The first two partes of the actes or vnchast examples of the Englysh votaryes gathered out of their owne legenades and chronycles by Johan Bale ...
Bale, John, 1495-1563.

☞ Their fyrst spiriituall prouy∣syons here.

AS the kynge admytted their en∣teraunce, he couenaunted thus wyth them, and very wysely. That hys people shuld alwayes be at lyberte,* and no man constrayned to their Page  25 newe founde Relygyon, sacrifices, and worshyppynges. But alac that fredome contynued not long wyth them, as ye shall wele perceyue hereafter Then dyd Augustine get him into Fraunce agayn, and caused one Etherius than Archeby∣shop of Arelas,* to consecrate hym the great byshop of all Englande, without eleccion or consent of the people that we reade of. And in the yeare of our Lorde euen. DC.* dyd Gregorye sende vnto hym from Rome, hys prymates pall, with super altares, chalyces, copes,* can∣delstyckes, vestymentes, surplices, alter clothes, syngynge bokes, rellyckes, and the blessynges of Peter and Paule. And so admytted hym for the fyrst metropoli∣tane of all the whole realme, appointing hys seate from thens fourth at Canter∣burye, than called Doroberna,* the wor∣thye cytie of London euer after depriued of her former tytle, and so made an vn∣derlynge. But the spirituall fathers knewe well ynough what they dyd, be∣holdyng afore hande many hydden my∣steries. They perceyued that Caunterbu¦ry was wel out of the wayes,* and much nygher the sea then was London, and so muche the fytter for theyr craftye conuey¦aunces, and flyghtes to their holy father if nede should require it, with manye o∣ther commoditees els. Marke alwayes Page  [unnumbered] these nombres of Syxes and their miste∣ries,* for the age of Man and the Beast, Apoca. xiij.