Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 13

SEynt Birinus the confessour was sente of honorius the po¦pe for to preche to englysshmen. And while birinus sayled in the see of brytayne / he bythought on his restellys that he had foryete in the hauen and yede vpon the see and fette his restellys Beda libro tercio capitulo sexto / This birinus conuerted kyn∣gilsus kynge of westsaxons and cristned him atte cyte dortyk. that is dorchestre / there was kynge oswald presente and was kyngilsus Godfader and wedded his doughter afterward / and bothe the kynges gaf that cyte for to ordeyne there a bisshops see and ther birinus deyde after the fourtenth yere of his b••sshoprich and was buryed there· But atte laste by hedda bisshop of wyn∣chestre birinus was translated to wynchestre in to the chirche of seynt peter and paule ¶R But the chanons of dorchestre saye naye and saye that it was another body than seynt birinus bo∣dy that was so translated ¶Therfor a byere of a wonder werck is yet seen at dorchestre aboue the place of his fyrst graue / that cy¦te dortyk or dorkynga that now is callyd dorchestre is seuen myle by south oxenford y sette bytwene twey Ryuers of Tame and of Temse Also it is founden in cronykis that kynge kyngilsus assigned al the londe seuen myle aboute for to make a Bisshopis see in wynchestre and for the sustenaunce of the ministres / and for the kynge was let••e by his deth euil that he myght not fulfil hit. he swore that his sone kenwalcus shold fulfylle it afterward ¶Willelmus de pon libro secundo / ¶This cyte dorchestre longed to the bisshops of mercia fro that tyme vnto the comynge of the normans / but in wiliam conquerours tyme the bisshops see was chaunged to lyncolyn ¶Willelmus de pon libro primo ¶ That yere felyx of the n••cion of burgoyn that had ben ho••ely with si¦gebertus kynge of ••st angles while he was exyled in Fraunce / come with hym in to englond and was made bisshop f••••st of don wyck· and was there bisshop xv•• yere ¶Beda libro tercio capitu¦lo 17 ¶This Sigebertus hadde the kyngdome after his broder corpwaldus and ordeyned scoles of lettrure in his kyngdom as he hadde seen in Fraunce and assigned petagoges and maystres

for children in the maner of caunterbury men Atte last he by∣toke his kyngdome to his neuewe egritus and was shore monke in an abbaye that he hym self bylded ¶ But afterward kynge penda paganus warryd in that kyngdome and sigebertus was drawe oute of the abbay as it were for to strength the knyghtes and soo he was slayne in his s••mplenes and bare but a rodde in his honde / and al his hoost was neigh slayne After him regned Anna Enus sonne penda slough hym / But while segebertus reg¦ned an holy man that hete furs••us come oute of yrlond in to the prouynce of eest angles and in the way conuerted many men / or made hem more stedfaste in the feyth. there in a tyme he was seke and was warned in a vision by an Angel that he shold besyly do as he hadde bygonne and besyly wake and make his praiers thenne by helpe of the kynge he bylded an abbaye by the see in a castel that hete cimbrisburgh. there he wexe seke agayne and was rauyshed oute of his body spirituelly vnto the syght of holy an∣geles there he herd the sowne of that verse of the sawter. holy mē shal goo forth fro vertue to vertue god of goddes shal be s••en in syon Also his spyryte cam to his body agayn and take away agayn the thyrdde day / and sawe not only the greete ioye of holy seyntes but also the grettest stryf of euil spyrites by whiche they purposed to lette holy men / thenne he was lefte an hye / and sa∣we vnder hym four fyres in the ayer and the Angel that ladde hym expowned to hym the fyres in this manere and sayde that these fyres shall destroye the world· the fyrst fyre is the fyre of le¦synge for men doo not as they promysed in theyr baptemme / the second is the fire of couetise whan ryches is more loued than god almyghty / the thyrdde is the fyre of discorde and of stryf whan men greuen her neyghbours withoute cause· the fourth is the fire of wyckednes whan the gretter or myghtyer dredeth not for to vndoo and destroye the lasse o••d febler These fyres semed ga¦dred as it were al in to one ¶Thenne furseus was soore agast and cryed and the angel sayd to hym / what thou hast not sette a fyre in the shall not brenne / This shall examine and serche all mennes dedes· thenne furseus cam to a yate that was open and fendes threwe on him a man that they termented in fyre / And therwith furseus sholder and his cheke were brente / Anone fur∣seus knewe that man / and knewe that he hadde resseyued his cloth whan he deyde / the angel that lad furseus threwe that cloth in to the fyre / and the fende sayde throwe not away that whiche

thou hast to fore hond approuyd / For thou hast receiued the goo∣des of synful men / so thou shalt be partener of theyr paynes. naye sayd the angel he receyued it not for couetyse but for sauacion of his soule / and thenne the fyre ceced / and the angel sayde to furse¦us what thou hast sette a fyre that hath brente the / thēne furseus was brought to his body agayn. the same marke & tokene that he had felt in his soule / he bare alwey after seen on his sholder and cheke Afterward as ofte as furseus tolde this tale though he were right thynne clothed in the myddel of the colde wynter. he shold swete for drede / ¶Atte laste furseus lefte that abbaye to his broder fullanus and he wente with another broder vulcan{us} and lyued heremytes lyf al one yere / thenne that prouynce was anone destroyed by rennyng and reyses of straungers and he say¦led in to Fraunce and deyde there after many grete dedes of ver∣tue and was buryed at perma. ¶After honorius Seuerinus was pope one yere· In his tyme the Iewes were conuertyd and torned to crysten feyth ¶Heraclius themperour after his noble vyctoryes erryd oute of the feyth and that by coūseil of Cirus patriarke of Allexandria and of Sergius patriarke of constan¦tinople And Eraclius deyde in the droposye / and was shende with the heresye of the Iacobytes that were they that mysunder∣stode seynt Iame thappostle /