A manual of prayers nevvly gathered out of many and diuers famous authours aswell auncient as of the tyme present. Reduced into. 13. chap. very commodious and profitable for a deuout christian.

A prayer for the soule of thy mother. B. Agustinus ca. vlti. li. 9. confessionum.

O The God of my hart, my life and my prayse, I humbly de∣sire thee to pardone the sinnes of my mother: graciously heare me for his sake, which is the medicyne of our woundes, whiche did hange vpō the tree, & now sitting on thy righte hande maketh intercession for vs sinners: I know that she hath delt charitably, & frō her hart hath forgyuen all her debtors: release also vnto her all those sinnes what soeuer, since her baptisme, she hath fallen into.

Release them O Lorde, release them I beseech thee, and enter not into iudgemente with her: let thy mercy exceede thy iudgement, for

thy wordes are true, and thou haste promised mercy to the mercyfull.

For my mother (when the day of her death approched) did re∣quest and desire this, that we wolde remember her soule, at thy holye Aultar where she had serued thee: wherby she did know and beleeue, that the holy oblation of the bo∣dy and precious bloode of our sa∣uiour Iesus Christ, was made: wher∣by the obligation made against vs, was cancelled: whereby the ene∣mie was vanquished, counting our sinnes, & searchinge what he might obiecte against vs, and finding no∣thinge in vs by the meanes of Iesus Christ in whom we haue victorye: whoe shall render to Iesus Christe his innocent bloode? who shall re∣quite the pryce wherwith he hath bought vs, that he might pull and draw vs, from our enemye.

To the misterye of the which price, thy seruaunt hath vnited and bounde her soule by the bonde of fayth: let no man withdrawe her furth of thy protection: let not the dragon nor lyon intrude him selfe neither by force nor deceipt: nei∣ther as yet, will thy hand-mayd an∣swere that she is not in debte, leste she be conuinced and possessed of that crafty accuser: but she will an∣swere, that her debtes are released by him, whom none cā repay that, which he owinge nothinge hath payed for vs: let her therefore rest in peace with her husband, before whom and after whom, she was ne∣uer maried to any other, whom she hath serued, and broughte foorth fruite to thee with great patience, to the ende she mighte gayne him to thee.

Inspire O my Lord God, inspire

thy seruauntes my brethren, thy childrē my superiours, whom with voyce, harte & penne I doe serue: that, who soeuer shall reade these, they may remember at thy Aultar thy seruant Monica, with Patricius her late husband: by whose fleshe thou haste broughte me into this worlde, by what meanes I knowe not how: let them remember with deuoute zeale my parentes in this transitorye lyfe, and my brethren vnder thee their Father, in the lapp of their Catholicke Mother, and my countrye-men in the eternall Ierusalem, which thy people in their pilgrymage, from their de∣parture vntill their returne, desire to attayne vnto, that shee may at∣taine by the prayers of many, those thinges which she requyred at my handes when she departed.

Amen.