiche
was
desyrous
to
Reygne
coulde
nat
by
any
meanes
poyson
hym
she
enduced
Aschebercus
that
had
the
rule
of
hym
by
great
rewardes
and
by
promes
that
he
shulde
be
felowe
with
her
in
the
rule
of
the
Realme
to
assent
to
kyll
hym
and
so
he
ledde
the
yonge
kynge
yet
beynge
of
.vii.
yeres
of
age
into
a
wodde
as
for
disporte
of
huntynge
/
and
as
the
childe
slept
his
ruler
made
a
pytte
to
burye
hym
in
:
&
when
the
childe
awoke
he
tolde
hym
he
shuld
nat
lye
there
but
in
a
place
ferther
of
/
&
that
he
shuld
se
that
it
was
trewe
that
he
sayd
he
strake
his
staffe
into
the
grounde
whiche
anone
grewe
/
and
after
sprange
therof
a
fayre
Asshe
that
is
called
seynt
Kenelmys
asshe
/
Then
the
cursid
man
had
hym
into
a
depe
valey
in
the
wodde
called
Clent
/
and
there
as
it
is
sayd
the
yonge
kyng
sayd
Tedeum
/
&
when
he
came
to
the
verse
.
Temartyrum
candidatus
&c.
The
cursyd
man
vnder
a
thorne
strake
of
his
hede
/
and
there
buryed
hym
and
oftymes
a
bryght
beame
was
seen
descende
vpon
the
place
where
he
lay
at
which
place
a
Cowe
vsyd
oftymes
to
be
/
&
coulde
nat
be
kept
away
frothens
/
and
when
she
came
home
she
gauerwyse
asmoche
mylke
/
as
any
of
the
other
/
after
his
deth
Quendreda
toke
the
rule
vpon
her
/
and
then
no
man
durst
speke
of
the
yonge
kyng
nor
seke
hym
for
fere
of
quendreda
tyll
a
byll
was
brought
by
a
doue
to
the
pope
Leo
as
he
was
at
masse
at
rome
of
this
effect
in
Englysshe
In
clent
in
Cowbach
vnder
a
thorne
lyeth
kyng
Kenelme
his
hedde
of
shorne
/
&
so
the
pope
sent
Legates
&
Cardynalles
to
wylfryde
bysshop
of
Caunterbury
&
other
bysshoppes
of
Englande
that
they
shuld
remoue
hym
&
so
he
was
taken
vp
and
there
as
he
lay
sprang
vp
of
fayre
welle
/
&
as
his
suster
loked
out
of
a
wyndowe
vpon
a
sawter
boke
to
haue
by
enchauntement
letted
his
buryenge
sodeynly
her
iyen
fell
vpon
the
boke
whiche
boke
is
yet
to
shewe
/
&
there
she
dyed
myserably
:
one
that
was
blynde
&
a nother
dombe
fro
theyr
Natyuyte
by
merytes
of
seynt
Kenelme
were
made
hole
/
and
he
lyeth
at
Wynchecome
.
¶
De
sancto
Kentegerno
Epo
et
confessore
.
THe
moder
of
seynt
Kentegerne
was
borne
in
the
north
parte
of
Brytayne
/
&
her
fader
beyng
a
paynym
she
by
herynge
of
Sermons
was
conuerted
how
be
it
she
was
nat
cristened
&
heryng
that
our
lady
beyng
clene
vgyne
had
a
child
by
a
folisshe
presumpcion
she
desyred
in
lykewyse
to
haue
a
childe
in
virginyte
wherupon
she
ma●e
dyligent
prayers
/
&
after
she
was
with
child
&
though
of
●routh
it
was
by
company
of
man
yet
she
toke
it
on
her
othe
●hat
she
knewe
nat
how
nor
when
/
&
her
fader
heryng
that
she
was
with
childe
accordynge
to
his
lawe
had
her
to
a
hyghe
hyll
/
&
there
threwe
her
downe
to
haue
so
torne
her
to
peces
&
she
lyftynge
her
herte
to
our
lorde
/
made
her
prayers
&
was
saued
without
hurte
/
&
then
her
fader
thynkyng
she
was
saued
by
wychecrafte
put
her
into
the
see
in
a
lytell
shyp
of
lether
without
ore
wherin
she
was
brought
to
lande
more
swyftly
then
a
sayle
coulde
haue
dryuen
her
and
in
a
place
called
Collenrose
she
was
delyuered
without
helpe
/
&
the
same
tyme
of
her
delyueraunce
seynt
Sarnan
harde
aungelles
synge
in
the
Eyre
/
wherfore
in
the
mornynge
he
went
thyder
and
founde
the
moder
with
the
childe
whome
he
brought
to
his
house
/
and
cristened
theym
both
and
there
the
childe
profyted
moche
in
lernynge
and
vertue
so
that
seynt
Sarnan
loued
hym
moste
of
all
his
disciples
wherfore
his
Felowes
enuyed
hym
in
somoch
that
they
kylled
a
byrde
that
seynt
sarnan
louyd
&
leyd
it
by
assent
to
Kentegern̄
/
&
he
makyng
a
Crosse
vpon
the
byrde
reysed
it
agayne
to
lyfe
/
he
reysed
also
seynt
Sarnans
Coke
fro
deth
to
lyfe
/
whiche
he
was
exorted
to
do
by
seynt
Sarnan
by
instygacion
of
his
enemyes
/
&
yet
alway
his
good
&
vertuous
lyfe
was
a
norysshynge
of
more
enuye
to
his
enemyes
/
wherfore
he
lefte
that
place
and
went
to
a
place
called
Glascu
/
and
in
the
way
he
went
thurgh
the
water
of
Mallena
that
deuyded
to
hym
lyke
as
dyd
the
redde
see
to
the
children
of
Israel
.
at
Glascu
he
lyued
in
great
abstynence
/
and
was
there
made
bysshop
/
and
he
vsed
to
weer
the
heere
/
and
laye
in
a
holowe
stone
for
his
bedde
/
with
some
asshes
caste
vnder
hym
/
and
the
temptacyon
of
his
flesshe
by
grace
was
clerely
taken
fro
hym
/
and
he
gaue
all
his
goodes
to
pore
men
/
&
absteyned
fro
flesshe
and
wyne
and
fro
all
that
myght
distempre
hym
/
alway
he
had
a
Manuell
in
his
hande
redy
to
do
his
offyce
when
nede
requyred
/
he
caused
wylde
hartes
to
go
to
ploughe
/
and
a
wolfe
that
kylled
one
of
the
hartis
he
caused
to
supplye
his
place
and
to
bere
the
same
yocke
that
he
dyd
/
he
went
on
fote
to
preche
and
euery
Lent
he
went
to
some
deserte
place
and
lyued
there
with
herbes
and
rotes
/
and
somtyme
by
especyall
grace
he
fasted
al
the
Lent
/
he
vsed
oftymes
to
stande
in
colde
water
tyll
he
had
sayd
the
hole
Psaulter
/
In
his
Iugementes
he
alwayes
consydered
the
mater
and
nat
the
persone
/
he
made
an
Abbey
wherin
were
.ix.
C.
and
.lxv.
monkis
whiche
he
deuyded
in
thre
ꝑtes
so
that
alway
some
were
in
the
Quere
/
when
he
was
at
dyuyne
seruyce
somtyme
a
whyte
doue
/
somtyme
a
bryght
beame
where
seen
descende
vpon
hym
/
on
sher
thursday
he
wold
wasshe
the
fete
of
pore
men
and
lepoures
and
kysse
theym
/
he
conuerted
moche
people
to
the
fayth
in
his
Dioc
/
he
destroyed
Idolles
&
made
churches
and
ꝑysshes
/
he
was
seven
tymes
at
Rome
&
shewyd
to
seynt
Gregory
all
his
lyfe
and
he
confermed
his
Eleccion
supplyinge
therwith
that
that
lackyd
in
his
consecracion
/
&
when
he
was
.
C.
and
.lxxxv.
yeres
olde
he
dyed
without
payne
in
the
Idus
of
Ianuarii
syttyng
in
hote
water
as
he
was
taught
by
an
Aungell
/
and
dyuers
of
his
bretherne
went
in
to
the
same
water
as
he
appoynted
theym
to
doo
/
and
they
dyed
furth
with
without
payne
and
went
with
hym
into
the
kyngdome
of
Heuyn
/
he
lyeth
at
Glascu
where
our
Lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
.
¶
De
sancto
Kyliano
cūsociis
suis
martiribus
.
SEynt
kylyan
was
borne
of
noble
blode
in
scotlande
/
And
as
he
studyed
in
his
youthe
for
cunnynge
he
studyed
also
for
vertue
/
and
at
laste
he
enteryd
into
relygyon
/
where
he
lyuyd
in
great
obedyence
with
watchyngys
and
instaunte
prayers
/
The
bretherne
seynge
his
perseueraunce
in
vertue
electyd
hym
into
the
rule
of
the
Mouastery
/
&
though
he
knewe
well
it
wolde
somwhat
mynysshe
his
deuocyon
/
yet
for
lowe
of
Charyte
&
for
the
profet
of
other
he
toke
it
vppon
hym
/
and
after
his
fame
sprange
farre
wherfore
he
ferynge
the
fauoure
of
the
people
myght
be
a
let
vnto
hym
deuysyd
howe
he
myght
leue
his
owne
cuntrey
&
lyue
in
some
other
cuntrey
where
he
myght
haue
lytyll
knowlege
&
be
reputyd
of
a
small
blod
wherupon
he
toke
certeyne
of
his
bretherne
with
hym
that
had
lyke
feruoure
as
he
had
/
and
came
into
great
brytayne
fro
thens
to
Fraunce
and
so
to
almayne
that
is
callydest
Fraunce
to
a
towne
callyd
wirtzburghe
/
And
after
he
went
to
Rome
/
and
there
he
had
auctoryte
to
preche
and
was
made
Busshope
/
after
he
retournyd
to
wyrtzburgh
where
he
connertyd
the
duke
/
and
all
the
countrey
to
the
feythe
/
And
when
he
had
lernyd
that
the
Duke
had
maryed
his
broders
wyfe
yet
neuerthelesse
for
a
tyme
he
forbere
/
and
wolde
not
speke
to
the
duke
therof
leste
it
shuld
haue
made
trouble
at
his
newe
conuersyon
but
when
he
sawe
he
was
strengthnyd
in
the
feythe
he
admonysshed
hym
therof
Streyghtlye
wherfore
the
quene
when
the
Kynge
was
goon
to
batell
martyryd
seynt
Kylyan
&
all
his
companye
and
buryed
them
with
all
theyr
Bokys
in
a
pryuy
place
/
&
made
a
stable
ouer
theym
that
they
shulde
neuer
be
founde
/
And
when
the
kynge
came
home
she
tolde
hym
that
they
were
goon
on
pylgrymage
/
the
cursyd
men
that
put
them
to
deth
fell
madde
and
cryed
Kylyan
kyllyan
why
doest
thou
so
burne
vs
/
And
not
longe
after
the
quene
was
takyn
with
a
Deuyll
/
&
she
sayde
she
was
worthy
to
haue
tourmentys
for
she
tourmentyd
the
ryght
wyse
men
and
furthwyth
she
dyed
/
a
Preest
herde
Chylderne
saye
seynt
Kylyan
doth
many
signes
/
he
muste
be
takyn
vp
for
he
lyeth
not
in
a
conuenyent
place
/
And
when
he
toke
no
hede
to
theyr
sayinge
the
nexte
nyghte
he
was
stryken
blynde
/
and
he
harde
a
voyce
saye
to
hym
without
thou
beleue
thou
shalt
not
see
/
And
then
he
sought
for
them
/
and
when
he
came
to
the
place
where
they
were
he
sent
for
the
Archebusshope
of
Magunce
and
tolde
hym
where
they
lay
/
And
then
he
had
his
syght
ageyne
.
¶
De
sanctis
Keneburga
Regina
&
abbatissa
&
desctis
Kineswida
&
Tibba
virginibus
.
SEynt
kyneburgh
&
kyneswyda
were
doughters
to
kynge
penda
a
cruell
pagan
that
was
Kynge
of
Marshes
/
And
neuerthelesse
his
Doughters
were
crystenyd
/
Kyneburgh
was
maryed
and
notwithstondynge
by
assent
of
her
Husbonde
she
enteryd
into
relygyon
/
&
so
leuynge
carnall
Chylderne
she
had
in
shorte
tyme
many
spyrytuell
Chylderne
/
she
made
a
Monasterye
callyd
dormuncastre
not
far
fro
the
Ryuer
callyd
venwhere
she
was
made
abbesse
/
And
with
what
dylygens
she
norysshed
the
sowlys
to
her
commyttyd
/
And
how
wakerye
she
was
to
kepe
the
commaundementis
of
our
lord
&
to
kepe
her
holy
porpose
in
Relygion
/
no
tonge
can
tell
seynt
Kyneswyda
lyuyd
in
virgynyte
/
And
after
the
Deth
of
seynt
Kyneburgh
off
a
Kynge
of
cest
saxons
wolde
haue
had
kyneswyda
to
his
wyfe
whiche
he
attemptyd
not
only
with
feyre
Speche
/
but
also
with
thretes
/
And
bycause
she
wolde
not
assent
all
her
Frendys
were
agaynste
her
wherfore
she
prayed
dylygentlye
to
oure
Ladye
for
helpe
/
and
our
Ladye
apperyd
to
her
&
comfortyd
her
/
and
sayd
ther
was
nothynge
better
for
her
than
to
kepe
her
Immaculate
as
she
was
borne
/
&
nothynge
more
noble
than
to
take
her
sone
to
be
her
spouse
/
&
more
over
she
bade
her
not
to
fere
for
she
sayde
she
wolde
praye
for
her
/
and
therupon
seynt
Kyneswyda
takynge
boldenes
sent
worde
to
the
Kynge
that
in
no
wyse
she
wolde
assent
/
And
there
upon
the
Kynge
consyderynge
her
blessyd
lyfe
and
seynge
that
he
&
all
his
Rychesse
were
despysyd
of
a
yonge
mayde
lefte
the
worlde
&
went
to
Rome
&
there
he
enteryd
into
Relygyon
/
Seynt
Tybba
that
was
kynneswoman
to
seynt
Kyneburgh
/
and
kyneswyda
lyued
many
yerys
a
blessyd
solytary
lyfe
/
And
after
her
deth
she
apperyd
to
a
holy
man
on
seynt
Lucyes
daye
and
tolde
hym
that
on
that
daye
she
yeldyd
her
sowle
to
heuyn
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
thousande
and
fyue
the
relyhys
of
the
fayde
blessyd
women
Kyneburghe
/
Kyneswyda
/
and
Tybba
were
translatyd
to
Peterburgh
/
and
there
theyr
feest
is
Halowyd
the
Daye
before
the
Nonas
of
Marche
.
¶
De
sancto
Lamfranco
archiep̄o.
SEynt
lamfranke
was
borne
in
the
Cytie
of
papeder
/
and
in
his
youth
he
forsoke
his
faders
successyon
gyuynge
hym
to
studye
/
And
when
he
had
atteynyd
hygh
seculer
lernynge
he
came
into
Normandye
/
and
there
he
was
takyn
with
theuys
and
was
cobbyd
of
all
that
he
had
/
wherupon
he
went
to
the
abbey
of
Beccense
in
Normandye
as
to
the
porest
house
he
could
here
of
/
and
there
he
founde
the
Abbot
bakynge
of
Brede
/
and
his
handys
were
myrye
to
stoppe
the
Ouen
/
and
there
he
enteryd
into
Relygyon
/
and
lyuyd
in
profounde
humylyte
/
&
obedyence
/
On
a
tyme
as
he
redde
the
lecture
the
presydent
founde
a
defaute
at
his
redynge
&
bade
hym
amende
it
/
and
he
redde
as
he
was
commaundyd
/
and
yet
he
hadde
redde
better
before
/
but
that
he
dyd
to
shewe
hym selfe
obedyent
/
For
the
euyll
maners
of
the
Bretherne
he
thought
to
leue
the
Abbey
and
lyue
in
Desert
and
vsyd
vnder
coloure
of
a
medesyn
to
ere
Erbys
to
proue
how
he
myght
endure
with
them
/
And
on
a
nyght
a
kynnesman
of
the
Abbottys
lately
decessyd
apperyd
vnto
hym
/
and
shewyd
hym
the
purpose
of
Lanfranke
/
and
tolde
the
Abbot
it
was
not
good
for
hym
that
he
shulde
goo
from
hym
/
And
when
the
Abbot
with
great
wepyngys
shewyd
this
to
Lamfranke
he
sawe
his
counceyll
was
dyscoueryd
/
wherfore
he
thought
it
was
the
wyll
of
god
that
he
shuld
tary
/
&
so
he
dyd
&
was
made
pryor
there
/
&
after
Abbot
of
Cadonyence
/
This
blessyd
man
came
into
Englonde
with
wyllyam
conqueroure
/
and
was
made
Archebusshoppe
of
Caunterbury
&
dyd
many
notable
thyngys
in
thys
Realme
/
He
gaue
great
Possessyons
to
the
Chyrche
of
Rochester
/
and
restoryd
seynt
Albons
to
the
fyrste
estate
/
As
he
satte
by
the
Kynge
at
a
solempne
feest
a
Rayler
seynge
the
kynge
syt
in
gloryouse
apparell
seyd
lo
I
se
god
/
lo
I
se
god
/
And
seynt
Lamfranke
remembrynge
the
hystorye
of
Herode
aduertysyd
the
kynge
that
he
shuld
not
suffer
such
wordys
spokyn
to
hym
that
belongyd
only
to
god
but
that
he
shuld
commaunde
hym
that
speke
them
to
be
betyn
/
so
that
he
shulde
neuer
after
dare
speke
such
wordys
/
and
so
it
was
don
/
He
was
a
man
of
great
lyberalyte
/
and
as
it
is
sayde
gaue
yerely
in
aknes
fyue
hundred
poūdys
/
And
he
was
a
man
of
a
quycke
spyryt
and
recoueryd
many
thynges
that
were
wrongfully
holden
fro
his
Chyrche
/
And
oftyn
tymes
seynt
dunstan
apperyd
vnto
hym
&
confortyd
hym
she
wynge
to
hym
the
crafty
purpose
of
his
enemyes
/
He
was
dyuerse
tymes
at
Rome
where
he
was
had
in
great
fauoure
of
the
Pope
/
when
it
happenyd
hym
at
any
tyme
to
be
at
beccense
he
wolde
not
vse
hym selfe
but
as
he
had
ben
pryour
/
he
was
profounde
in
humylyte
large
in
almes
/
a
great
helper
of
pore
men
a
defender
of
pupyllys
and
a
comforter
of
wydowys
/
And
with
sobernes
he
refourmyd
the
Monkys
of
Caunterbury
/
that
had
vysd
before
hys
tyme
Huntynge
/
Haukynge
/
and
such
other
wanton
disportys
/
and
in
the
.xix.
yere
after
he
had
ben
busshope
the
.v.
kalendas
of
Iune
he
Dyed
and
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
in
a
Chyrche
which
he
in
his
lyfe
buyldyd
.
¶
De
sancto
laurencio
archiepiscopo
.
SEynt
Laurence
was
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
next
after
seynt
Augustyne
/
And
after
seynt
Ethelbertys
deth
/
the
Kynge
Ebbalde
his
sone
fell
to
Idolatry
/
And
also
toke
his
faders
wyfe
/
&
in
lykewyse
after
sabertus
Kynge
of
eest
saxons
was
deed
/
his
thre
sonnes
fell
to
Idolatry
which
was
great
trouble
to
the
feyth
so
that
mellyte
Busshope
of
London
/
and
Iustus
Busshope
of
Rochestre
were
put
oute
of
theyr
Busshoprykes
/
which
by
assent
of
seynt
Laurence
went
into
Fraunce
/
&
seynt
Laurence
thought
to
haue
folowyd
but
that
seynt
Peter
the
same
nyghte
that
he
wolde
haue
departyd
as
he
laye
in
the
Chyrche
of
seynt
Petyr
and
Paule
apperyd
vnto
hym
and
bette
hym
with
roddys
bycause
he
wolde
forsake
the
flocke
of
god
which
he
had
takyn
the
charge
of
&
admonescyd
hym
that
for
the
people
of
our
Lorde
he
shulde
tary
vnto
the
Deth
lyke
as
he
dyd
/
And
so
he
went
to
the
Kynge
Edbalde
and
shewyd
hym
how
he
was
betyn
of
whom
&
for
what
cause
/
And
so
the
Kynge
receyuyd
the
feythe
/
And
also
lefte
his
aduoultrye
/
And
after
seynt
Laurence
conuertyd
moch
people
in
Scotlande
to
the
Feythe
/
and
in
the
way
thyther
warde
he
went
ouer
the
see
drye
fote
/
And
a
holy
Busshope
of
Irlande
came
thyder
to
hym
/
&
herynge
his
Oppynyon
of
the
kepynge
of
Eester
confermyd
hym
therto
/
and
taught
his
people
to
folowe
the
same
/
And
after
he
retournyd
into
Englonde
and
reysyd
a
Chylde
where
he
was
lodged
fro
deth
to
lyfe
/
And
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
god
.vi.
hundred
and
.xix.
the
thyrde
nonas
of
Februarye
he
lefte
this
worlde
/
&
is
buryed
by
seynt
Augustyne
.
¶
De
sancto
Lethardo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
letharde
was
assygnyd
to
come
with
the
Quene
Berta
/
when
she
shuld
be
maryed
to
kynge
Ethelberte
yet
beynge
a
Paynym
to
be
her
leder
/
doeter
/
and
preseruator
in
Uertue
and
to
defende
her
fro
the
Idolatrye
then
vsyd
in
Englonde
/
where
he
suffred
great
opprobryes
and
laughyngys
to
skorne
in
doynge
the
seruyce
of
god
which
he
vsyd
to
doo
in
an
olde
Chyrche
of
seynt
martyn
nygh
to
Caunterbury
in
which
Chyrche
the
quene
and
her
seruauntys
that
were
crystenyd
vsyd
to
here
dyuyne
seruyce
/
At
the
toumbe
of
seynt
Letharde
a
blynde
mayde
receyuyd
her
syght
/
as
a
man
that
with
the
palsey
was
lame
fro
the
myddle
downe
warde
was
prayinge
for
helthe
at
his
tumbe
/
he
apperyd
&
sayd
the
people
in
theyr
sykenesse
pray
with
grete
deuocyon
for
helth
/
but
when
they
be
hoole
they
forgette
the
benefaytys
of
god
/
And
anon
be
vnkynde
and
turne
ageyn
to
synne
/
And
when
the
sykeman
faythfully
promysyd
to
amende
/
seynt
Letharde
sayd
of
the
oon
legge
thou
shalt
be
hoole
that
thou
mayste
knowe
the
goodnes
of
god
/
&
the
other
shal
be
as
it
was
that
thou
waxe
not
vnkynde
/
and
so
it
was
doon
/
This
blessyd
man
was
the
precoursoure
of
seynt
Augustyne
/
and
made
the
waye
redye
for
hym
to
the
bryngynge
in
of
the
feythe
wherfore
he
is
right
moch
to
be
had
in
honoure
by
Englysshemen
.
¶
De
sancto
Macuto
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
machute
was
borne
in
great
Brytayne
on
Eester
euyn
in
a
noble
Monastery
in
the
vale
of
nantcarwan
where
his
moder
came
to
kepe
vygyllys
/
And
he
was
baptyzyd
by
seynt
Brendan
that
was
Abbot
of
the
sayd
monasterye
&
.xxxiii.
men
Chyldren
were
borne
the
same
nyght
of
women
that
came
to
bere
his
moder
company
/
and
fro
his
youth
he
was
vertuous
/
&
when
his
felowys
were
quakynge
for
colde
he
swette
&
leyde
a
wey
his
Clothys
which
was
of
a
brennynge
Charyte
that
was
in
hym
/
On
a
tyme
the
see
flowyd
there
as
he
laye
&
slepte
and
the
grounde
where
he
laye
rose
lyke
an
Ile
and
so
he
was
sauyd
Seynt
Brendan
seynge
that
the
holy
gost
was
with
hym
aduysyd
hym
to
be
preest
/
and
he
sayde
he
was
not
worthy
to
take
that
offyce
neuerthelesse
after
he
assentyd
/
And
when
he
was
made
preest
a
whyte
Doue
was
seen
descende
vppon
his
shoulder
/
He
saylyd
moche
with
seynt
brendane
in
his
Iourneys
/
and
in
his
company
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
he
droue
away
a
serpent
that
hadde
kyllyd
.iii.
Chylderne
/
In
lytell
Brytayne
he
was
made
Busshope
of
alethys
/
And
when
he
shulde
be
consecrate
at
turone
a
whyte
doue
was
seen
descende
vppon
his
necke
as
he
helde
downe
his
hedde
to
bencdyccyon
/
he
vsyd
gret
watchynges
/
fastynges
&
prayers
/
And
when
he
rode
by
the
waye
eyther
he
talkyd
of
god
or
prayde
/
there
was
no
tyme
but
he
Prophytyd
to
other
or
to
hymselfe
/
He
vsyd
euer
a
sharpe
Heer
vppon
hym
/
and
was
a
grete
precher
to
the
people
/
he
went
to
Rome
with
seuyn
dyscyples
/
and
chylderne
that
he
founde
there
to
be
solde
he
bought
them
&
cristenyd
them
/
In
the
waye
homewarde
as
he
was
in
great
perell
of
the
see
seynt
peter
apperyd
to
hym
&
sauyd
hym
&
all
his
company
when
he
was
.
Cxxxiii
.
yere
olde
he
dyed
the
.xvii.
kalendas
of
december
/
&
was
honorably
buryed
at
perdma
/
where
all
his
Relykys
lye
excepte
his
hed
and
his
ryght
hand
which
lye
at
alethys
/
He
helyd
oon
that
was
deffe
/
dome
/
and
lame
/
He
reysyd
a
chylde
that
was
drownyd
/
And
by
his
prayers
blynde
woman
recoueryd
her
syght
/
For
the
wretchydnes
of
the
people
he
cursyd
them
/
and
went
into
Andygauya
&
was
there
.vii.
yerys
durynge
whych
tyme
was
great
drynes
and
derth
in
lytell
Brytayne
/
And
when
he
was
desyred
to
come
agayne
to
blesse
the
people
as
soone
as
he
came
the
rayne
fell
and
great
plenty
folowed
in
all
the
countre
.
¶
De
sancto
Maglorio
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Maglorye
bysshop
was
borne
in
great
brytayne
/
he
was
Felowe
to
seynt
Sampson
&
was
his
successoure
/
by
an
Aungell
he
was
admonysshed
to
leue
his
bysshopryke
and
to
lyue
a
solytary
lyfe
and
so
he
dyd
/
he
helyd
an
Erle
that
was
lepre
/
wherfore
he
gaue
hym
the
one
halfe
of
a
Certeyne
grounde
to
the
whiche
grounde
incontynent
came
many
byrdes
with
great
plente
of
fysshes
/
&
therfore
the
Erle
by
counsell
of
his
wyfe
toke
that
grounde
from
hym
and
gaue
hym
the
other
half
/
and
then
the
byrdes
and
fysshes
came
thyder
and
left
the
other
.
And
then
the
Erle
perceyuyng
that
he
had
done
amysse
gaue
to
seynt
Maglorye
the
hole
grounde
/
and
then
the
byrdis
and
fysshes
came
indifferently
to
bothe
ꝑtes
/
He
was
a
clene
virgyne
and
lyued
with
barley
brede
and
lekes
/
Euery
wednysday
and
fryday
he
fasted
and
punysshe
his
body
with
the
heer
/
he
neuer
dranke
wyne
ne
syder
/
somtyme
when
the
bretherne
were
aslepe
he
wolde
go
pryuely
to
the
seesyde
/
&
there
wake
in
prayers
/
On
eester
euyn
as
he
watched
in
the
Churche
an
Anugel
appered
to
hym
and
shewed
hym
that
his
tyme
drewe
nere
to
go
out
of
this
worlde
/
and
heferynge
it
had
ben
an
Illusion
made
instaunte
prayer
/
and
when
the
Aungell
had
thryse
affermed
the
same
he
receyued
of
the
Aungell
the
blessyd
Sacramente
/
and
after
that
tyme
if
there
were
nat
the
greatter
lettynge
he
vsyd
euer
to
saye
this
verse
.
Unam
pecii
a
dno
hanc
requiram
vt
inhabitem
in
domo
dni
&c.
And
he
went
to
our
lorde
/
the
.ix.
kalendr
of
Nouembre
De
sancto
Malichia
.
¶
De
sancto
Malichia
Episcopo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Malachie
was
borne
in
Irlande
amonge
barbarous
people
/
and
as
a
fysshe
is
in
the
salt
see
and
is
nat
salt
/
so
was
seynt
Malachie
good
amonge
euyll
people
/
he
went
to
a
man
that
lyued
a
solytary
lyfe
seruynge
our
lorde
in
fastyngis
and
prayers
and
of
hym
he
toke
his
example
of
lyuynge
/
and
in
shorte
tyme
had
many
disciples
/
and
there
he
toke
the
ordre
of
presthode
.
The
bysshop
commytted
to
him
his
auctoryte
to
preche
vnto
the
rude
people
whiche
he
dyd
with
great
fauoure
/
and
what
so
euer
he
sawe
out
of
good
ordre
he
spared
nat
to
reproue
theym
of
it
He
had
great
loue
and
zele
to
the
seruyce
of
god
/
&
honoure
to
the
Sacramentes
of
the
Chuche
and
went
to
a
holy
bysshop
called
Malcus
that
was
borne
in
Irlande
&
brought
vp
in
Englande
and
that
had
ben
a
monke
at
Wynchester
/
to
lerne
at
hym
that
he
taught
nothynge
/
but
as
the
Churche
commaunded
/
after
he
was
made
bysshop
of
Cōnereth
in
Irlande
/
where
anone
he
perceyued
that
the
people
were
bestely
and
rude
/
Cristen
men
in
name
and
nat
in
dede
/
they
payed
no
tythes
they
lyued
out
of
laufull
matrymony
they
made
no
confessions
/
there
was
no
man
to
enioyne
penaūcene
to
aske
it
/
they
made
more
noyse
in
the
Churche
then
the
precher
or
they
that
sange
/
wherfore
to
refourme
thyse
people
he
put
hym selfe
in
Ieopardye
as
a
good
Sheperd
and
admonysshed
theym
of
theyr
defautes
openly
/
and
also
secretely
/
he
wepte
vpon
theym
tenderly
/
nowe
he
spake
sharpely
and
anone
more
easely
/
And
whenne
henothynge
preuayled
he
humbly
watched
in
prayer
for
them
to
our
lorde
when
they
wolde
nat
come
to
the
Churche
he
wolde
go
in
to
theym
lokynge
who
he
myght
wyn
to
our
lord
/
when
euyll
wordes
were
sayde
to
hym
he
spake
fayre
/
and
when
he
was
wronged
he
toke
pacyence
/
and
so
with
goodnesse
he
ouercame
euyll
.
Thus
were
the
people
reformed
/
Churches
were
buylded
the
lawes
of
the
Churche
receyued
the
Sacramentes
duely
mynystred
/
&
the
people
went
to
confessyons
and
toke
penaunce
after
the
deth
of
the
Archebysshop
Celsus
he
was
made
Archebysshop
of
Archemacan
/
and
yet
he
wolde
neuer
haue
seruaunt
ne
house
of
his
owne
he
went
in
maner
a
wayes
aboute
the
parysshes
prechynge
the
worde
of
god
and
leued
of
the
Gospell
/
Other
prelates
toke
Lordshyp
in
the
Clergye
/
and
he
made
hymselfe
seruaunte
to
all
men
/
After
he
gaue
vp
the
Archebysshopryche
and
went
to
his
parysshe
agayne
/
Thenne
he
wente
to
Rome
&
there
the
Pope
toke
a
Myter
fro
his
owne
hedde
/
and
set
it
vpon
his
hedde
/
and
also
gaue
hym
a
stole
and
a
phanon
/
Fro
thens
he
went
to
Clareuall
to
seynt
Bernarde
/
and
leuynge
with
hym
foure
of
his
disciples
/
he
went
in
to
Scotlande
where
our
Lorde
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
/
and
after
he
went
into
Irlande
and
there
he
helyd
a
monke
of
the
great
fallynge
sykenesse
.
Thenne
he
went
agayne
to
Scotlande
and
so
thorughe
Englande
to
Clareualle
to
seynt
Bernarde
/
And
there
he
dyed
the
.iiii.
Nonas
of
Nouembre
In
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
a
Thousande
a
hondred
and
.xlviii.
and
Seynt
Bernarde
wrote
his
lyfe
wherin
be
many
notable
thynges
.
¶
De
sancta
Margareta
Regina
Scocie
.
SEynt
Margaret
Quene
of
Scotlande
was
doughter
of
Edwarde
outlawe
sone
to
Edmonde
Irneside
/
And
she
by
prouysion
of
god
was
Maryed
to
Malcolyn̄
kynge
of
Scotlande
she
delyted
more
in
good
werkes
thenne
in
possessions
or
ryches
/
Ofttymes
she
called
her
children
afore
her
and
admonysshed
theym
to
loue
and
drede
our
lord
/
and
dayly
she
prayed
for
theym
that
they
myght
pleas
hym
/
she
enduced
the
kynge
to
do
Iustyce
with
mercye
and
to
gyue
alines
&
in
her
dayes
the
kynges
seruauntis
durst
nat
take
any
thynge
fro
pore
men
or
otherwyse
hurte
theym
/
She
reproued
the
people
of
Scotlande
in
that
they
begann
at
Lent
so
that
they
myght
faste
.xl.
dayes
besyde
the
sondayes
/
and
that
theyr
prestes
sange
nat
masse
after
the
custome
of
the
Churche
/
and
that
the
people
were
nat
howseled
at
Ester
that
they
kept
nat
the
sondayes
/
and
that
they
maryed
theyr
moders
in
lawe
and
susters
in
lawe
&
she
reformed
theym
in
thyse
poyntis
/
The
kynge
seynge
the
holy
ghost
was
with
her
helped
her
forewarde
in
all
that
she
went
aboute
/
She
serched
where
she
myght
fynde
pore
people
to
do
almes
vpon
/
on
the
nyghtꝭ
she
sayd
Matens
of
the
Trinite
/
of
the
holy
crosse
/
&
of
our
ladye
/
the
Dirige
and
the
Psalter
/
And
thenne
she
vsed
to
wasshe
.vi.
pore
men
/
and
then
she
toke
rest
In
the
mornynges
she
refressed
.ix.
orphanes
and
serued
theym
knelynge
And
afore
dyner
the
kynge
and
she
serued
.
CCC
.
pore
people
/
her
boke
fell
into
the
water
and
lay
there
a
daye
and
a
nyght
without
hurte
she
knewe
the
deth
of
her
husbonde
/
&
sone
that
were
slayne
in
Batayle
whiche
she
toke
pacyently
she
dyed
the
.iiii.
Idus
of
Iune
/
&
lyeth
in
the
Churche
of
the
holy
trinite
/
that
she
had
buylded
in
the
same
place
where
she
was
maryed
.
¶
De
sancta
Maxencia
virgine
&
martyre
.
SEynt
Maxence
was
doughter
to
Marcolane
sometyme
kynge
of
Scotlande
/
&
fro
her
youth
she
entended
to
kepe
virginite
after
a
prynce
called
maxencius
was
a
pagan
desyred
her
in
maryage
wherto
he
had
her
fathers
assent
and
she
perceyuyng
that
fledde
to
a
churche
and
commended
her
virginite
to
oure
Lorde
/
And
after
with
an
olde
man
and
a
Mayde
she
fledde
secretely
/
and
came
into
Fraunce
into
a
place
called
Pontis
/
and
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
way
thyder
she
went
ouer
the
water
of
ysara
without
bote
/
and
the
sayd
the
prynce
made
suche
serche
that
he
founde
where
she
was
/
and
when
he
coulde
by
no
mean
haue
her
assent
/
in
a
fury
he
toke
her
by
the
heer
and
stroke
of
her
hedde
&
after
kylled
both
her
seruauntis
/
and
she
toke
vp
her
hedde
and
bare
it
to
the
place
where
she
now
lyeth
/
and
ouer
her
is
buyldyd
a
godly
churche
/
where
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
for
her
many
myracles
/
kyng
Charles
that
reyned
in
tho
dayes
loued
her
churche
moche
/
&
gaue
many
great
thynges
to
it
.
¶
De
sancto
Mellito
Archiepo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Gregorie
was
moche
dylygent
for
the
conuertynge
of
the
people
of
Englande
to
the
fayth
/
and
also
to
haue
the
people
well
ordered
/
after
they
were
conuerted
wherfore
he
is
moche
to
be
honoured
by
Englysshmen
after
kynge
Ethelbert
&
his
people
were
conuerted
by
seynt
Augustyne
he
sent
worde
therof
to
seynt
Gregorie
as
in
the
lyfe
of
seynt
Mellytapperyth
and
then
seynt
Gregorie
sent
Mellite
/
Iuste
/
and
Pallyne
with
dyuerse
other
into
Englande
to
preche
to
the
people
/
and
Mellite
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.vi.
hondred
and
foure
was
made
bysshop
in
the
prouynce
of
Eest
saxons
nyghe
to
Thamyse
where
London
is
metropolys
and
by
hym
that
prouynce
was
conuertyd
/
and
the
Churche
of
seynt
Paule
that
was
made
by
kynge
Ethelbert
is
the
bysshoppes
see
/
and
after
the
deth
of
kyng
Ethelbert
and
of
kynge
Sabert
theyr
children
/
whiche
were
Idolatrours
wold
haue
ben
houseled
as
they
saw
other
were
/
but
they
wolde
nat
be
Cristened
/
and
bycause
seynt
Mellite
wold
nat
housell
them
they
banysshed
hym
out
of
the
Countre
/
and
so
he
and
seynt
Iustus
went
into
Fraunce
/
but
shortly
after
the
sayd
Idolatrours
were
slayne
in
batayle
/
Mellite
and
Iustus
came
agayne
/
and
after
the
deth
of
seynt
Laurence
/
Mellite
was
made
Archebysshoppe
of
Caunterbury
/
He
had
the
gowte
and
after
his
deth
he
helyd
a
woman
of
the
gowte
/
By
his
prayer
moche
parte
of
the
Cytie
of
Caunterburye
was
sauyd
fro
fyre
/
He
dyed
the
eyght
Kalend
of
Maii
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
six
hondred
and
.xxiii.
he
lyeth
on
the
right
hande
of
seynt
Augustyne
/
and
for
this
blessyd
man
our
Lorde
hath
shewyd
many
myracles
.
¶
De
sancto
Melone
Episcopo
.
IN
the
tyme
of
Ualerian
the
Emperour
Mello
then
beynge
a
Paynyme
was
sent
out
of
great
Brytayne
to
Rome
to
paye
the
trybute
/
and
as
he
harde
Pope
Stephan
preche
he
was
conuerted
/
and
gaue
all
that
he
hadde
to
pore
folkes
after
he
receyued
of
the
Pope
ordre
of
presthode
and
vsed
moche
fastynges
and
vigylles
/
and
as
he
was
sayinge
masse
the
Pope
and
he
sawe
an
Aungell
on
the
ryght
hande
of
the
Aulter
/
that
when
masse
was
done
gaue
hym
a
bysshoppes
staffe
/
and
sayd
vnto
hym
with
this
staffe
thou
shalt
rule
the
people
of
rethomagense
in
the
ꝑties
of
Nestrie
/
and
so
hauynge
the
popes
blessynge
he
toke
his
Iourney
&
in
the
way
at
Antisioder
holdynge
the
sayd
staffe
in
his
hande
he
helyd
a
man
that
had
his
fote
cutte
in
two
partes
with
an
axe
/
and
whenne
he
came
to
Rothomagense
faythfully
fulfyllynge
that
he
was
appoyntyd
to
/
and
full
of
vertues
and
myracles
he
went
to
our
lord
/
and
lyeth
at
Rothomagense
.
¶
De
sancto
Melore
martyre
.
MElianus
duke
of
Cornewayle
fader
to
seynt
Melorie
was
kylled
by
his
owne
broder
called
Rynoldus
whiche
toke
vpon
hym
the
Dukedome
/
then
he
toke
Melorie
with
hym
into
Cornewayle
beynge
of
the
age
of
.vii.
yeres
/
and
thought
to
kylle
hym
there
/
and
there
he
was
desyred
by
the
people
that
he
shuld
nat
kyll
hym
/
but
that
he
shuld
stryke
of
his
ryght
hande
&
his
lefte
fote
and
lette
hym
go
/
and
so
it
was
done
/
Thenne
he
had
a
hande
and
fote
made
for
hym
of
syluer
/
&
was
put
to
a
Monasterye
in
Cornewayle
where
he
encresyng
in
all
vertue
&
lernyd
scriptur
to
his
age
of
.xiiii.
yeris
&
the
hande
wold
open
&
shyte
as
it
had
ben
of
flesshe
&
bone
aft
Cerialtanus
that
had
the
rule
of
hym
at
the
desyre
of
the
Duke
cutte
of
his
hedde
/
in
the
Kalend
of
Octobre
/
And
as
his
sone
was
berynge
of
the
hedde
to
Rynold
by
the
waye
he
fell
downe
of
a
walle
and
brake
his
necke
/
And
thenne
his
Fader
toke
the
hede
to
bere
it
to
the
Duke
/
and
by
the
way
whenne
he
was
nyghe
deed
for
drynes
the
hedde
badde
hym
sette
his
staffe
in
the
grounde
/
and
there
he
shuld
fynde
a
welle
and
so
he
dyd
/
and
the
staffe
waxed
in
to
a
tree
and
a
fayre
welle
sprange
at
the
rote
thereof
/
And
natwithstandynge
whenne
he
hadde
refresshed
hymselfe
he
bare
the
hedde
furth
/
and
the
Duke
receyued
it
gladly
and
bad
hym
go
to
a
hylle
there
bye
/
&
all
that
he
sawe
he
wolde
gyue
hym
for
his
rewarde
/
and
whenne
he
came
thyder
he
was
stryken
blynde
and
forthwith
dyed
and
his
flesshe
melted
awaye
lyke
waxe
at
the
fyre
.
The
body
of
seynt
Melorye
was
.iii.
tymes
buryed
&
euery
tyme
it
was
founde
agayne
aboue
the
grounde
/
wherfore
by
a
hole
counsell
he
was
layde
in
a
wayne
and
.ii.
wylde
bulles
were
put
in
it
&
they
stode
styll
with
it
in
a
place
that
the
people
lyked
nat
:
And
whenne
the
people
assayed
to
remoue
it
and
coulde
nat
they
buryed
it
there
honorably
The
hedde
was
brought
to
Rynolde
/
and
whenne
he
had
towched
it
the
thyrde
daye
after
he
dyed
/
and
thenne
it
was
buryed
by
the
bysshoppes
and
the
Clergye
with
the
body
/
and
nowe
his
relykes
be
at
Malmesbury
.
¶
De
sancta
Milburga
virgine
.
Kynge
Ethelbert
that
was
Conuerted
by
seynt
Augustyne
was
great
graunt
Fader
to
Dompneua
that
was
moder
to
seynt
Milburgh
/
and
she
was
doughter
to
Merwalde
Kynge
of
Mersshes
/
the
whiche
with
the
sayd
Dompneua
his
wyfe
in
the
latter
ende
of
theyr
dayes
by
assent
lyued
Chaste
/
and
seynt
Milburghe
entered
into
Relygyon
/
and
in
a
Monasterye
that
she
founded
in
the
Ile
of
Thannet
she
was
moder
and
maystres
to
many
virgyns
/
She
gaderyd
in
lykewyse
many
susters
in
a
Monasterye
that
she
founded
called
Wenloke
.
The
pleasures
of
the
worlde
a
mortall
spouse
and
carnall
Children
were
vyle
in
her
syght
/
a
kynges
zone
thought
by
vyolence
to
take
her
&
to
marye
her
/
wherfore
she
knowyng
his
commynge
fledde
ouer
a
ryuer
/
and
whenne
she
was
paste
the
ryuer
rose
sodeynly
and
stopped
his
passage
.
By
her
prayer
geese
that
destroyed
her
corne
wente
a
waye
without
retournynge
of
theym
or
of
any
of
that
kynde
as
she
waked
fro
slepe
vnaduysedly
she
caste
her
vayle
fro
her
/
and
the
sonne
beame
bare
it
vp
so
that
it
came
nat
to
the
grounde
/
She
reysed
a
Childe
fro
deth
to
lyfe
and
as
she
was
in
her
prayers
for
the
childe
/
there
was
a
greatlyght
seen
aboute
herlyke
as
she
hadde
ben
in
the
myddes
of
a
fyre
/
She
dyed
of
the
Axes
and
was
buryed
in
her
Monasterye
:
In
the
Legende
is
a
goodly
Pedegre
fro
kynge
Ethelbert
to
this
gloryous
virgyne
and
to
dyuerse
other
/
And
also
a
goodly
storye
howe
the
sayd
kynge
Merwalde
her
Fader
was
conuerted
by
Edfrede
a
holy
preest
/
and
also
a
goodly
vysyon
that
he
had
afore
his
conuersyon
.
¶
De
sancta
Mildreda
virgine
et
Abbatissa
.
SEynt
Mildrede
was
suster
to
seynt
Milburghe
and
her
moder
sent
her
ouer
the
see
to
a
place
called
Calum
in
her
seculer
habyte
to
lerne
/
where
in
shorte
tyme
she
ouer
passed
all
her
felowes
in
mekenes
and
vertues
/
a
yonge
man
of
noble
blode
and
of
kyn
to
the
Abbesse
laboured
to
haue
her
in
maryage
/
and
the
abbesse
was
of
counsayle
with
hym
/
and
whenne
the
Abbesse
sawe
that
by
fayre
meanes
she
coulde
nat
opteyne
her
purpose
she
threte
the
virgyne
and
bet
her
/
and
when
that
coulde
nat
moue
her
fro
virginite
/
The
abbesse
in
a
woodnes
put
her
in
a
hote
brennynge
ouyn
and
shet
the
mouthe
/
and
whenne
they
thought
that
she
had
ben
burned
flesshe
and
bone
she
was
founde
all
hole
vntouched
of
fyre
as
her
mynde
was
vntouched
of
flesshely
pleasure
/
yet
this
ceased
nat
the
malyce
of
the
Abbesse
/
but
she
bette
her
pulled
her
by
the
heer
and
trede
vpon
her
and
alwaye
the
virgyne
commytted
her
virginite
to
our
Lorde
/
After
she
sent
worde
to
her
moder
how
she
was
entreated
and
she
sent
for
her
and
the
virgyne
hauynge
none
other
shyfte
went
pryuely
to
the
see
/
&
the
Abbesse
herynge
therof
sent
company
to
brynge
her
agayne
and
the
shyp
that
stode
vpon
the
drye
grounde
by
her
prayer
was
anone
taken
vp
with
the
see
and
so
she
escaped
and
came
into
an
Ile
called
Ippleffec
/
and
as
she
sette
her
fote
vpon
a
foure
square
stone
her
fote
sanke
into
the
stone
as
it
hadde
bensnowe
/
after
by
seynt
Theodre
she
was
made
abbesse
to
.lxx.
nonnes
/
On
a
tyme
the
deuyll
as
she
was
prayeng
blewe
out
her
candell
and
an
Aungell
lyght
it
agayne
/
She
dyed
the
.iii.
I
de
of
Iulye
her
successours
whiche
was
called
Edburgh
toke
vp
her
body
to
remoue
it
to
a
more
honorable
place
and
founde
it
vncorrupt
more
lyke
to
slepe
then
to
be
deed
:
After
her
monastery
was
destroyed
and
was
made
a
parysshe
churche
/
&
her
Relykꝭ
were
brought
to
Caunterbury
but
whether
they
lye
in
the
church
of
seynt
Augustyne
/
or
of
seynt
Gregorie
the
Legende
leuyth
it
in
doute
and
dyuers
myracles
be
here
omytted
/
On
a
nyght
as
she
was
in
prayer
the
holy
ghost
appered
to
her
lyke
aboue
&
satte
vpon
her
hedde
with
his
wynges
compassynge
her
hedde
lyke
a
crowne
with
suche
a
lyght
that
she
myght
skarsely
be
seen
the
space
of
an
houre
.
¶
De
sancta
Modwenna
virgine
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
Modwen
was
borne
in
Irlande
/
and
by
prechynge
of
seynt
Patryke
she
entered
into
Relygyon
/
and
fro
thens
she
gaue
her self
to
lernynge
&
to
despyse
the
vanytes
of
the
worlde
to
kepe
her
herte
stedfast
with
all
dylygence
to
punysshe
her
bodye
with
fastynges
and
vygylles
no
thynge
she
put
byfore
the
loue
of
god
hauynge
great
desyre
to
the
Ioyes
of
heuyn
with
contynuell
feere
of
the
paynes
of
hell
and
her
broder
by
her
example
forsoke
the
worlde
and
after
was
made
a
bysshop
She
made
a
monasterye
and
there
lyued
with
her
brother
with
rawe
rotes
gettynge
her
lyuynge
with
her
owne
laboure
/
many
noble
matrones
came
to
her
quenes
and
virgyns
to
here
the
worde
of
god
/
Eyght
virgyns
Ioyned
them selfe
to
her
wherof
seynt
Bryde
and
orbila
were
in
the
company
/
and
when
Orbila
for
her
youth
fered
to
take
the
rule
of
the
monastery
vpon
her
seynt
modwen
/
put
the
gyrdell
aboute
her
/
and
brethyd
vpon
her
and
anone
her
heere
waxed
hoore
and
she
was
lyke
an
olde
woman
/
and
thenne
she
toke
the
rule
of
the
Monasterye
with
good
wyll
/
She
caused
a
wolfe
that
had
kylled
one
of
her
calues
to
folowe
the
cowe
and
kepe
her
and
other
wolfes
of
that
kynde
vse
to
do
so
to
this
day
/
A
great
thefe
called
Glunelach
kylled
.viii
prestis
that
seynt
Patrike
had
sent
to
vysyt
seynt
Modwen
and
she
herynge
therof
went
thyder
with
.xlix.
nonnes
to
burye
theym
/
and
Glunelache
with
.xlix.
theuys
mette
theym
and
thought
to
haue
rauysshed
theym
/
but
when
they
wolde
haue
layde
handes
vpon
the
virgyns
they
fell
sodeynly
a
slepe
and
slept
.ii.
dayes
and
the
spyryte
of
seynt
Modwen
and
Glunelache
were
ledde
with
an
Aungell
into
heuyn
&
hell
/
&
when
Glunelache
came
to
hymselfe
agayne
he
was
conuerted
and
his
neue
we
also
&
lyued
a
good
and
a
blessyd
lyfe
/
A
holy
bysshop
called
Cheuyn
was
brought
in
beleue
by
craft
of
the
deuyll
that
Glunelach
the
thefe
/
by
prayer
of
seynt
Modwen
shuld
haue
his
place
in
Heuyn
/
and
that
all
was
in
vayne
that
he
had
done
in
the
seruyce
of
god
/
wherfore
the
bysshop
thought
to
destroye
her
and
her
Monasterye
/
and
as
he
was
commynge
therto
she
had
knowlege
therof
by
our
lorde
/
and
so
she
met
hym
and
shewyd
hym
that
his
enemye
had
deceyued
hym
greatly
and
anone
he
sawe
the
deuyll
that
brought
hym
to
the
temptacyon
lyke
a
blacke
Ethyope
/
wherfore
he
toke
great
repentaunce
:
Then
seynt
Modwen
to
the
entent
she
myght
the
more
surely
conferme
hym
in
our
lord
/
put
her
staffe
into
a
welle
that
she
vsed
oftymes
in
the
wynter
to
stande
in
tyl
she
had
sayd
a
hole
Psaulter
/
she
drewe
her
staffe
after
her
agaynst
the
hylle
/
&
the
water
folowed
the
staffe
into
the
toppe
of
the
hylle
/
wherupon
he
depꝑted
&
lyued
after
a
blyssed
lyf
:
On
a
tyme
when
she
entended
to
go
into
Englande
she
lacked
a
shyp
&
at
her
prayer
the
grounde
reysed
it self
vp
about
her
lyke
an
Ile
&
so
conueyed
her
&
her
company
ouer
the
see
into
Englande
/
where
she
and
seynt
Edith
that
was
suster
to
kyng
Edgar
rered
Ositha
that
was
drowned
fro
deth
to
lyfe
/
She
went
thryse
to
Rome
for
remyssion
of
her
synnes
and
she
dyed
in
Irlande
the
thyrde
Nonas
of
Iulii
/
after
whose
deth
great
varyaunce
was
bytwyxt
Englysshemen
/
Irysshemen
/
and
Scottes
for
her
bodye
/
and
the
bysshop
Counceyled
theym
that
eyght
men
shuld
take
vp
her
bere
/
&
that
countre
that
our
Lorde
wolde
haue
theym
go
towardes
shulde
haue
the
body
/
and
by
the
wyll
of
our
lorde
they
went
streyght
towardes
Englande
&
so
she
was
brought
into
Englande
/
and
lyeth
at
Andreseia
After
her
deth
she
apperyd
to
one
of
the
Nonnes
after
compleyne
and
tolde
her
that
she
herde
some
of
the
susters
speke
in
tyme
of
scylence
and
that
her
body
yet
beyng
amonge
them
vnburyed
she
meruayled
that
they
forget
her
doctryne
and
reguler
obseruaunce
/
and
bad
them
nat
to
breke
the
leste
obseruaunce
lest
by
lytell
&
lytel
they
fell
into
greatter
defautis
sayinge
vnto
the
suster
that
she
appered
vnto
that
she
shuld
make
her
redy
for
after
.vii.
dayes
she
shuld
come
vnto
her
and
so
it
was
done
.
¶
De
sancto
Neoto
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Neotus
comonly
called
seynt
Eed
was
the
kynges
sone
of
west
Englande
&
of
Kent
/
and
when
he
came
to
age
he
forsoke
the
pryde
&
pompe
of
the
worlde
&
was
made
a
monke
at
Glastenbury
vnderseynt
Dunstan
where
he
ascendyd
to
hygh
perfyte
relygion
he
was
so
lytel
of
stature
that
at
masse
he
had
a
thynge
vnder
his
fete
/
but
he
was
full
of
vertues
and
good
maners
Eloquent
of
speche
discrete
of
wordes
and
of
great
lernynge
beynge
byloued
of
all
men
and
to
the
entent
that
he
wolde
eschewe
the
recourse
and
fauour
of
the
people
he
went
into
Cornewale
where
he
lyued
.vii.
yeres
in
a
wyldernes
/
whiche
after
his
name
is
called
Neotstoke
/
after
he
went
to
Rome
and
was
there
honorably
receyued
of
〈◊〉
Martyne
/
fro
thens
he
retourned
into
his
owne
countre
/
where
he
made
a
monasterye
/
and
was
ofte
vysyted
with
Aungellys
/
he
had
a
water
that
had
thre
Fysshes
in
it
/
and
if
he
toke
one
euery
day
yet
alway
there
were
thre
Fysshes
/
He
tolde
the
kynge
Alfred
his
broder
/
that
for
his
pryde
and
tyrauntrye
he
shulde
be
put
out
of
his
Realme
and
be
as
an
outlawe
/
but
he
sayd
by
his
prayers
he
had
opteyned
of
our
Lorde
that
he
shuld
be
restored
agayne
/
and
shuld
conuerte
his
enemy
to
the
fayth
&
it
ꝓued
after
in
euery
thyng
as
he
had
sayd
.
By
seynt
Ede
the
kyng
was
correct
/
tyrauntrie
tourned
into
sobernes
the
worshyppyng
of
deuylles
abated
and
the
people
of
our
lorde
moche
encreasyd
in
all
the
countre
he
lefte
this
worlde
the
day
before
the
kalend
of
August
and
pa●●e
of
his
Relykes
lye
at
Ramsey
/
&
the
other
parte
at
seynt
Edis
:
after
his
deth
he
apperyd
dyuers
tymes
to
his
broder
kyng
Alfrede
comfortynge
hym
in
his
trouble
/
and
by
his
helpe
he
had
great
victorye
agaynst
the
Danes
.
¶
De
sancto
Niniano
Epo.
SEynt
Ninian
in
Englysshe
called
seynt
Tronyon
was
a
Kynges
sone
of
great
Brytayne
&
anone
as
he
had
passed
his
yeris
of
childhod
he
had
great
deuocion
to
be
in
the
Church
/
&
had
great
loue
spirituell
to
his
Felowes
/
he
was
Sober
in
diet
difcrete
of
wordes
besy
in
Redynge
sadde
of
maners
absteynyng
fro
pleys
and
alwayes
laboured
to
subdewe
the
body
to
the
spyryte
/
He
went
to
Rome
on
Pylgrymage
where
he
profyted
moch
in
lernynge
/
and
was
in
synguler
fauour
with
the
〈◊〉
and
he
grewe
in
all
vertue
/
&
charite
after
the
〈◊〉
made
hym
bysshop
and
sent
hym
into
the
weste
parte
of
Englande
to
preche
the
worde
of
god
/
and
in
the
waye
homewarde
he
came
by
seynt
Martyn
and
seynt
Martyn
knewe
by
reuelacion
that
he
shuld
profyte
to
moche
people
/
And
when
he
came
thyder
as
he
was
sent
the
people
receyued
hym
Ioyously
and
toke
hym
as
a
veray
Prophet
/
whereby
his
prechynges
examples
and
myracles
he
conuertyd
all
the
people
/
And
he
buyldyd
the
firste
Churche
of
stone
that
euer
was
buyldyd
in
Brytayne
he
conuertyd
also
the
Southe
pictes
where
he
dyd
many
myracles
and
if
a
man
thynke
of
the
lyues
of
seynt
Dunstan
/
seynt
Cuthbert
/
seynt
Modwyn̄
/
seynt
Goderyke
/
seynt
Ninian
and
suche
other
he
shall
thynke
it
right
lytell
that
is
done
by
the
people
/
for
the
loue
of
god
in
thyse
dayes
a
disciple
of
seynt
Tronyon
that
hadde
offendyd
fe●ynge
punysshement
toke
seynt
Tronyons
staffe
and
went
into
the
see
in
a
lytell
shyppe
/
and
anone
with
a
sodeyne
tempest
he
was
dryuen
so
ferre
into
the
see
/
that
he
wyst
nat
what
to
do
/
wherfore
he
was
conpunct
and
in
his
herte
asked
forgyuenes
and
cryed
to
seynt
Tronyon
for
helpe
/
&
sodenly
the
wynde
tourned
and
brought
hym
safe
to
lande
/
And
when
he
came
to
lande
in
testefyinge
of
the
myracle
he
prayed
our
lord
that
the
staffe
myght
growe
:
&
when
he
set
it
into
the
grounde
forthwith
it
grewe
&
had
rotꝭ
&
new
barke
with
goodly
armes
&
braunches
/
&
at
the
rote
therof
spraynge
a
fayre
welle
/
wherof
the
water
is
very
holsome
forsyke
men
/
he
dyed
in
the
.xvi.
Kalend
of
Octobre
:
&
lyeth
in
a
Churche
that
he
made
of
newe
in
the
honour
of
seynt
Martyne
A
childe
that
was
borne
with
great
deformytes
to
the
great
heuynesse
of
his
father
&
moder
at
the
tumbe
of
seynt
Trony
an
resceyued
perfyte
helth
&
two
lepous
wasshyd
theym
at
seynt
Tronyons
welle
and
theyr
flesshe
was
made
clene
lyke
the
flesshe
of
a
Childe
.
¶
De
sancto
Odone
Archiepiscopo
.
SEynt
Odo
was
sone
of
a
Paynym
of
the
blode
of
the
danes
that
came
in
with
Hynguar
/
&
bycause
he
vsed
moche
to
speke
to
his
fader
such
thyngꝭ
as
he
had
lethed
at
sermones
of
the
Cristen
fayth
his
fader
corrected
hym
cruelly
And
also
disheryted
hym
/
wherfore
he
lefte
his
fader
&
moder
&
came
to
a
Duke
a
noble
man
in
kynge
Edwyns
house
&
he
receyued
hym
Ioyously
/
There
he
was
baptyzed
&
lerned
both
latentunge
and
greke
tunge
/
whiche
fro
the
tyme
of
seynt
Theodre
was
moch
vsed
in
Englande
after
he
toke
ordres
&
was
made
Dekon
/
&
so
he
taryed
dyuerse
yeres
&
was
after
made
preest
/
By
his
prayer
the
Duke
was
made
hole
of
a
great
sykenesse
as
he
was
goynge
towarde
Rome
/
And
after
he
was
made
bysshop
of
Salisbury
and
fro
thense
was
electyd
to
be
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
/
whiche
he
wolde
nat
take
vpon
hym
tyll
he
was
made
monke
/
and
so
he
entred
into
Relygion
/
and
when
he
was
Archebyssop
he
reproued
the
kynge
of
his
abhominable
aduoutrie
and
the
women
that
the
kynge
kepthe
toke
theym
/
and
burned
theym
in
the
face
with
yron
&
abanysshed
them
the
Realme
.
To
reforme
certeyn
clarkꝭ
that
erred
in
the
sacrament
of
the
Aultre
affermynge
it
to
be
a
fygure
of
the
passyon
of
our
lorde
by
his
prayer
as
he
was
at
masse
at
the
brekynge
of
the
Hoest
very
blode
ran
out
therof
into
the
Chales
/
and
the
clerkes
seynge
it
were
conuerted
/
and
then
the
blode
went
agayne
into
the
nature
of
wyne
/
By
his
prayer
there
felle
noo
rayne
in
his
Churche
all
the
whyle
it
was
in
buyldynge
whiche
was
thre
hole
yeres
/
He
was
alway
aduersarye
inflexible
agaynst
synne
/
The
pleasure
or
Ioyes
of
the
world
ne
yet
thretes
coulde
nat
fere
hym
neyther
lette
hym
fro
doynge
Iustyce
/
he
prophesyed
that
seynt
Dunsta●
shuld
be
Archebysshop
after
hym
and
so
he
was
/
he
dyed
the
fourth
Nonas
of
Iulii
and
lyeth
at
Caunterbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Odulpho
confessore
.
SEynt
Odulphe
was
borne
of
noble
blode
in
Fraunce
and
he
forsoke
his
frendes
and
went
to
the
Bysshop
of
Traiectense
/
where
he
lyued
dyuerse
yeris
in
vigylles
/
fastynge
/
prayeng
/
and
holy
redynge
/
he
conuerted
the
Frysonnes
by
his
prechynge
:
He
set
nought
by
any
Erthly
thynge
so
that
after
this
lyfe
he
myght
haue
euerlastynge
rewarde
in
heuyn
:
By
his
prayer
the
fyre
ceased
fro
his
●e●●
/
and
he
dyed
of
the
Axes
the
daye
byfore
the
Idus
of
Iune
/
at
his
deth
was
a
swete
sauoure
that
comforted
all
that
were
present
/
his
Relykes
were
after
brought
to
London
the
tyme
of
kynge
Kinite
/
and
fro
thens
they
were
conueyed
to
Enesshm
honorably
/
and
though
he
was
neuer
in
Englande
whyle
he
was
a
lyue
/
yet
bycause
his
Relykes
be
in
Englande
he
is
put
into
the
Legende
.
¶
De
sancta
Ositha
virgine
&
martire
.
SEynt
Osithe
was
doughter
to
kynge
Frethewalde
and
she
was
bytaken
in
her
youth
to
seynt
Modwen
to
Instructe
/
seynt
Modwen
bytoke
her
to
seynt
Edith
/
&
she
on
a
tyme
beynge
at
Pollesworth
sent
a
boke
to
Osyth
to
seynt
Modwen
/
&
on
a
brygge
she
was
blowen
with
the
wynde
into
the
water
and
drowned
/
and
when
she
had
lyen
deed
thre
dayes
by
monycion
of
an
Aungell
seynt
Modwen
went
to
the
brygge
nat
knowynge
wherto
/
where
she
met
with
seynt
Edith
and
there
by
theyr
prayers
she
was
Reysed
fro
dethe
to
lyfe
/
After
she
was
maryed
by
her
frendes
agaynst
her
wyll
to
the
kyng
of
Estsaxons
/
and
a
longe
season
by
certeyne
excuses
she
kept
her
husbonde
fro
the
Acte
of
matrymony
/
and
when
he
had
fully
purposed
to
receyue
no
ferther
excuses
sodeyn
tydynges
came
to
hym
that
a
harte
was
founde
nygh
to
the
paleys
/
and
in
the
tyme
that
the
kynge
made
taryeng
dyuerse
dayes
about
his
huntynge
/
the
virgyne
sent
for
two
bysshoppes
&
was
made
a
Nonne
And
when
the
kynge
retourned
and
knewe
therof
though
he
was
greatly
moued
/
yet
he
suffred
her
and
gaue
her
the
towne
of
Chychensen
/
and
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
godsyx
C.
&
.liii.
Danes
came
into
the
countre
of
Estsaxons
/
&
bycause
seynt
Osith
wolde
nat
do
sacrifice
to
their
Idollꝭ
she
was
beheded
/
&
she
bare
her
hedde
to
the
churchedore
/
&
there
fell
downe
&
her
fader
&
moder
buryed
her
at
Aylesbury
/
wher
she
lay
many
yeris
tyll
seynt
Osith
appered
to
asmythe
&
bad
hym
remoue
her
relykꝭ
fro
Aylesbury
to
Chychensen
&
so
he
dyd
/
&
the
bysshop
of
London
layd
them
in
a
goodly
Shryne
&
the
bysshop
of
Rochester
there
beyng
present
was
helyd
of
a
sykenes
that
he
had
longe
tyme
had
/
Shypmen
had
stollyn
a
pece
of
Marble
of
the
porche
of
seynt
Osithes
Churche
&
theyr
shyp
was
made
vnmouable
tyll
they
confessyd
the
trespas
&
brought
it
agayne
/
she
helyd
a
woman
that
was
contract
and
a
childe
that
was
dombe
and
deffe
.
De
sancta
Osmanna
virgine
.
SEynt
Osman̄
was
of
noble
blode
in
Irlande
/
and
fro
her
youth
in
her
herte
secretly
as
a
chosyn
vessell
of
almyghty
god
she
byleued
in
the
faythe
her
Father
&
moder
beynge
gentyles
/
And
when
they
sawe
that
by
no
compulcion
they
coulde
remoue
her
fro
the
faythe
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
criste
they
thought
to
marye
her
so
that
by
that
way
she
shuld
forget
our
lord
&
his
beleue
&
hate
cristen
men
/
&
she
perceyuynge
that
fled
with
one
mayde
ouer
the
see
into
a
wodde
by
the
Ryuer
of
Lygerim
where
she
lyued
with
rotes
&
leuys
of
trees
and
made
her
clothes
of
Russhes
&
longe
grasse
and
she
was
founden
by
a
wylde
bore
that
fledde
to
her
for
socour
when
she
was
hunted
by
a
bysshoppes
seruauntes
/
And
when
they
wolde
haue
kylled
the
bore
theyr
knyues
wolde
nat
entre
into
his
flesshe
/
and
then
they
went
to
the
bysshop
&
tolde
hym
they
were
by
wytchyd
/
wherupon
the
bysshop
went
to
her
&
founde
her
very
stedfast
in
the
fayth
And
she
sayd
to
hym
that
she
desyred
nothynge
more
then
to
be
cristened
wherof
the
Bysshop
was
veray
glad
/
&
when
she
was
made
Cathecumynablyde
man
receyued
his
syght
And
then
the
bysshop
left
with
her
a
seruaunt
to
be
her
gardener
that
she
myght
haue
Erbes
to
lyue
with
/
and
the
deuyll
moued
that
man
to
say
oftymes
euyll
wordes
vnto
her
to
angre
her
therwith
/
and
promysed
hym
a
great
rewarde
therfore
/
&
when
he
had
assented
he
was
sodeynly
stryken
blynde
&
so
he
came
to
repentaunce
.
The
sone
of
the
Quene
of
spayne
cursed
his
moder
/
whiche
was
a
pagan
bycause
she
prohibyted
hym
to
gyue
almes
/
&
therfore
he
loste
bothe
his
speche
&
his
syght
/
and
the
quene
seyng
that
for
sorowe
fell
out
of
her
mynde
/
and
by
seynt
Osmanne
they
were
both
made
hole
and
so
full
of
great
myracles
she
went
to
our
lorde
the
fyfth
Ide
of
Septembre
.
De
sancto
Osmundo
Episcopo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Osmunde
was
bysshop
of
Salysbury
and
in
his
youth
he
put
hym selfe
to
lernynge
and
to
kepe
the
commaundementes
of
the
Faders
/
he
was
of
the
kynges
blode
and
dayly
in
presence
of
his
prynce
/
&
yet
he
wolde
here
the
causes
of
pore
men
Pupillis
and
wydowes
/
He
gaue
great
almes
to
pore
folke
and
endowed
the
Churche
with
great
possessions
abiectyng
hymself
vtterly
fro
all
temporall
thynges
/
and
he
that
wyll
accompt
his
lyfe
by
ordre
/
one
thynge
after
a nother
shall
playnely
se
that
our
lorde
alwayes
ledde
hym
by
the
streyght
pathe
gyuynge
vnto
hym
the
connynge
of
perfeccion
/
wherby
he
myght
deserue
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
/
and
so
at
the
laste
as
an
approued
seruaunt
and
faythfull
werker
in
the
vyneyarde
of
our
Lorde
wysely
expendynge
his
talentes
he
was
commaunded
to
entre
into
the
Ioye
of
his
lord
yeldyng
his
soule
to
heuyn
the
daye
byfore
the
nonas
of
Decembre
/
and
was
buryed
at
Salysburye
/
A
childe
that
was
drowned
at
Salysburye
at
the
tumbe
of
seynt
Osmunde
was
restored
to
lyfe
agayne
.
On
a
nyght
a
Clerke
called
Thomas
that
as
he
thought
went
to
bedde
in
good
helth
when
he
awoke
of
his
slepe
he
felt
his
senewes
dryed
vp
and
one
of
his
legges
drawen
vp
to
his
buttockes
/
and
the
thirde
nyght
after
that
he
had
prayed
for
helth
at
seynt
Osmunde
stumbe
he
thought
in
his
slepe
that
he
sa●e
seynt
Osmunde
appere
vnto
hym
and
that
he
toke
hym
by
the
fote
&
drewe
his
legge
streight
&
in
the
mornynge
he
was
perfyghtly
hole
/
he
was
Canonysed
by
Pope
Calixt
the
thirde
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
.
CCCClvi
.
at
whiche
Canonisacion
the
〈◊〉
beynge
of
great
decrepyt
age
and
in
great
feblenes
sodeynly
was
made
stronge
and
all
men
meruaylynge
that
knewe
his
feblenes
he
mynystred
solemply
the
dyuyne
seruyce
/
and
other
thynges
necessarye
in
his
owne
person
and
for
this
blessyd
man
our
lorde
hath
shewed
many
and
innumerable
myracles
.
¶
De
sancto
Oswaldo
Archiepiscopo
.
SEynt
Oswalde
in
his
youth
eschewyd
all
wantonnes
and
gaue
hymselfe
to
werkes
of
perfeccion
after
he
commytted
to
his
vnkle
Odo
archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
to
lerne
connynge
and
good
maners
/
&
when
he
had
opteyned
great
connynge
in
scripture
he
was
made
Chanon
at
Wynchestre
and
after
dean
/
And
when
he
coulde
nat
remoue
they
there
fro
theyr
olde
euyll
Customes
he
went
to
Floriacum
where
seynt
Benet
lyeth
&
there
he
was
made
monke
and
profyted
moche
in
vertue
/
The
deuyl
appered
to
hym
as
he
was
in
prayer
and
made
dyuers
fereful
noyses
to
haue
made
hym
cease
of
prayer
/
somtyme
rored
lyke
a
Lyon
/
somtyme
lyke
a
serpent
/
and
he
stronge
in
the
fayth
feryd
hym
nothynge
/
and
the
deuyll
seyng
that
went
away
and
came
agayne
lyke
an
Aungell
of
lyght
/
wherfore
anon
he
made
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
knowynge
verayly
that
if
it
were
a
good
Aungell
it
wold
nat
discontent
hym
and
if
it
were
a
wycked
spirite
he
myght
nat
abyde
it
and
so
it
proued
/
for
the
deuyll
seynge
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
vanysshed
awaye
lyke
smoke
/
He
was
of
lytell
slepe
sobre
in
dyete
discrete
in
spekynge
and
busy
in
prayenge
how
pacyenthe
was
meke
/
sobre
/
and
benyuolent
in
clene
pure
charyte
is
aboue
mannes
estymacion
to
shewe
/
Seynt
Odo
herynge
his
fame
was
veray
glad
and
thankynge
our
Lorde
sent
for
hym
aswel
bycause
he
was
in
great
age
as
to
instructe
other
in
reguler
disciplyne
/
wherfore
they
of
Floriacum
were
veray
sory
/
yet
bycause
they
durste
nat
disobey
so
holy
a
Father
they
sent
hym
ouer
and
byfore
he
came
to
Caunterbury
the
Archebysshop
was
deed
/
thenne
he
went
to
his
vnkle
Oskyltellus
at
Dorchester
/
and
when
he
was
made
Archebysshop
of
yorke
seynt
Oswalde
by
meanes
of
seynt
Dunstan
was
put
into
the
rule
at
Dorchestre
/
&
at
westbury
he
gathered
.xii.
monkes
and
instructed
them
with
holsome
monycions
&
set
theym
a
warke
to
watche
/
faste
/
&
praye
/
after
he
had
made
a
Monastery
where
the
Erle
Aylwyn
by
monycion
of
an
Aungell
had
made
a
Chapell
&
the
Erle
gaue
vnto
that
Monastery
great
possessyons
/
an
abbot
that
was
of
seynt
Oswaldes
makynge
feruent
in
his
relygion
/
but
euer
moche
harde
&
cruell
to
his
subiectes
dyed
/
&
as
he
lay
on
the
bere
he
toke
his
spirite
agayne
&
reysed
hym selfe
vp
&
sayd
he
was
ledde
to
Iugement
by
seynt
Benet
&
that
by
the
prayers
of
seynt
Oswalde
his
synnes
were
forgyuen
hym
&
shewyd
them
that
were
there
present
that
he
was
reuyued
agayne
to
shewethe
holynes
of
seynt
Oswalde
/
and
so
he
was
howsel●d
and
lyued
halfe
a
daye
and
then
dyed
/
he
buylded
a
Monastery
at
Wynchester
and
a
stone
that
was
appoynted
to
that
werke
wolde
nat
remoue
by
any
maner
connynge
/
And
when
seynt
Oswalde
came
thyder
he
sawe
the
deuyll
sytte
vpon
the
stone
mockynge
theym
that
laboured
&
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
he
droue
hym
away
/
and
then
fewe
men
remoued
it
that
.lxxx.
coulde
nat
remoue
byfore
He
was
bysshop
of
Worcestre
/
&
after
by
compulcion
of
kyng
Edgare
&
seynt
Dunstan
&
by
hole
assent
of
the
Clergye
he
was
made
Archebysshop
of
yorke
/
he
chaunged
seynt
Albones
Elye
&
Beamflet
&
.vii.
other
places
fro
clerkis
to
monkis
he
fed
euery
day
.xii.
pore
men
&
gaue
them
money
/
he
knewe
that
he
shuld
dye
the
daye
byfore
and
that
nyg●t
he
went
to
Churche
and
kepte
the
Quere
&
the
resydewe
of
the
nyght
he
expended
in
laudynge
of
almyghty
god
and
in
the
mornynge
was
howseled
&
anelyd
and
gyrded
a
lynnen
clothe
aboute
hym
and
wasshed
the
fete
of
pore
men
dryed
theym
and
kyssed
them
as
he
was
wont
to
do
&
after
the
.xv.
Psalmes
he
sayd
Glia
patri
&c.
And
as
he
payed
the
pore
men
/
&
was
seyinge
&
spūisancto
he
yelded
vp
his
spirit
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.ix.
C.
lxxxxii
.
the
day
byfore
the
Kalend
of
Marche
/
&
as
he
was
had
to
the
churche
a
whyte
doue
&
a
bryght
beame
were
seen
descendynge
vpon
hym
&
he
was
buryed
at
yorke
&
.xii.
yeres
after
his
deth
he
was
remoued
to
Worcestre
as
he
wylled
to
be
/
where
he
lyeth
now
this
daye
/
our
lord
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
great
myracles
both
in
his
lyfe
and
after
his
deth
.
¶
De
sancto
Oswaldo
Rege
&
martyre
.
THe
quene
Acta
moder
to
seynt
Oswalde
/
after
her
husbonde
kynge
Ethelfryde
was
slayne
in
batayle
by
kynge
Edwyn
fled
with
seynt
Oswalde
/
&
other
of
her
children
into
Scot●ade
and
there
seynt
Oswalde
after
the
Counsell
of
his
moder
was
Cristened
/
after
with
small
company
he
came
to
recouer
his
right
&
enherytaunce
agaynst
Cedwalla
kyng
of
Dei●
and
Bernysshe
that
had
slayne
in
batayle
his
broder
Daufride
kyng
of
deir̄
&
Osryke
kynge
of
bernysshe
/
and
when
they
shuld
go
to
batayle
he
set
vp
a
Crosse
&
made
the
people
knele
downe
&
pray
for
helpe
in
their
rightwyse
quarel
/
&
so
with
small
company
he
had
the
victory
in
a
place
called
Deuysborne
ayenst
the
sayd
Cedwalla
that
a
right
myghty
&
cruell
kyng
/
&
by
the
sayd
Crosse
/
&
also
in
the
sayd
place
where
he
made
his
prayer
that
is
called
Heuynfelde
/
great
myracles
haue
be
done
/
after
seint
Oswalde
sent
into
scotlande
/
where
he
was
baptysed
desyryng
to
haue
seynt
Aydane
the
bysshop
to
Instruct
hym
and
his
people
in
the
fayth
/
And
when
seynt
Aydane
was
come
the
kynge
gaue
hym
a
bysshoppes
see
in
the
Ile
of
Lyndesernense
/
&
anone
the
people
were
conuerted
Churches
were
buylded
&
Monasteryes
founded
.
This
blessyd
man
beyng
instruct
with
worde
and
example
of
seynt
Aydane
nat
oonly
atteyned
a
full
hope
of
an
Euerlastynge
kyngdome
/
but
also
of
Erthely
kyngdomes
he
had
more
lordshyp
then
any
of
his
auncestours
/
for
he
atteyned
nat
oonly
the
kyngdom
of
Deir
and
Bernysshe
/
but
also
all
the
Nacions
of
Brytayne
/
wherin
then
were
.iiii.
dyuers
speches
bryttysshe
/
scottysshe
/
englysshe
/
&
of
the
pictes
he
toke
in
his
domynion
/
He
was
a
great
gyuer
of
almes
and
wolde
suffre
no
Cristen
man
go
openly
on
beggynge
/
As
he
&
seynt
Aydane
o●
Eester
day
satte
at
dyner
a
great
multitude
of
pore
men
came
to
aske
almes
and
the
kynge
hauynge
no
other
thynge
redy
at
hande
gaue
theym
a
dysshe
of
syluer
with
mete
therin
/
&
the
bysshop
seynge
his
great
charyte
/
toke
his
hande
and
prayed
to
almyghty
god
that
that
hande
which
was
so
redy
to
gyue
almes
shuld
neuer
Rotte
and
his
prayer
was
herde
/
On
a
tyme
he
prayer
for
his
people
that
were
moche
vexed
with
pestylence
and
shortly
after
he
hym selfe
/
had
the
same
desease
wherupon
thre
Aungelles
appered
vnto
hym
and
sayd
that
he
shuld
nat
dye
of
that
sykenes
/
and
that
his
people
by
his
prayer
shuld
be
delyuered
therof
and
so
they
were
/
Moreouer
the
sayd
aungellys
shewyd
hym
that
he
shuld
be
martyred
and
the
daye
and
place
/
where
it
shuld
be
&
sayd
they
wolde
be
there
with
hym
at
that
tyme
&
so
vanysshed
away
&
after
that
there
was
neuer
in
his
dayes
pestylence
in
Englande
/
fro
that
tyme
he
abode
his
ende
Ioyously
/
and
with
great
deuocyon
with
almes
/
and
teres
redemed
his
neclygences
/
and
as
it
is
sayd
fro
Matens
to
day
he
wolde
be
in
prayers
/
and
where
so
euer
he
satte
he
wolde
holde
his
handes
vp
to
praye
and
to
gyue
thankynges
to
our
lorde
/
&
after
he
was
slayne
in
batayle
by
kynge
Penda
in
a
place
called
maseyfelde
seuyn
myles
fro
Shrewysbury
the
.viii.
nonas
of
August
as
it
was
shewyd
him
byfore
&
as
he
was
slayne
he
was
in
prayers
deuoutly
prayeng
for
hym
&
for
the
people
/
his
relykes
haue
ben
oft
remoued
/
his
hed
lyeth
now
in
the
Monastery
of
seynt
Cuthbert
one
of
his
armes
at
Bamburgh
/
and
the
other
at
Peterburghe
his
body
and
bones
at
glouerma
where
Etheldrede
duke
of
Mershes
made
a
churche
in
honour
of
his
name
:
at
Faruerhm̄
a nother
churche
is
buylded
to
his
honoure
/
where
great
myracles
haue
ben
done
a
thefe
that
robbed
that
church
was
sodeynly
stryken
blynde
in
the
Lengende
is
a
goodly
Pedegre
fro
Ida
that
was
the
firste
Englysshe
kynge
in
Northm̄humbre
.
The
kyngdome
of
Deir̄
streched
fro
humbre
to
tyne
/
&
the
kyngdome
of
B●rnyshe
strechyd
fro
tyne
to
the
Scottysshe
see
that
in
Scotlande
is
called
forth
whiche
two
kyngdomes
were
dyriuyed
out
of
the
kyngdome
of
Northamhumbre
as
it
apperyth
in
dyuerse
Cronycles
.
¶
De
sancto
Oswino
Rege
&
martyre
.
AFter
the
deth
of
seynt
Oswalde
kynge
and
martyr
Oswy
his
broder
succeded
vnto
hym
in
the
kyngedomes
of
deyre
&
Bernyssh
/
and
after
this
blessyd
seynt
Oswyne
kyng
and
martyr
/
that
was
sone
of
kynge
Osrik
kynge
of
deyre
whiche
of
longe
tyme
for
fere
of
Cedwalla
kynge
of
brytons
that
had
kylled
his
fader
had
ben
as
an
outlawe
with
the
West
saxons
/
herynge
that
kynge
Oswalde
was
deed
by
counsell
of
his
frendes
came
agayne
to
deyre
&
by
assent
of
al
the
people
of
deyt
he
was
made
kyng
of
that
countre
/
&
the
sayd
Oswy
was
put
out
therof
and
reygned
oonly
in
Bernysh
/
seynt
Oswyne
was
a
man
of
great
charite
he
was
as
a
staffe
to
feble
men
a
fote
to
haltyng
men
/
an
Iye
to
blinde
men
/
&
as
a
fader
to
wydowes
&
orphanes
/
also
he
was
beauteous
of
vysage
hygh
of
statute
mery
of
countenaunce
/
sobre
of
maners
and
very
lyberall
wherfore
he
was
byloued
of
all
men
great
&
smal
.
The
kynge
gaue
to
seynt
Aydane
a
horse
/
&
when
a
pore
man
asked
almes
of
hym
and
he
had
none
other
thyng
at
hande
to
gyue
hym
he
gaue
hym
the
sayd
horse
/
&
when
the
kynge
herde
therof
he
was
descontented
&
sayd
to
the
bysshop
as
the
sat
at
the
table
togyther
that
a
worse
horse
then
that
wolde
haue
serued
to
haue
gyuen
in
almes
.
To
whome
the
bysshop
sayd
what
is
it
that
ye
complayne
whether
is
the
sone
of
a
maare
more
byloued
with
you
/
or
the
sone
of
marie
our
lorde
Ihesu
criste
to
whom
this
horse
is
gyuen
/
&
they
kynge
herynge
that
felle
downe
to
the
bysshops
fete
&
asked
hym
forgyuenes
promysyng
feythfully
that
he
wold
neuer
after
be
dyscontent
what
soeuer
he
gaue
of
his
goodes
y●
to
pore
people
of
our
lord
/
After
at
the
same
dyner
the
bysshop
&
when
he
was
asked
why
he
wept
he
answered
that
the
kyng
shuld
nat
longe
lyue
&
said
he
had
nat
founde
afore
so
meke
a
kyng
&
that
the
wycked
people
were
nat
worthy
to
haue
such
a
kyng
/
&
when
he
had
Reygned
.ix.
yeres
the
sayde
Oswy
kynge
of
Bernyssh
with
a
great
host
came
agaynst
hym
/
and
when
he
sawe
his
people
moch
lesse
in
Nombre
then
the
people
of
his
aduersarye
Remembrynge
the
wordes
of
seynt
Aydan
he
sayd
to
his
people
that
he
wolde
nat
put
theym
in
parell
/
for
his
tytle
/
but
wolde
put
hym selfe
in
the
handes
of
god
/
And
so
caused
theym
to
retourne
home
agayne
&
with
one
man
he
fledde
to
the
Erle
hunwaldus
to
whom
he
had
gyuen
great
possessions
and
he
traytourusly
discouered
hym
to
his
enemye
/
and
then
he
sent
Ethelwyn
stewarde
of
his
house
and
cruelly
martyred
hym
and
a
kynght
that
was
with
hym
also
that
hadde
rather
dye
thenne
to
lyue
without
his
mayster
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
god
.vi.
C.li.
as
it
was
prophecyed
by
seynt
Aydane
that
he
shuld
be
/
And
he
was
buryed
at
Tynmouthe
/
where
after
he
was
buryed
there
/
the
people
had
that
place
in
suche
reuerence
that
all
the
countre
made
it
a
place
of
theyr
buryall
/
a
Countes
that
had
great
deuocion
to
seynt
Oswyne
by
lycence
of
the
bysshop
toke
of
his
heere
for
a
Relyke
&
nat
of
mystrustynge
/
but
to
shewe
the
merytes
of
this
gloryous
kynge
and
martyr
/
She
threwe
parte
of
the
heere
into
a
fyre
/
where
it
lay
by
the
space
of
an
houre
and
burned
nat
/
he
helyd
a
woman
that
was
bynūme
in
all
her
body
/
and
saued
a
knyght
that
with
his
horse
fell
fro
a
hyghe
hylle
/
he
appered
to
one
in
pryson
and
badde
hym
go
to
Tynmouth
forth
with
his
handes
and
fete
were
lowsed
and
the
dore
vnlocked
/
and
so
he
went
as
he
was
bydden
/
he
helyd
two
blynde
women
and
cured
one
of
the
palsey
/
he
gaue
herynge
to
two
deffe
men
/
and
delyueryd
a
mayde
that
was
vexed
with
a
spirite
/
He
appered
to
a
woman
that
a
hole
yere
was
vexed
with
a
deuyll
and
tolde
her
dyuers
synnes
that
she
hadde
nat
ben
confessed
of
&
of
an
A●uowe
that
she
hadde
broken
and
exorted
her
to
be
confessed
counceyllynge
that
she
shuld
neuer
vse
the
crafte
to
sell
ale
and
that
for
those
causes
she
was
commytted
to
the
power
of
the
deuyll
/
and
when
she
was
hole
she
tolde
this
tale
with
great
wepynge
.
¶
De
sancto
Ondoceo
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Ondorēs
fro
his
youth
lyued
vertuously
and
full
of
good
werkes
with
fastyngis
/
vigylles
/
&
prayers
he
went
to
Rome
&
fro
thens
went
to
seynt
Dauidꝭ
&
commynge
by
the
churche
of
seynt
Theliani
he
toke
certeyn
Relykes
with
hym
&
theuys
that
wolde
haue
robbed
hym
bycause
they
thought
he
had
had
great
Ryches
were
stryken
blynde
/
&
by
his
praye
they
had
theyr
sight
agayne
when
he
was
made
bysshop
/
and
as
he
was
goynge
by
the
waye
he
desyred
of
certeyn
women
that
were
wasshynge
of
butter
/
to
haue
a
vessell
to
drynke
in
/
and
when
they
answered
somwhat
disdeynously
that
they
had
nothynge
but
butter
he
toke
a
pece
of
the
butter
and
made
it
lyke
a
bell
and
dranke
water
of
it
and
the
bell
yet
contynueth
in
the
church
of
Laudanense
lyke
pure
golde
/
as
a
kynge
was
huntynge
a
harte
the
harte
came
to
the
man
of
god
for
socour
&
the
kyng
seynge
that
myracle
asked
of
hym
forgyuenes
and
gaue
hym
all
that
grounde
/
after
he
left
his
bysshopryke
&
made
a
Monasterye
nygh
to
the
water
of
Wey
where
he
gathered
a
great
company
of
bretherne
&
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
many
yeres
/
he
dyed
the
.vi.
nonas
of
Iulii
.
¶
De
sancto
Paterno
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Paterne
was
borne
in
lytell
Brytayne
/
&
he
left
his
erthly
enherytaunce
coueytynge
to
be
hyer
of
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
/
and
heryng
of
his
moder
that
his
fader
had
forsaken
his
owne
countre
&
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
in
Irlande
he
purposed
to
go
to
hym
/
and
.viii.
C.xlvii
.
monkes
in
the
dayes
purposynge
to
leue
lytell
brytayne
&
to
come
into
great
Brytayne
folowed
hym
chewsyng
hym
to
be
theyr
leder
/
&
so
they
came
into
great
brytayne
where
he
made
a
Monastery
in
a
place
called
Mauritania
/
And
leuyng
his
bretherne
he
went
into
Irlande
to
his
Fader
/
where
by
oonly
syght
of
hym
two
kyngis
and
theyr
hostes
were
accorded
that
byfore
were
in
great
malyce
prepared
to
batayle
:
then
he
retourned
into
brytayne
to
his
bretherne
&
there
he
founde
a
brother
that
he
left
behynde
hym
in
lytel
brytayne
whiche
coulde
nat
lyue
without
hym
wherfore
in
truste
in
our
lord
and
in
the
vertue
of
seynt
Paterne
he
came
out
of
lytell
bratyne
vpon
a
stone
that
Rose
fro
the
bottom
of
the
see
sauffe
to
the
sayd
Monastery
/
Seynt
dauid
/
seynt
Paterne
/
&
seynt
Telam
by
monycion
of
an
Aungell
went
to
Iherusalem
.
And
there
they
preched
none
lyke
theym
syth
the
Apostellys
and
the
holy
ghost
so
werked
in
theym
that
euery
man
vnderstode
in
them
his
owne
speche
as
they
dyd
of
the
appostellys
&
there
they
were
made
bysshoppes
by
the
Patryarch
and
there
was
gyuen
in
rewarde
to
seynt
Patrone
a
Cote
wrought
with
golde
&
a
staffe
and
after
they
retourned
into
Wales
deuydynge
the
countre
into
thre
Bysshoprykes
/
A
kynge
in
wales
called
Carodancus
subdued
lytell
brytayne
/
and
there
the
people
shewyd
to
hym
that
/
but
he
sent
for
seint
Paterne
they
coulde
nat
be
contented
to
be
subiect
to
hym
/
&
then
the
kynge
went
ouer
to
hym
and
desyred
hym
to
come
thyder
for
instructyng
of
the
people
and
so
he
went
where
he
suffred
great
perfecyon
pacyently
.
When
Sampson
bysshop
of
that
prouynce
a
holy
man
went
aboute
his
diocyse
to
gather
a
certeyn
trybute
and
came
by
Cyte
nygh
wherunto
seint
Paterne
had
buylded
a
Monastery
one
of
the
monkes
of
the
bysshop
counceyled
hym
that
for
ꝓuynge
of
the
humylyte
of
the
holy
man
that
came
late
out
of
brytayne
he
shuld
sende
for
hym
/
&
that
the
messenger
shuld
brynge
hym
in
the
same
estate
that
he
founde
hym
&
the
bysshop
takyng
the
counseyll
symple
sent
forth
a
messenger
and
he
founde
hym
with
his
one
hose
on
/
&
the
other
of
/
and
when
he
had
tolde
his
message
seynt
Paterne
knowynge
what
was
to
come
went
with
hym
/
&
when
he
came
byfore
the
bysshop
the
monke
that
gaue
the
counseyll
laughed
at
hym
&
forthwith
he
was
taken
with
a
deuyl
and
fell
to
the
grounde
/
then
the
bysshop
Sampson
perceyuing
that
the
monke
was
the
cause
of
that
temptacion
asked
for
gyuenes
for
hym
/
wherupon
seynt
Paterne
droue
away
the
deuyll
&
made
hym
hole
/
wherfore
the
bysshop
discharged
hym
of
all
suche
paymentꝭ
/
After
at
a
synode
seynt
Paterne
had
great
trowble
of
some
that
enuyed
hym
/
&
at
laste
a
full
peace
was
made
&
yet
ferynge
that
suffraunce
myght
ꝓuoke
Ire
or
hurte
his
humylyte
he
lefte
that
countre
/
&
went
in
to
Fraunce
where
he
slepte
in
our
lorde
the
.xvii.
Kalend
of
Maii.
Thre
yeres
after
his
deth
fell
no
rayne
or
dewe
in
that
countre
/
wherfore
the
people
remembrynge
that
seynt
Paterne
went
out
of
the
countre
for
iniuryes
done
vnto
hym
by
a
hole
assent
went
into
Fraunce
to
fet
his
body
▪
&
when
they
coulde
nothyng
gette
/
but
oonly
a
bone
of
one
of
his
armes
/
yet
all
theyr
company
coulde
nat
remoue
it
/
wherfore
they
were
meruaylously
troubled
.
Then
a
noble
man
of
the
cyte
of
Guenet
sayd
that
seynt
Paterne
in
his
lyfe
had
asked
of
hym
oftentymes
a
grounde
to
make
a
Churche
in
/
&
that
he
wolde
nat
graunt
it
:
but
nowe
he
was
contented
/
&
that
sayd
they
toke
the
bone
lyghtly
&
bare
it
with
theym
to
the
sayd
Cyte
that
was
his
bysshoppes
see
/
&
there
it
lyeth
in
a
church
made
in
the
grounde
of
the
sayd
nobleman
In
his
lyfe
one
of
his
seruauntis
▪
that
went
to
ouer
se
the
woddes
was
kylled
with
theuys
&
byheded
/
wherfore
seynt
Paterne
heryng
therof
went
to
the
wodde
&
called
the
seruaunt
by
his
name
&
asked
where
he
was
/
&
he
answered
here
I
am
/
&
then
he
went
to
the
place
there
as
he
harde
him
speke
&
leying
the
hed
&
the
body
togyther
lyftyng
his
●yen
into
heuyn
he
blessyd
the
deed
body
/
&
forthwith
he
rose
vp
hole
/
And
therupon
a
myghty
man
in
that
countre
came
to
the
bysshop
&
sayd
they
were
his
mynystres
that
dyd
it
&
ferynge
that
the
vengeaunce
of
god
wolde
preuent
hym
asked
mercy
and
gaue
hym
a
parte
of
the
groun
-
&
he
benyngly
forgaue
him
seying
to
hym
that
byfore
his
dethde
he
shuld
please
our
lorde
/
and
that
he
shuld
be
buryed
honorably
in
holy
buryall
.
¶
De
sancto
Patricio
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Patrike
was
borne
in
Brytayne
now
called
Englande
/
&
in
his
youth
he
was
taken
prisoner
/
&
was
put
to
kepeswyne
/
&
a
.
C.
tymes
in
the
daye
/
&
as
many
tymes
in
the
nyght
he
prayed
after
by
an
Aungell
he
was
shewyd
that
he
shuld
fynde
a
certayne
thyng
there
as
a
hogge
Roted
whiche
he
shuld
take
to
pay
his
Rraunson
/
&
so
he
was
delyuered
out
of
bondage
as
he
was
goynge
home
by
his
prayer
his
felowes
founde
mete
that
had
ben
longe
without
/
&
be
ra●ted
.xxx.
dayes
by
cause
his
company
offered
all
their
mete
to
theyr
Idolles
as
he
slept
the
deuyll
tempted
hym
strongly
&
lay
vpon
hym
thre
dayes
&
thre
nyghtꝑ
lyke
a
stone
the
he
coulde
nat
remoue
/
&
then
he
cryed
hely
helpe
twyse
/
&
hely
came
and
delyuered
hym
then
the
deuyll
sayde
that
after
that
daye
he
shulde
haue
no
power
ouerhym
/
And
our
lorde
put
fro
hym
all
torpoure
and
heuynes
/
&
his
strength
clerely
restored
agayne
vnto
hym
.
In
his
slepe
he
thought
that
one
brought
hym
a
letter
&
in
the
begynnynge
was
wryten
her
est
vox
hībmensiū
.
And
as
he
was
redyng
of
it
in
the
same
moment
he
harde
a
voyce
of
many
I●faūtes
of
dyuerse
Countrees
in
Irlande
saynge
we
praye
the
Father
that
thou
come
and
walke
amonge
vs
/
and
then
he
thought
it
was
the
wyll
of
god
that
he
shuld
preche
in
that
countre
.
Therupon
bycause
he
wold
lerne
scripture
he
went
to
the
bysshop
of
Antisiodorense
&
was
with
hym
.xl.
yeres
redynge
&
fulfyllynge
holy
scripture
/
after
he
was
with
seynt
Martyne
.xl.
dayes
/
and
of
a
holy
Heremyte
he
had
a
staffe
that
our
lord
had
in
his
owne
hande
which
is
called
the
staffe
of
Ihesu
/
and
this
day
the
staffe
remayneth
in
his
Cyte
in
Irlande
&
of
a
bysshop
called
Amotus
he
was
made
Bysshop
/
&
so
he
went
to
Rome
where
he
was
in
great
fauoure
with
the
Pope
Celestyn
:
and
he
sent
hym
into
Irlande
to
conuerte
the
people
there
to
the
fayth
/
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.
CCCC
xxv
.
And
when
he
came
to
the
see
a
lepour
desyred
to
go
ouer
with
hym
&
his
company
wold
nat
assent
/
wherfore
seynt
Patryke
threwe
his
Aulter
into
the
see
/
&
the
Lepour
syttynge
therupon
folowed
the
shyp
tyll
they
came
in
to
the
Countre
of
Lagyne
/
Then
he
went
into
the
countre
of
Anathaylt
where
the
people
wold
nat
receyue
hym
/
wherfore
the
see
destroyed
al
the
countre
.
Then
he
went
into
the
North
parte
of
Irlande
to
the
man
where
he
was
in
bondage
/
and
there
he
sawe
moche
people
abydynge
his
commyng
for
they
had
herde
by
ꝓphetes
that
suche
a
man
shulde
come
/
&
yet
the
kynge
Loegar̄
commaunded
them
to
put
hym
awaye
&
when
a
fyers
dogge
was
tourned
to
hym
to
haue
deuoured
hym
he
was
anone
made
vnmouable
lyke
a
stone
.
Then
a
gyaunt
wold
haue
kylled
hym
whiche
also
was
made
vnmouable
&
by
the
prechynge
of
seynt
Patryke
was
conuerted
/
Then
the
gyauntes
brother
that
was
a
man
of
great
age
/
whiche
was
called
Russeynge
his
broder
conuerted
faught
agaynst
seynt
Partryke
&
he
asked
hym
what
he
ment
of
that
age
to
dispose
hym
to
fyght
&
asked
hym
whether
he
wolde
byleue
if
he
made
hym
yonge
agayne
and
he
sayd
ye
/
then
seynt
Patrike
put
hym
to
prayer
&
anone
he
was
made
in
that
state
of
a
fayre
yonge
man
/
wherfore
he
&
his
sones
&
many
other
were
cristened
/
&
then
Patrike
asked
of
hym
whether
he
wolde
lyue
any
longer
in
this
worlde
or
streyght
way
to
go
to
heuyn
&
he
desyred
to
go
to
heuyn
/
&
so
he
receyued
the
sacrament
&
went
to
our
lorde
/
As
he
was
sayinge
Masse
a
wytche
caste
downe
his
Chalys
&
forth
with
the
grounde
opened
&
Swalowed
hym
vp
/
A
great
tyraunt
called
Magnil
&
his
companye
Feyned
one
to
be
deed
that
seynt
Patryke
attempt
to
reyse
hym
/
&
so
to
be
deceyued
/
&
when
they
sawe
that
he
was
deed
in
dede
they
sayd
amonge
them selfe
verayly
this
is
the
man
of
god
/
&
anone
Magnil
was
conuerted
&
baptysed
&
was
redy
to
take
penaunce
/
&
then
seynt
Patrike
sayd
that
he
coulde
nat
Iuge
hym
/
but
god
shulde
Iuge
hym
/
neuerthelesse
he
had
hym
go
to
the
see
takynge
nothynge
with
hym
/
but
a
vyle
vestement
and
there
to
goo
into
a
shyp
of
one
skyn
without
guyde
or
ore
/
&
that
he
fetter
his
legges
togyther
&
throwe
the
kney
into
the
see
/
&
to
what
place
souer
the
wynde
brought
hym
there
to
serue
god
/
and
when
he
had
ꝓmysed
to
do
it
seynt
Patryke
araysed
the
man
that
was
deed
&
the
same
day
he
went
to
the
see
as
he
was
bydden
&
came
into
an
Ile
called
Mannam
where
he
founde
two
holy
Byshoppes
/
and
they
meruaylynge
had
pyte
on
hym
and
toke
hym
vp
gladly
/
&
he
taryred
with
theym
there
and
after
was
made
a
bysshop
&
was
a
great
man
in
that
countre
/
where
there
is
a
cyte
called
the
cyte
of
Magnil
the
bysshop
to
this
day
.
Our
lorde
was
with
hym
in
all
that
he
went
aboute
he
was
a
great
confounder
of
Enchauntours
/
and
by
his
prayers
he
put
awaye
snowes
&
derkenes
that
they
had
made
sodeynly
by
helpe
of
the
deuyll
/
land
one
that
was
moche
malycyous
to
hym
was
sodeynly
lyfted
vp
into
the
Eyre
and
lette
fall
agayne
/
wherof
he
dyed
myserably
&
an
Erthquake
sodeynly
came
&
fered
a
kynge
that
meynteined
the
sayd
Enchauntour
/
wherby
the
kynge
came
to
repentaunce
He
reysed
a
man
to
lyfe
that
hadde
ben
deed
.x.
yeres
.
This
was
his
dayly
lyfe
he
sayd
euery
day
the
Psaulter
with
.
CC.
prayers
&
dayly
sayd
masse
he
taught
disciples
preched
to
the
people
&
euery
houre
he
marked
hymself
with
a.
C.
crosses
In
the
begynnynge
of
the
nyght
he
sayd
.
CC.
psalmes
and
CC.
tymes
he
knelyd
/
and
fro
the
Cokkes
crowyng
he
stode
in
water
tyll
he
had
sayd
his
prayers
.
Then
he
toke
slepe
lyeng
vpon
a
bare
stone
&
a nother
vnder
his
hedde
.
Often
tymes
he
sawe
heuyn
open
/
&
our
lorde
Ihesu
stondyng
with
his
Aungellys
in
heuyn
/
wherfore
his
herte
alway
brenned
in
an
vncomꝑable
fyre
of
the
loue
of
god
/
He
was
a
Clene
&
irgyne
in
body
and
spirite
/
&
he
chaunged
this
lyfe
the
.xvi
Kalendr
of
Apryl
/
And
after
one
oppynion
he
was
buryed
in
the
Cyte
of
Dimense
in
Irlande
/
but
in
the
latter
ende
of
the
Legende
it
is
sayd
that
after
he
had
conuerted
Irlande
he
came
into
the
Ile
of
Aualony
&
was
ther
.xxxix.
yer●
&
that
at
this
day
seynt
Patrike
&
seint
benygne
disciple
lyeth
both
in
one
Shryne
on
the
southe
syde
of
the
hygh
Aulter
at
Glastonbury
.
¶
De
sancto
Paulino
Ep̄e
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Paulyn
came
into
Englande
with
seynt
Augustyne
and
conuerted
kynge
Edwyn
/
whiche
was
kynge
of
Northm̄humbre
&
moche
parte
of
all
the
countre
/
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vi.
C.
and
.xxvii.
And
the
people
there
had
such
Feruour
and
desyre
to
the
fayth
that
.xxxvi.
dayes
fro
mornynge
to
Euenynge
he
baptysed
the
people
in
the
water
of
Gleni
/
whiche
is
in
the
kyngdome
of
Bernyshe
for
at
that
tyme
there
were
no
fontes
.
He
baptised
also
many
in
the
water
of
Swala
that
is
in
the
kyngdome
of
Deyre
/
&
also
in
the
prouynce
of
Lyndesey
in
Lyncoln
and
in
the
water
of
Trent
six
yeres
whiche
was
all
the
dayes
of
kyng
Edwyn
he
contynued
in
prechynge
&
baptisynge
the
people
/
&
kyng
Edwyn
made
for
hym
a
bysshoppes
see
in
yorke
&
there
began
to
buylde
for
hym
a
Churche
of
stone
in
honour
of
seynt
Peter
/
&
byfore
it
was
Fynysshed
he
was
martyred
&
seynt
Oswalde
that
succeded
hym
buylded
the
resede
wetherof
/
He
made
dyuerse
Churches
one
in
Lyncoln
/
where
longe
after
that
it
was
decayed
yerely
were
done
myracles
/
and
when
Iustus
that
was
bysshop
there
was
deed
/
seint
Paulyn̄
made
Honorius
bysshop
there
/
He
was
of
a
longe
stature
/
somwhat
stowpynge
of
blacke
heere
&
lene
faced
venerable
&
also
terryble
of
countenaunce
/
&
after
the
good
kyng
Edwyn
was
martyred
seynt
Paulyn̄
left
Iame
his
Deakon
at
yorke
&
came
into
kent
with
the
quene
Ethelburgh
that
was
wyfe
to
kyng
Edwyn
&
brought
with
hym
a
goodly
Crosse
&
a
Chaleys
of
golde
that
yet
be
to
shewe
in
kent
/
He
was
made
bysshop
of
Rochester
by
honorius
&
the
said
Iames
lyued
to
the
tyme
of
venerable
Bede
/
&
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.vi.
C.
&
xliiii
.
the
.vi.
I
de
of
October
he
chaunged
this
lyf
/
&
lyeth
at
Rochester
where
he
left
his
palle
/
A
woman
that
had
longe
contynued
in
synne
on
a
tyme
as
she
was
goynge
to
offer
to
hym
was
stopped
at
the
first
gresse
dyuers
tymes
/
&
she
sawe
nothyng
wherby
she
was
moche
compuncte
&
prayed
the
monkis
to
pray
for
her
&
was
confessyd
/
yet
neuerthelesse
she
fel
agayne
&
after
wher
she
was
syke
she
was
meruaylously
sore
aferde
of
the
harde
Iugement
of
god
/
&
was
confessed
to
the
bysshop
&
sent
offrynge
to
seynt
Paulyn̄
seyinge
if
seynt
Paulyne
receyue
myne
offryng
I
am
forgyuen
if
nat
I
shal
haue
euer
lastynge
payne
And
when
it
was
sent
thyder
he
receyued
it
that
had
firste
refused
for
he
regarded
nat
the
offrynge
/
but
there
●entaunce
of
the
woman
.
¶
De
sancto
Petroco
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Petroke
was
borne
in
Cumber
and
was
a
kynges
sone
&
fro
his
youth
he
was
a
folower
of
the
Appostellys
/
He
was
sober
meke
feruent
in
Charite
&
redy
to
all
merkes
of
relygyon
/
And
when
he
shuld
haue
ben
made
kynge
he
forsoke
the
pompe
of
the
world
/
&
toke
with
hym
.lx.
Felowes
&
entered
into
Relygyon
/
after
he
went
into
Irlande
&
was
there
.xx.
yeres
/
where
he
profited
moche
in
lernynge
&
entendynge
to
go
agayne
into
his
countre
founde
a
shyp
redy
there
that
he
had
left
without
keper
.
And
whan
he
came
into
Brytayne
he
founde
there
men
labouryng
that
spake
harde
wordes
to
hym
/
&
whether
it
were
to
tempte
his
holynes
or
to
restreyne
theyr
drynesse
they
bad
hym
make
a
welle
of
swete
water
in
a
Rocke
that
was
therby
&
he
dyd
so
/
&
then
he
harde
of
a
holy
man
called
Sampson
&
that
he
ledde
therby
a
solytary
lyf
in
great
streyghtnes
with
barley
brede
in
fastyngis
&
prayers
/
&
when
he
sawe
Sampson
he
prayed
our
lorde
that
he
shuld
nat
remoue
tyll
he
had
spoken
with
hym
&
his
prayer
was
herde
&
sampson
therby
was
bounden
tyll
they
had
saluted
eche
other
&
nygh
to
Sampson
he
made
a
Monastery
&
lyued
theyr
.xxx.
yeris
in
great
fastingꝭ
prayers
and
colde
restreynyng
glotony
and
vnlaufully
mocyons
/
all
which
tyme
he
lyued
in
suche
innocencye
that
he
dyd
nothynge
that
he
wolde
nat
haue
done
to
hym
/
After
.xxx.
yeris
he
went
to
Rome
&
came
agayne
into
Cornewayle
wherin
a
great
tempest
to
conforte
his
discyples
he
sayd
the
tempest
shuld
cease
the
next
day
.
And
whan
it
dyd
nat
so
he
was
heuy
and
repented
hym self
moche
of
the
presumpcion
that
he
had
sayd
otherwyse
then
as
it
folowed
/
wherfore
the
thirde
day
after
he
went
to
Rome
agayne
&
so
to
Ier●m
/
and
there
he
toke
purpose
to
go
into
ynde
/
&
after
had
come
with
great
labours
to
the
Est
occean
there
he
founde
a
vessell
mete
oonly
for
one
man
/
wherby
he
went
into
an
Ilande
where
he
lyued
in
contemplacion
.vii.
yeres
/
&
al
that
tyme
he
was
fedde
with
one
fysshe
/
and
afterwarde
by
an
Aungell
he
was
conueyed
in
the
same
vessell
into
the
West
parte
of
brytayne
/
where
afore
that
tyme
had
ben
a
Cruell
kynge
that
had
gathered
many
venemous
serpentes
to
punysshe
felons
&
men
that
had
offended
/
and
when
he
was
deed
his
sone
wolde
none
of
the
crueltye
so
that
one
of
the
serpentes
for
hunger
kylled
a nother
tyl
one
terryble
serpent
preuayled
that
kylled
man
and
beste
/
whom
seynt
Petroke
droue
into
a
wyldernes
where
he
shuld
hurte
no
man
/
&
by
his
prayer
byfore
all
the
people
he
reysed
a
man
fro
deth
to
lyfe
/
&
when
he
shuld
dye
he
called
his
disciples
and
instructed
theym
how
they
shuld
kepe
perfyght
Relygyon
aduysynge
theym
that
they
the
had
forsaken
the
wordly
busynes
shuld
also
eschewe
all
desceytfull
plusures
of
the
world
/
&
that
they
shuld
thurst
downe
all
angre
&
hatered
fle
fr●
lyes
abanysshe
enuye
/
&
to
prepare
their
hertes
to
be
the
temple
of
the
holy
ghost
/
and
so
full
of
good
werkes
and
blessyd
myracles
he
chaunged
this
lyfe
the
day
before
the
Nonas
of
Iune
.
¶
De
sancto
Pirano
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Pyran
was
borne
in
Irlande
&
in
his
youth
he
went
to
an
Ile
called
Clera
/
where
he
lyued
in
great
abstynense
&
holy
werkes
.xxx.
yeres
After
he
went
to
Rome
/
where
he
was
made
bysshop
/
&
seynt
Patryke
bad
hym
go
byfore
hym
into
Irlande
to
preche
to
the
people
/
and
that
he
shuld
buylde
a
monastery
by
the
Ryuer
of
Waram
there
as
he
shuld
here
his
Cymbale
sounde
without
touchynge
/
&
so
it
was
done
.
By
his
prechynge
the
fayth
encreasyd
moche
in
Irlande
&
by
his
exaumple
many
were
styred
to
the
loue
of
god
&
forsakynge
all
wordly
thynges
folowed
oure
lorde
amonge
whom
was
Brendane
whiche
made
hym
a
place
nat
ferre
fro
seynt
Pyran
/
a
childe
by
instygacion
of
the
deuyll
put
out
the
fyre
that
was
vnder
the
Lycour
to
make
drynke
for
the
monkes
/
wherupon
seynt
Pyran
sayd
there
shal
be
no
fyre
be
in
this
place
tyll
our
lorde
send
it
fro
aboue
&
the
next
daye
the
childe
was
kylled
in
a
woode
with
wolfes
/
And
when
Geran
that
was
mayster
of
the
childe
came
to
seynt
Pyran
he
made
his
prayers
and
forth
with
fyre
fell
into
his
bosom
whiche
he
dyd
bere
without
hurtynge
of
his
clothes
/
and
when
they
shuld
go
to
souper
Geran
sayd
he
wolde
nat
ete
tyll
his
childe
came
a
lyue
to
hym
/
and
then
by
praye
of
seynt
Pyran
the
childe
rose
fro
deth
&
ete
with
theym
/
A
kynge
toke
fro
the
moder
of
seynt
Pyran
and
kynges
doughter
called
brunet
whom
she
had
to
brynge
vp
&
kept
her
in
his
castell
as
a
bond
woman
/
and
when
seynt
Pyrane
spake
to
hym
for
her
he
sayd
he
wolde
nat
delyuere
her
/
●onlesse
a
byttour
in
the
mornyng
waked
hym
of
his
slepe
whiche
he
thought
had
ben
vnpossyble
&
the
same
nyght
fell
a
great
snowe
aboute
the
Castell
&
there
as
seynt
Pyrane
/
&
his
company
was
fell
none
and
in
the
mornynge
a
byttoure
came
to
the
Castell
&
with
noyse
that
she
made
wakyd
the
kynge
/
and
then
the
kynge
lay
prostrate
at
the
fete
of
seynt
Pyrane
and
cryeng
hym
mercye
delyue
red
the
damosell
vnto
hym
.
Neuerthelesse
after
he
reputed
that
he
had
delyuered
her
/
and
when
he
wolde
haue
taken
her
agayne
he
founde
her
deed
/
wherfore
he
was
moche
angre
and
sayd
he
wolde
put
seynt
Pyrane
fro
that
place
and
he
sayd
to
hym
that
he
was
nat
god
/
&
that
that
place
was
nat
his
/
but
almyghty
godes
.
And
when
the
kynge
beynge
veray
angry
was
gone
fro
hym
he
sawe
his
castell
on
fyre
/
and
the
Quene
hauynge
.ii.
sones
lefte
that
sone
that
she
loued
beste
byhynde
her
for
hast
whom
she
commytted
to
seynt
Pyrane
/
&
when
all
the
Castell
was
burned
the
childe
was
sauffe
/
&
then
the
kynge
greatly
marueylyng
came
to
seynt
Pyrane
&
sayd
he
wolde
gladly
do
whatsoeuer
he
bad
hym
do
&
offered
to
hym
his
two
sones
to
serue
god
/
And
when
the
kynge
was
gone
he
Reysed
brunet
agayne
fro
de●h
to
lyfe
/
Our
lord
shewyd
for
hym
many
other
myracles
:
The
uys
that
were
lyke
to
haue
ben
taken
commytted
them
to
seynt
Pyrane
and
sodeynly
a
fyre
Rose
in
the
woode
bytwixt
the
theuys
and
theym
that
wolde
haue
taken
theym
/
so
that
they
saued
theym selfe
and
came
to
seynt
Pyrane
&
taryed
with
hym
all
his
lyfe
:
He
reysed
dyuerse
fro
deth
to
lyfe
that
were
drowned
and
also
otherwyse
deed
/
He
went
vpon
the
water
/
he
ceased
the
fyre
by
his
blessynge
/
He
multyplyed
meete
that
fedde
moche
people
/
he
tourned
water
into
wyne
/
Two
kynges
at
his
monycyon
wolde
nat
cease
fro
Batayle
/
wherfore
by
his
prayer
a
great
wodde
that
was
bytwixt
theym
sodeynly
felle
downe
and
stopped
them
/
so
that
they
coulde
nat
mete
togyther
/
In
all
his
lyfe
he
neuer
ware
but
bestes
skynnes
fro
flesshe
and
flesshely
desyres
/
He
absteyned
strongely
and
fro
all
that
myght
dystemper
hym
/
He
toke
lytell
slepe
&
was
oft
visyted
with
aungellis
/
he
made
many
prestes
/
and
clerkes
and
was
.
CC.
yere
olde
or
he
dyed
hauyng
lytell
sykenes
neyther
loste
toth
ne
yet
appeyred
of
his
syght
/
He
made
of
his
enemys
his
frendes
&
dyd
good
for
euyll
/
He
hadde
mercye
and
pyte
vpon
his
neyghboures
/
and
he
moch
laboured
with
his
owne
handes
that
he
myght
gyue
that
he
wanne
in
almes
/
He
punysshed
his
body
with
fastynges
/
and
vigylles
in
colde
/
hungre
/
&
thurste
dylygently
kepynge
charite
/
chastyte
/
and
hospitalite
.
He
was
alway
fro
his
youth
prayeng
redynge
techynge
or
doynge
some
good
werkes
/
and
was
humble
gentyl
in
speche
wyse
sobre
&
mercyfull
he
omytted
nothynge
of
the
commaundementes
of
god
he
fedde
the
hungry
/
gaue
drynke
to
the
thursty
/
receyued
them
that
were
harborowles
/
clothed
the
naked
/
he
taught
the
bretherne
to
loue
togyther
to
direct
that
Iye
of
theyr
mynde
to
Almyghty
god
and
alway
to
desyre
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
after
he
called
his
disciples
and
tolde
theym
it
was
the
wyl
of
god
that
he
shuld
go
into
Cornewayle
and
shewyd
them
of
many
great
troubles
that
shuld
come
into
that
countre
and
prayed
theym
to
praye
for
hym
that
after
his
deth
he
myght
fynde
our
lorde
meke
and
plesaunte
vnto
hym
/
and
when
he
came
into
Cornewayle
he
made
a
house
where
our
lorde
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
/
&
when
he
knewe
he
shuld
departe
this
transitory
lyfe
called
his
disciples
and
prechyd
to
theym
many
thynges
of
the
kyngdom
of
heuyn
and
caused
his
graue
to
be
made
&
goynge
into
it
departed
with
great
bryghtnes
the
thyrde
nonas
of
Marche
&
lyeth
in
Cornewayle
nygh
Seuerne
fro
Petrokstowe
.xv.
myle
and
fro
Monshole
.xx.
myle
.
¶
De
sancto
Richardo
Ep̄e
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Richarde
was
borne
in
the
diocise
of
Wigorn̄
at
the
wyche
:
and
in
his
youthe
he
eschewyd
daunsynges
and
vayne
playes
/
He
forsoke
twyse
to
be
maryed
and
went
to
stodye
at
Oxforde
Bonanye
and
Aurelian
/
where
he
profyted
moche
both
in
lawe
Cannon
and
in
dyuynyte
after
he
was
made
Chaunceler
with
seynt
Edmunde
Archbysshop
of
Caunterbury
&
was
to
hym
veray
constaunte
in
all
his
troubles
that
he
had
for
the
lyberte
of
the
Church
in
which
offyce
he
refusyd
to
take
ony
maner
of
rewardys
and
dyd
Iustyce
to
ryche
/
and
pore
not
regardynge
the
personys
of
grete
man
/
or
small
/
&
when
he
was
Chosen
busshope
of
Chichestre
the
kynge
Henry
the
thyrde
wolde
in
no
wyse
assent
to
his
eleccyon
but
kept
hym
fro
his
Landys
/
and
goodes
and
so
he
went
to
Rome
and
there
he
was
consecrate
by
the
pope
Innocent
the
fourthe
after
he
retournyd
towardys
Englonde
&
in
the
commynge
home
he
vysytyd
the
Relykys
of
his
Mayster
seynt
Edmonde
/
And
when
he
came
into
Englonde
he
suffred
many
great
rebukys
/
and
Iniuryes
in
great
pacyence
a
longe
tyme
Tyll
after
great
sute
he
was
restoryd
to
his
possessyons
/
This
blessyd
man
after
that
he
was
made
Busshope
went
aboute
his
dyoces
prechynge
/
visytynge
and
mynystrynge
of
the
sacramentys
/
He
was
fro
thens
more
feruent
in
prayer
/
more
lyberall
in
almes
gyuynge
the
more
dylygent
aboute
poore
men
/
and
his
demeanoure
was
the
more
meke
/
he
made
a
place
that
preestys
that
felle
in
Pouerte
myghte
be
releuyd
in
/
A
great
man
whom
he
had
accursyd
for
wronge
doon
to
his
Churche
came
to
hym
/
&
he
receyuyd
hym
famylyerly
&
bade
hym
to
dyner
sayinge
for
that
tyme
he
wolde
assoyle
hym
/
&
that
after
that
tyme
the
sentence
shulde
reuyue
onlesse
he
made
amendys
in
that
he
had
offendyd
agaynste
the
the
Churche
sayinge
also
if
partyes
do
varye
for
any
thynge
that
they
clayme
ryght
in
/
yet
they
ought
to
shewe
charyte
to
eche
other
/
for
if
a
man
clayme
that
that
is
his
he
maye
not
yet
withdrawe
fro
god
that
that
is
his
whiche
is
charyte
/
He
sought
for
poore
men
as
he
went
in
vysytacyon
/
and
wolde
aswell
with
his
owne
presence
as
with
his
almes
comforte
them
/
He
herd
confessyons
/
he
assoylyd
penytentys
/
He
gaue
counceyll
to
them
that
axyd
for
it
/
He
strengthed
men
that
were
feruent
to
serue
god
/
and
multyplyed
brede
that
fedde
moche
people
&
reysyd
a
Chylde
that
was
deed
borne
/
this
blessyd
man
as
he
was
prechynge
by
the
Popes
auctoryte
for
helpe
of
the
Holy
lande
/
dyed
at
douer
the
thyrde
nonas
of
apryll
and
was
brought
frothens
to
chychestre
where
our
lord
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
.
¶
De
seruo
dei
Roberto
abbate
venerabili
.
SEynt
robert
was
borne
in
the
prouynce
of
yorke
he
toke
order
of
preesthod
&
had
a
benefice
which
he
forsoke
&
enteryd
into
Relygyon
at
whytby
/
after
by
lycence
of
his
Abbot
he
went
to
fontes
where
Rycharde
pryor
of
seynt
mary
of
yorke
had
buyldyd
a
Monasterye
&
there
no
man
lyuyd
Idle
but
gaue
hym
to
laboure
/
the
bretherne
went
hungry
to
theyr
table
/
and
wery
to
bedde
/
they
lyuyd
without
murmure
/
or
Heuynes
&
in
great
feruoure
they
laudyd
our
Lorde
/
after
seynt
Robert
made
a
newe
Monasterye
/
and
there
he
was
made
abbot
/
He
neuer
rose
fro
his
table
fullysacyate
/
he
fasted
euery
lent
Breed
and
water
/
At
an
Estre
tyme
when
he
had
no
appetyte
to
ete
he
sayde
he
thought
that
if
he
had
eten
Brede
with
butter
he
shulde
ete
it
/
and
whan
it
was
brought
consyderynge
that
he
had
somwhat
assentyd
to
his
concupyscence
/
he
wolde
not
ete
it
but
sent
it
to
the
gate
to
poore
men
/
where
an
Aungell
lyke
a
yonge
man
with
a
bryght
shynynge
face
toke
the
dysshe
/
&
anon
vanysshyd
awaye
/
and
when
the
dysshe
was
askyd
for
/
it
fell
sodeynly
vppon
the
Borde
before
seynt
Robert
/
He
sayde
dayly
besyde
his
dutye
.
C.
&
.l.
psalmes
/
As
he
went
by
newe
castell
he
sawe
the
Deuyll
amonge
moche
yonge
people
/
&
by
compulcyon
he
shewyd
seynt
Robert
that
ne
had
ben
his
commynge
he
had
made
the
husbonde
at
a
pompyouse
Bryde
as
to
haue
ben
slayne
by
his
enemyes
/
And
there
vpon
shulde
haue
folowyd
great
murdre
/
And
by
his
commynge
he
sayd
all
his
purpose
was
stoppyd
/
On
a
nyght
he
thought
he
sawe
the
Dedyll
amonge
his
Bretherne
&
that
he
toke
a
Nouyce
that
was
not
stable
/
&
pullyd
hym
into
his
Basket
with
his
Hoke
/
&
in
the
mornynge
seynt
Robert
enquyred
for
hym
/
and
he
was
ren
his
weye
and
accompanyed
hym
to
the
theuys
where
shortlye
after
his
heed
was
stryken
of
/
he
was
ghostlye
fader
to
seynt
Godryke
And
when
he
dyed
seynt
Godrykesawe
thre
Aungellys
bere
his
soule
to
Heuen
/
And
seynt
Godryke
sayd
that
of
the
purueyaunce
of
god
a
blessyd
woman
of
Hastynges
wente
with
hym
in
oonsorte
/
&
oon
rewarde
into
Heuyn
He
dyed
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a
Thousande
a
Hundred
and
.lix.
the
.vii.
I
de
of
Iune
for
whome
oure
Lorde
hath
shewyd
many
great
myracles
/
A
dome
man
that
hadde
longe
ben
at
seynt
thomas
for
helpe
was
bydden
by
seynt
Thomas
that
he
shulde
goo
to
the
newe
Monesterye
to
seynt
Robert
&
there
he
shulde
be
helyd
and
soo
he
was
/
a
Knyght
sawe
in
vysyon
many
Deuyllys
goo
towarde
the
newe
Monastery
&
he
thought
a
Monke
in
whyght
apparell
came
out
of
the
Monastery
and
with
his
crosyer
lyfte
vppe
/
prohybytyd
them
that
they
shuld
goo
no
ferther
and
he
thought
that
with
theyr
stryuynge
a
Crosse
that
was
nygh
to
hym
was
throwne
downe
/
and
so
it
was
asapperyd
when
he
sent
thyder
in
the
mornynge
.
De
sancto
Rumwaldo
.
THe
moder
of
seynt
rūwalde
was
doughter
to
kynge
penda
which
was
a
paynym
and
she
was
Crystened
/
&
was
maryed
to
the
kynge
of
northāhumbre
that
was
a
paynym
/
and
she
prayed
hartelye
to
our
Lorde
that
her
body
shulde
neuer
be
defoulyd
with
a
man
eschaungyd
fro
his
lawe
/
and
when
she
came
into
the
chaumbre
she
tolde
her
Husbonde
that
she
wolde
neuer
accumpany
with
hym
tyll
he
was
crystenyd
/
and
by
the
wyll
of
our
Lorde
he
assentyd
/
And
aftre
as
he
/
and
the
quene
which
was
great
with
Chylde
were
goynge
to
her
fader
She
was
delyueryd
in
Tentys
in
a
medowe
besyde
buckyngham
callyd
Suttun
/
and
anon
as
the
Chylde
was
borne
he
cryed
I
am
a
cristen
man
thryse
/
and
he
sayd
he
wolde
not
haue
to
his
godfaders
the
Ryche
prowde
men
of
the
worlde
but
chase
to
his
godfaders
two
holy
Prestis
Wyderynus
/
and
Edwoldus
/
and
he
shewyd
a
Holowe
stone
that
he
shulde
be
crystenyd
in
/
and
when
moch
people
coulde
not
remoue
the
stone
he
bade
wyderinus
/
and
Edwoldus
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
to
brynge
it
/
&
anon
they
brought
it
without
dyffyculte
/
And
so
he
was
crystenyd
and
was
callyd
Rumwalde
as
he
appoyntyd
/
And
anon
he
prechyd
to
the
people
the
hyghe
mysteryes
of
the
Trynyte
howe
they
were
thre
personys
and
one
god
/
&
of
the
Artycles
of
the
feythe
/
and
of
the
.x.
commaundementys
/
and
specyally
of
the
Loue
to
almyghty
god
&
to
our
neyghbour
/
&
exortyd
the
people
to
do
penaunce
for
theyr
synnys
which
is
to
leue
theyr
euyll
Lyfe
&
to
make
amendys
for
that
they
haue
offendyd
with
Fastynges
/
prayers
/
&
Almesdedys
/
&
aduertysyd
the
people
to
loue
&
honour
eche
other
/
not
to
accuse
other
/
not
to
detracte
other
/
not
to
stele
ne
to
be
forsworne
/
And
when
he
had
made
a
long
sermon
&
approuyd
it
by
grete
auctorytes
of
Scripture
He
sayd
it
was
not
for
hym
to
lyue
in
this
worlde
/
and
so
aftre
thre
dayes
his
spiryt
went
to
heuen
the
thyrde
nonas
of
Nouembre
/
&
as
he
had
appoyntyd
his
bodye
lay
oon
yere
there
as
he
was
borne
/
&
two
yerys
at
Brakley
and
then
at
Buckyngham
where
he
lyeth
at
this
day
/
theyse
Townys
at
that
tyme
were
not
so
namyd
but
after
they
were
callyd
accordynge
as
he
had
namyd
them
&
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
.
¶
De
sancto
Sampsone
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
sampsone
was
borne
in
great
Brytayne
/
&
our
Lord
shewyd
in
vysyon
to
his
moder
callyd
anne
whiche
was
bareyne
&
that
lyuyd
with
her
Husbonde
a
blessyd
Lyfe
in
fastyngys
/
&
prayers
that
she
shuld
haue
a
sone
whom
she
shuld
call
Sampson
that
shulde
be
great
with
our
lorde
&
worthye
to
haue
order
of
preesthod
when
he
was
.vii.
yerys
olde
he
was
commyttyd
to
seynt
Iltut
and
he
sayde
he
shuld
be
a
great
Busshope
.
/
&
profyte
moche
in
the
chyrche
of
god
/
and
when
he
toke
dekon
&
preesthod
/
and
also
when
he
was
made
busshope
a
whyte
doue
was
seen
descende
vppon
hym
/
&
the
hyer
degre
that
he
toke
the
streyghter
lyfe
he
ledde
in
all
his
lyfe
he
neuer
ete
flesshe
/
the
celerer
that
was
neuew
to
seynt
Iltute
which
was
desyrous
to
be
Abbot
aftre
his
vncle
/
feryd
that
seynt
sampsone
shuld
haue
it
/
wherfore
he
put
a
great
poyson
into
his
chales
/
&
he
blessyd
it
&
dranke
it
without
hurte
&
as
the
Celerer
abydynge
in
his
malyce
shulde
be
houselyd
by
seynt
Sapsone
on
a
sonday
/
the
Deuyll
enteryd
into
hym
/
&
vexyd
hym
sore
/
&
by
seynt
sampsone
he
was
delyueryd
with
water
and
oyle
that
he
blessyd
and
gaue
hym
/
by
the
Daye
he
labouryd
/
and
prayed
/
And
on
the
nyghte
he
redde
scripture
&
vsyd
medytacyon
/
and
when
he
toke
slepe
he
lenyd
to
some
wall
/
and
neuer
slept
in
bedde
/
His
fader
was
syke
and
sayd
he
shulde
neuer
be
hole
nor
receyue
the
sacramentys
tyll
he
sawe
his
son
sampson
and
though
he
was
ryght
lothe
to
goo
/
yet
by
counsell
of
seynt
Iltute
he
went
vnto
hym
which
was
moche
gladde
of
his
commynge
/
and
confessyd
hym
to
hym
of
a
great
hed
synne
that
he
had
longe
kept
close
/
after
both
he
&
his
wyfe
with
all
theyr
chylderne
betoke
them
to
the
seruyce
of
god
/
With
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
he
kyllyd
a
great
serpent
after
the
sayde
Celerer
compleynyd
that
he
had
wasted
the
Houy
and
when
the
busshope
Dubryee
thought
to
proue
it
/
Sampson
made
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
ouer
the
vessellys
/
and
anon
all
the
vessellys
whiche
he
hadde
afore
geuyn
in
almes
were
fyllyd
agayne
full
of
Hony
/
after
he
was
Abbot
thre
yerys
/
Then
he
wente
into
Scotlande
/
where
he
dyd
many
great
Myracles
and
instructyd
the
people
/
and
when
he
came
whome
dubrycyus
by
commaundement
of
an
Aungell
made
hym
Busshope
/
&
so
he
went
into
lytyll
brytayne
/
where
he
founde
a
man
at
the
seesyde
lokynge
for
oon
that
as
it
was
shewyd
hym
by
our
Lorde
shulde
come
fro
be
yonde
the
see
that
shuld
hele
his
wyfe
that
was
a
lepoure
and
his
Doughter
that
was
vexyd
with
a
Deuyll
/
and
soo
he
helyd
theym
bothe
And
there
the
quene
had
great
malyce
vnto
hym
/
and
gaue
hym
Puyson
/
And
after
that
turnyd
a
wylde
Lyon
to
hym
and
he
escapyd
both
and
by
his
worde
the
Lyon
dyed
/
and
the
Quene
seynge
that
Myracle
askyd
hym
forgyuenes
/
euery
Lent
he
wolde
be
in
some
secret
place
fro
recourse
of
people
/
He
departyd
fro
this
Lyfe
the
fyth
kalendas
of
Auguste
/
And
lyeth
at
the
Monasterye
of
dolo
which
he
had
foundyd
in
lytle
Brytayne
as
he
had
doon
dyuerse
other
Monasteryes
/
This
blessyd
man
had
suche
grace
that
euer
as
he
was
at
masse
he
had
Aungells
to
assyste
hym
/
and
to
mynystre
to
hym
in
the
sacryfyce
.
¶
De
sancta
Sexburga
regina
&
abbatissa
.
SEynt
Sexburghe
was
Doughter
to
Anna
kynge
of
eest
Englonde
/
And
she
was
maryed
to
ercombertus
kynge
of
Kent
/
and
hadde
Issue
Egbertus
/
and
Lotharyus
/
whiche
were
after
Kyngys
and
two
doughters
Ermenylde
/
and
Erkengode
she
was
in
that
hyghe
degre
meke
/
and
poore
in
spyryte
/
she
ruled
her
Ryches
/
it
rulyd
not
her
/
she
was
good
to
them
in
hygh
degre
/
and
also
in
lowe
degre
/
Seldome
it
was
that
she
was
seen
amonge
the
people
/
&
often
in
the
Churche
/
she
enducyd
her
Husbonde
to
destroye
all
Idollys
that
were
in
his
Realme
/
And
crystendome
was
brought
in
thrughe
all
the
Realme
/
and
at
her
desyre
he
made
dyuerse
Monasteryes
/
She
taughte
her
Chyldrenne
dylygentlye
to
drede
God
/
and
to
kepe
his
commaundementys
/
And
when
the
Kynge
was
dede
she
enteryd
into
Relygyon
at
Ely
vnder
her
suster
etheldrede
/
whiche
lyuyd
there
a
Blessyd
lyfe
in
great
Fastynges
/
watchyngys
&
laboure
/
And
in
great
mekenes
she
folowyd
the
example
of
her
suster
/
where
after
her
deth
she
was
made
abbesse
and
then
she
was
moche
dylygent
by
cause
she
knewe
she
had
more
cure
and
charge
then
she
had
before
/
and
she
endyd
this
present
lyfe
the
daye
before
the
Nonas
of
Iulii
aboute
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vi.
C.
and
.xl.
and
was
buryed
by
her
Suster
.
¶
De
sancto
Swithuno
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Swythune
was
borne
in
the
tyme
of
kynge
Egbertus
which
was
the
.viii.
kynge
fro
kynge
kynegelfe
that
was
conuertyd
by
seynt
Byrynne
/
and
after
he
had
taken
ordre
of
preesthode
/
He
endeuouryd
hymselfe
to
preche
the
worde
of
god
catholycallye
and
truely
to
vse
werkys
of
pyte
&
to
correcte
theym
that
lyuyd
inordynately
after
the
deth
of
Helynstane
whiche
was
busshope
of
wynchester
he
was
chosen
busshope
there
/
And
he
made
Churches
of
newe
and
repayryd
tho
that
were
decayed
/
and
when
he
went
to
halowe
any
churche
he
went
not
with
great
pompe
/
but
went
on
his
bare
fete
To
his
feestys
he
callyd
not
Ryche
men
but
poore
men
&
euer
he
callyd
vppon
synners
to
do
penaunce
/
And
encouragyd
men
that
lyuyd
vertuously
to
perseuer
in
vertue
/
he
neuer
toke
a
full
meale
but
moderatly
for
sustenaunce
and
after
longe
vygyllys
/
&
great
labourys
that
he
shuld
not
all
fayle
he
toke
a
lytyll
slepe
/
He
made
the
brydge
at
the
eest
ende
of
Wynchester
/
And
as
he
was
lokynge
vpon
the
werke
a
woman
came
bye
with
egges
in
a
basket
and
by
the
neclygence
of
the
werkemen
her
Eggys
were
brokyn
/
wherfore
she
wepte
and
made
sorowe
/
And
the
Busshope
hauynge
pyte
with
his
ryght
hande
blessyd
the
basket
/
&
all
the
Eggys
were
hole
agayne
/
he
was
euer
busy
Psalmes
and
spirituell
melodye
/
and
with
all
dylygence
he
kept
his
herte
in
all
clennes
and
perseuered
in
kepynge
of
the
commaudementes
of
our
lorde
to
his
departynge
out
of
this
worlde
whiche
was
the
syxth
nonas
of
Iulii
/
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
.
D.
CCC.lxii
.
And
he
was
translated
/
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.
D.
CCCC.lxxi
.
in
the
Ide
of
Iulii
.
And
the
same
daye
of
his
translacyon
our
lorde
shewyd
for
hym
many
myracles
/
A
thilde
contracte
fro
his
byrth
was
helyd
There
blynde
wymmen
had
their
syght
:
The
yrons
of
one
in
pryson
brake
/
and
the
man
was
delyuered
/
A
man
syke
of
the
palsey
was
helyd
/
and
.xxv.
other
were
also
made
hole
of
dyuers
sykenes
.
¶
De
sancto
Thatheo
confessore
.
SEynt
Thathe
was
sone
to
a
kynge
in
Itlande
called
Thathalius
/
&
fro
his
yonge
age
he
kepte
hym self
vndefowled
fro
al
vyces
/
and
when
his
Fader
and
moder
sawe
hym
despyse
all
worldy
thynges
they
set
hym
to
scole
where
he
profyted
so
moche
in
vertue
&
connynge
that
of
all
the
countre
yonge
folkes
came
to
here
his
Doctryne
/
and
after
when
his
fader
was
syke
and
he
was
called
to
haue
taken
the
charge
of
the
Realme
an
Aungell
appered
to
hym
and
aduertysed
hym
to
kepe
his
firste
purpose
/
and
nat
to
coueyt
the
desceytfull
enheritaunce
of
this
worlde
/
for
he
sayd
all
that
we
se
shall
shortly
vanysshe
away
with
heuynes
and
ꝑell
/
and
so
on
the
mornynge
with
.viii.
felowes
he
went
into
Wales
in
a
shyp
without
sayle
or
ore
/
&
whenne
they
were
come
ouer
as
they
were
restynge
theym
in
a
towne
therby
he
sent
one
to
tye
the
bote
that
he
came
in
/
where
the
messenger
founde
a
harte
holdynge
the
rope
and
sauynge
the
bote
fro
drownynge
&
then
the
harte
was
ledde
to
seynt
Thathe
where
by
the
power
of
god
he
lay
downe
on
the
grounde
&
stretched
out
his
hed
and
made
sygnes
that
he
shuld
be
kylled
&
so
he
was
to
make
mete
for
the
bretherne
/
After
at
the
desyre
of
the
kynge
called
Cradoke
/
he
gathered
many
Scolers
and
made
a
Churche
of
the
blessyd
Trinyte
&
by
counseyll
of
the
Bysshop
of
Landaffe
he
sette
in
it
.xii.
Chanons
/
The
kynges
seruauntes
with
theyr
horses
destroyed
his
grounde
/
and
sodeynly
all
the
horses
dyed
/
&
when
the
kynge
herde
of
it
he
came
to
hym
and
cryed
hym
mercy
/
&
anone
all
the
horses
rose
agayne
/
&
then
the
kynge
seynge
the
myracle
gaue
hym
all
the
towne
with
his
owne
Palays
/
the
seruauntes
of
kynge
Gundlens
stale
his
cowe
&
kylled
her
and
seth
her
in
cawdren
/
&
the
more
it
seth
the
rawer
it
was
and
seynt
Thathe
herynge
therof
folowed
/
and
by
the
way
founde
the
prynt
of
her
fote
meruaylously
prynted
in
a
stone
/
and
so
folowed
to
the
kynges
Palays
:
whereof
malyce
and
in
mockage
the
euyll
seruauntes
couered
the
cawdren
and
made
it
lyke
a
sete
that
when
he
had
syt
downe
theron
he
shuld
haue
ben
skalded
/
and
it
was
to
hym
when
he
satte
downe
harde
&
sure
/
&
the
kyng
heryng
therof
kneled
downe
and
asked
hym
mercy
/
and
then
he
made
the
flesshe
&
bones
to
be
layde
in
the
skynne
/
and
the
Cowe
anone
rose
vp
afore
theym
all
/
and
seynt
Cadoke
sone
to
the
kynge
seyng
that
myracle
became
his
disciple
/
and
after
many
vertuous
werkes
/
vigylles
/
and
abstynence
/
he
yelded
his
soule
too
our
Lorde
the
seuynth
Kalend
of
Ianuarii
/
&
lyeth
in
his
Monasterye
.
¶
De
sancto
Theliao
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Thelianus
fro
his
youth
vsed
vigylles
/
and
prayers
&
gaue
all
that
he
had
to
pore
men
/
he
made
hym self
lene
that
he
myghte
make
other
fatte
/
and
he
was
enformed
in
scripture
of
seynt
Dubryce
/
And
after
went
to
a
wyse
man
called
Paulyn̄
where
he
accompanyed
with
seynt
Dauid
in
suche
affeccyon
that
there
was
bytwyxt
theym
but
one
wyll
when
wodde
lacked
at
the
Monastery
seynt
Thelians
lefte
his
stody
and
went
to
the
wodde
/
where
two
hartes
offered
theyr
neckes
to
the
yoke
/
and
so
they
brought
home
the
wodde
and
seruyd
longe
after
in
the
Monasterye
.
This
blessyd
man
by
the
monycion
of
an
aungell
went
with
seynt
Paterne
/
and
seynt
Dauid
to
Iherusalem
/
and
there
they
were
.iii.
dayes
in
contemplacion
/
and
had
forgotten
all
erthly
thynges
/
and
after
there
were
thre
Cheyres
ordeyned
for
theym
and
for
humylyte
seynt
Thelians
satte
downe
in
the
lowest
of
the
thre
Cheyres
/
And
it
was
a
cheyre
that
our
Lorde
hadde
sytten
in
/
and
whenne
he
knewe
that
he
knelyd
downe
with
great
reuerence
/
Then
the
people
desyred
hym
to
preche
/
and
so
he
dydde
/
and
the
people
of
straunge
tonges
vnderstode
hym
/
After
he
was
made
bysshop
and
in
token
of
the
grace
that
he
had
receyued
there
was
gyuen
to
hym
a
Cymbale
whiche
helyd
dyuerse
men
and
condempnyd
them
that
were
ꝑiuryd
vpon
it
/
and
euery
houre
it
sowned
withoute
to
wchynge
tyll
wretchyd
synners
presumptuously
towched
it
/
and
so
it
loste
the
vertue
.
This
blessyd
man
as
the
trumpe
of
our
Lorde
perseuerantly
by
worde
/
and
example
admonysshed
the
people
to
Heuynly
thynges
/
and
he
lefte
this
worlde
the
fyfth
Idus
of
Februarii
/
And
anone
there
was
gret
stryfe
for
his
body
bytwyxt
.iii.
ꝑties
/
and
as
the
people
by
comen
assent
fell
to
prayer
there
appered
thre
bodyes
al
I
lyke
/
and
there
was
no
varyaunce
in
fauoure
coloure
/
nor
vestymentes
/
and
so
Landaffe
had
one
of
the
bodyes
/
another
was
had
a
lytell
bysyde
Caremerthyne
/
&
the
thirde
into
West
wales
/
where
it
is
had
in
great
honour
.
¶
De
sancto
Theodero
Archiepo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Theodre
was
of
the
countre
of
Tarse
Celicie
/
and
was
a
man
of
approued
maners
&
instruct
aswell
in
Latyn
as
Greke
tunge
/
and
when
seynt
Adryan
of
mekenes
refused
to
be
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
he
appoynted
for
his
excuse
seint
Theodre
/
and
the
Pope
admytted
hym
with
that
condycyon
that
he
shuld
accompany
seynt
Theodre
into
Englande
and
he
assented
/
and
when
they
came
into
Englande
anone
seynt
Theodre
went
aboute
the
countre
/
and
taughte
the
people
the
trewe
way
of
good
lyuynge
/
and
the
dewe
tyme
when
they
shuld
kepe
theyr
Ester
/
And
he
was
the
firste
Archebysshop
to
whom
the
hole
Churche
of
Englande
obeyed
:
He
with
seint
Adryan
taught
the
maner
of
syngynge
in
all
the
Churches
of
Englande
that
byfore
his
tyme
was
oonly
vsed
in
Kent
he
ordeyned
scoles
aswel
for
Latyn
as
greke
tunge
&
taught
theym
Astronomye
Arythmetryke
/
and
also
Dyuynyte
/
&
many
of
his
Discyples
were
as
experte
intho
speches
as
in
theyr
owne
/
he
went
aboute
the
Realme
and
ordeyned
bysshoppes
where
nede
was
and
correctyd
that
was
nat
perfyte
/
when
the
Errour
of
Entycetꝭ
rose
at
Constantinople
seynt
Theodre
to
kepe
the
Churche
of
Englande
fro
that
errour
gathered
all
the
people
an
Clergye
togyther
with
great
dilygence
/
and
when
he
founde
theym
hole
&
stable
in
the
●ayth
/
for
instruction
of
theym
that
shuld
come
after
hym
he
wrote
a
letter
of
theyr
by
le●e
and
sent
it
to
Rome
/
He
knewe
by
reuelacyon
how
many
yeres
she
shuldelyue
/
he
went
fro
this
transitory
lyfe
to
the
euerlastyng
lyfe
the
.xiii.
kalend
of
Octobre
/
In
the
yere
of
our
lord
syx
hondred
foure
score
and
ten
/
and
in
his
tyme
the
Churche
of
Englande
profyted
more
spyrytuelly
/
then
euer
it
dyd
byfore
his
dayes
.
¶
De
sancto
Thoma
Epo
Herfordie
.
SEynt
Thamas
of
Herforde
was
borne
in
Englande
sone
to
Wylliam
de
Cātslupo
/
&
in
his
youth
he
vsed
dayly
to
say
Ma●●●
&
to
here
masse
/
After
he
went
to
stody
first
at
Oxford
/
&
then
to
Parees
where
he
was
made
mayster
/
and
after
he
came
agayne
to
Oxforde
/
where
he
was
made
Doctour
of
lawe
/
and
then
Chaunceller
of
the
Uniuersite
and
after
agaynst
his
wyll
/
he
was
made
Chaunceller
to
kyng
Henry
the
thirde
/
in
whiche
offyce
dayly
he
encreased
in
vertue
and
kept
him
clene
fro
all
rewardes
/
for
pleasure
of
ryche
men
or
pore
he
wold
nat
do
agaynst
Iustyce
/
and
after
the
deth
of
the
kynge
he
retourded
agayne
to
Oxforde
and
there
he
stodyed
Dyuynyte
/
This
blessyd
man
was
of
suche
sobrenes
that
his
seruauntes
neuer
sawe
hym
excede
in
mete
or
drynke
/
&
he
punysshed
his
body
with
vigylles
/
&
fastyngis
/
&
pryuely
vsed
to
weer
the
heere
/
and
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.
M.CC.lxxv
.
he
was
made
bysshop
of
Herforde
&
for
defence
of
the
right
of
his
church
to
his
great
payne
he
went
to
Rome
where
he
was
honorably
receyued
of
pope
Martyn
/
&
in
retournynge
home
he
departed
out
of
this
world
at
Florentyn̄nygh
the
hylle
of
Flascon
/
the
.vi.
nonas
of
Octobre
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
.
M.CC.lxxxvii
.
and
.vi.
dayes
his
body
was
kept
and
gaue
a
swete
sauoure
/
and
then
his
flesshe
was
shauen
fro
the
bones
and
buryed
in
the
Churche
of
seynt
Seuery
there
/
and
his
bones
were
brought
to
Herforde
/
Threscore
and
ten
men
haue
ben
reysed
fro
deth
to
lyfe
by
his
meryt
▪
and
.xii.
blyndemen
recouered
theyr
syght
with
dyuers
other
contracte
/
mute
/
&
syke
of
the
palsey
that
haue
ben
also
made
hole
¶
De
sancto
〈…〉
THe
lyfe
and
hole
proses
of
this
gloryous
〈◊〉
seynt
〈◊〉
of
〈…〉
and
of
his
fader
&
moder
/
How
his
moder
beynge
a
pagan
came
to
London
fro
fer
countres
and
by
the
goodnes
of
our
lorde
was
conuerted
to
the
fayth
/
&
how
〈…〉
was
in
fauoure
with
the
kynge
and
was
made
his
Chaunceller
And
after
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
/
where
he
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
in
good
e●ample
&
dedes
of
charite
/
and
how
he
agreed
at
Clarendon
to
certeyn
Articles
/
which
he
after
reuoked
bycause
they
were
agaynst
the
lyberte
of
the
Churche
/
and
how
he
was
therfore
called
periued
/
and
of
the
persecucion
that
he
hadde
for
the
lybertye
of
the
Churche
/
and
how
al
his
olde
fauoure
with
the
kynge
tourned
to
malyce
/
How
he
fledde
at
Northampton
and
went
to
Rome
where
he
was
as
an
outlawe
.vii.
yeris
/
his
kynnesfolke
banysshed
the
Realme
for
his
sake
all
his
goodes
and
possessions
seased
and
his
frendes
tourned
to
his
enemyes
/
howe
he
was
logged
in
a
place
of
the
Cisteux
by
the
〈◊〉
assygnement
and
was
put
out
fro
thens
for
fere
leste
the
kynge
wolde
haue
hurted
that
Relygion
in
Englande
/
&
how
he
went
into
Fraunce
&
was
there
greatly
cherysshed
&
how
after
by
the
meanes
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
the
Frenche
kyng
tolde
hynthe
was
to
wylfull
/
&
so
he
knew
none
other
but
he
shulde
be
banysshed
from
thens
/
&
then
the
Frenche
kynge
seyng
his
constaunce
toke
hym
in
more
great
fauour
/
then
he
dyd
byfore
/
&
how
the
Archebysshop
of
yorke
was
accursyd
for
that
he
toke
vpon
hym
to
crowne
the
kyngis
sone
/
where
it
belonged
oonly
to
the
see
of
Caunterbury
whiche
was
cause
of
more
grugge
/
&
how
he
in
the
ende
was
〈…〉
where
&
by
whom
&
that
the
kynge
sayd
he
was
nat
assentynge
to
his
deth
&
of
the
great
repentaunce
that
the
kynge
toke
by
cause
he
had
so
moch
attemptyd
agaynst
hym
/
is
so
openly
knowen
to
most
people
that
the
spekyng
of
it
in
this
short
treatyse
shuld
but
make
the
story
the
more
darke
&
nat
to
open
as
it
shuld
be
/
wherfore
I
commytte
the
reder
hereof
that
is
disposed
to
se
more
of
this
〈…〉
to
rede
his
hole
Legende
/
When
〈…〉
in
his
lyfe
lyued
moche
prayed
at
his
tumbe
for
helth
&
had
it
after
his
desyre
/
After
when
he
was
hole
he
consyderyd
that
percase
that
helthe
was
nat
expedyent
to
the
helth
of
his
soule
/
wherfore
he
went
agayne
to
his
tumbe
&
prayed
/
that
if
that
bodely
helth
were
nat
to
the
helth
of
his
soule
that
his
sykenes
shuld
co
●
agayne
&
so
it
dyd
.
¶
De
sancto
Thoma
monacho
a
gallis
occiso
.
WHen
Lowys
sone
to
the
Frenche
kynge
at
the
desyre
of
dyuers
of
the
noble
men
of
England
came
with
a
great
hoste
into
Englande
they
founde
this
blessydmā
seynt
Thomas
at
douersyttyng
alone
in
the
dormytorie
a
man
of
a
venerable
age
meke
&
sobre
/
&
fro
his
you
the
brought
vp
in
monastical
●uersaciō
&
al
his
felowes
were
fled
for
fere
of
the
Frenchmen
/
&
when
he
wold
nat
by
fayr
wordes
neyther
by
thretes
discouer
the
Riches
of
the
Monastery
/
But
also
boldely
rebuked
theym
for
theyr
sacrelege
and
cruelte
/
with
a
swerde
in
great
malyce
they
martyred
hym
the
nonas
of
August
/
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.
M.
CC.lxxxxv
.
and
at
his
Tumbe
a
man
of
the
Frenesy
was
made
hoole
/
Foure
men
had
theyr
fyght
&
.v.
were
reysed
fro
deth
to
lyf
.
¶
De
sancta
Walburga
virgine
.
SEynt
Walburgh
was
suster
to
seynt
Willibrord
&
Wynnybolde
/
and
with
theym
she
went
out
of
Englande
/
&
when
they
came
to
seynt
Bonyface
bysshop
of
Maguntinēse
he
made
Willibrord
bysshop
of
Heystatense
&
Wynnobolde
entered
into
Religion
at
Heydanhem
/
and
after
theyr
deth
seynt
Walburgh
was
made
Abbes
of
that
Monastery
/
&
had
rule
of
many
virgyns
:
And
when
the
keper
of
the
churche
at
nyght
denyed
to
gyue
her
lyght
and
she
toke
it
in
great
pacyence
there
was
in
the
dortor
where
she
went
a
great
heuynly
lyghte
/
that
endured
to
Matens
tyme
so
that
al
the
susters
meruayled
at
it
/
and
she
thanked
our
lorde
therof
/
and
attrybuted
it
to
the
merytes
of
her
bretherne
/
and
nat
of
her
owne
.
On
a
nyght
she
went
vnknowen
to
a
Riche
mannes
house
where
a
mayde
lay
syke
/
and
when
the
man
sawe
her
he
badde
her
beware
of
the
dogges
and
she
sayd
he
that
had
brought
her
thyther
shuld
saue
her
fro
the
dogges
/
and
when
he
had
lerned
what
was
her
name
he
toke
her
into
his
house
with
great
reuerence
/
and
when
it
was
tyme
to
go
to
reste
he
asked
her
where
she
wolde
lye
and
she
sayde
there
as
her
suster
lay
syke
/
where
she
gaue
her
to
prayers
and
helyd
the
mayde
/
and
in
the
mornynge
retourned
to
her
Monastery
/
and
full
of
good
werkes
she
went
to
our
lorde
the.
Kalend
of
May
/
and
was
honorably
buryed
in
the
same
Monasterye
She
appered
After
her
deth
to
Otgare
bysshop
of
Heystatense
and
blamyd
hym
that
he
kept
the
Monastery
neclygently
and
tolde
hym
that
she
wolde
shewe
hym
such
a
token
that
he
shulde
perceyue
that
he
had
nat
done
well
to
her
/
and
shortly
after
at
the
rofe
of
a
house
there
was
settynge
vp
/
the
North
wall
fell
and
feryd
theym
moche
/
and
then
Otgare
repayred
the
Churche
and
remouyd
the
body
of
seynt
Walburgh
and
of
her
brother
Wynnybold
to
Heystatense
.
¶
De
sancto
Walleno
abbate
.
SEynt
Wallene
otherwyse
called
Walthesse
was
sone
to
Syrnon
Erle
of
Huntyngdon
/
&
his
moder
was
doughter
to
the
Erle
of
Northumberlande
/
&
accordynge
to
his
name
he
was
a
good
thefe
for
he
stale
mekely
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
kepynge
all
his
Reuelacions
and
vertues
close
/
when
his
fader
was
disheryted
and
was
deed
in
Fraunce
/
seynt
Wallene
was
made
Chanon
in
the
Monastery
of
seynt
Oswalde
in
yorke
/
and
there
beyng
sexten
he
was
chosen
to
be
Pryor
of
Kyrkehm̄
and
how
moche
he
was
in
the
oppynyon
of
other
men
hyer
so
moche
he
was
in
his
owne
syghte
the
more
meke
/
As
he
was
at
masse
on
Cristenmasse
daye
/
and
he
had
spoken
the
sacramentall
wordes
he
sawe
a
goodly
childe
more
whyte
then
the
snowe
with
a
crowne
of
golde
that
with
mylde
countenaunce
touched
his
face
and
hedde
/
whiche
oft
kyssed
hym
and
blessyd
hym
/
and
soo
he
vanysshed
awaye
leuynge
nothynge
but
the
hoste
/
&
he
neuer
after
Remembred
that
vysyon
but
he
wept
for
Ioy
/
After
fro
more
streyght
lyfe
he
entered
into
Relygyon
of
Cisteur
at
wardon̄
/
&
after
he
was
made
Abbot
at
Mailrose
.
By
his
mocyon
his
kynnesman
Symond
made
the
Monasterye
of
Seynt
Andrews
in
Northampton
the
Nonnery
without
the
towne
and
saltery
Abbey
/
Thre
gestes
came
to
hym
whiche
he
receyued
mekely
wassynge
theyr
handes
and
fete
/
and
sodeynly
one
of
theym
was
gone
/
and
in
the
nyght
folowynge
an
Aungell
appered
to
one
of
the
Brethene
and
sayd
he
was
the
geste
/
that
the
day
byfore
went
sodeynly
fro
them
addyng
therto
that
he
was
appoynted
by
our
lorde
to
be
keper
of
that
place
/
&
sayd
the
almes
and
prayers
of
theyr
Abbot
dayly
ascended
byfore
our
lorde
lyke
swete
encense
/
he
sawe
in
vysyon
the
thre
kynges
do
theyr
offrynge
/
&
how
our
lorde
was
scourged
dispysed
crowned
with
the
crowne
of
thorne
crucifyed
and
suffred
deth
/
and
how
water
and
blod
came
out
of
his
syde
/
and
how
he
rose
fro
deth
leuynge
the
kepers
as
deed
/
and
after
went
into
heuyn
.
On
a
tyme
when
the
deuyll
appered
to
hym
he
toke
the
Sacrament
/
and
badde
hym
cursed
wretche
se
his
Iugge
that
shulde
sende
hym
into
helle
/
And
thenne
he
myght
abyde
noo
lenger
/
but
vanysshed
awaye
/
He
refused
to
be
Bysshop
he
multyplyed
corne
and
brede
that
seruyd
moch
people
/
and
helyd
a
man
of
the
dropesye
he
went
to
heuyn
the
thride
nonas
of
August
:
In
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a
Thousande
a
hondred
&
thre
score
/
&
after
he
appered
to
a
broder
that
by
temptacyon
of
the
Deuyll
preferred
the
lawe
of
the
Iewes
byfore
the
cristen
lawe
And
also
sayd
there
was
no
lyf
but
this
and
he
shewid
hym
in
vysyon
〈…〉
hell
and
heuyn
/
and
then
whenne
he
came
to
hymselfe
agayne
he
forsoke
all
his
errours
/
and
lyued
a
good
lyfe
and
conuerted
many
people
and
byfore
his
deth
sawe
our
lorde
with
his
bodely
lyen
.
¶
De
sancto
Walstano
Confessore
.
SEynt
Walstan̄
was
borne
in
the
Southe
parte
of
Englande
in
a
towne
called
Bauburgh
/
and
was
of
the
kynges
blode
/
And
whenne
he
was
aboute
the
Age
of
.xii.
yeres
by
Inspyracyon
of
the
holy
Ghost
he
forsoke
all
his
Enherytaunce
/
and
his
Countree
and
went
into
the
Northe
partes
/
and
put
hym selfe
in
seruyce
to
a
man
in
the
towne
of
Tauerham
/
He
was
a
great
gyuer
of
almes
in
so
moche
that
he
gaue
nat
oonly
his
owne
mete
to
poore
men
/
but
also
on
a
tyme
he
gaue
his
shone
to
a
poore
man
&
went
hym selfe
barefote
/
And
whenne
his
dame
perceyued
it
she
feyned
that
she
hadde
great
nede
to
haue
thornes
/
&
caused
hym
to
go
to
the
wodde
to
fet
theym
home
and
by
the
goodnes
of
oure
Lorde
/
the
thornes
were
to
hym
lyke
rose
flowers
hurtynge
hym
no
thynge
/
And
whenne
his
dame
knewe
that
she
cryed
hym
mercy
/
and
he
anone
forgaue
her
/
His
mayster
seynge
the
sygnes
that
he
dyd
loued
hym
moche
/
and
wolde
haue
made
hym
his
heyre
whiche
he
refused
/
and
wolde
no
thynge
haue
in
any
wyse
/
but
oonly
that
whiche
one
of
his
M●ysters
keen
hadde
in
her
bely
at
that
tyme
/
and
she
had
a●●er
two
Calues
whiche
his
mayster
gaue
hym
with
good
wyll
/
and
as
he
was
after
mowynge
in
a
medowe
with
one
of
his
felowes
an
aungell
appered
to
hym
and
shewyd
hym
that
the
thirde
daye
folowynge
he
shulde
departe
this
world
/
wherfore
he
was
howseled
and
toke
all
the
sacramentis
of
the
Churche
and
at
the
sayd
daye
he
toke
his
mayster
and
dyuerse
other
honest
persones
with
hym
/
and
went
to
the
sayd
medowe
/
and
there
he
wylled
that
when
he
was
deed
his
body
shuld
be
put
in
to
a
carte
and
his
two
oxen
to
be
put
in
it
and
to
be
suffred
to
go
with
it
where
they
wold
without
any
leder
and
there
as
they
taryed
he
to
be
buryed
/
&
he
had
graunted
of
our
lorde
that
what
laborer
that
called
vnto
hym
for
helpe
of
his
desease
or
for
his
bestes
that
he
shuld
be
herde
/
and
so
he
departed
out
of
this
worlde
the
thirde
Kalend
of
Iune
/
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
a
thousande
and
syxtene
/
And
when
he
was
leyde
in
a
Carte
the
sayd
two
Oxen
brought
hym
to
Bauburgh
:
and
by
the
way
they
went
ouer
a
water
/
&
the
wheles
of
the
carte
dyd
nat
synke
into
the
water
/
and
in
thre
places
where
they
rested
sprange
vp
thre
fayre
welles
/
he
lyeth
in
Bauburgh
where
a
Churche
is
halowed
in
the
honoure
of
his
name
/
and
there
our
lorde
hath
shewyd
for
hym
many
great
myracles
as
well
vpon
men
as
vpon
brute
bestes
.
De
sancta
Wenefreda
virgine
&
martyre
.
A
Man
of
great
vertues
called
Bennow
came
to
the
fader
of
seynt
Wenefrede
&
desyred
of
hym
a
grounde
wherin
he
myght
make
a
churche
to
serue
almyghty
god
therin
&
he
gladly
assented
and
assygned
a
place
vnto
hym
/
&
also
commytted
his
oonly
begoten
doughter
called
Wenefrede
to
hym
to
enforme
and
she
herynge
his
prechynge
/
and
Doctryne
purposed
secretly
her
herte
to
forsake
all
the
plesures
of
the
worlde
/
and
to
kepe
virgynyte
whiche
purpose
she
durste
nat
shewe
to
her
fader
and
moder
/
but
to
her
mayster
&
he
shewyd
it
to
theym
wherwith
they
were
ryght
well
contented
/
and
after
it
happened
that
when
her
fader
and
moder
on
a
Sonday
were
at
Churche
Cradoke
sone
to
kynge
Algare
founde
her
alone
in
her
faders
house
and
promysed
to
her
great
gyftes
to
assent
vnto
hym
/
and
she
sodeynly
astonyed
dissembled
with
hym
and
sayd
that
she
was
sory
that
she
was
so
euyll
appareylled
/
and
prayed
hym
that
she
myght
go
into
her
Chamber
to
apparell
her
more
honestly
/
and
when
she
came
into
the
Chambre
she
ranne
pryuely
towarde
the
churche
/
and
when
he
perceyued
that
in
great
angre
he
folowed
/
and
when
he
had
ouer
taken
her
on
a
hylle
/
and
she
wolde
in
no
wyse
assent
to
hym
he
strake
of
her
hedde
/
and
there
as
the
hedde
fell
anone
sprange
a
fayre
welle
/
and
the
stones
therof
haue
redde
spottes
lyke
blode
to
this
day
/
&
the
hedde
ran
downe
into
the
Churche
there
as
they
were
at
seruyce
wherat
all
the
people
were
meruaylously
astonyed
/
and
her
fader
and
moder
made
great
Lamentacyon
/
wherupon
her
mayster
takyng
the
hed
went
to
the
place
where
her
body
lay
/
where
was
yet
the
kynges
sone
dryinge
his
swerde
/
and
when
he
had
reproued
hym
for
his
wycked
dede
and
he
had
no
repentaunce
therfore
sodeynly
he
dyed
/
and
it
was
nat
knowen
where
his
body
became
/
and
then
her
mayster
leyde
the
hedde
to
the
body
and
shewyd
the
people
how
she
had
aduowyd
to
be
a
Nonne
/
and
therupon
he
made
his
prayer
&
anone
she
rose
vp
as
she
had
ben
a
slepe
nothynge
apperyng
of
the
cuttynge
/
but
oonly
a
lytell
whyte
cercle
aboute
her
necke
/
and
the
people
nat
yet
conuerted
/
seynge
thyse
myracles
fell
downe
to
the
fete
of
Bennowe
and
desyred
to
be
cristened
&
so
they
were
/
and
then
she
was
made
a
Nonne
&
kept
virginite
accordynge
to
her
auowe
and
gadered
many
virgyns
/
after
her
mayster
went
fro
her
/
and
euery
yere
she
vsed
to
sende
hym
a
certeyne
present
and
lapped
it
in
a
lynnen
cloth
/
&
layde
it
in
the
sayd
welle
as
her
mayster
had
appoynted
her
to
do
/
and
it
was
conueyed
to
hym
fyftye
myles
in
the
water
/
And
yet
the
cloth
was
neuer
wette
/
and
after
her
maysters
deth
by
the
wyll
of
our
lorde
she
went
to
a
place
called
Wyltheriacus
and
the
Abbot
there
by
spirit
knewe
her
commyng
and
met
her
and
brought
her
into
the
company
of
virgyns
and
made
her
the
ruler
of
theym
/
where
our
lord
Ihesu
criste
appered
to
her
and
tolde
her
that
her
tyme
drewe
nere
/
&
in
the
fourth
nonas
of
Nouembre
she
yelded
her
spiryte
to
our
lorde
for
whom
hath
ben
shewyd
many
myracles
/
and
now
she
lyeth
at
Shrewesburye
/
whether
she
was
translated
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
a
thousande
a
.
C.
and
.xxxviii.
¶
De
sancta
Wereburga
virgine
.
THe
Quene
Ermenylde
moder
to
Seynt
Wereburghe
came
by
Lyny
all
descent
fro
seynt
Ethelbert
kynge
of
Kent
/
that
was
conuerted
by
seynt
Augustyne
/
&
a
goodly
pedegre
is
therof
in
the
Legende
/
&
Wulferus
was
her
fader
.
This
glorious
virgyne
despysynge
all
concupyssence
and
pleasures
of
the
worlde
entered
into
Relygyon
at
Ely
vnder
her
Aunte
seynt
Ethel
drede
where
she
shewyd
her selfe
to
be
the
very
meke
hand
mayde
of
our
lorde
/
And
when
her
fader
was
deed
her
broder
Ethelredus
made
her
to
haue
Rule
of
all
the
Monasteryes
of
Nonnes
in
Englande
/
&
natwithstandynge
she
shewyd
her selfe
rather
to
be
a
mynystrice
then
a
maystres
enformynge
theym
that
were
vnder
her
rather
by
good
●●mple
/
then
by
commaundement
&
her
body
beynge
in
Erth
her
mynde
was
in
heuyn
/
when
she
was
in
the
mansyon
of
Wedun
that
is
by
Hampton
certeyne
fowles
destroyed
the
corne
wherfore
she
commaunded
that
they
shuld
be
brought
home
and
put
in
holde
/
&
so
they
were
on
fote
as
though
they
coulde
nat
haue
flowen
/
&
in
the
mornynge
when
she
had
lycensyd
theym
to
go
away
/
and
one
of
the
mynystres
had
hyde
one
of
them
/
Al
the
flocke
came
aboute
the
house
where
seynt
Wereburgh
was
/
&
wolde
nat
away
tyll
she
had
caused
theyr
felowe
to
be
delyuered
/
&
then
they
went
away
without
retournynge
of
theym
or
any
of
that
kynde
/
when
she
knewe
that
the
tyme
drewe
nere
that
she
shuld
dye
she
wylled
the
where
soeuer
she
dyed
her
body
shuld
be
had
to
the
Monastery
of
Hamburgense
/
&
after
in
the
.iii.
nonas
of
February
she
went
to
our
lorde
/
&
when
her
body
was
brought
to
Trykenhm̄
/
&
was
dylygently
kept
with
the
dores
shet
/
sodeynly
all
the
company
fell
aslepe
&
men
of
Hamburgense
came
to
fet
away
the
body
accordyng
to
her
wyll
/
&
the
dores
flewe
open
so
that
they
toke
the
body
without
resystence
&
buryed
it
honorably
/
where
many
myracles
were
shewyd
for
her
by
our
lorde
/
&
.ix.
yere
after
her
body
&
clothes
were
founde
vncorrupt
&
so
her
body
lay
vncorrupt
vnto
the
commyng
of
the
Danes
that
her
flesshe
was
incyuerate
by
the
goodnes
of
god
rather
then
her
body
shuld
be
vngoodly
touched
by
the
infydels
her
bones
were
after
translated
to
Chestre
wher
they
lye
at
this
daye
.
¶
De
sancto
Wylfryde
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Wylfryde
was
borne
of
noble
blode
in
Englande
/
and
in
his
youthe
he
gaue
nat
hym selfe
to
lyghtnes
and
wantonnes
/
but
ordered
hym selfe
soberly
in
all
thyngꝭ
nat
vsyng
any
chydyng
bacbytyng
or
stryfe
/
and
when
he
came
to
age
of
.xiiii.
yeres
he
shewyd
the
Quene
Elflede
that
his
purpose
was
to
leue
the
world
&
to
serue
our
lorde
wherupon
the
quene
sent
hym
to
Lyndefernense
where
he
associated
hymself
to
a
College
of
monkes
/
&
there
a
sertayne
tyme
he
seruyd
our
lorde
/
After
he
went
towarde
Rome
with
seynt
Benet
Bysshop
/
&
by
the
waye
the
bysshop
of
Lyons
lyked
hym
so
well
that
he
wolde
haue
gyuen
hym
great
possessions
and
haue
maryed
hym
to
his
broders
doughter
/
but
that
he
tolde
hym
that
he
hadde
purposed
a nother
way
of
conuersacion
/
And
when
the
bysshop
herde
that
he
sent
hym
to
Rome
with
great
gyftis
and
there
in
the
Churche
of
seynt
Andrewe
he
prayed
hertely
for
remyssion
of
his
synnes
/
&
that
he
myght
haue
wysedome
and
eloquence
to
vnderstande
and
shewe
the
worde
of
god
And
streyghtway
he
perceyued
in
hymself
that
a
more
quyknes
of
wytte
was
gyuen
to
hym
/
then
he
had
before
/
and
after
he
retourned
into
Englande
where
kynge
Oswy
gaue
hym
the
churche
of
Rypon
abiectynge
the
Scottes
that
wold
nat
kepe
the
right
Ester
/
and
in
tho
dayes
was
great
busynes
in
Englande
for
the
kepynge
of
Ester
/
and
dyuerse
connynge
men
and
also
good
men
were
of
contrarie
opynyons
And
somtyme
when
the
kynge
kept
Estre
/
the
Quene
kept
Palme
sonday
/
whiche
contrauersy
at
a
great
counseyll
at
Whytby
was
appesed
by
seynt
Wylfryde
with
great
reasons
and
Auctorytes
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
.vi.
hondred
.lxiiii
After
he
was
made
bysshop
of
yorke
though
he
with
al
his
power
refused
it
:
and
therupon
by
Instygacion
of
the
Quene
the
kynge
Egfryde
enformyd
seynt
Theodre
archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
so
sore
agaynst
●eynt
Wylfryde
that
he
by
that
wrongfull
informacyon
put
hym
out
of
his
see
/
&
then
the
kynge
deuyded
in
it
thre
sees
Lynde●ernense
Lagustaldens
/
and
Candyda
casa
whiche
that
tyme
belongyd
vnto
Englonde
/
wherfore
he
appelyd
to
Rome
/
and
when
he
was
goynge
thyder
on
the
see
the
wynde
droue
hym
into
Frysya
/
where
he
conuertyd
many
thousande
people
to
the
Feyth
and
there
the
grounde
that
before
his
commynge
was
drye
/
and
bareyne
was
aftre
plenteuouse
/
and
fruteful
/
And
when
he
came
to
Rome
/
he
shewyd
his
cause
so
charytably
that
he
neyther
accusyd
seynt
Theodre
/
ne
yet
omyttyd
his
owne
Innocencye
and
when
the
〈◊〉
agathone
had
herde
all
his
aduersaryes
/
he
restoryd
hym
agayne
to
his
see
/
And
when
he
shewyd
to
the
Kynge
the
〈◊〉
bullys
/
He
set
them
at
nought
/
and
by
the
entysynge
of
the
Quene
he
was
with
great
derysyon
put
into
pryson
which
he
toke
in
great
pacyence
/
and
there
he
helyd
the
kepers
wyfe
/
and
when
that
keper
was
lothe
to
kepe
hym
ony
lenger
/
he
was
commyttyd
to
anoder
●ryson
/
And
there
the
fetto●rys
wolde
not
abyde
vppon
hym
/
And
also
●
deuyll
enteryd
into
the
quene
whiche
was
thought
was
for
the
wronge
that
was
doon
to
seynt
wylfryde
wherfore
he
was
let
goo
/
And
then
by
his
prayer
the
Quene
was
made
hoole
/
After
he
conuertyd
many
of
the
Lordys
and
of
the
people
in
the
countrey
of
westsaxons
to
the
feythe
/
where
the
Kynge
of
that
Countrey
was
before
conuertyd
and
very
fewe
of
his
people
/
Also
he
conuerted
the
Ile
of
wyght
/
The
kynge
Egfryde
was
after
slayne
in
Batayle
which
seynt
Wylfrede
sawe
in
vysyon
as
he
was
at
Masse
/
&
then
seynt
Theodre
sente
for
hym
and
cryed
hym
mercye
for
that
he
had
so
moche
assentyd
agaynste
hym
as
he
had
/
And
shortlye
after
he
was
restoryd
to
his
see
agayne
/
and
was
in
peace
.v.
yerys
then
he
was
wrongfully
put
out
agayne
/
and
was
at
Rome
eftesones
restoryd
/
and
as
he
was
in
the
commynge
home
&
by
the
way
was
nyghe
deed
in
Fraunce
/
seynt
Myghell
apperyd
vnto
hym
&
tolde
hym
he
shulde
escape
that
sykenes
/
and
that
he
shulde
be
restoryd
to
his
see
and
Dye
in
peace
for
he
sayd
our
Ladye
had
acceptyd
his
seruyce
/
&
for
the
profet
of
other
she
wolde
he
shulde
yet
lyue
/
and
so
he
was
sodeynly
made
hoole
that
all
meruaylyd
that
were
aboute
hym
/
and
after
two
kyngys
were
punysshed
because
they
wolde
not
suffre
hym
to
be
in
peace
/
and
when
kynge
Osrede
was
made
Kynge
/
he
had
hym
in
great
fauoure
/
And
when
he
knewe
that
his
tyme
drewe
nere
he
callyd
his
Bretherne
/
and
bade
theym
that
nothynge
shulde
seuer
theym
fro
the
charyte
of
god
/
And
that
they
shulde
put
awaye
the
snares
of
the
Deuyll
with
all
dylygens
/
And
as
he
sayde
the
verse
(
Emitte
spiritum
tuum
et
creabuntur
)
he
yeldyd
his
spyryte
to
our
Lord
the
.viii.
kalendas
of
Maye
/
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.vii.
hundred
and
.ix.
And
was
buryed
in
Rypon
in
a
monasterye
that
he
had
newe
buyldyd
/
And
after
Odo
archebusshope
of
Caunterbury
remouyd
moost
parte
of
his
Relykys
to
Caunterbury
/
and
parte
he
lefte
at
Rypon
.
¶
De
sancto
Wiro
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
wyre
was
borne
in
Scotlande
/
And
as
he
encreasyd
in
age
/
he
encreasyd
in
vertue
/
And
he
wolde
not
be
ouermoche
abiecte
with
aduersyte
nor
elate
in
prosperyte
/
He
was
not
wery
in
holy
vygyllys
He
was
fedde
with
prayers
/
&
was
mery
in
fastynges
/
he
was
electyd
to
be
Busshope
whiche
he
moche
refusyd
/
&
sayd
it
became
hym
rather
to
be
a
Dyscyple
then
a
mayster
/
&
notwithstandynge
by
desyre
of
the
people
he
toke
i●
vpon
hym
/
&
then
dylygentlye
he
prechyd
to
the
people
&
confermyd
hys
lyfe
to
his
prechynge
/
After
he
wente
into
Fraunce
&
there
lyuyd
a
blessyd
lyfe
in
good
exaumples
/
and
Doctrynes
many
yerys
/
and
he
dyed
of
the
Axes
/
&
was
buryed
in
the
Chyrche
of
our
Ladye
(
intraiecte
inferiori
)
And
at
his
buryenge
was
felte
a
meruaylous
swete
sauoure
of
all
that
were
there
present
/
His
feest
is
Halowed
the
.viii.
Idus
of
May
.
¶
De
sancto
willibrordo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Wyllybrorde
was
borne
in
the
Prouynce
of
Northamhumbre
/
his
Fader
&
Moder
were
blessyd
folkys
/
his
Moder
when
she
was
with
Chylde
with
hym
sawe
a
Mone
falle
into
hyr
mouthe
that
euer
encreasyd
more
&
more
/
and
made
her
bowellys
bryght
shynynge
whiche
betokenyd
the
Holynes
of
the
Chylde
that
she
went
with
/
And
his
Fader
enteryd
into
Relygyon
/
And
when
the
Chylde
was
norysshed
he
was
put
to
Scole
at
rypon
/
&
there
he
made
hym selfe
monke
/
after
for
the
more
streyghter
lyfe
he
went
into
Irlonde
/
where
he
lyuyd
in
great
hyghe
Relygyon
and
study
.xii.
yerys
/
and
after
with
a
.xi.
felowes
/
he
went
ouer
the
see
to
preche
to
Infydelys
in
the
Countrey
of
Fryson
and
came
to
a
place
callyd
Traiecte
/
&
so
he
went
to
Pyppyn
then
ruler
of
Fraunce
/
where
he
put
awaye
errourys
and
conuertyd
moche
people
/
&
then
Pyppyn
sent
hym
to
rome
/
&
the
pope
had
knowlege
of
his
commynge
by
reuelacion
/
wherby
he
was
warnyd
to
take
hym
reuentlye
/
&
so
he
dyd
grauntynge
to
hym
all
that
he
askyd
/
&
also
made
hym
an
archebussop
/
then
he
departyd
fro
Rome
&
conuertyd
moch
people
to
the
feyth
in
Fraunce
in
Fryson
/
and
in
Denmarke
he
cam
into
an
Ile
that
amonge
the
Gentyls
was
in
such
honoure
that
they
durste
not
touche
any
thynge
that
was
in
it
/
ne
touche
a
well
that
was
therin
/
In
the
whiche
well
seynt
wylly
brorde
Crystenyd
thre
men
/
and
kyllyd
of
the
be●●ys
&
ete
theym
/
&
when
the
paganys
thought
they
shulde
therfore
haue
goon
mad
/
or
sodeynly
dye
/
they
had
no
hurte
/
wherfore
the
paganys
shewyd
it
to
theyr
Kynge
callyd
rathbode
a
cruell
man
which
sent
for
hym
in
great
anger
and
askyd
why
he
had
defoullyd
the
holy
thynges
of
his
goddys
and
when
he
with
constant
mynde
tolde
the
kynge
that
they
were
no
goddys
that
he
worshyppyd
but
a
Deuyll
/
and
that
if
he
wolde
not
forsake
theym
he
shulde
haue
eternall
peyne
/
The
kynge
was
admeruaylyd
and
sayde
he
sawe
well
that
he
set
noughte
by
his
manacy●
&
concyderynge
that
his
lyfe
was
lyke
to
his
wordys
thoughe
he
wolde
not
be
crystenyd
/
yet
he
sent
seynt
wyllybrorde
to
Pypyn
honorably
/
after
pypynnys
d●the
Kynge
charles
that
was
Pypyns
sone
made
hym
Busshope
of
Tra●ecte
/
he
wolde
not
doo
euyll
for
euyll
/
And
therfore
some
tyme
oure
Lorde
toke
vengeaunce
for
hym
/
He
gaue
.xii.
poore
men
drynke
of
his
best
bottell
of
wyne
/
And
when
they
had
all
dronke
the
Botell
was
as
full
as
it
was
before
/
By
his
prayer
a
vessell
of
a
To●ne
that
had
but
lytell
wyne
in
it
was
made
full
/
He
was
of
goodly
stature
/
of
stable
countenaunce
/
mery
/
wyse
/
redye
in
counceyle
/
and
stronge
in
all
the
werkys
of
god
/
and
in
the
.vii.
I
de
of
nouembre
he
went
to
our
Lord
/
&
was
buryed
in
a
Monasterye
that
he
had
made
of
the
blessyd
Trynyte
/
where
the
tumbe
that
he
shuld
be
leyed
in
that
was
to
short
meruelously
waxyd
longe
Inoughe
as
thoughe
it
had
ben
so
made
for
hym
.
De
sancto
Wilhelmo
puero
&
martire
.
SEynt
wy●lyam
the
chylde
/
and
martyr
was
borne
in
Engl●nde
/
and
when
his
m●der
was
wyth
Chylde
of
hym
she
sawe
in
a
vysyon
●●ysshe
callyd
a
●uce
the
.xii.
red
synnys
lyke
as
it
had
ben
sparkelyd
with
blode
/
&
when
she
had
put
the
fysshe
into
her
bosom
she
thought
it
grewe
so
moch
that
her
bosome
coulde
not
holde
it
/
and
sodeynly
it
flewe
aboue
the
Cloudys
into
heuen
/
and
apreest
that
had
great
grace
in
expoundynge
of
vysyons
/
sayde
she
shulde
haue
a
blessyd
Chylde
that
in
the
age
of
.xii.
yerys
shuld
goo
into
Heuyn
/
And
when
he
was
a
yonge
Chylde
it
happenyd
hym
to
touche
the
Irons
of
a
man
that
was
fetteryd
/
And
anon
the
Irons
felle
of
And
when
he
was
but
.vii.
yere
olde
he
wolde
faste
thre
dayes
in
the
weke
/
and
wolde
be
at
the
Chyrche
in
prayer
/
And
after
at
norwych
he
was
put
to
askynner
to
enfourme
/
where
on
an
Estre
daye
he
was
taken
pryuely
by
the
Iues
/
and
they
in
despyte
of
oure
Lorde
mok●yd
hym
/
&
cruelly
martyryd
hym
/
they
thruste
all
the
blode
oute
of
his
Hedde
with
cordys
/
and
then
they
dyd
shaue
his
Hedde
and
pryckyd
it
with
thornys
/
and
put
hym
vpon
a
Crosse
and
thruste
hym
into
the
lefte
syde
greuously
/
and
so
by
great
Martyrdome
he
went
to
our
Lorde
the
.vii.
kalendas
of
Maye
/
and
that
doon
they
caryed
hym
towardes
a
wood
to
hyde
hym
/
And
a
Crysten
man
came
by
them
&
perseyuyd
that
they
caryed
a
deed
man
/
wherfore
they
feryd
moche
and
pryuely
hunge
hym
vp
in
a
Tree
in
the
Wode
with
a
corde
/
and
wente
to
the
Sheryfe
&
for
a
.
C.
marke
/
the
Sheryfe
causyd
the
man
to
be
sworne
that
he
shulde
neuer
dyscouer
it
whyle
he
lyuyd
/
&
.v.
yerys
after
when
he
shulde
dye
Seynt
wyllyam
apperyd
to
hym
/
&
bade
hym
that
he
shulde
dyscouer
hit
ferynge
nothynge
/
And
so
he
dyd
/
and
then
a
lyghte
fro
heuyn
shewyd
vppon
the
place
where
he
laye
/
And
after
on
an
Eester
euyn
his
Bodye
was
founde
by
a
Nonne
in
the
wode
lyenge
at
the
Roote
of
an
Oke
in
his
Cote
hosed
/
and
shodde
/
and
his
Hedde
shauen
/
and
there
were
by
hym
two
Crowes
that
attemptyd
to
haue
Torne
hym
/
and
etyn
hym
/
But
they
hadde
no
power
therto
/
and
then
he
was
takyn
vp
with
all
the
people
/
and
buryed
with
great
Ioye
/
A
man
that
had
ben
longe
syke
was
ledde
in
a
vysyon
by
an
Aungell
into
a
goodlye
place
full
of
plesaunte
Flourys
/
and
there
he
sawe
our
Lorde
syttynge
in
a
Trone
/
and
innumerable
of
Aungellys
/
and
Seyntys
aboute
hym
/
and
on
his
ryght
hande
in
great
magestye
was
the
sete
of
oure
blessyd
Ladye
/
and
at
the
Feet
of
our
Lorde
he
sawe
a
Chylde
aboute
the
age
of
.xii.
yerys
syttynge
in
a
sete
of
golde
and
a
Crowne
of
Golde
vppon
his
hedde
his
Face
shynynge
bryghte
as
the
sonne
/
and
Aungellys
dyd
honour
to
hym
/
Then
he
askyd
of
the
Aungell
who
he
was
/
and
the
Aungell
sayde
this
is
he
that
in
derysyon
and
opprobrye
of
the
passyon
of
our
Lorde
the
Iues
of
Norwyche
dyd
put
to
deth
/
and
by
hym
he
sayde
he
shulde
be
made
hoole
/
And
so
he
vanysshed
a
waye
/
and
when
his
spyryte
was
come
agayne
to
the
Bodye
he
went
to
Norwyche
&
was
made
hoole
as
the
Aungell
sayde
/
&
many
other
myracles
/
our
lord
hath
shewyd
for
this
blessyd
Chylde
foure
that
were
blynde
/
fyue
that
were
mute
/
two
of
the
drop
sye
/
thre
bexyd
with
Deuylls
/
&
men
of
the
fallynge
sykenes
/
dome
perysshynge
in
the
see
feterd
&
deformyd
/
&
of
dyuerse
other
sykenesse
were
helyd
&
delyuered
by
thys
gloryouse
martyr
.
De
sancto
Wilhelmo
epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
wyllyam
was
sonne
to
emme
suster
to
kynge
Stephan
/
as
he
was
of
noble
blode
/
he
was
also
noble
of
maners
/
and
for
his
vertue
/
and
good
Lyfe
he
was
made
tresorer
of
yorke
/
he
thought
nothynge
gretter
Tresure
then
to
helpe
them
that
were
in
penu●ye
/
And
after
the
Deth
of
the
Archebusshope
of
yorke
he
was
electyd
to
be
Archebusshope
/
But
his
eleccyon
was
lette
by
the
Archedeacon
that
moch
desyryd
to
be
Archebusshope
/
&
when
the
matter
was
appelyd
to
Rome
that
pope
Eugenye
which
was
of
the
ordre
of
Cysteux
for
fauoure
to
his
relygyon
made
one
Henry
murdache
archebusshope
wherupon
agaynste
all
●uyll
wordys
/
&
bacbytyngys
that
this
blessyd
man
had
in
that
behalfe
/
he
toke
pa●pence
for
his
comforte
/
and
went
to
his
vncle
Busshope
of
Wynchester
which
receyuyd
hym
gladlye
/
&
assygnyd
all
his
seruauntys
to
attende
vpon
hym
/
&
that
he
refusyd
and
went
into
a
place
of
the
Busshoppys
where
he
dyd
great
penaunce
in
hyghescylence
&
quyet
maners
encreasynge
his
deuocyon
with
remembraunce
of
the
great
peynys
ordeynyd
for
synne
/
And
of
the
Ioyes
ordeynyd
for
vertue
/
and
what
great
peyne
shall
be
in
the
latterende
to
see
almyghtye
god
and
to
departe
fro
hym
wente
neuer
oute
of
his
mynde
/
when
Geestys
/
or
straungers
came
to
hym
thoughe
he
were
lothe
he
wolde
shewe
hym selfe
to
theym
so
honorable
/
merye
/
and
full
of
grace
that
he
was
lyke
an
Aungell
in
maners
/
not
hauyng
ony
voyde
wordes
that
myght
let
his
mynde
from
contemplacyon
/
And
after
the
〈◊〉
Engenye
/
and
the
Archebusshope
murdache
Dyed
bothe
in
oon
daye
/
And
thenne
seynt
wyllyam
was
ellectyd
agayne
by
the
Chanons
to
be
archebusshop
And
the
newe
〈◊〉
confyrmyd
the
same
/
and
as
he
was
commynge
to
yorke
with
the
great
recourse
of
people
the
Brydge
sanke
/
and
he
makynge
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
all
came
vp
safe
/
and
in
fewe
yerys
after
full
of
good
werkys
/
Almesdedys
/
Fastynges
/
and
vygyllys
/
He
went
to
oure
Lorde
the
.vi.
I
de
of
Iune
by
his
merytys
a
mayde
blynde
fro
her
Natyuyte
receyuyd
syght
/
thre
that
were
contracte
restoryd
to
theyr
goynge
/
a
deffe
man
had
his
herynge
/
a
man
of
the
dropsyehelyd
/
one
of
the
passey
/
&
a
Lepoure
restoryd
to
he●the
/
one
reysyd
fro
deth
/
and
vnto
this
daye
in
the
place
where
he
lyeth
myracles
contynue
.
¶
De
sancto
wilhelmo
martire
.
SEynt
Wyllyam
the
Martyr
was
borne
in
seynt
Iohnns
towne
in
Scotlande
/
and
in
his
youthe
he
lyuyd
a
wanton
secoler
lyfe
/
and
after
he
was
sodeynly
turnyd
into
a
newe
man
/
chastysynge
his
Bodye
subduyd
his
flesshe
to
the
spyryte
/
He
vsyd
the
crafte
of
Bakynge
/
and
euery
tenth
Lo●e
he
wolde
geue
for
the
loue
of
god
to
poore
men
/
dayly
he
vsyd
to
be
at
the
Churche
/
and
in
a
mornynge
erlye
he
founde
at
the
Churche
dore
a
enfaunte
in
poore
apparell
whom
he
brought
whom
norysshyd
hym
/
taughte
hym
his
crafte
/
and
louyd
hym
syngulerly
aboue
eny
other
of
his
seruauntys
/
after
he
porposyd
to
goo
on
pylgrymage
to
the
placys
where
our
lorde
suffred
his
Deth
and
passyon
/
and
toke
with
hym
onlye
the
sayde
yonge
man
whom
he
had
brought
vp
as
before
apperyth
/
and
so
he
came
to
Rochestre
/
&
as
he
was
goynge
fro
thens
to
Caunterbury
the
sayde
yonge
man
full
of
the
Deuyll
in
purpose
to
kylle
hym
ledde
hym
oute
of
the
hyghe
wayes
&
tolde
hym
that
he
had
lernyd
that
it
was
the
waye
/
&
when
he
had
broughte
hym
after
his
porpose
out
of
all
wayes
he
kyllyd
hym
with
a
Hachet
/
&
there
lefte
hym
in
the
wood
wheropon
a
madde
woman
that
ranne
nakyd
into
the
woddys
came
by
the
place
where
the
gloryous
martyr
laye
/
and
when
she
sawe
hym
she
made
hym
a
garlande
of
Erbys
and
put
it
vpon
his
hedde
/
and
lyke
a
Woman
in
that
case
spake
to
hym
as
if
he
had
ben
a
lyue
/
and
on
the
nexte
daye
she
came
agayne
&
sayde
she
wolde
haue
her
Garlonde
agayne
/
and
so
toke
it
fro
his
Hedde
and
put
it
ou
her
Hedde
/
and
fourthwith
as
it
touchyd
her
Hedde
she
was
hoole
/
and
had
her
wyttys
restoryd
and
anon
was
a
shemyd
of
her
nakydnes
/
&
knewe
that
she
was
made
hoole
by
the
merytys
of
the
sayd
gloryous
martyr
/
And
he
lyeth
at
Rochester
.
¶
De
sancto
winwaloco
abbate
&
confessore
.
SEynt
wynwaloco
was
borne
in
Brytayne
/
And
his
Fader
herynge
that
ther
was
a
place
in
Armoryca
now
callyd
lytell
Brytayne
that
the
great
sykenes
was
not
in
went
thyder
nygh
by
the
porte
callyd
breste
/
And
when
a
great
Tempest
toke
theym
on
the
See
so
that
his
Fader
feryd
moche
/
he
bade
his
fader
put
his
truste
in
oure
Lorde
that
ruleth
bothe
See
/
and
Londe
addynge
therto
that
he
shulde
loue
hym
/
and
feer
nothynge
/
And
that
sayde
anon
came
feyre
weder
/
when
he
was
at
Scole
where
he
prophyted
moche
in
lernynge
/
He
helyd
one
of
hys
felowys
that
had
brokyn
his
thyghe
/
And
when
he
harde
any
poore
man
anon
he
wolde
go
to
hym
to
do
hym
some
good
/
&
if
he
had
nothynge
to
gyue
hym
he
wolde
wepe
for
compassyon
/
and
comforte
hym
with
hope
of
eternall
rewarde
/
Oon
of
his
felowes
that
enuyed
hym
tolde
hym
that
he
dyssymylyd
hymselfe
to
haue
mercy
that
he
had
not
in
dede
/
wherfore
he
thankyd
out
Lorde
&
sayde
broder
veryly
thou
haste
the
true
Iudgement
in
me
&
forthwith
he
helyd
a
blynde
man
that
was
secretly
brought
to
hym
/
and
when
his
suster
hadde
her
eye
pluckyd
out
of
her
heed
with
a
Byrde
that
had
eten
it
he
toke
the
eye
out
of
the
Byrdys
bely
&
put
it
in
her
Heed
ageyne
and
it
was
hoole
/
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
he
kyllyd
a
serpent
that
had
venomyd
a
man
/
and
also
made
the
man
hoole
/
and
it
is
sayde
that
by
his
prayer
none
of
the
kynde
of
that
Serpent
shall
come
in
that
countrey
He
reysyd
a
chylde
fro
deth
/
&
with
his
felowys
he
wente
vppon
the
see
into
the
place
where
he
nowe
lyeth
/
fro
the
age
of
.xxi.
yerys
/
he
neuer
sate
in
the
Chyrche
/
he
was
neuer
Heuy
/
nor
Angry
/
neyther
greatly
mery
/
But
in
oon
sobernes
/
euery
daye
he
sayd
thryse
fyftye
psalmes
/
he
neuer
weerlynnen
/
nor
wullen
/
but
clothynge
of
getysskynnes
/
He
lyued
with
Barley
breed
myxte
with
asshes
and
dranke
water
/
euery
seconde
/
or
thyrde
daye
/
he
laye
vpon
rotys
&
grauell
/
with
two
stonys
vnder
his
heed
he
was
neuer
Idell
fro
some
spyrytuell
Occupacyon
/
the
Deuyll
apperyd
to
hym
as
he
was
in
prayer
in
a
meruaylouse
terryble
sykenesse
/
and
when
he
had
suffred
hym
longe
/
He
rebukyd
hym
that
he
soo
durste
trowble
the
seruauntys
of
our
Lorde
/
and
tolde
hym
that
he
shuld
haue
the
more
peyne
therfore
at
the
daye
of
Iudgement
/
and
then
anon
he
vanysshed
away
when
he
had
on
a
tyme
made
a
blynwoman
see
an
Aungell
apperyd
to
hym
/
and
shewyd
hym
that
all
the
company
of
Heuyn
desyryd
that
he
shulde
be
delyueryd
fro
this
bodely
lyfe
&
come
to
the
euerlastyng
lyfe
/
and
then
he
bade
his
brederne
be
redye
/
for
he
sayde
the
.vi.
houre
after
he
had
sayd
masse
/
oure
Lorde
wolde
take
hym
fro
this
worlde
/
and
so
when
masse
was
doon
before
the
hyghe
Aulter
/
as
he
was
holden
vp
bytwyxte
two
monkys
&
was
syngynge
with
theym
he
yeldyd
his
soule
to
our
Lorde
the
.v.
nonas
of
marche
about
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
.ix.
C.
and
.lix.
clene
fro
any
bodely
sykenes
as
he
was
clene
fro
bodely
syn
/
and
he
lyeth
in
his
Monastery
of
Canraco
where
our
Lorde
shewyth
for
hym
many
myracles
/
This
blessyd
man
with
seynt
Egbyne
touchyd
our
Lorde
in
lykenesse
of
a
Lepoure
as
in
the
Lyfe
of
Seynt
Egbyne
apperyth
.
¶
De
sancto
Wistano
rege
&
martire
.
SEynt
wistan
was
son
to
wymōde
Kynge
of
marshes
&
of
Elflede
his
wyfe
&
when
his
fader
was
dedde
he
succedyd
&
a
great
Lorde
callyd
brythfarde
whiche
was
the
Kynges
godfader
&
also
of
kyn
to
the
kynge
was
desyrous
to
be
Kynge
/
wherfore
he
desyred
to
marye
the
Quene
thynkynge
that
by
that
meanys
he
shuld
the
sooner
atteyne
his
porpose
&
when
he
had
sent
messengers
to
the
quene
therof
she
askyd
counceyle
of
the
Kynge
her
son
&
he
aduertysed
her
to
take
our
Lord
Ihesu
Criste
to
be
her
spouse
which
wolde
gyue
her
a
perpetuell
do
werye
in
the
kyngdome
of
Heuyn
to
which
councell
the
quene
ryght
well
assentyd
/
where
vppon
the
Kynge
shewyd
to
the
messengers
the
impedymētis
of
the
matrymonye
/
And
when
that
came
to
the
knowlege
of
brythfarde
he
began
to
compasse
the
kynges
deth
/
&
desyryd
to
speke
with
the
Kynge
at
a
certeyne
day
/
&
when
they
mette
at
a
place
nowe
callyd
wistanstowe
brythfarde
desyred
to
speke
with
hym
secretlye
aparte
&
there
as
he
offeryd
to
kysse
hym
with
his
swerde
traytorously
vnder
colour
of
frendshyp
he
paryd
his
hedde
with
a
dedely
wounde
/
&
a nother
ran
hym
thrugh
with
aswerde
in
the
kalendas
of
Iune
/
&
forthwith
without
taryenge
brythfarde
went
madde
so
that
he
neyther
had
the
quene
ne
yet
the
kyngedome
/
&
there
as
the
yonge
Kynge
laye
a
bryght
beame
apperyd
.xxx.
dayes
stretchynge
into
heuyn
/
&
euery
yere
the
same
day
that
he
was
martyred
there
as
the
pyller
apperyd
is
seen
amonge
the
grasse
mannes
here
whiche
no
man
can
take
awey
/
&
othertymes
of
the
yere
nothynge
apperyth
but
grene
grasse
/
a
certen
tyme
he
laye
at
rependon
and
fro
thens
he
was
translated
to
the
monastery
of
Euesham
which
was
greatly
endowyd
by
the
Kynge
kenrede
kynnesman
to
the
sayde
gloriouse
martyr
.
¶
De
sancta
Withburga
virgine
SEynt
Withburghe
was
suster
to
seynt
Audrye
/
&
in
her
yonge
yerys
she
made
a
monastery
at
derham
where
she
was
made
a
Nonne
/
On
a
tyme
whan
she
had
nothynge
for
her
werkemen
but
only
drye
bredde
/
she
made
her
prayers
to
our
Lady
/
&
she
apperyd
to
her
in
her
slepe
and
bad
her
put
her
truste
in
our
Lorde
&
not
moch
to
care
for
bodely
sustenaunce
addynge
therto
that
in
the
mornynge
she
shulde
sende
two
of
her
maydes
to
a
certen
Ryuer
&
there
shulde
come
to
theym
two
wylde
hyndes
to
gyue
them
mylke
/
&
so
it
prouyd
as
our
Lady
had
sayde
/
and
the
ruler
of
the
Towne
herynge
therof
vpon
this
condycyon
that
she
myght
haue
.xi.
M.
of
virgyns
Chosen
and
delyueryd
vnto
her
whiche
they
were
ryght
well
contente
to
do
&
theruppon
in
all
goodly
haste
her
●ader
sent
into
dyuerse
ꝓuyncys
Countreys
/
&
callyd
to gether
&
assedlyd
all
the
chieffe
&
chose
vyrgyns
as
well
kyngys
doughters
/
dukys
doughters
as
of
other
nobles
&
amonges
them
all
Chose
.xi.
M.
of
the
fayrest
/
&
wysestes
&
sent
them
with
moch
noble
appareyll
&
all
that
was
necessary
to
them
vnto
the
foresayde
blessyd
vyrgyn
Ursula
whom
she
receyuyd
full
gladlye
/
&
benygnely
as
an
heuenly
gyfte
or
sendynge
/
&
by
the
foresayd
Aungell
she
was
also
warnyd
to
goo
with
her
sayde
felaushyp
of
vyrgyns
vnto
Coleyn
/
&
that
there
they
shulde
haue
&
receyue
the
Crowne
&
Palme
of
martyrdome
shewynge
her
all
the
circunstauncys
therof
/
&
howe
/
&
in
what
maner
it
shuld
be
/
whereupon
they
toke
theyr
shyppes
which
were
ordeynyd
all
redy
with
all
that
nedyd
to
them
/
&
so
came
to
coleyne
thorughe
helpe
of
almyghty
god
/
holy
Aungellys
beynge
theyr
gydes
in
moche
lesse
space
then
it
was
possyble
to
haue
doon
by
any
meanys
helpe
or
power
/
where
they
were
ryghte
honorably
&
gladly
receyuyd
aswell
of
the
Busshope
of
that
Cytie
as
of
the
Cytezyns
with
many
other
nobles
for
in
veray
ce●tayne
the
Aungellys
which
were
with
theym
in
all
this
Iourney
takynge
vppon
theym
fourme
and
lykenes
of
men
went
before
theym
aswell
to
this
Citye
as
to
all
other
Cityes
wherto
they
shulde
goo
/
and
gaue
warnynge
of
theyr
commynge
to
the
heddes
and
chefe
rulers
of
the
Cytye
whiche
euermore
mette
theym
on
the
waye
and
receyued
theym
with
great
gladnes
/
and
reuerence
and
ordeynyd
for
them
in
the
best
maner
that
they
coulde
and
at
the
aforesayde
Cytie
of
Coleyne
they
taryed
&
●●●styd
a
certeyne
space
/
And
for
asmoche
as
theyr
tyme
of
tryumphe
was
not
yet
commen
/
for
theyr
enemyes
were
not
yet
commen
thyder
they
were
warnyd
agayne
by
the
aungell
for
to
goo
to
Rome
there
to
commende
them
to
almyghtye
god
/
our
Lady
seynt
Mary
&
to
the
holy
appostellys
with
all
other
sayntys
wheroppon
they
toke
theyr
shyppes
agayne
/
&
so
goynge
towardes
rome
came
to
the
Cytye
of
Basyle
with
a
prosperous
cource
in
the
space
of
.ii.
or
.iii.
dayes
which
was
.viii.
dayes
Iourney
and
agaynste
the
streme
/
and
there
they
were
gladly
receyuyd
as
is
before
sayd
and
lefte
theyr
shyppes
there
and
so
wente
on
theyr
Iourney
/
and
pylgrymage
to
romewarde
on
fote
without
Charet
/
Horse
/
or
Mule
to
carye
theym
but
went
all
lyghtly
and
meryly
for
they
were
comfortyd
&
strengthed
thrugh
the
famylyer
company
/
&
felaushyp
of
aungellys
and
other
seyntys
/
&
holy
virgyns
/
so
that
nothynge
was
to
theym
heuy
or
peynfull
/
in
so
moche
that
dyuerse
matrones
in
theyr
Felaushyp
hauyuge
youre
Chylderne
in
theyr
Armes
went
as
lyghtlye
/
and
as
easely
as
dyd
the
other
which
bare
none
/
&
the
sayde
yonge
babes
&
Chylderne
were
aswell
comfortyd
by
vysyon
of
Aungellys
&
other
sayntys
as
other
were
/
and
made
therof
many
euydent
sygnes
of
Ioye
&
gladnes
in
theyr
maner
as
they
coulde
&
ferdermore
thyse
Innocentys
/
and
〈◊〉
Chylderne
neyther
greuyd
nor
noyed
theyr
kepers
/
nor
yet
lettyd
theym
by
soukynge
vppon
them
as
they
were
wont
to
doo
/
but
thrughe
the
grace
/
&
largesse
of
●●●yghtye
god
/
they
put
theyr
fyngers
in
theyr
owne
Mowthes
and
sowkyd
out
there
full
swete
&
delycate
nourysshyngs
wherwyth
they
were
full
well
fedde
&
susteyned
/
〈◊〉
ouer
they
neuer
wet
theyr selfe
with
theyr
vryne
nor
other
wyse
after
the
maner
as
chylderne
by
course
of
nature
be
defould
but
euer
p●●re
and
clene
as
they
that
were
fedde
with
Aungellys
food
/
in
this
holy
&
mery
pylgrymage
all
thynge
succedyd
ꝓsperously
better
than
they
coulde
thin●ke
or
desyre
/
for
if
they
disposyd
them
at
mornynge
●o
lodge
at
suche
a
cytie
/
or
place
/
at
nyght
they
came
thyder
with
case
at
theyr
pleasure
neuer
lesynge
theyr
wey
&
wheresoeuer
they
came
in
countrey
/
or
Cytye
they
encreasyd
in
nomber
/
for
many
persones
both
Kynges
/
Busshoppes
/
Prynces
/
Dukys
&
many
other
nobles
/
matrones
/
&
vyrgyns
whiche
c●sortyd
to
theym
to
beholde
so
wonderfull
a
spectacle
seynge
&
consyderynge
how
almyghty
god
wrought
in
them
/
&
that
it
coulde
not
be
otherwyse
but
by
his
grace
/
&
goodnes
lefte
theyr
Countreys
/
Londys
/
&
goodys
/
dygnytes
&
all
other
frendys
and
I●ynyd
them
in
felawshyp
with
thyse
holy
virgyns
in
hope
/
&
truste
to
be
parteners
with
them
of
theyr
gloryous
Thryumphe
&
vyctorye
/
And
so
it
was
doon
/
for
they
all
suffryd
martyrdome
with
them
/
Also
in
this
blessyd
Pylgrymage
Rayne
/
ne
dewe
noyed
theym
/
nor
any
euyll
Felawshyp
nyghed
to
them
/
they
were
so
well
/
&
tenderlye
kepte
/
&
defendyd
by
garde
or
kepynge
sent
from
aboue
hyghe
Hyllys
/
&
moūtaynys
wherof
some
semyd
impossyble
to
passe
ascape
were
to
them
lyke
easy
as
playne
&
feyre
wayes
or
pathis
the
streyght
wayes
noyed
them
nor
taryed
them
nothynge
but
they
passyd
all
lyghtlye
&
easly
/
Also
theyr
apparayle
&
Clothys
were
not
enpeyryd
nor
in
any
thynge
that
worse
for
this
Iorney
lytyll
corporall
mete
seruyd
theym
they
were
so
well
fedde
&
so
delycatlye
fulfyllyd
withinforth
in
the
soules
but
it
was
rather
tedious
&
greuous
to
them
to
take
it
/
at
Rome
certen
of
thyse
vgins
which
were
yet
vncristenyd
were
baptyzed
of
the
holy
pope
Cyryacus
which
Cyryacus
warnyd
by
an
Aungell
lefte
his
〈◊〉
and
all
his
dygnyte
and
went
to
Coleyne
with
thyse
by
vyrgyns
to
be
partener
of
theyr
rewarde
/
and
so
dyd
a
holy
man
callyd
Cesaryus
the
Busshope
of
Basyle
beforesayde
/
And
at
the
Cytye
of
Magunce
/
goynge
from
Basyle
to
Coleyne
mette
with
theym
the
foresayde
noble
prynce
Olyfernes
the
spouse
of
the
blessyd
Uirgyn
vrsula
with
his
moder
/
and
dyuerse
other
persones
which
were
Crystenyd
/
and
so
went
fourth
with
theym
to
Coleyne
desyrynge
to
be
parteners
with
theym
aswell
of
theyr
laboure
&
Peyne
/
as
of
theyr
Rewarde
and
mede
/
And
when
they
came
to
Coleyne
they
founde
it
besette
with
the
cruell
bardaryes
/
And
the
Prynce
and
Capytayne
of
theym
seynge
thys
grete
multytude
of
virgyns
merueylynge
moch
therat
commaundyd
hastely
that
they
shulde
be
brought
and
presentyd
before
hym
/
and
soo
they
were
/
And
after
many
questyons
/
He
beholdynge
the
foresayde
Blessyd
vyrgyn
Ursula
admerueylynge
her
grete
bautye
/
her
sober
and
stable
countenaunce
/
and
stedfaste
mynde
/
anon
was
takyn
and
Rauysshyd
in
the
loue
of
her
/
but
all
that
was
in
vayne
for
neyther
for
his
feyre
wordes
/
and
great
behestys
/
ne
yet
for
his
cruell
thretenynges
she
●●lynyd
nothynge
/
nor
in
any
wyse
assentyd
to
hym
/
but
stedfastlye
/
and
with
bolde
countenaunce
despysyd
hym
/
not
desyrynge
his
fauoure
/
nor
dredynge
his
malyce
/
wherfore
the
cruell
tyraunt
moche
greuyd
and
anoyed
seynge
that
he
coulde
in
nothynge
preuayle
by
fayre
meanys
/
ne
yet
by
foule
caused
to
be
Slayne
&
martyred
before
her
face
many
vyrgyns
&
other
of
her
companye
amonge
whom
was
the
noble
prynce
Olyfernes
her
owne
spouse
before
sayde
thynkynge
therby
to
peruerte
her
/
But
for
all
this
she
was
nothynge
mouyd
/
nor
chaungyd
any
countenaunce
but
as
she
whiche
desyryd
to
be
with
her
veray
spouse
cryste
Iesu
not
onely
feryd
not
deth
/
but
also
affectuouslye
desyryd
it
/
and
longyd
sore
in
her
harte
for
it
knowynge
for
certeyne
therby
to
come
to
her
purpose
and
her
hartes
desyre
/
wherfore
the
sayde
Tyraunte
seynge
that
she
wolde
not
in
any
thynge
enclyne
vnto
hym
after
all
her
company
causyd
her
to
be
slayne
&
martyryd
ryght
cruelly
There
myghte
a
man
haue
seen
moche
tyrannye
exercysyd
by
thyse
bochers
which
as
wood
dogges
/
or
wolfes
thrustynge
Innocent
blode
without
pytye
/
or
mercye
deuoury
/
and
slewe
all
thyse
Holy
vyrgyns
with
all
theyr
companye
in
a
rage
/
and
furye
and
cutte
theyr
Bodyes
into
smalle
pecys
/
and
caste
and
sparkelyd
them
ouer
all
aboute
the
felde
/
and
amonges
theym
were
Clayne
yonge
Chylderne
in
theyr
moders
wombes
/
and
as
it
was
shewyd
by
reuelacyon
they
were
also
receyuyd
to
the
euerlastynge
lyfe
/
and
parteners
with
theyr
moders
of
the
Rewarde
of
martyrdome
as
Baptyzyd
in
the
Blode
of
theyr
Moders
wich
were
slayne
for
crystys
sake
/
for
otherwyse
they
coulde
not
haue
ben
sauyd
/
In
the
whych
we
may
see
the
great
and
Infynyte
goodnes
/
and
mercyfull
py●●
of
our
Lorde
that
soweth
/
and
so
largely
spredyth
his
mercye
/
Also
thyse
In●aūtys
with
many
other
persones
Men
/
Women
/
and
Chylderne
were
not
accomptyd
in
the
nombre
of
the
.xi.
M.
vyrgyns
but
were
besydes
them
to
the
nombre
of
.
CCCCC
.
and
aboue
as
it
apperyth
in
the
hystorye
of
them
in
the
legende
/
Also
in
the
nombre
of
the
xi
.
thousande
by
vyrgyns
was
noon
●l●●te
/
but
if
she
〈◊〉
ry
pure
and
chaste
for
other
which
〈…〉
virgyns
&
were
noon
thrugh
the
〈…〉
of
almyghtye
god
to
whom
nothynge
is
〈◊〉
were
putte
out
&
not
chosen
/
after
the
deth
of
thyse
holy
vyrgyne
Inmedyatlye
al●yghty
god
not
suffrynge
thyse
cruell
Tyrauntys
to
goo
all
quyte
without
takynge
vengeaunce
of
the
Blode
of
his
holy
virgyns
which
was
shed
for
his
loue
sent
&
put
into
them
such
a
●eer
that
with
all
theyr
myght
they
fl●dde
&
ran
awaye
glad
to
escape
with
theyr
lyues●
for
as
them
thought
they
sawe
commynge
vppon
theym
to
persecute
them
/
such
a
companye
&
so
great
a
multytude
of
armyd
men
so
terrybly
that
they
thought
neuer
to
haue
escaped
/
&
so
they
fled
in
all
haste
that
they
myghte
where
thrughe
the
wofull
prysoners
&
all
desolute
the
Cytezyns
of
Coleyne
which
had
longe
tym●
be
holden
&
kepte
thrall
&
in
dyspayre
of
lyfe
seynge
theyr
enemyes
chasyd
&
fled
awaye
openyd
theyr
Gates
&
went
fourth
all
Ioyfull
&
glad
of
theyr
sodeyne
delyueraunce
/
&
consyderynge
this
to
be
the
hande
of
god
thrughe
the
merytes
of
thise
holy
virgyns
which
they
sawe
lye
in
the
felde
slayne
by
theyr
enemyes
full
dylygently
gatheryd
the
bodyes
of
them
togeder
/
which
were
full
●yde
ca●●
&
sparkelyd
in
pecys
and
with
great
honoure
&
reuerence
buryed
them
/
&
vnto
this
day
there
dare
noon
burye
any
other
Bodye
within
the
compass●
wh●t●
they
ben
buryed
/
which
myracle
suffyseth
to
declare
&
make
open
howe
dere
&
acceptable
thyse
holye
&
blessyd
vgyns
were
to
almyghty
god
&
many
other
myracles
appere
in
the
hystory
which
I
omytte
for
shortness
/
Also
seynt
Elyzabeth
that
holy
vyrgyn
in
her
reuel●ciōs
spekyth
moch
of
thyse
holy
vgyns
which
for
the
cause
before
sayde
I
leue
to
speake
of
/
after
in
ꝓces
of
tyme
men
beynge
forgetfull
by
dulnes
of
wytte
/
colde
anf
drye
〈◊〉
to
beleue
thyngys
which
they
see
not
/
nor
canot
comprehende
by
theyr
blynde
Reason
/
by
theyr
neclygens
put
thyse
holy
virgyns
vtterly
in
oblyuyon
/
wherfore
our
lord
not
sufferyng
his
deer
belouyd
vgyns
so
to
be
forgotten
to
his
honoure
&
praysynge
pryncipally
&
to
the
honoure
of
the
sayd
gloryous
virgyns
&
also
for
our
socoure
/
&
helpe
many
yerys
after
the
passyon
of
them
shewyd
by
reuelacyon
the
foresayd
hyst●●ye
to
hym
that
was
the
wryter
&
maker
thereof
/
&
furthermore
the
sayde
blessyd
seynt
Ursula
dyuerse
other
of
the
sayde
virgyns
apperyd
vnto
hym
as
he
was
wrytynge
therof
affermynge
it
to
be
true
as
apperyth
more
at
large
in
the
sayde
legende
/
there
was
of
the
same
company
of
Blessyd
virgyns
one
virgyn
callyd
Cordula
the
whiche
when
the
other
virgyns
were
in
theyr
martyrdoms
hyd
hyrselfe
all
nyghte
in
the
bottom
of
a
shyppe
/
&
neuerthelesse
in
the
mornynge
she
offeryd
her selfe
frely
to
deth
&
as
the
other
vgyns
dyd
receyuyd
the
Crowne
of
martyrdome
/
and
it
is
not
for
any
man
to
thynke
that
this
Blessyd
virgyn
by
that
lytyll
fear
ony
thinge
hyndred
her
rewarde
/
or
Crowne
of
martyrdom
when
neyther
Peter
denyinge
our
Lorde
/
nor
Thomas
doubtynge
of
the
resurreccion
were
a●●●●●
fro
the
honoure
to
be
Apostyll
/
And
parcase
thys
Blessyd
Uyrgyne
somewhat
hadde
presumed
by
the
purpce
of
her
Lyfe
and
constaunce
of
her
feyth
to
putte
a
truste
in
her selfe
to
suffre
Martyrdome
soo
that
it
was
expedyent
for
her
to
be
m●ked
or
to
lerne
to
truste
in
our
Lorde
and
not
in
her selfe
/
After
many
yerys
this
blessyd
virgin
Cordula
apperyd
vnto
a
holy
woman
callyd
Hellent●ude
beynge
&
recluse
seyinge
vnto
her
I
am
oon
of
those
blessyd
virgyns
that
suffred
martyrdome
at
Coleyne
&
lyuyd
one
nyght
after
them
/
&
in
the
mornynge
offred
my selfe
gladly
vnto
the
deth
&
so
dyinge
in
our
lorde
I
neyther
lefte
the
company
of
my
susters
ne
yet
lackyd
lyke
rewarde
as
they
had
of
the
crowne
of
martyrdome
/
wherfore
I
woll
that
thou
shalte
in
my
name
commaunde
the
susters
that
the
nexte
daye
after
that
they
shall
haue
seruyd
all
the
hoole
companye
of
the
sayde
blessyd
virgyns
that
they
doo
some
thynge
to
my
honoure
for
it
is
not
expedyent
for
them
that
I
only
be
lefte
vnhonouryd
amonge
that
company
/
And
then
the
●eclu●e
askyd
of
her
what
was
her
name
/
she
bade
hee
loke
in
her
forhed
what
she
sawe
wrytten
there
and
she
lokynge
vp
sawe
wrytten
dystructlye
Cordula
whereupon
she
made
relacyon
to
the
Nounes
therof
/
wherfore
in
the
daye
folowynge
they
halowed
her
feest
accordynge
to
the
sayde
commaundement
/
a
certeyne
Abbot
desyryd
of
the
abbey
of
Coleyne
the
body
of
one
of
those
virgyns
promysynge
that
he
wolde
sette
her
in
his
Chyrche
in
a
Coffer
of
syluer
/
And
when
he
had
kepte
her
a
hoole
yere
vppon
the
Aulter
in
a
Coffer
of
wood
/
in
a
nyghte
as
the
abbot
and
couent
were
〈◊〉
matens
they
sawe
the
sayde
vyrgyn
descende
vppon
the
Aulter
and
goynge
downe
she
●●wyd
her
〈◊〉
to
the
〈◊〉
/
and
went
thr●ghe
the
quere
that
all
the
brethe
〈…〉
we
/
&
so
she
departyd
wherop●n
that
〈◊〉
went
to
the
Coffer
and
fyndynge
nothynge
therin
wente
to
the
Abbesse
of
Coleyne
and
shewyd
he●
then
of●
And
thenne
they
wente
to
the
place
fro
whens
the
B●dye
was
taken
and
there
they
founde
it
agayne
/
wherfor●
lawght
at
it
And
as
he
was
goynge
to
dryue
a
way
the
hyndes
he
fell
fro
his
Horse
&
streyghtwaye
dyed
/
After
full
of
good
werkys
&
good
exaumples
she
went
to
our
Lord
and
was
buryed
at
dereham
/
After
that
monastery
was
destroyed
by
Danes
/
&
nowe
ther
is
a
parysshe
Churche
And
in
the
yere
of
oure
Lorde
.ix.
C.lxxiiii
.
in
the
tyme
of
Kynge
Edgar
her
Body
was
translatyd
to
Ely
whiche
was
then
newely
repayryd
by
seynt
Ethelwolde
/
&
all
the
wey
in
the
Nyghtys
a
bryght
sterre
folowyd
the
Bodye
nyghe
all
the
nyght
longe
/
&
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
a.
M.
and
.xxvi.
her
Bodye
was
remouyd
by
Richarde
the
laste
Abbot
to
the
Place
where
it
lyeth
nowe
/
And
the
Bodye
&
also
the
clothes
were
founde
vncorrupte
/
A
munke
towchyd
her
Bodye
&
founde
it
flexyble
&
hir
chekys
rodye
as
roses
lyke
as
she
had
ben
a
lyue
.
¶
De
sancta
Ursula
et
vndecim
milibus
virginu●
martiribus
.
THere
was
in
moche
Brytayne
nowe
callyd
Englonde
a
Crysten
Kynge
whiche
hadde
a
noble
and
a
vertuose
Quene
to
his
wyfe
and
they
lyued
longe
togeder
without
ony
chylde
/
wherfore
they
were
ryght
heuy
&
at
the
laste
thorough
contynuell
prayers
/
&
good
werkys
they
opteynyd
of
almyghty
god
to
haue
a
doughter
whom
they
crystenyd
&
namyd
vrsula
&
norysshed
/
&
brought
her
vp
in
the
feythe
of
our
lorde
full
vertuosly
&
gracyously
with
all
theyr
myght
and
cunnynge
which
encreasyd
soo
meruaylously
in
all
vertue
&
grace
and
therto
was
soo
feyre
that
the
fame
of
her
was
in
short
tyme
spronge
ouer
all
into
many
Countreys
and
Landes
so
farre
that
it
came
to
knowlege
of
a
certen
Kynge
heynge
a
Paynym
/
but
he
was
veray
myghtye
&
of
great
power
and
therto
veray
Harde
&
cruell
/
but
the
Quene
his
Wyfe
was
ryght
noble
in
all
her
behauyoure
Courteys
and
Gentyll
/
and
of
euery
persone
bylouyd
/
This
Kynge
had
a
yonge
sone
callyd
Olyfernes
Ryght
lowly
/
and
Courteys
/
and
they
herynge
of
this
Fayre
&
vertuous
yonge
Lady
vrsula
desyryd
moch
in
theyr
hattys
to
haue
her
to
theyr
sone
in
maryage
/
And
anon
sente
messengers
with
letters
full
pleasaunte
to
the
Kynge
her
Fader
/
and
to
the
Quene
her
moder
promysynge
great
gyftys
&
rewardys
if
they
wolde
assente
and
furthermore
ryght
harde
/
and
sharpe
thretenyngys
if
they
wolde
not
agree
therto
/
By
reason
wherof
the
sayd
Kynge
her
Fader
was
in
great
Sorowe
/
and
Heuynes
consyderynge
the
myght
/
&
power
of
this
other
kynge
/
&
therto
howe
harde
/
&
cruell
he
was
&
also
that
he
was
an
Infydell
/
wherfore
he
was
ryght
lothe
to
mary
his
Doughter
to
the
sayd
Kyngys
sone
/
and
also
of
the
other
syde
he
knewe
for
certeyne
that
though
he
wolde
agre
/
yet
she
wolde
not
but
rather
suffre
dethe
she
was
so
stedfaste
in
the
feythe
relygyous
and
chaste
/
and
thus
he
beynge
in
great
perplexyte
and
doutfull
peryll
/
the
foresayde
Blessyd
vyrgyne
his
Donghter
was
warnyd
by
an
Aungell
that
she
shulde
goo
to
her
Fader
and
bydde
hym
agree
to
the
other
Kyngys
requeste
and
desyre
/
and
that
she
shulde
assent
therto
/
and
so
shulde
she
comforte
and
assure
her
Fader
and
peacyfye
and
make
glad
the
other
parte
/
Neuerthelesse
the
abbot
askyd
forgynes
/
and
desyryd
that
he
myght
haue
agayne
that
Bodye
/
or
a noder
promysynge
certeynlye
that
he
wolde
put
it
in
a
goodlye
coffer
which
he
coulde
in
no
wyse
opteyne
.
¶
De
sancta
Wlfhilda
virgine
.
THe
great
graundefader
of
seynt
Wlfhyde
was
founde
in
an
Egles
neest
by
Alfryde
kynge
of
weste
saxons
whiche
Crystenyd
hym
/
&
callyd
hym
nestynge
because
he
was
takyn
out
of
a
nest
whom
he
brought
vp
nobly
/
&
made
hym
erle
/
He
had
Issu
witburdynge
which
had
Issu
wlfhelme
fader
to
seynt
wlfhylde
which
with
his
wyfe
after
they
had
dyuerse
Chylderne
lyuyd
chaste
.xviii.
yerys
/
&
then
by
monycyon
of
an
Aungell
they
knewe
the
wyll
of
god
/
&
had
a
doughter
whom
they
callyd
wlfhylde
/
&
commyttyd
her
to
the
nonnes
at
Wylton
to
brynge
vp
/
kynge
edgare
in
processe
of
tyme
wolde
haue
maryed
her
/
&
when
he
coulde
by
no
meanys
haue
her
assent
/
ne
yet
haue
her
to
come
speke
with
hym
and
that
he
durste
not
take
her
out
of
the
Churche
/
he
toke
counceyll
of
her
Aunte
callyd
wenflede
/
which
beynge
desyrous
to
haue
her
nese
exaltyd
/
dyssymylyd
her selfe
to
be
syke
/
&
so
the
Blessyd
vyrgyne
came
to
wharwelle
to
vyset
her
Aunte
where
she
founde
her
not
syke
but
syttynge
at
dyner
with
the
Kynge
in
great
Royalte
/
And
anon
the
vyrgyn
was
apparayled
in
goodlye
apparell
/
and
the
Kynge
made
her
to
sytte
betwen
ehym
and
her
Aunte
promysynge
her
great
Ryches
/
and
to
be
Ladye
of
Brytayne
/
which
in
her
Harte
she
abhorryd
thoughe
she
sayd
it
not
with
her
mouthe
/
And
dyssymylynge
her selfe
to
be
syke
wolde
ete
no
mete
alweyes
thynkynge
howe
she
myghte
escape
/
which
the
Kynge
perceyuyd
and
appoyntyd
certeyne
knyghtys
to
kepe
her
both
within
the
house
&
with
out
/
and
after
with
her
to
maydens
she
went
into
a
secrete
house
/
and
dyd
of
her
pompyous
ornamentys
and
by
a
lytell
hole
an
Aungell
beinge
her
guyde
/
she
escapyd
/
and
lyke
a
poore
woman
came
into
a
pore
womans
house
in
wharwell
/
and
all
that
nyghte
she
was
sought
by
the
kynges
seruauntys
&
coulde
not
be
founde
/
&
in
the
mornynge
she
went
to
wylton
whyther
the
Kynge
folowyd
and
attemptyd
all
that
he
coulde
to
haue
her
speke
with
hym
/
&
coulde
not
tyll
it
hapned
hym
to
mete
her
in
the
cloyster
wherof
he
was
veray
gladde
/
and
toke
her
by
the
sleue
&
she
anon
pullyd
away
her
arme
/
and
the
clothe
remaynyd
styll
in
the
Kynges
hande
more
easely
seueryd
then
if
it
had
ben
cut
of
/
and
so
she
went
streyght
to
the
hyghe
Aulter
and
commytted
her
virgynyte
to
our
Lorde
/
and
the
Kynge
astonyed
at
the
seuerynge
of
the
sleue
/
and
a
shamyd
of
his
presumpcyon
thought
that
it
shulde
betokyn
/
that
she
the
spouse
of
our
Lorde
shulde
be
cleerly
seueryd
fro
hym
wherfore
he
went
to
her
and
bade
her
not
feer
for
he
wolde
no
more
lette
her
porpose
but
rather
be
a
helper
of
it
/
wherupon
he
gaue
her
the
monasterye
of
Barkynge
/
and
newly
repayryd
it
/
after
of
her
owne
patrymony
she
made
a noder
at
Horton
whiche
is
lyke
farre
/
that
is
to
save
nyghe
aboute
.xii.
myles
fro
Wylton
/
Shaftesburye
/
Warram
/
and
Hampton
/
And
in
euerye
oon
of
them
the
Kynge
gaue
her
a
Churche
/
Whanne
she
was
professyd
a
whyghte
Doue
was
seen
destende
vppon
her
Hedde
/
with
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
she
helyd
a
blynde
Chylde
/
And
whan
Seynt
Ethelwolde
came
to
her
/
the
Mynystres
tolde
her
that
she
lackyd
Drynke
/
Wherfore
for
gladnes
of
suche
a
geeste
she
putte
her
truste
in
our
Lorde
and
the
Uessellys
mynysshed
not
/
By
meanys
of
the
clerkys
of
Barkynge
/
the
Quene
alstrude
moder
to
kynge
Ethelrede
put
her
out
of
Barkynge
/
and
the
Clerkys
hadde
the
rule
/
and
when
she
wente
fourthe
of
the
gatys
she
sayde
to
the
Susters
wepynge
for
her
departynge
that
the
same
daye
/
and
in
the
same
gate
after
.xx.
yerys
she
shulde
come
agayne
/
and
so
she
went
to
the
Monasterye
of
Horton
where
she
encouragyd
the
susters
as
well
present
as
absent
by
Wordes
/
Exaumples
/
and
by
Messyngers
to
the
desyre
of
Heuenlye
thynges
/
aftre
the
Quene
was
Punysshed
as
well
by
Deth
of
brute
Beestys
/
as
of
men
/
and
at
the
laste
she
her selfe
felle
syke
to
whom
seynt
Alburghe
apperyd
in
poore
appareyll
with
a
syklye
countenaunce
/
whiche
she
sayde
was
longe
of
her
seyinge
/
she
shulde
neuer
be
hoole
tyll
she
broughte
Seynt
Wlfhylde
agayne
/
And
so●
she
broughte
her
agayne
the
same
Day
as
she
hadde
prophecyed
/
after
that
she
lyuyd
.vii.
yerys
And
was
Abbesse
of
bothe
Monasteryes
of
Barkynge
/
and
Horton
/
And
she
sayde
she
shulde
dye
on
seynt
Ethel
woldes
euyn
/
And
soo
she
dyed
at
London
the
.v.
I
de
of
Septembre
/
As
she
was
in
bryngynge
to
Barkynge
one
that
Seynt
Wlfhylde
hadde
reprouyd
for
his
Synne
layde
hande
to
the
Beere
/
And
fourth
with
it
was
soo
heuy
that
it
wolde
in
no
wyse
be
remouyd
/
And
whanne
he
was
Confessyd
/
and
dyd
Penaunce
he
came
agayne
and
helpyd
to
bere
the
H●rse
as
other
dydde
/
In
her
oratorye
at
Horton
a
woman
receyuyd
her
Syghte
/
And
as
she
was
admonysshyd
she
wente
to
Barkynge
with
great
dyffyculte
in
maner
crepynge
where
she
receyuyd
perfyght
helthe
.
¶
De
sancto
Wlrico
confessore
.
SEynt
wlryke
was
borne
in
contane
/
that
is
.viii.
myle
fro
Brystolle
/
and
beynge
a
preest
he
vsyd
bothe
Huntynge
/
and
Haukynge
after
he
wente
to
halesberge
/
that
is
.xxx.
myle
fro
Oxforde
/
And
there
of
his
owne
deuocyon
/
he
buryed
hymselfe
to
our
Lorde
/
&
so
mortyfyed
his
Flesshe
with
fastyngys
/
and
vygyllys
/
that
scarcely
the
skyn
myght
hange
to
the
Bonys
/
he
ete
Breed
made
of
otys
/
and
dranke
no
maner
of
Wyne
/
nor
any
thynge
that
myght
dystempre
/
But
onlye
on
hyghe
Festys
for
reuerence
of
the
Feest
/
On
vygyllys
he
watchyd
all
nyghte
/
oonles
that
sykenes
lettyd
hym
/
He
slepte
in
no
Bedde
but
lenynge
his
Heed
to
a
walle
/
and
when
he
wakyd
furth
wyth
he
went
to
prayer
He
weer
the
Here
nexte
his
skynne
/
and
therupon
an
Haberioyne
/
On
a
tyme
when
the
haberioyne
was
to
longe
he
clyppyd
it
with
sherys
as
if
it
hadde
ben
clothe
/
In
the
nyghtys
he
wolde
goo
into
a
Uessel
of
Water
/
and
saye
the
hoole
Psalter
wherby
he
mortyfyed
the
Temptacyons
of
his
Flesshe
whiche
he
suffered
ryghte
moche
/
He
sawe
Deuylls
sytte
in
Iudgement
where
they
condempnyd
hym
as
one
that
was
in
euery
thynge
agaynste
them
/
And
as
they
drewe
hym
aboute
the
Chyrche
our
Lady
delyueryd
hym
/
On
a
tyme
he
bette
the
Deuyll
/
&
wolde
not
let
hym
goo
tyll
he
promysyd
that
he
wolde
neuer
come
agayne
/
a
wretchyd
man
not
berynge
his
pouerte
pacyentlye
had
doon
to
the
Deuyll
homage
/
And
aftre
when
he
repentyd
&
was
commynge
towarde
seynt
Wlryke
by
the
way
the
Deuyl
helde
hym
faste
at
a
water
syde
&
wolde
nat
suffer
hym
go
/
wherfore
seynt
wlryke
knowynge
it
by
an
Aungell
bad
a
preest
go
thyder
and
shewyd
hym
the
place
where
it
was
/
&
that
he
shuld
caste
holy
water
and
brynge
the
man
to
hym
/
and
so
it
was
done
when
he
was
brought
to
hym
he
toke
hym
by
the
ryght
hande
/
&
the
deuyll
helde
hym
by
the
lefte
hande
and
plucked
at
hym
with
all
his
myght
/
then
seynt
Wlryke
caste
holy
water
/
and
droue
hym
away
with
confucyon
/
After
when
the
man
was
confessyd
and
was
penytent
seynt
Wlryke
brought
to
hym
the
Sacrament
/
and
asked
hym
whether
he
byleued
and
he
sayd
ye
for
he
sawe
the
veray
body
and
blode
of
our
Lorde
bytwyxt
his
handes
/
then
seynt
Wlryke
thanked
our
lorde
and
prayer
that
it
mought
appere
as
it
dyd
byfore
and
so
he
was
communed
.
The
deuyl
had
power
of
the
body
of
seynt
Wlryke
in
so
moche
that
he
strake
hym
with
byles
&
wormes
so
that
al
his
flesshe
putrefyed
/
&
somtyme
he
stroke
hym
with
intollerable
hete
/
sometyme
with
intollerable
colde
/
which
he
alway
ouercame
with
pacyence
two
tymes
his
Lanterne
went
out
&
was
sodeynly
lyghted
agayne
/
when
he
had
helyd
a
man
that
had
the
deuylin
hym
he
bad
hym
shewe
it
to
no
man
/
&
in
his
slepe
he
was
blamed
that
he
wolde
nat
lette
the
werkes
of
god
be
knowen
/
&
so
after
he
wolde
shewe
theym
oonly
to
Relygyousmen
/
Aprees●
called
Osborne
on
a
nyght
sawe
in
the
churche
a
great
lyght
that
made
all
the
churchyarde
bryght
/
and
in
the
mornyng
seynt
Wlryke
asked
hym
what
he
sawe
/
and
when
he
had
tolde
hym
he
sayd
it
is
well
that
thou
seest
it
.
It
was
our
lorde
Ihesu
that
came
to
comfort
me
his
seruaunt
and
I
prayed
that
thou
myght
se
it
whiche
scarcely
I
coulde
opteyne
/
Moreouer
he
shewyd
hym
what
Psalmes
he
was
then
sayinge
/
and
where
he
stode
at
that
tyme
/
Water
with
his
blessynge
turned
into
wyne
/
wherof
a
woman
that
was
nyghe
deed
drauke
and
furth
wich
was
hole
/
A
lady
with
all
her
companye
that
came
to
vysyte
seynt
Wlryke
with
one
lofe
were
fully
sacyat
/
and
of
the
fragmentes
a
great
company
of
people
that
came
to
haue
his
blessynge
were
also
refresshed
as
it
is
sayd
aboue
.xl.
persones
/
A
yonge
mayde
that
was
syke
thought
that
in
her
slepe
she
went
to
seynt
Wlryke
&
that
he
gaue
her
holy
water
in
a
cuppe
to
drynke
wherwith
she
was
hole
/
and
whenne
she
wakyd
she
was
hole
in
dede
and
she
shewyd
what
maner
a
man
he
was
and
the
very
markes
of
the
place
where
it
was
done
/
As
he
was
at
masse
he
was
in
doubte
whether
he
put
water
into
the
Chaleys
wherfore
he
made
his
prayer
with
great
deuocyon
/
&
whenne
his
prayer
was
done
/
he
sawe
in
the
chaleys
blode
rodye
as
a
Rose
as
of
the
lambe
immaculate
our
lorde
Ihesu
criste
/
whiche
whenne
he
hadde
receyued
the
hoste
he
receyued
y●
as
of
a
moste
delycate
grape
/
He
dyd
many
myracles
&
sygnes
with
holy
brede
and
holy
water
/
and
dyuerse
that
brought
hym
presentis
and
stall
parte
were
punysshed
He
tolde
kynge
Henry
the
firste
when
he
went
ouer
the
see
that
he
shulde
dye
there
and
so
he
dyd
/
another
tyme
he
tolde
the
Erle
stephan
that
he
shulde
be
kynge
and
so
he
was
/
He
shewyd
to
a
preest
called
Osborne
that
on
the
saterdaye
at
nyght
he
shulde
go
to
our
lorde
as
he
had
longe
desyred
/
and
so
he
dyed
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
a
Thousande
a
hondred
and
.liiii.
in
the
.x.
Kalend
of
Marche
.
¶
De
sancto
Wlsino
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Wlsyne
was
borne
in
London
/
and
by
assent
of
his
Fader
&
moder
he
was
made
monke
at
Westmynster
/
and
when
he
was
made
preest
he
shyned
in
al
vertue
fyghtynge
agaynst
the
enemye
of
mankynde
with
vygylles
and
prayers
/
He
ouercame
the
coueytousnes
of
the
worlde
with
desyre
of
heuynly
thynges
&
with
all
dylygence
wolde
note
the
mocyons
of
his
body
and
spyrit
/
He
was
meke
redy
to
helpe
his
bretherne
and
fulfylled
with
charyte
encouragynge
his
bretherne
to
al
vertue
in
the
beste
maner
that
he
coulde
to
wyn
theym
to
our
lorde
/
After
by
helpe
of
seynt
Dunstane
kynge
Edgare
made
hym
Abbot
of
Westmynster
/
&
then
how
dylygent
he
was
for
the
helth
of
other
and
how
he
faught
agaynst
the
enemye
of
the
flocke
of
our
lorde
what
example
he
lefte
byhynde
hym
of
doctryne
/
and
of
good
lyfe
no
man
can
tell
/
After
kynge
Ethelred
sone
to
kyng
Edgare
by
a
hole
assent
of
the
clergye
and
people
made
hym
bysshop
of
Shyrborne
/
and
all
the
Lent
he
wolde
be
in
the
Cloyster
in
fastyngis
/
wepynges
/
and
contemplacyon
eschewyng
the
clamore
of
the
worlde
/
And
after
Ester
he
wolde
go
aboute
his
Diocise
prechynge
and
techynge
the
people
/
and
dyd
great
reperacyon
vpon
the
olde
temple
at
Shirborne
/
In
the
fyfth
yere
after
he
was
made
bysshop
he
fell
syke
and
a
specyall
frende
of
his
sent
to
hym
to
know
how
he
dyd
/
and
he
sent
hym
worde
agayne
that
he
shulde
make
hym
redye
for
on
the
morowe
he
shulde
go
with
hym
to
the
hyghe
Courte
to
receyue
his
rewarde
in
heuyn
/
And
whenne
the
messanger
was
gone
he
prayed
the
bretherne
that
they
wolde
carye
both
hym
&
his
sayd
frende
to
Shirborne
/
and
then
lyftynge
vp
his
iyen
to
heuyn
lyke
seynt
stephan
he
sayd
I
se
heuyn
open
/
and
our
lorde
standynge
on
the
ryght
hande
of
almyghty
god
/
and
as
he
sayd
tho
wordes
he
yelded
his
spirite
to
the
handes
of
our
lorde
.
De
sancto
Wlstano
Epo
&
confessore
.
SEynt
Wlstano
was
borne
in
the
Prouynce
of
Warwyke
And
in
the
Monasterye
of
Burghe
he
had
his
lernynge
/
He
sayd
a
longe
Masse
&
was
oonly
content
with
the
offrynges
of
the
people
/
he
was
a
clene
virgyn
&
a
man
of
great
symplycyte
&
mekenes
/
He
neuer
toke
excesse
of
drynke
&
left
etynge
of
flesshe
by
this
occasyon
.
On
a
tyme
as
he
was
goynge
to
a
certeyne
busynes
&
had
appoynted
to
ete
of
a
goose
after
masse
/
as
he
was
at
masse
/
he
coulde
in
no
wyse
kepe
his
mynde
fro
the
goose
that
was
rostynge
at
the
fyre
/
&
the
sauoure
therof
was
alwayes
in
his
nose
/
Wherfore
he
made
an
othe
that
he
wolde
neuer
after
ete
mete
of
that
kynde
/
after
he
was
made
monke
at
Wygorn̄
where
he
had
dyuerse
offyces
and
at
laste
was
made
pryor
/
He
vsed
moche
fastynges
/
vigylles
/
and
prayers
/
&
moste
commonly
he
toke
slepe
in
the
Churche
with
his
boke
vnder
his
hed
/
euery
sonday
he
vsed
to
preche
to
the
people
/
Wherfore
one
reproued
hym
sayinge
a
monke
shulde
kepe
his
Cloyster
/
And
in
the
nyght
folowyng
that
man
in
his
slepe
was
brought
byfore
a
Iugge
/
and
was
commaunded
to
be
beten
&
so
he
was
so
sore
that
the
markes
apperyd
vpon
hym
whenne
he
was
awake
/
And
seynt
Uulstan̄
herynge
therof
with
his
blessyng
made
him
hole
agayne
.
Thre
dayes
in
the
weke
he
absteyned
fro
all
mete
kepynge
also
scylens
/
the
other
thre
dayes
he
ete
lekes
and
wortes
soden
and
barley
brede
.
Whenne
he
was
chosen
to
be
bysshop
he
wolde
in
no
wyse
assent
to
take
it
tyl
a
holy
man
blame●
hym
for
his
obstynacye
/
and
then
he
toke
it
vpon
hym
/
The
kyng
Wyllyam
Conqueroure
bycause
seynt
Wlstan̄
coulde
speke
no
Frenche
and
that
he
thought
he
was
but
of
small
conynge
wolde
haue
deposed
hym
/
and
whenne
seynt
Lamfranke
then
Archebysshoppe
of
Caunterburye
at
a
counseyll
bad
hym
to
sygne
his
staffe
and
his
synge
he
sayd
he
knewe
wel
he
was
neuer
worthye
to
haue
the
ro●e
/
but
he
sayd
saynt
Edwarde
by
Auctoryte
of
the
〈◊〉
/
and
by
hole
assent
as
well
of
the
clergye
as
of
the
people
leyde
that
burden
in
his
necke
agaynst
his
wyl
/
Wherfore
he
sayd
he
wolde
resygne
to
hym
wherupon
he
went
to
seynt
Edwardes
Shryne
/
&
there
put
his
staffe
vpon
the
stone
that
lay
vpon
seynt
Edwarde
&
sayd
he
resygne
vnto
hym
/
and
the
stone
receyued
the
staffe
and
hede
it
fast
.
And
when
the
kynge
and
saynt
Lanfranke
makynge
his
prayers
attempted
to
haue
pulled
out
the
staffe
but
it
wolde
nat
remoue
/
And
whenne
seynt
Wulstane
toke
it
/
it
came
lyghtly
out
wherfore
seynt
Lamfranke
he
toke
the
bysshopryke
agayne
/
He
wold
haue
all
his
seruauntes
here
masse
/
And
when
he
sent
any
of
his
seruauntes
in
any
Iourney
he
wolde
enioyne
theym
to
saye
prayers
.vii.
tymes
euery
daye
as
clerkes
be
bounden
to
do
/
and
he
that
swere
any
othe
shuld
haue
a
certeyne
punysshement
/
He
harde
daly
.
●
.
masses
and
sayd
hym selfe
the
thirde
.
He
helyd
a
woman
and
also
a
man
that
had
deuylles
in
theym
and
the
woman
was
after
a
Nonne
and
lyued
a
blessyd
lyfe
/
A
lepur
with
the
water
y●
seynt
Wlfstans
wasshed
in
was
helyd
with
his
blessynge
helyd
a
Nonne
that
was
kynge
Heroldes
〈◊〉
of
a
sort
〈◊〉
When
he
rode
he
wold
begyn
the
Psaulter
&
nat
cease
tyll
he
had
done
/
&
one
was
alway
redy
to
gyue
almes
/
In
euery
of
his
townes
he
had
a
hous
wherin
he
wold
be
〈◊〉
tyl
one
warned
hym
that
it
was
tyme
to
go
to
●uyce
or
to
go
to
dyner
/
When
he
was
at
Wygorn
he
wold
synge
hygh
masse
/
&
he
sayd
he
wold
as
gladly
resygne
his
bysshopryke
as
leue
that
offyce
/
He
wolde
be
at
collecion
of
the
bretherne
/
and
when
Confessyon
was
done
and
benediccyon
gyuen
he
wolde
departe
.
There
was
a
man
that
by
no
Instaunce
wolde
forgyue
the
deth
of
his
brother
/
wherfore
seynt
Wlstane
commytted
that
sayd
man
to
hym
whose
he
was
and
his
body
to
sathan
wherupon
he
was
taken
with
a
spyryte
and
was
not
hole
tyll
he
had
clerely
forgyuen
the
offence
.
He
was
desyred
by
Elsyn
that
somtyme
was
seynt
Edwardes
seruaunte
to
halowe
a
Churche
in
a
place
where
was
a
tree
that
letted
the
lyght
of
the
Churche
whiche
the
sayde
Elsyn
bycause
he
vsed
somtyme
to
ete
&
playe
vnder
it
wolde
nat
haue
cutte
downe
wherfore
seynt
Wlstane
accursed
it
wherupon
it
waxed
drye
/
wherfore
the
lorde
cutte
it
downe
sayinge
there
was
nothynge
more
bytter
thenne
Wlstanes
curse
/
and
nothynge
more
swete
then
his
blessynge
/
In
the
pene
of
our
lorde
a
Thousande
.lxvii.
the
.xiiii.
kalend
of
●
〈◊〉
he
went
to
our
lord
/
and
a
hondred
yere
after
his
body
was
remoued
whiche
with
his
pontyfycall
vestymentes
was
founde
vncorrupt
/
Amonge
other
myracles
that
our
lorde
shewyd
for
this
blessyd
man
/
A
woman
that
.v.
yeres
bowed
downe
to
the
grounde
was
made
hole
/
A
child
that
had
his
tunge
cutte
of
restored
/
fyue
blynde
men
had
theyr
syght
/
fyue
obcessed
of
deuylles
delyuered
/
〈◊〉
deed
men
reysed
to
lyfe
/
●●●
lepurs
clensed
/
●●
a
tyme
within
the
space
of
thre
dayes
by
merytes
of
seynt
Wlstane
.xxxv.
were
helyd
of
dyuerse
deceases
grupynge
thankyngꝭ
vnto
●●●●●●tye
god
and
to
seynt
Wstane
.
¶
De
sancto
Edga●e●ege
●t
●●●fessore
.
THe
lyfe
of
this
blessyd
Kynge
was
founde
in
the
boke
that
is
called
Cathologus
sanctorum
/
when
the
great
Legend
was
nygh
fynysshed
and
bycause
it
coulde
not
be
put
in
after
the
ordre
of
the
letters
it
is
●ette
laste
of
all
the
seyntes
/
and
in
the
Kalendre
it
shall
kepe
the
ordre
as
other
seyntes
do
after
the
letter
/
Seynt
Edg●rekynge
of
Englande
when
he
was
aboute
the
age
of
.xvi.
yeres
beganne
his
Raygne
in
the
●yme
of
Otho
the
Emperoure
at
his
byrth
seynt
Dunstane
Archebysshop
of
Caunterbury
ha●●e
the
voyce
of
an
Aungell
fro
Heuyn
sayinge
peas
be
to
Englande
as
l●nge
as
this
childe
shall
Raygne
and
as
longe
as
our
Dunstane
shall
lyue
/
He
raygned
.xvi.
yeres
&
euery
yere
he
foundyd
a
new
Monastery
&
gouernyd
the
Realme
i●
hygh
peas
&
Iustyce
/
he
subdued
the
kynge
of
scotlande
/
&
the
kyngis
in
Wales
to
the
nombre
of
fyue
and
dyuers
other
he
compellyd
to
come
to
his
court
&
toke
a
perpetuall
●the
that
they
shuld
be
〈◊〉
vnto
hym
/
What
by
by
polycye
/
and
what
with
fere
he
refreyned
his
people
fro
great
outragyous
drynkynge
and
he
was
so
terryble
and
streyght
of
punysshement
that
there
was
noo
pry●●t
the●●
in
all
the
Countrey
n●
any
great
Rob●er
of
the
people
/
He
kylled
al
the
wylde
b●stes
in
Englande
that
we●e
●●uenours
and
lyued
by
blode
/
and
commaunded
Guydale
kyng
●f
●●●les
that
he
shuld
for
his
●ribute
yerely
brynge
vnto
hym
thre
Hundred
W●lnes
whiche
he
dyd
many
yeres
tyll
he
sayde
there
were
no
m●●
/
Euery
yere
afterꝭ
Ester
he
〈…〉
serche
the
see
to
take
Pyratys
and
r●bbers
of
the
see
/
And
in
wynter
he
wolde
go
〈◊〉
by
euery
prouynce
to
put
away
theuys
and
to
serche
the
Demeaner
of
great
m●n
that
they
breke
nat
Iustyce
/
On
a
sondaye
he
was
dysposyd
to
go●
on
huntynge
/
and
desyred
seynt
Dunstane
to
〈◊〉
of
masse
tyll
he
came
/
And
whenne
the
houre
drewe
nere
seynt
Dunstane
put
on
his
v●●tymentes
and
lenyd
vpon
the
Aulter
and
sodeynly
fallynge
a
slepe
he
was
ledde
into
Heuyn
where
he
harde
Aungelles
synge
Kyrie
eleyson
.ix.
tymes
/
After
he
awakyd
and
taryed
a
whyle
and
was
rapte
agayne
and
harde
theym
synge
with
an
hyghe
voyce
Ite
miss
a
est
/
wherto
was
answeryd
Deo
gratias
.
Thenne
after
his
clerke
came
to
hym
and
tolde
hym
that
the
kyng
was
come
to
whom
he
answeryd
that
he
had
harde
Masse
/
&
that
he
nedyd
nat
any
more
to
say
Masse
for
that
daye
/
and
when
the
kynge
askyd
hym
why
he
wolde
n●t
say
Masse
he
shewyd
hym
his
vysyon
/
&
by
that
occasion
he
ꝓhybyted
the
kynge
that
he
shuld
neuer
after
go
a
huntynge
on
the
sonday
which
monycion
the
kynge
toke
benygnely
&
fro
thens
kept
it
all
his
lyfe
/
This
blessyd
kynge
in
many
thyngꝭ
maye
be
resembled
to
the
great
kynge
Dauid
/
for
as
kynge
Dauid
was
fyrste
kynge
of
Iuda
/
and
after
was
kynge
of
all
the
Lande
aswell
of
Iuda
as
of
Iherusalem
/
and
helde
it
at
his
deth
peasyblye
/
So
this
noble
kynge
was
kynge
of
all
this
Realme
of
Englande
/
and
hadde
the
hole
monarchye
therof
peasybly
/
whiche
hadde
ben
byfore
tyme
deuydyd
in
to
many
kyngdomes
/
and
was
called
Re●pacificus
/
Also
as
kynge
Dauid
was
a
myghty
defender
of
his
subgettes
/
a
subduer
of
●●bellys
/
and
so
was
this
blessyd
kynge
as
in
his
lyfe
/
And
also
in
Cr●nycles
wyll
appere
/
and
as
kynge
●au●d
moche
encreasyd
the
seruyce
of
almyghty
god
/
And
appoyntyd
dyuers
men
therto
prepayrynge
many
thynges
to
haue
buyldyd
the
Temple
to
the
honoure
of
god
/
so
this
blessyd
man
made
&
repayred
dyuerse
Monasteryes
in
this
Realme
/
wherby
the
seruyce
of
god
was
moche
encreacyd
.
Also
when
kynge
Dauid
had
offendyd
/
and
was
wherfore
reprouyd
by
the
Prophete
Natham
anone
he
confessyd
his
offence
cryed
mercy
and
dyd
penaunce
in
lyke
wyse
when
this
blessyd
kynge
had
offendyd
/
and
seynt
Dunstane
reprouyd
hym
therof
anone
ferynge
the
Iugement
of
god
he
knowlegyd
his
offence
/
and
dyd
seuen
yeres
penaunce
as
in
the
lyfe
of
seynt
Dunstane
apperyth
in
the
latter
ende
of
seynt
Patrykes
lyfe
in
the
Legende
it
apperyth
that
many
yeres
after
the
departynge
of
this
blessyd
kynge
his
body
was
founde
vncorrupt
/
and
that
when
the
place
that
was
newly
ordeyned
for
hym
was
to
lytell
/
Oon
presumptuously
attemptyd
to
make
the
body
mete
for
the
place
/
wherupon
incontynent
the
blode
folowed
so
that
all
that
were
there
present
fearyd
greatly
and
therupon
he
was
honorably
leyde
in
a
Shryne
by
the
hyghe
Aulter
/
whiche
he
had
gyuen
to
the
sayd
Churche
and
anone
he
that
so
presumptuously
had
offendyd
sodeynly
fell
downe
and
expyred
A
man
that
was
madde
/
and
also
a
blynde
man
at
the
tumbe
of
this
blessyd
kyng
receyued
helth
/
and
he
lyeth
at
Glaston
bury
/
Praye
we
then
to
thyse
glorious
seyntis
that
be
in
this
present
Kalendre
that
by
merytes
of
theyr
prayers
we
may
haue
grace
so
to
passe
by
thyse
transytorye
thynges
that
after
this
short
lyfe
we
may
come
to
the
Euerlastynge
lyfe
in
the
kyngdome
of
heuen
.
Amen
.
¶
Explicit
.
¶
Thus
endyth
the
Kalendre
of
the
new
Legende
of
Englande
/
Emprynted
to
the
honour
of
the
gloriouse
Seyntis
therin
conteyned
by
Richarde
Pynson
/
prynter
to
our
Soueraygne
lorde
Kynge
Henry
the
.viii.