The second part of the Protestants plea, and petition for preists and papists Being an historie of the holy preisthood, and sacrifice of the true Church of Christ. Inuincibly prouing them to be, the present sacrificing preisthood: prouing also the sacrifice of the Masse, vsed in the Catholike Roman church: and that these were promised, and foretold by the Prophets, instituted by Christ, and exercised by all his Apostles. Morouer that they haue euer from the first plantinge of Christianitie in this our Britanye, in the dayes of the Apostles, in euery age, and hundred of yeares, beene continued and preferued here. All for the most part, warranted by the writinges and testimonies of the best learned Protestant doctors, and antiquaries of England, and others.

THE SECOND AGE OR HVN∣DRED YEARES OF CHRIST.

THE XV. CHAPTER. Wherein demonstration is made, both by pro∣testants and other antiquaries, that sacri∣ficinge massinge preists, and Bishops, and sacrifice of Masse, continued and were hono∣red in this kingdome of Britanie from the beginninge of this hundred yeares, vntill Kinge Lucius time, when it was wholly con∣uerted to that faith.

WE are now come to the begin∣ninge of the second age, or cen∣tury

of yeares of Christ, when by all ac∣compts in historie, Kinge Coillus, that was bred vp at Rome, was Kinge in Bri∣tanie, and S. Anacletus Pope of Rome. When many of our before remembred mas∣singe and sacrificinge Brittish preists, as namely S. Mansuetus, S. Beatus, his holy companion before by some named Acha∣tes, and S. Timotheus were liuinge. And though I doe not find any particularly na∣med, whome S. Anacletus sent hither, of the holy preistly massinge order, yet to fol∣lowe euen the opinion, and direction of English Protestant antiquaries, in this bu∣sines, wee must needs graunt, that hee had a care of this contry as wel as others in this kind, for they testifie of this Pope; Ab •…•…pso Domino primatum Romanae Ecclesiae super om∣nes Ecclesias, vniuersumque Christiani nomi∣ne populum concessum esse asseruit. (Robert. Barns l. de vit. Pontific. Roman. in Anaclet. Ormerod. pict. Pap. pag. 78.) Pope Anacletus affirmed, that supremacy was graunted from our Lord himselfe, to the church of Rome, ouer all churches, and all Christian people. Because, saith hee, Christ said to S. Peter, who liued and died at Rome, thou art Peter, or a rocke,

and vppon this rocke I will builde my church. Quia, inquit, Petro agenti & morienti Romae dixit, tu es Petrus & super hanc petram aedi∣ficabo Ecclesiam meam. By which reason a∣monge others, diuers other learned English Protestant writers, with publicke priuilege and allowance, doe proue vnto vs first con∣fessinge with this holy Pope, that Christ made S. Peter the supreame and cheife go∣uernour of his church: secondly that this supreamacy was necessary and to continue foreuer in his church: and thirdly because S. Peter dyinge Bishop of Rome, and at Rome, and there onely possibly to haue his laste and immediate successor, and so con∣stituted by himselfe as is euident in S. Cle∣ment before, it euidently followeth by the reason of this holy Pope, and protestants, that euen by Christ himselfe this suprea∣macy ouer all churches and Christians, was graunted to the church of Rome. Where∣uppon these protestants testifie in his life, that hee ordeyned diuers lawes bindinge the whole church, and still obserued. Rob. Barnes in Anacleto.

2. And if we may beleeue the first Pro∣testant Archbishop of Canterbury, and in

the whole world also, Matthew Parker, hee telleth vs how in particular his iurisdiction extended into this kingdome of Britanie, and that the diuision and constitution of Archbishops sees with vs, was by Pope Anacletus his ordination: Ex Anacle to hu∣ius insulae diuisionem. (Matth. Parker anti∣quitat. Brit. pag 24.) And that he was a sa∣crificinge massinge preist, it must needs be graunted, both by his owne, and our protestant testimonies also of him; for hee himselfe is witnesse, that hee was made preist by the great sacrificinge and massinge Apostle S. Peter: à Sancto Petro Apostolorum Principe, presbyter ordinatus. (Anacletus epist. 3. To. 1. concil.) and our protestants do plainely confesse of this ho∣lie Pope: Sacerdotem sacrificaturum, ministros vestibus sacris indutos, seu testes & custodes sibi adhibere ordinauit. Episcopos vero, & plu∣res ministros sibi in sacris faciendis adiungat: & quod Sacerdote maior ac dignior sit. (Ro∣bert. Barnes l. de vit. Pontif Roman in Ana∣cleto.) Pope Anacletus ordeined, that when a preist was to offer sacrifice, hee should take vnto him as witnesses and keepers, ministers in holy vestiments. And that a

Bishop should ioyne vnto him more mini∣sters, when he said Masse: And that hee is greater, and more worthie then a preist. The authoritie from whence they cite this, is much more plaine, where the very order wee still vse in solemne Masses is expressed. But the protestant words manifestly proue that the sacrifice of Masse and sacrificinge vestures, were vsed frō the daies of the A∣postles. Therfore this holy Pope exercising supreamacy, and enactinge lawes for the whole church in Britanie or wheresoeuer, as these protestāts there doe testifie, it must needs bee confessed, that the preists which in his time either for Britanie, or any other nation, were consecrated immediatlie by himselfe, or mediatly by his authority, were as himselfe was, sacrificinge massinge prei∣stes, and the deacons also for which hee made decrees, by the testimony of these men. (Robert. Barnes Sup. in Anaclet. Matth. Parker. antiquitat. Britan. pag. 24.) were also as they teach, such as serued at the al∣tare and sacrifice of Masse, as Master Foxe speakinge of the very deacons ordeined by Pope Anacletus proueth in these termes. therefore serued the office of the deacons, as

wee reade, to lay the offerings of the people vp∣pon the altare, to bee hallowed, and when the misteries, be consecrated, to distribute the cupp of the sacred blood of the Lord, to the faithfull people. (Foxe Tom. 2. in Q. Mary. Ambros. l. de omnib. diuin. offic.)

3. And much part of the aboade and re∣sidency of this holy Pope, as also of his pre∣decessors and successors as appeareth be∣fore, and will bee more manifest hereafter, was in that knowne massinge and sacrifi∣cinge house, of our noble contriwoman S. Claudia, or her children. And the order of Masse which hee vsed, was the same which was practised by S. Peter the Apostle, and by him deliuered to the church, as these protestants haue before with other Authors confessed. (Matth. Parker antiquitat. Brit. pag. 47. cap. 17.) and such was the condi∣tion of his next successor S. Euaristus, vsing the same order of saying Masse, with S. Pe∣ter, and both claiminge, and exercisinge supreamacie ouer all churches, as these pro∣testants assure vs. (Parker supr. Barn. in vit. Pontif. in Euaristo. Io. Funoc. commentar. l. 5. an. 105. Ed. Grimston.) and Nennius the auncient Brittish writer, who as these pro∣testants

say, wrote a thousand yeares since, doth expressely affirme, in his Manuscript history, that hee delt with the Kinge him∣selfe of this our Britanie about the conuer∣sion thereof, probably before Kinge Lucius was borne: Missa legatione à Papa Romano Euaristo. And many were conuerted by this h•…•…s meanes. (booke of estates pag. 435. Bal. l. de scriptor. cent. 1. in Nennio Banchor. Nen∣nius histor. M.S.) therefore this Pope being knowne to bee a massinge Pope, the preists which were (by Nēnius) sēt hither by him, must needs bee massing preists, as all others here, at, and before that mission were.

4. Next is Pope Alexander, a man, by our protestants allowance, studio euangeli∣zandi & miraculis celebris, interfectus martyr obijt: renowned for his zeale in preachinge the ghospell, and miracle, and dyinge a martyr. (Whitguist. answ. to the admonit. pag. 97.98. Rob. Barnes l. de vit. Pontific. Rom. in Alexandro 1. Bal. act. Rom. Pontific. in eodem.) this Pope as Albertus Krantzius writeth, sent preachers, and preists into this our Britanie. (Albert. Krantz. Metro∣pol. l. 1. cap. 6.) therefore to know of our protestāts whether they were massing prei∣stes,

we must enquire, and learne of them, what he was in this respect that sent them, because hee would not, not could send o∣thers then hee himselfe was, for such a bu∣sines. That hee was a sacrificinge massinge preist, and Pope these protestants thus as∣sure vs, by the lawes and decrees which as they thus testifie, hee made and published for the church. (Robert. Barn. in vit. Pont. in Aleaandro 1. Io. Funccius l. 5. commentar. in Alexand. 1. an. 111.) In Eucharistiae sacri∣ficio aquam vino admisceri voluit. Ad Eucha∣ristiae oblationem azimum panem non fermen∣tatum, sumendum esse praecepit. Vno die vnam tantum Missam à singulis sacrificijs fieri debe∣re, decreto sanciuit. Peccata sacrificio (de Eu∣charistia loquens) deleri ait: Ideo passionem in Missa recitandam instituit. Rationem effectus huius sacrificij, hoc est, quod peccata expiet, adiecit, dicens: Quia corpore & sanguine Chri∣sti in sacrificijs nihil maius est. Hee tooke or∣der that in the sacrifice of Eucharist, water shoulde bee mingled with wine. He com∣maunded, that vnleuened and not leuened breade should bee vsed for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. Hee made a decree, that no sacrificing preist should say more then one

Masse in one day. Speakinge of the Eucha∣rist he saith, that sinnes ar blotted out with sacrifice: therefore hee ordeyned that the passion should bee recited at Masse. He ad∣ded the reason of this effecte of this sacri∣fice to purge sinnes, sayinge: because in sa∣crifice nothinge is greater, then the body and blood of Christ.

5 These protestants add further of this massinge Pope, in this busines (Rob. Barns supr. in Alex. 1.) In Massa pridiè quam pate∣retur, vsque ad haec verba. Hoc est corpus meum addidit, ad memoriam passionis Christi in•…•…ul•…•…andam He added in the Masse, the day before hee suffered, vnto these words, this is my body, to impresse in our memories the passion of Christ. Where we see it eui∣dently confessed by these protestants them∣selues, that this primatiue holy Pope Alex∣ander that liued (to speake in a Protestant Archbishops words, anno 111. in the yeare of Christ one hundred and eleuen) and was a godly Bishop. (Ioh. Whitguift answ. to the admonit. sect. 1.2. pag 97.98. and dif. of the answ pag. 594.) and by the German histo∣rian before sent preists into this kingdome, was as farr engaged in the misteries of ho∣lie

Masse, as any Roman massinge preist is at this present, acknowledging it to be the greatest of al sacrifices, the body and blood of Christ, a sacrifice expiatinge and propi∣tiatory for sinnes. And what matter was to bee vsed and consecrated, and how preists were to behaue themselues in this most ho∣lie sacrifice. And it appeareth euen by these mens testimonies, that the preists of that time are so far from not sayinge Masse, that they did not onely daily offer this most ho∣lie sacrifice of Christs body and blood for sinnes, but they said Masse more often then once a day, diuers Masses in one day, vn∣till it was forbidden as before by this holy Pope, That one preist, should say but one Mas∣se a day. Vno die vnam tantam Missam à sin∣gulis sacrificijs fieri debere, decreto sanciuit.

6. This Pope was as all Christians then, far from beinge a parlamentary protestant of England to punish sayinge or hearinge of Masse daily with a yearely penaltie of foure and twenty thousands, three hun∣dreds & twenty pounds & twenty markes, an hūdred markes for euery Masse, or make holy sacrificing massinge preists to be trai∣tors, and their entertayners fellons, when

by these protestants (Rob. Barnes sup. in Ale∣xandro 1.) this holy Pope excommunicated those that resisted the Popes Legats, and for∣bad preists and cleargie men to bee conuented before a lay tribunall. Legatis Apostolicis ob∣sistentes, decreto excommunicauit. Clericum ad plebeium tribunal pertrah•…•…re prohibuit. And yet hee was so holy and renowned a man, as besides that which protestāts haue testi∣fied of him before, an other writeth. (Edw. Grimston. in the estate of the church of Rome. pag. 435. in Alex. 1.) Alexander a Roman, a man of so holy a life, as many Roman Senators receaued the Christian Religion by reason of his great pietie. So wee may be assured that all Christiās thē were of his opiniō in these things, as they before him were: for none of these things which these protestāts here say, hee decreed, were new, or inuented or added by him, but confirmed in their first institution and integritie, as I haue proued from these protestants and others before, that the mixture of water with wine was an apostolicall tradition. Couel against Burg. pag. 122.) which S. Alexander him∣selfe confirmeth, when hee saith of it. (Cy∣prian. epistol. 63. Alexand. 1. epistol. 1.) a pa∣tribus

accepimus, & ipsa ratio docet. We haue so receaued it from our predecessors, and reason it selfe so teacheth, and therefore commaundeth, vt pauis tantum, & vinum aqua permixtum in sacrificio offerantur, that onely breade and wine mixed with water, bee offered in the sacrifice, and S. Cyprian plainely saith it was, Dominica traditio, a tradition of Christ himselfe, by his owne order and example. And hee with others so expoundeth Salomon in the Prouerbs to prophesie therof, as I haue declared at large before. Prouerb. c. 9. Ciprian. epist. 63. ad Ce∣cilium.

7. The eminency of this sacrifice, aboue all others, how it conteyneth the body and blood of Christ, and is satisfactory for sin∣nes, as S. Alexander by these protestants teacheth, they haue often told vs before, that it was soe esteemed from the first in∣stitution thereof by Christ. That which hee saith, how it ought to bee solemnized with vnleuened breade, was also, as the protestants, besides the generall practise of the Latine church, assure vs, the ordinance of Christ himselfe, and the lawe it selfe, as a Protestant Archbishop with others thus

expoūdeth this confirmatory decree of this holy Pope. (Ioh. Whitguife answ. to the ad∣monit. sect. 1.2. pag. 98. and def. of the answ. pag 594.) Alexander was a good and godly Bi∣shop, it is reported in some writers, that hee appointed vnleuened breade to bee vsed in the Eucharist, because that Christ himselfe vsed the same accordinge to the lawe written Exod. 12. Deuteron. 16. The wordes: pridie quàm pateretur, the day before Christ suffered, vnto the words, hoc est corpus meum, this is my body; were not newly added by Pope Alexander, but declared by him to bee the institution of Christ himselfe, and so of necessitie to bee vsed. For these hee testi∣fieth thereof. (Alexand. 1. epist. 1. ad omnes Orthodox. Tom. 2. concil. de conse. dist. 2. ni∣hil in Sac.) Ipsa veritas nos instruxit &c. Christ Iesus truth it selfe hath instructed vs to offer the chalice and breade in the Sacra∣ment, when hee saith: Iesus tooke breade, and blessed it, and gaue to his disciples, sayinge: Take and eate for this is my body, which shall bee giuen for you, likewise after hee had sup∣ped, hee tooke the chalice, and gaue to his dis∣ciples, sayinge: Take and drinke you all of it, for this is the chalice of my blood, which shall

bee shed for you, for remission of sinnes. For offences and sinnes are blotted out with these sacrifices offered vnto our Lord. And ther∣fore his passion is to bee remembred in these, by the which wee are redeemed, and often to bee recited, and these to bee offered vnto our Lord. With such sacrifices our Lord will bee delighted and pacified, and forgiue great sin∣nes. For in sacrifices nothinge can bee greater then the body, and blood of Christ. Nor any ob∣lation better then this, but this excelleth all. Which is to be offered to our Lord with a pure conscience, and to bee receaued with a pure minde, and to bee reuerenced of all men. And as it is better then all others, so it ought more to bee worshipped and reuerenced. Quae pura conscientia Domino offerenda est, & Pura men∣te sumenda, atque ab omnibus veneranda. Et sicut potior est cateris, ita potius excoli & ve∣nerari debet.

8. This was the opinion of this holy Pope, and all good Christians vnder his charge, in that prime age of Christianitie, and hereby wee perfectly knowe, that S. Alexander did not add any new thinge to the holy sacrifice of Masse, but only propo∣sed the ordinance and institution of Christ

himselfe, to bee followed and obserued, as is euident in that I haue cited from him, wherby it appeareth, that what he wrote in that matter, ipsa veritas nos instruxit, that Christ the infallible truth, did teache and so instruct and institute as euidently is pro∣ued by comparinge those wordes, which these protestants say S. Alexander added in the Masse, to the institution of Christ, as it is deliuered in holy scriptures by the E∣uangelists and S. Paule. The words suppo∣sed to bee added bee these: Qui pridie quàm pateretur: who (Christ) the day before his passion tooke breade into his holy and venera∣ble hands, and lifting vp his eyes towards hea∣uen to thee, God his Father omnipotent, gi∣uinge thanks vnto thee, blessed it, brake and gaue to his disciples, saying, take and eate you all of this. For this is my body. All vnto the last wordes, for this is my body. They say were S. Alexanders addition. But S. Paul, as hee is translated by our protestants, hath the same from Christs institution, in this maner. (1. Corinth. cap. 11. vers. 23.24.25.26.) I haue receaued of the Lord that which also I deliuered vnto you, that the Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betraied tooke

bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, hee brake it, and saide, take, eate, this is my body, which is broken for you: doe this in remem∣brance of mee. After the same maner also hee tooke the cup, when hee had supped, sayinge, this cup is the new testament in my blood, this doe yee as oft as yee drinke it, in remembrance of mee. For as often as yee eate this bread, and drinke this cup, yee doe shew the Lords death till hee come. Wherfore vvhosoeuer shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup of the Lord vnvvorthily, shall be guilty of the bodie, and blood of the Lord. The like haue the Euan∣gelists, S. Matthew, Marke, and Luke from the wordes and institution of Christ him∣selfe. Matth. cap. 26. Marc. cap. 14. Luc. cap. 22.

9. And it plainely appeareth by that is said, that without these wordes, or their equiualent, it is vnpossible to obserue the institution and commaundement of Christ in this behalfe. And therfore our most lear∣ned, holy, and auncient contriman S. Al∣binus, or Alcuinus, Remigius Antisiodo∣rensis, and others after them, confidently and truely say. (Albin. Flac. Alcuin. l. de di∣uin. officijs cap. de celebratione Missa. Remi∣gius

Antissiodor. in exposit. Missae. Hoc quod sequitur, qui pridie quam pateretur, vsque in memoriam facietis: Apostoli &c. This which followeth, who the day before hee suffered, vnto those wordes, you shall doe it in my commemoration, the Apostles had in vse after the ascension of our Lord. Therefore, that the church might celebrate a conti∣nuall memory of her redeemer, our Lord deliuered it to his Apostles, and the Apo∣stles generally to the whole church in these words, without which, no tonge, no Re∣gion, no citie, that is, no part of the church can consecrate this Sacrament. Which the Apostle doth make manifest, sayinge: for I haue receaued of our Lord, which I haue also deliuered vnto you, that our Lord Ie∣sus the night when he was betrayed, tooke breade, and the rest. Therfore by the power and wordes of Christ, this breade and this chalice was consecrated from the begin∣ninge, is euer consecrated and shall be con∣secrated. For he speakinge his words by his preists, doth by his heauenly blessing make his holy body and blood.

10. S. Ambrose relateth this in the same maner in these wordes. Ambros. l. 4. de Sa∣cramentis

cap. 5. vis scire quia verbis caelesti∣bus consecratur &c. Wilt thou knowe that consecration is done by heauenly wordes? receaue what the wordes bee. The preist doth say: make vnto vs, saith he, this obla∣tion ratified, reasonable, acceptable: which is the figure of the body, and blood, of our Lord Iesus Christ. Who the day before hee suffered did take breade in his holy hands, and looked to heauen, to thee ô holy Fa∣ther, omnipotent euerlastinge God giuing thanks: blessed it, brake it, and beeinge broken gaue to his disciples, sayinge, take and eate you all of this: for this is my bo∣die, which shal be broken for many. Like∣wise also hee tooke the cup after hee had supped, the day before hee suffered, looked to heauen to thee ô holy Father eternall God, giuinge thankes: blessed it, gaue it to his Apostles, and disciples, sayinge take you, and drinke you all of it: for this is my blood. Behold all those wordes are the E∣uangelists, vntill those, take and drinke, either body or blood. After they bee the words of Christ: take drinke you all of it: For this is my blood. Consider euery thing, who the day before saith hee that hee suffe∣red,

hee tooke breade in his holy hands, be∣fore it is consecrated it is breade, but after the words of Christ come vnto it, it is the bodie of Christ.

11. The like hee hath in other places, so haue other auncient and holy Fathers, and so plainely that our protestants them∣selues doe freely graunt (Foxe Tom 2. act. and Monum. in Queene Mary.) that it was so practised, and deliuered by the Apostles themselues, and that it was further the ex∣presse commaundement of Christ to vse those or their equiualents words: verba in∣stitutionis caenae r•…•…citata omnino videntur. Nam Paulus ea non frustra 1. Cor. 11. repe∣tit. & quidem annexum mandatum hoc facite in mei commemorationem, postulat vt histo∣ria illa de institutione & passione Christi re∣colatur, vt Paulus 1. Cor. 10. The words of the institution of the supper doubtles, were recited in the Apostles time, for Paul doth not in vaine repeate them, in his first Epi∣stle, and eleuenth chapter, to the Corin∣thiens, and certes the commaundement of Christ, do this in commemoration of mee, doth require, that the history of the institu∣tion, and passion of Christ, bee related, as

Paul witnesseth 1. Cor. 10. (Magdeburgen. centur. 1. l. 2. cap. 6. col. 500. c. Ritus circa caenam Domini.) Therefore by all consents, this holy Pope exercisinge supreame spiri∣tuall iurisdiction in all places, and beeinge so famous a massinge Pope, and still retay∣ninge the Masse of the Apostles, and by some (as before) sendinge preists into this our Britanie, neither these which he is sup∣posed to haue sent hither, or those others which stil after this suruiued of this natiō, were or could bee any others then sacrifi∣cinge massinge preists: neither our Chri∣stian Brittans at Rome so neare vnto him, bee others then hearers or sayers of holie Masse.

12. Successor to S. Alexander was S. Six∣tus the first of that name, who as these pro∣testants tell vs, was Pope ten yeares, three moneths and 21. dayes, succeedinge his blessed predecessor as well in this opinion, and practise of sacrificinge preisthood, and holy Masse, as in the papall dignitie, for as these men say. (Robert, Barnes in vit. Ponti∣fic. Rom. in Sixton. Io. Func. l. 5. commentar. in Sixto 1. an 121.) sacra vasa ne quis prae∣ter sacros ministros attingerent, praecepit.

Quod corporale appellant, ex lineo panno fieri iussit. Missam non nisi in altari celebrandam esse, constituit. Hee commaunded that none but sacred ministers should handle the sa∣cred vessels, that which they call the cor∣porall hee commaunded to be made of lin∣nen cloath. He ordeyned that Masse should not be celebrated, but vpon an altare. And so wee are assured by these enemies to holy Masse, and sacrificinge preisthood, that he in all places maintained both, for hee was so absolute for the Popes supreamacy euen by these witnesses, that, hee gaue power to all ecclesiasticall ministers to appeale from their Bishop to the Pope of Rome. Ab Episcopo ad Romanum Pontificem appellandi ius dedit ec∣clesiasticis ministris.

13. Successor to S. Sixtus was Telespho∣rus, both in dignitie and doctrine also by the warrant of these protestāts, for by them hee was so deuoted a defendor, and teacher of sacrificinge preisthood, and holy Masse that, hee decreed euery preist should say three Masses vpon Christ-Masse day, and an other dayes they shoulde not say Masse before the third hower of the day. Hee commaunded that the songe of the Angels glory to God on high,

should bee sunge at Masse. Yet say two Pro∣testant Bishops, and one theire primate: there is nothing conteyned in gloria in excel∣sis, but the same is taken out of the scriptures, and to bee vsed of all true Christians. Teles∣phorus who added it, was a good Bishop, a man notable for learninge, and pietie; eruditione ac pietate vir insigius, and the church of Rome as yet pure in doctrine. Rob. Barn. supr. in Te∣lesphor. Func. l. 5. comment. an. 129. Stowe and Howes histor. in Helius Adrian. Cart∣wright adm. Whitguift answ. to. admonit. pag. 101. & def. pag. 602. Bal. l. 1. de act. Pon∣tif. Rom. in Telesphor.

14. S. Higinius succeedinge, succeeded also by these protestants, as well in exerci∣sing spirituall supreamacy ouer all Bishops, decreeinge, that no Metropolitane shoulde condemne any Bishop of his Prouince, with∣out the aduise of the other Bishops. And for sacrificinge preisthood, and Masse, hee ho∣nored them so much, that liuinge in the time of the Emperor Antonius Pius, a fa∣uourer of Christians, he decreed that Chri∣stian churches should be dedicated, with so∣lemne rite of sacrifice of Masse. Cum solemni ceremoniarum & sacrificiorum ritu dedicanda

esse. (Io. Funcc. l. 5. commentar. an. 141. Rob. Barn. in Higin. supr.) and by an other pro∣testant: Templa dedicare cum solemni ceremo∣nia & sacrificio iussit. In this Popes time, as many of our protestant antiquaries with others from antiquities tell vs, we had ma∣nie godlie Christian preachers, and preists in Britanie, which by so many testimonies before without any exception must needes be sacrificing massing preists, and by many authorities conuerted many to that holy faith, and sacrificinge massinge Religion of Christ in this kingdome, (Annal. Bur∣ton. an. 140. or 141. Harrison descript. of Bri∣tanie Io. Caius l. 1. antiq. Cantabrig. Thea∣ter of great Britanie l. 6. Harris Theat. Tom. 2.) and no meruaile whē so many Authors write, that in one towne of Cambridge there were thē nyne such learned Christiās of that only place; a schole of learninge, at, and diuers hundreds of yeares before that time, as the antiquities and antiquaries of that vniuersitie informe vs. And no man can doubt of many such preists being here then, if he duely consider the difficulties of a generall conuersion of so large, and Ido∣latrous sauage nation, as this at that time

was, and how all agree, it was wholly con∣uerted long before the death of Kinge Lu∣cius, who by Matthew of Westminster, commended by our protestants for an ex∣act calculator of times, and others, beeinge borne in the 115. yeare of Christ, was at the death of this Pope, holdinge the papa∣cie but 4. yeares, 3. moneths, and a very fewe dayes, 35. yeares of age, and had bene Kinge 25. yeares, his Father Coillus dying, when hee was but 10. yeares olde, and yet by all antiquities, in all his life euen before his owne conuersion, a great frend and fa∣uourer of Christians, and this his kinge∣dome a refuge, and receptacle of them, that were in those times persecuted for Chri∣stian Religion. Matthew of West. Anno gra∣tiae 115. Ioh. Bal. l. de script. in Matth. Westm. Rob. Bar. sup. in Higinio. Matth. Westm. an. 150. Matth. Westm. an. gratiae 124.

15. And to omit forreine examples be∣yonde number in this case, when the Sax∣ons of this nation, were conuerted by the disciples of Gregory, though S. Augustine was a very miraculous man, and his com∣panions many and holy learned men, and industrious in that sacred worke, & found

many worthie and renowned Bishops here with their cleargies that assisted them with al their power in the conuersion of this na∣tion, as those glorious Bishops S. Molocus that ioyned with, S. Bonifacius, sent from Italy with many good mē, cum piorum caetu, S. Iue, S. Kentegern, S. Asaph, S. Lethar∣dus stiled the precursor, and vvay maker to S. Augustine, praecursor & ianitor venturi Augustini, with others, and had all the fur∣therance the holy Queene S. Bertha, and her husband Kinge Ethelbert the most po∣tent in this Iland reigninge from the vtter∣most coasts of kent vnto Humber, and by the vertues of S. Bertha and S. Lethardus by many arguments, a Christian in iudge∣ment and affection before S. Augustines cominge hither. Hect. Boeth. hist. l. 9. fol. 178. Holish. hist. of Engl. l. 5. c. 29. pag. 112. Capgrau. in S. Iuone M. S. in vit. eius & in S. Asaph. & Kentegern. Godvvin. Catal. Bal. centur. 1. de script. Capgrau. in S. Lethard. Matth. Parker. antiq. in S. Augustin Stowe histor. in Kinge Ethelb Holinsh. histor. of Engl. Theater of great Brit. in K. Ethelbert. Bed. l. 1. histor. & l 2.

16. Yett S. Augustine and fine other

Archbishops of Canterbury after him S. Laurence, S. Mellitus, S, Iustus, S. Hono∣rius, and S. Adeodatus, were deade, and aboue foure score yeares passed, after the cominge of S. Augustine into England, be∣fore this kingdome wholly submitted it self to the true discipline of holy church, in the time, and by the labours of that our moste learned Archbishop, S. Theodor. Godvvin. Catal. in Theodor. Matth. Parker in eodem Capgrau. & M. S. in vit. S. Theodori. Ther∣fore seeing wee haue so ample warrant in antiquities, as the olde chronicle of Lan∣daffe, ascribed to S. Telian, S. Bede, the old English Chronicle, named Beatus, Co∣celin, and others that the faith of Christ was preached in Britanie in the time of Kinge Lucius in the 156. yeare of Christ, and very many conuerted by preists sent from the Pope of Rome, which was not aboue three yeares after the death of this Pope S. Higinius, & in the papacy of Pope Pius the first, we may not with iudgement thinke, but these preists or diuers of them that had wonne so many to Christ in that time, were sent in the dayes of this massing Pope S. Higinius, and his sacrificinge pre∣decessors

which besides that is already said in this matter, will more appeare in the next Pope S. Pius the first. Chronicon Lan∣daf. apud Io. Caium l. 1. antiq. Cantabrig. pag. 107. Beda l. 1. histor. cap. 4. Chronicle Bru∣tus an. 156. Gocelin. in vita S. Augustini cap. 31. Stovve histor. in Kinge Lucius Io. Ca∣ius supr.

17. This holy Pope by all accompts go∣uerned the church of Christ at Rome, whē by so many auncient authorities the preists sent from thence, had so increased and pro∣pagated the Christian faith in this kinge∣dome, who the better to bee mindefull of this nation, as his predecessors, by that a∣monge other motiues, were, liued and conuersed moste, and more then with any of any other contrie, or nation, with our Christian Britans, that were then at Rome, in so much that we haue allowance both from Catholicks & Protestants, that a great part of their cheife residency was in the house of S. Claudia, our noble Chri∣stian contriwoman, and with such free∣dome and libertie to commaund therein, that diuers protestants, besides all Catho∣licke antiquities assure vs, this holy Pope

by the graunt & donation of her holy chil∣dren did cōsecrate it for the first Christian church in Rome. (Robert. Barnes in vita Pontif. Rom. in Pio 1.) Thermas nonati tem∣plo dedicauit, Pope Pius the first dedicated the house of Nouatus (sonne of S. Claudia) for a church. An other thus writeth of him, in this matter. Hee consecrated the first temple of Rome, vvhich vvas dedicated to 5. Puden∣tiana, the Temples of Christians hauing bene in former times in hidden and obscure caues. Edvv. Grimston booke of est. in the church of Rome. pag. 436.) the Catholicke antiqui∣ties that testifie this, are to many too be ci∣ted. (Act. & vit. S. Pudentianae & Breu. Rom. die 19. Maij. Martyrol. Rom. 19. Maij. Baron. annot. in eod. Rom. Martyrol. die 20. Iunij.) but they all agree, that the Popes of Rome were ordinarily intertayned in this house of our Christian Britans, and especiallie this holy Pope Pius said Masse there, and vvas there releiued by S. Pudentiana, daugh∣ter to our Brittish Ladie Claudia, and the Christians came thither vsually to heare Mas∣se, vvhen Antoninus the Emperor had forbid∣den Christians to haue Masse publickly. Quòd ab Antonino Imperatore sancitum erat, ne

Christiani publicè sacrificia facerent: Pius Pon∣tifex in adibus Pudentianae cum Christianis sacra celebrabat.

18. And to manifest farther vnto vs, what a massinge Pope this S. Pius was, and how in all probable iudgement, that holy doctrine amonge others, was propagated here in Britanie, these antiquities tell vs, there was in that Brittish house, ninty sixe Christian men, nonagiata sex homines Chri∣stiani. (Pius Pap. 1. epist.) and the like hee writeth of the house of Euprepia, where hee also liued, and said Masse, vbi nunc cum pauperibus commorantes, Miss is agimus. And hee was so zelous herein, and to haue Masse said with all attention, & deuotion, that he decreed as these protestants testifie, to write in their owne words: Sacerdotibus ne∣gligentius Missae sacra facientibus paenas sta∣tuit. (Robert. Barnes in vit. Pontific. Rom. in Pio 1. Grimston in Pius 1. Io. Func. commen∣tar. in Chronolog. l. 5. in Pio 1. an. 145.) He ordeyned punishments for preists that said Masse negligently. That if any by impru∣dency shoulde shedd any of the blood of Christ, vppon the ground, hee shoulde doe penance fourtie dayes. If vppon the altare,

3. dayes. That if vpon the linen cloath vn∣der the chalice 4. dayes. If vpon the other linen cloathe 9. dayes. That hee should lick vp the blood of Christ, that was shedd, or if that could not be, either pare it, or washe it away, and so pared or washed, either to bee burnt, or kept reserued in the sacrarie. Vt si quis per imprudentiam de sanguine Chri∣sti effunderet in terram, paenitentiam ageret dies 40. Si super altare, dies 3. Si super linte∣um substratum calici, 4. dies. Si super aliud linteum, dies 9. Sanguinem Christi effusum lambere, vel si id fieri non possit, aut radere, aut eluere: & rasum aut lotum, vel comburi, vel in sacrarium repositum seruari.

19. Therefore this Pope beeinge in all mens iudgements, Catholicks and Pro∣testants. (Ioh. Bal. l. 1. act. Pontif. Rom. in Pio 1.) an holy Saint, and martyr, and to vse a Protestant Bishops words, one that did many vvorks of true pietie in the field of the Christian church, multa verae pietatis opera, in agro Christianae Ecclesiae fecisse perhibetur, was so wel acquainted with our Christian Britans, and both claymed and exercised supreame spirituall iurisdiction ouer all pla∣ces, and parsons in matters of Religion by

these protestants. (Robert. Barnes in vit. Pij 1.) Quae ad Religionem spectant, à suae dioce∣seos synodis audtenda esse statuit: salua tamen Pontificia authoritate, of all natious this our Britanie must needs then bee an honorer of sacrificinge preists, and holy Masse, in this time, and euer after, vnto the generall con∣uersion of it in the time of S. Eleutherius, betweene whome and this Saint Pius there were but two Popes, S. Anicetus and S. Sother, both which were not Popes many yeares by these protestāts, not 18. yeares by any of their accompts. Robert. Barn. in Pio 1. Anicet. & Sother. Io. Balaeus in act. Pon∣tif. in eisdem Edvv. Grimst. in the same Popes. Foxe Tom. 1.

20. And these Popes were so far from crossinge with this, and others their prede∣cessors in these points of supreamacy, sacri∣ficinge preists, and sacrifice of Masse, that by the confession of these protestants, they made decrees, which confirmed them all, makinge lawes bindinge all Archbishops, Primates, and Metropolitans, and shewing they were subiect to the Pope of Rome, and prescribed rules for all preists sayinge Mas∣se, and shauing their crownes, as they now

vse in the Roman church, at this day, Ar∣chiepiscopum à suo Episcopo, aut coram primate, aut Romano Pontifice accusandum esse. Archie∣piscopos non Primates, sed Metropolitanos ap∣pellandos esse dixit, nisi ista praerogatiua à Ro∣mano Pontifice concederetur. Capitis verticem spherulae instar radendum Sacerdotibus, prae∣copit. Ne Sacerdos celebraret, nisi vt minimum duo adessent, ordinauit, ne Monacha pallam contrectaret, neuè thus in aceram poneret, sta∣tuit. So wee are sure, these two holy Popes, Saints and Martyrs, were also sacrificinge Popes, and all preists at that time vnder them, whether in Britanie or els where, beeinge subiect and obedient vnto them, were massinge preists. And so wee are now come with a continuall deduction of these sacred doctrines and practises, both in the church of this our Britanie, and others vn∣till the time of Pope and Saint Eleutherius, when and by whose happy meanes histo∣rians commonly tell vs, this kingedome was generally conuerted to the faith of Christ.

THE XVI. CHAPTER. Wherin is proued by testimonies of protestants, and others, that this kingdome in the time of Kinge Lucius, was conuerted by massing Preists, and Bishops, and the holy sacrifice of Masse, and such massinge preists and Bi∣shops, continued here in honor, all this age.

IN this happy generall conuersion of this kingdome, no man of what Religion soeuer, can without prophane and irreli∣gious boldnes, and impudentnes affirme in iudgement, that so wise and vertuous a Kinge, his Nobles, so many learned Drui∣des, and others, especially moued to Chri∣stian Religion by the pa•…•…ence, pietie, and vertue of the glorious Martyrs, and Saints of those dayes by all antiquities, Masse say∣inge or Masse hearinge Christians, would write such suppliant letters, and send Am∣bassadors so longe a iorney, as from hence to Rome, to bee conuerted to any other Re∣ligion of Christ, but that sacrificinge and massinge profession, by the miracles and sanctity of whose professors, they were so

moued and conuinced in iudgement, it was the only truth. Neither would or could Pope Eleutherius an holy & learned Saint, and successor onely to sacrificinge massing Popes, and preists, recommend vnto King Lucius, and this kingdome, any other then massinge preists, and Religion, or the lear∣ned messengers of Kinge Lucius, as our protestants stile them. (Io. Bal. centur. 1. de scriptor. in Eluan. & Meduuin. Math. Parker. antiq. Brit. Godwin. Conuers. of Britanie.) consent to any other, or so many renow∣ned both preists and Bishops, as were still remayninge in, or of this nation knowne massinge preists, and bishops, ioyne with the Legats of Pope Eleutherius, in teaching and preachinge any other doctrine, or Re∣ligion.

2. Such were our renowned contrimen S. Mansuetus, yet liuinge except the An∣nals of Treuers, or the same name deceaue vs, consecrated preist by S. Peter, and now remoued from Toul to Treuers, for the ec∣clesiasticall Annals of that archiepiscopall sea tell vs. (Petr. Merssaeus Annal. Archiep. Treueren. 7.) that S. Mansuetus (I reade of no other of that name but our holy coutry∣man

in that time) was Archbishop of Treuers in the yeare of Christ 160. Mansuetus, qui huic nomini & vocationi suae vita proba, anno Domini 160. optimè respondit. And S. Mar∣cellus or Marcellinus our glorious contry∣man, who before his departure out of Bri∣tanie had moued Kinge Lucius to the faith of Christ, and after of the Tungers, and Archbishop also of Treuers returninge hi∣ther with the Popes Legats, was so renow∣ned an instrument in the conuersion of this kingdome, that the Annals of the place where hee was Archbishop say, that by the preachinge of this Saint, the third Bishop of Tungers Kinge Lucius was baptised. (Annal-Treuer. in S. Marcello.) S. Marcel∣lus, alijs Marcellinus fuit Tungorum tertius Episcopus, & huius praedicatione Rex Angliae, id est Lucius, baptizatus est. The catalogue of the Bishops of Tunger giueth him grea∣ter honor, tellinge vs, that by his preaching hee conuerted Lucius Prince of Britanie with the whole nation to the faith of Christ. Lu∣cium Britanniae Principem cum tota gente, sua praedicatione ad Christum conuertit (Catalog. Episcop. Tungrens. in S. Marcello.) And yet I haue shewed before, that these were mas∣singe

preists and Bishops, as their predeces∣sors in those places, S Valerius, Eucharius, Maternus and others were.

3. The same I say of S. Tymotheus, our holy contryman, by his Mother S. Clau∣dia beeinge a knowne massinge preist, and one of the owners of that his, and his bro∣ther Nouatus and Sisters house in Rome, so notoriously dedicated to bee the first pu∣blick massinge church there: for this holy massinge preist came hither in this time, and was so great a worker in the conuer∣sion of this his contrie, that the histories of Treuers themselues, which giue such ho∣nor as before to their Archbishop S. Mar∣cellus in this busines, yet freely also ack∣nowledge that Kinge Lucius, was brought to the Religion of Christ by S. Timothie, whome they call S. Paules disciple, per∣haps because S. Paul maketh so honorable a memory of his parents, S. Pudens, and Claudia (2. Timoth. 4.) & likely did baptize this S. Timothie, and therby called his dis∣ciple though a very child, when S· Paul was martyred. (Martyrolog. Rom. die 20. Iu∣nij Baron. annot. ib. Sur. Tom. 3. die 12. Iunij.) and the other S. Timothie his scholler dead

longe before. S. Lucius Britanniae Rex S. Timothei Apostoli Pauli discipuli cruditione ad Religionem Christi inductus est. (Petr. Merssaeus & Annal. Archiep. & eccl. Treuer. in S. Marcello.) If wee reflect vppon the Saints that were sent cheife Legats hither, from Rome, S. Fugatius, and Damianus, the principall of them in all antiquities, as wee must needs to giue them their due, that bee chosen and selected mē, they must nee∣des be learned vertuous, and of mature age, and iudgment to be imploied in so weigh∣tie a busines, and as all histories testifie they were, and so must needes bee consecrated massinge preists, beeing sacred by those re∣membred sacrificinge Popes, which neither did, nor could consecrate any other, nor they bringe any other doctrine in this or any other points of Religion, but what they had receaued from those holy Popes.

4. And to this, besides so many generall Arguments, S. Gildas the moste auncient and renowned Brittish Author is a particu∣lar witnes, if it could please our protestants to publish it to the worlde, except that re∣nowned Abbot Doctor Fecknham did a∣buse his auditory in the first parlament of

Queene Elizabeth in his publicke oration, which no indifferent man will thinke, hee did or durst to doe, for feare of open shame and confusion, if hee should haue aduou∣ched an vntruth in that assemblie. And yet speaking principally of the sacrifice of Mas∣se, then to bee condemned by that parla∣ment, citeth Gildas in the proeme of his history, testifyinge that the same Religion, and church seruice, the sacrifice of Masse which was then to bee abrogated was brought hither, and settled here in the Latine tonge by the Le∣gats of Pope Eleutherius. (Abbot Fecknham orat. in parlam. 2. of Queene Elizabeth.) and all our cheife protestant antiquaries and hi∣storians of England, as their Bishops, Par∣ker, Bale, Godwine, with others Gosteline, Powell, Foxe, Fulke, Middleton, Stowe, Holinshed & others confidently affirming, that the Christian Brittans neuer chaun∣ged in any materiall thinge, that holy Reli∣gion which they receaued in the time of the Apostles, but constantly continued in the same, vntill the cominge of S. Augustine hither, from S. Gregory the great Pope of Rome, and after. Parker antiquitat. Britan. pag. 6.45.46. Balaeus l. 2. de act. Pontif. Rom.

in Gregor. 1. l. de scriptor. cent. 1. in August. Dronotho. Godwin. conuers. of Brit. Powel. an∣not. in l. 2. Giraldi Camb. de Itiner. Cambr. cap. 1. Foxe act. pag. 463. edit. an. 1576. Fulke answ. to a count Cath. pag. 40. Middelt. pa∣pistom. pag. 202 Stow histor. in S. Augustine and Kinge Ethelbert. Holinsh. histor. of Engl. cap. 21. pag. 102.

5. But as I haue proued before by these protestants and otherwise, the Britans by that Apostolicke man receaued the doctri∣ne, profession, and practise of sacrificinge preisthood, preists, and sacrifice of Masse, and continued them vnto this time; soe I will demonstrate by them and all antiqui∣ties hereafter, in euery age, that they kept and obserued the same inuiolablie to those dayes, and after without interruption. And yet this is but a needles probation; for being so inuincibly proued before, that they re∣ceaued these holy doctrines and professions from the Apostles, and from them to these daies, if they had departed from them now, or after, they should bee apparantly guiltie of error in departinge from those truthes, which the Apostles, and all from them to these dayes continued. And if wee looke

into the catalogues of holy writers, in this time, whose works bee preserued to poste∣ritie, wee shall see, that the holy sacrifice of Masse, and massinge preists, were gene∣rally in al places in as great vse and honour as at this day. The moste renowned writers of this time whose bookes bee extant now, were S. Iustine, S. Irenaeus, and Tertul∣lian, all they doe plainelie testifie, that the sacrifice of Masse, offeringe vp the sacred body, and blood of Christ, was the gene∣rally vsed, & knowne sacrifice of the Chri∣stians in this time, in omni loco, in euerie place, saith S. Iustine. (Iustin. Dialog. cum Tryhone.) Ecclesia in vniuerso mundo offert Deo. The church doth offer it in all the world, saith S. Irenaeus. (Irenaeus aduers. Hae∣res. lib. 4. cap. 32.) therefore the church of Britanie must needs offer it; and I haue pro∣ued by our Brittish antiquities before, that Rome, Fraunce, and Britanie in these daies of Eleutherius, and Irenaeus which went to Rome in the papacy of S. Eleutherius, vsed one and the same order of Masse. And Tertullian that notorious massing Author, declaring how Christiā Religion was then dilated in the worlde, and the sacrifice of

Masse was the common sacrifice thereof, expressely nameth this our Britanie to haue receaued the Christian faith, and to agree with other Christian nations therin. (Ter∣tullian. de cultu Faeminar. cap. 11. l. ad Sca∣pul. cap. 2. l. de orat. cap 14. l. de vel. Virg. cap. 9. l. contra Iudaeos.) & S. Iohn Chrisostome speaking of this conuersion of our Britans, witnesseth manifestly, and our protestants acknowledge it for truth, that the Brittish churches then founded, which were many had altars, for their preists, erected in them. (Chrisostom. serm· de Pentecost. protest. Thea∣ter of great Britanie l. 6. §. 12.) which as is confessed before by these protestants, nei∣ther were, nor could in Christian Religion bee ordeyned but for massinge preists, and the sacrifice of Masse, as wee finde in the moste auncient churches of this nation; as S. Iosephs dedicated to our Lady at Glastē∣burie. (Antiquit Glaston. Capgrau. in S. Pa∣tricio M. S. antiq. in Lucio.) S. Martins at Canterbury, and the olde church at Win∣chester, where as we read there were Chri∣stian altares, so also that the sacrifice of Masse was from their first foundation offe∣red on them. (Bed. hist. l. 1. cap. 27. Galfr.

Monum. l. 11. histor. cap. 4. Stowe histor. in Constantine sonne of Cador. &c.) so of S. Pe∣ters church in Cornhill in London and o∣thers. And S. Damianus and Phaganus the cheife Legats of S. Eleutherius, bearing so great deuotion to the massing church buil∣ded by S. Ioseph at Glastenbury, that they themselues continued, and dwelled there some time, and settled twelue of their com∣pany to continue there duringe their liues, must needs bee massinge preists, as all had here euer beene from the Apostles time: in which faith and Religion this holy Pope, as our protestants with al antiquities assure vs, confirmed the kingdome of Britanie: Eleutherius vt bonus paterfamilias effecit, vt confirmatis & consolidatis Britannis in suscep∣ta prius ab Apostolis doctrina, totum illud reg∣num, in eius fidei verba iuraret. Ioh. Bal. l. 1. de act. Pontif. Rom. in Eleutherio.

6. So that by this Protestant Bishop, and his and other authorities, those doctrines of sacrificinge preists and Masse which from the Apostles dayes, as I haue aboundantly proued, had without discontinuance euer continued here in diuers particular places and parsons, were now generally by this

holy Pope, and his massinge Legats, esta∣blished and confirmed in this kingedome: confirmatis, & consolidatis, and this Pope highly commēded for that his general con∣firmation, vt bonus paterfamilias. And by their first Archbishop with others before, and as I haue proued by continuall deduc∣tion, the order and forme of Masse which S. Peter deliuered to the church, was still continued after this time, without any ma∣teriall chaunge, alteration, addition, or di∣minution. Neither doth any Protestant Au∣thor challenge S. Eleutherius, of any inno∣uation in Religion, but the contrary: how hee condemned all innouators therein as Tatianus and the Seuerians, makinge a de∣cree against them, and the knowne Reli∣gion of Christ, his sacrificinge Religion, as before is proued was much increased by him. Sub hoc Pontifice caepit Ecclesia esse secu∣rior, ob id Christianorum Religio plurimum aucta est. And yet no chaunge at all therin. (Bal. & Robert. Barnes in vita Eleutherij. Eleutherius epist. decretal. ad prouincias Gall. To. 1. conc. Io. Bal. act. Pont. Rom. l. 1. in E∣leutherio. Rob. Barn in vit. Pontif. Rom. in eodem.) therefore all those Bishops, & preists

which by all writers hee consecrated, must needs bee massinge Bishops, and preists, as all those three Archbishops, & 28. Bishops, which he consecrated, or confirmed for this kingdome renowned in histories, and all the preists of this our Britanie vnder them, must needes bee massing Archbishops, Bi∣shops, and preists. Whose succession here continued vnto the conuersion of the Sax∣ons, and after by all histories, and vntill both those peoples vnited themselues, as well in this massinge and sacrificinge doc∣trine, which both the Britans, and Saxons had euer obserued from their first conuer∣sions, as in al other points of Christian Re∣ligion. The names of many of them I haue remembred in other places.

7. And concerninge the supreame spiri∣tuall power, which this holy Pope both claimed, and exercised, both in this kinge∣dome, to settle these sacred points of Reli∣gion here, and in other nations, these pro∣testants assure vs, it was as great and am∣ple, as euer any his successors did, or now doe challenge in such affaires. These men tell vs. (Rob· Barnes in vit. Eleutherij. pro∣test. annot. Mag. in Matth. Westm. an. 188.)

hee condemned hereticks, and made de∣crees against them; he made lawes binding all cleargie men, & in the cases of Bishops, reserued judgement to the see of Rome, vt nihil nisi apud Pontificem definiretur. In his epistle to Kinge Lucius, so recommended by our protestants, hee prescribeth what lawes hee was to vse. Hee appointeth the limits and bounds of Britanie, as these men witnes in the lawes of Kinge Ed∣ward t••e Confessor. His Legats disposed of all spirituall things here, in that time, and he by his papal authoritie confirmed them. And so they continued vntil heresie and in∣fidelity in the Pagan Saxons time did ouer∣throwe them, as all histories and antiqui∣ties, Brittish, or Saxon, Catholicks or pro∣testants, as their Bishops, Parker, Bale and Godwine, with Cambden, Powell, Holin∣shed, Stowe, and others cited in other pla∣ces are witnesses. Therefore it will bee but a superogated worke, to proceede further to followinge ages, yet for a generall and compleate content to all, I wil though with more breuitie, speake also of them, and here end this second age, or hundred of yeares, Pope Eleutherius dyinge in the later ende

thereof, and Kinge Lucius not longe after in the beginninge of the next age, and Pope and S. Victor, the immediate successor of S. Eleutherius both endinge this, and giuing entrance to the next ensuinge age, and cen∣tenary of the yeares of Christ by his papall regiment.