The prudentiall ballance of religion wherin the Catholike and protestant religion are weighed together with the weights of prudence, and right reason. The first part, in which the foresaide religions are weighed together with the weights of prudence and right reason accordinge to their first founders in our Englishe nation, S. Austin and Mar. Luther. And the Catholike religion euidently deduced through all our kings and archbishopps of Canterburie from S. Austin to our time, and the valour and vertue of our kings, and the great learninge and sanctitie of our archbishopps, together with diuers saints and miracles which in their times proued the Catholike faith; so sett downe as it may seeme also an abridgement of our ecclesiasticall histories. With a table of the bookes and chapters conteyned in this volume.

King Edwin. XXIII.

12. IN the yeare 955. (saith Malmsb. l. 2. c. 7.) succeded Edwin, sonne to king Edmund, & reigned 4. yeares. He was so bewtifull as Ethelwerd lib. 4. c. 8. saith he was commonly called Pancalus, but as Malmsb. he abused his bewty to

lewdnes, for which and for banishing of S. Dunstan (writeth Cooper An. 955.) he was odible to his subiects. Fox pag. 152. addeth that he was deposed of the Nor∣thumbers and mercians, & Edgar chosen in his place, yet as it seemeth he amended. For Hunting. l. 5. writteth that he ruled his kingdeme not without commenda∣tion, & Osbern in vit. Dunstani writeth, that by the praiers of S. Dunstan he was at his death deliuered from the Diuels. His Roman religiō appeareth by the pos¦session which, as Malmsb. saith,* 1.1 he gaue S. Aldelm, whose body, saith he, was then found, and in scrinio locatum, placed in a shrine. In the Register of the Abbey of Bury she is said, to haue giuen to that Mo∣nastery the towne of Becklis, and diuers other things.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Religion of K. Edvvin.