388 GEOFFREY DE MONMOUTH. in Gaul and Germany, and established himself at Triers, as Emperor, Conan defeated all the attempts of the Gauls and the Aquitans to dispossess him of his new kingdom. But though he had spared the women when he waged a war of extermination against the men, he considered it dangerous to allow of any intermarriages with them. Wives how ever they must have; and Britain could well afford to supply, after so large a draught had been made upon its male population. Conan therefore sent to Dianotus, king of Cornwall, the brother and successor of Duke Caradoc, to ask his daughter in marriage for himself, and a competent number of partners for his fellow soldiers. the hands of a cruel army which Gratian had sent into Germany to ravage Maximian's sea coast. The leaders of these barbarians were Guanius, king of the Huns, and Melga, king of the Picts. It was not however either among Huns or Picts that the remnant of these virgins fell, but among Ambrones, a people of Gallia Narbonensis, so notorious as marauders that their name became a common appellation of reproach. These ruffians "inflamed with the beauty of the virgins, courted them to their brutish embraces, and being incensed by the refusal which they received, fell upon them, and murdered the greater part without remorse." 1 Geoffrey's British History has been the prolific source of the Round Table Romances. The superstructure of religious fable which has been erected upon it is not less extraordinary. He neither represented the Cornish Princess as a saint, nor her companions as martyrs; but by the ancient and anonymous author whose relation was first printed by Surius, a story which in the main may have been true, though probably erroneous in its date, embellished in some of its circumstances, and greatly exaggerated as to numbers, was made the groundwork of a rich legend. Dianotus was the person to whom Maximian had committed the government of Britain during his absence. His only daughter, Ursula, was celebrated for her wonderful beauty; Conan was deeply in love with her, and it cannot be inferred from the narrative of the veracious Geoffrey, that when her father accepted the proposal, any disinclination was expressed or felt by the Princess. The commission was readily executed; eleven thousand virgins, daughters of the nobility, and sixty thousand of the meaner sort were levied for this extraordinary occasion; they assembled in London, and ships were brought thither " from all shores" for their transportation. "In so great a multitude," says the historian, "many were pleased with this order, yet it was displeasing to the greater part, who had more affection for their relations and their native country. Nor perhaps were there wanting some, who preferring virginity to the marking took unto himself a wife in the fear of ried state, would rather have lost their lives in any country, than enjoyed the greatest affluence in wedlock." No opposition how ever, was made, all were enlisted for matrimony, they embarked, and the fleet fell down the river Thames. Alas! as they were steering towards the coast of Armorica, a storm arose; its violence was such that most of the ships were lost, and those that escaped from the tempest were driven upon strange islands, where they fell into That legend begins by relating that at a time when the uttermost ends of the earth had been converted to the Christian faith, and not a corner of the ocean was hidden from the light of truth, there was in some part of Britain a king called Deonotus, whose life was answerable to his name. This the Lord, and when they were both expecting in full hope the birth of a son and heir, it pleased God to bless them with a daughter, and in that daughter to surpass their wishes.2 1 Book 5. cc. 8-16. 2 Warton says that the British or Armorican Chronicle, from which Geoffrey composed his history, was undoubtedly framed after the legend of St. Ursula, the acts of St. Lucius, and the historical writings of the Venerable Bede had M. LUSITANA — MORALES-JEREMY TAYLOR. The Catholic Directory. ST. FRUCTuoso. "Avogado dos Litigantes," for he, having a lawsuit, himself prayed to God to be his friend, and his adversary accordingly died.-M. LUSITANA. 2. 6. 23. 66 STA. QUITERIA. Against mad dogs, and angustias de coraçõa."—Ibid. 2. 5. 19. STO. ENGRACIA. Complaints of the heart and liver, having been tortured in both.Ibid. 2. 5. 21. S. MARZAL. Against fire. The city of Burdegala was in flames, and his stick extinguished them. - Colec. de Poesias Cast. tom. 2, p. 336. ST. MARCULPHо. The king's evil. The kings of France derived from him their specific power in this disease. - MORALES, 13. 51. 5. "BESIDES what the common people are taught to do, as to pray to S. Gall for the health and fecundity of their geese; to S. Wendeline, for their sheep; to S. Anthony, for their hogs; to S. Pelagius, for their oxen; and that several trades have their peculiar saints; and the physicians are patronized by Cosmas and Damian, the painters by S. Luke, the potters by Goarus, the huntsmen by Eustachius, the harlots, (for that also is a trade at Rome,) by S. Afra and S. Mary Magdalene; they do also rely upon peculiar saints for the cure of several diseases; S. Sebastian and S. Roch have a special privilege to cure the plague, S. Pe undergone some degree of circulation in the world!" (History of English Poetry, vol. 1, Diss. 1, p. 12. 2nd edition.) But as Geoffrey never let a story lose any thing by passing through his hands, it may fairly be inferred that he has included every thing which was accredited in his time concerning Ursula and her companions. The probable groundwork of the story may be that some ships with women on board, bound for Armorica to join their countrymen there, were driven to the coast of Flanders or Zealand, and fell into the hands of the barbarians. 389 tronilla the fever, S. John, and S. Bennet the abbot, to cure all poison, S. Apollonia the tooth-ache, S. Otilia sore eyes, S. Apollinaris the French Pox, (for it seems he hath lately got that employment since the discovery of the West Indies,) S. Vincentius hath a special faculty in restoring stolen goods, and S. Liberius, if he please, does infallibly cure the stone, and S. Felicitas, if she be heartily called upon, will give the teeming mother a fine boy. It were strange if nothing but intercession by these saints were intended, that they cannot as well pray for other things as these, or that they have no commission to ask of these any thing else, or not so confidently; and that if they do ask, that S. Otilia shall not as much prevail to help a fever as a cataract, or that if S. Sebastian be called upon to pray for the help of a poor female sinner, who by sad diseases pays the price of her lust, he must go to S. Apollinaris in behalf of his client."-JEREMY TAYLOR. Diss. from Popery, p. 116. The saints seem each like Mr. Bree, have confined themselves to the cure of one Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, to disease. EVEN stupidity was curable. There was a canon, by name Martin, in the Monastery of St. Isidore, excellently pious, but an incorrigible blockhead. In vain he puzzled himself to learn, till the saint appeared to him in a dream, and made him eat a book. He awoke a learned man, and wrote good Latin. It was certainly a sure way of making him digest knowledge.— MORALES, 12. 22. 21. [Memoranda.] THE Council of Trent first instituted the plan of purging and prohibiting books. The Indices Exp. were kept secret. Junius discovered that of Antwerp. The one for Spain and Portugal was found at the taking of Cales.-DOCTOR JAMES. Part 4. of The Myst. of the Indic. Expur. p. 22. 390 BIRCKBECK-HERBERT. JUNIUS, 1559, saw a friend who was corrector to a press at Leyden, looking over some sheets of St. Ambrose, which Frellonius was printing. He commended the elegance of the type and edition, but the corrector told him secretly it was of all editions the worst, and showed him the genuine sheets which had been cancelled by the authority of two Franciscans.-JUNIUS in Præf. ante Indicem Exp. Belgicum, a se editum, 1586. - BIRCKBECK'S Protestants' Evidence, p. 13. This, BIRCKBECK calls "purging the good old men till you wrung the very blood and life out of them." JEREMY TAYLOR-CC. DO C. D. PEDRO - FARIA - LUCENA. 391 LEO X. Session 11 of the last Lateran Council, excommunicates all the inventors and forgers of visions and false miracles, a practice so common as to be heavily complained of in the Centum Gravamina of the German princes.-J. TAYLOR. Liberty of Prophesying, p. 513. THE Alcayde of Alcacer saved one from death for the sake of D. Pedro, though often called upon to give him up to public justice, every man being bound to give him a dobra to make up his ransom, which would then have been fifteen hundred dobras. CC. DO C. D. PEDRO, p. 380. Jesuits. THEY seem to have aimed at a system of Illuminism, which would have ended in something like the Chinese establishment, an oligarchy of the learned. Men would be happier than they now are, but not progressive. CARDINAL HENRIQUE founded a university for them at Evora: it became so much the custom to send boys to them for education, that agriculture suffered in consequence. "Vinieron a perderse muchas tierras que fertilmente produzian el sustento de grande parte del Reyno, traydo por esto a necessidad de pedir pan a sus propios enemigos."-FARIA. THEY were 66 quais aquelles, por quem perguntava Isaias, comparando os na pressa, e fervor as nuvens, que vam voando sem outra tençam, nem tino, que o do vento e espirito, que as leva."- LUCENA, vol. 5, p. 21. THEY called P. Simam and F. Xavier apostles when first they came to Portugal, and they continue to call us by that appellation, which is too much, though we rightly esteem the love that bestows it; but our proper name, says LUCENA, is not apostles, but the Religious of the Company of Jesus. Vol. 1, p. 66. THEIR Success in Paraguay is attributable to the political system connected with the faith they preached. Their converts partook immediately of obvious and important advantages, the comforts of peace and civilization. "THE rebellion of a clergyman against his prince is not treason, because he is not his prince's subject."-EMANUEL SA. Aphor. verb. Clericus. "These words were left out in the edition of Paris, not suiting French loyalty, but still remain in the editions of Antwerp and Cologne." -JER. TAYLOR. Dissuasion from Popery, p. 149. It is marvellous that all the kings of Christendom did not combine against such a system! Imago Primi Sæculi Societatis Jesu. Antverpiæ, ex off. Plantiniana. Anno Societatis Seculari, 1640. THE state of the Company in their secular year justifies their emblem-the sun shining upon the globe of earth, and the motto Psalm 18. “ Non est qui se abscondat a calore ejus."-P. 43. 175. Paupertas sapiens. A ship in danger, and the sailors heaving their treasure overboard. 176. Paupertas expedita. Elijah dropping his cloak as the fire-chariot carries him away. Liber ab exuviis. 179. A truer emblem. Paupertas omni curâ soluta. A bird in a cage. Aliunde pascitur. 324. Societas ad Missiones expedita. Mittet fulgura et ibunt, et revertentia dicent, adsumus. Job 38. 383. Sparserat hæc Coimbricæ in vulgus, iis qui se apud Patres Societatis exercerent, spectra nescio quæ et visa objici. Calumniæ fidem adstruebat, quam detrahere debuerat, ut repentina ita ingens et crebra morum mutatio. Denique adeo invaluit hæc fabula, ut Cardinalis Henricus fidei Quæsitor de re totâ cognoscendum censuerit. Hoc dum ejus imperio dissimulanter facit Jacobus de Murciâ Academiæ Rector, Fratres 392 VIDA DEL S. FR. DE BORJA, ETC. Cum tibi non ullus venit in ora cibus. Scilicet æthereo pendes sublimis olympo, Et Superum latices ambrosiamque bibis. Vivitur exiguo, quoties mens proxima cœlo est, Quid petat e terræ pulvere plena Deo?" que nostros de objectis visis legitimé inter- | Septimus Eois jam sol caput exserit undis, rogat, unus aperte fatetur se visa vidisse, et quidem feralia atque horrenda. Et quænam illa? inquit Rector, simulque Scribam admonet ut quæ narrarentur exciperet. Ille vere, Memetipsum, inquit, vidi, quem numquam ante satis perspexeram, monstrum sane tetrum, quo turpius mihique magis timendum numquam vidi. Hoc responsum ab ipsâ veritate facetè petitum, calumniam potentius discussit, quam fortasse potuisset studiosa defensio, et compendio quodam rudem exercitiorum imaginem ac laudem amplectens, calumniam suo veluti telo confecit." Some of the Emblems are in a Flemish taste. 478. Catechista docet pueros orare ante refectionem. 'Tis a Cupid making his cur dog beg for his food. Non capit ante cibum. 569. Societati optandæ res adversæ. Cupid flying a kite. Præstant adversa secundis best in a high wind. 570. Societas adversis oppressa virtutem exserit, a fellow playing the bagpipes, Pressus dulce sonat. 715. Ignatii crebra et per multos dies continuata jejunia. The Bird of Paradise. Exiguo vivit quia proxima cœlo. 722. B. Fran. Borgia stemma suum virtute nobilitat. A good emblem. A long line of cyphers, to which Cupid has prefixed the S. O nihil! at numeros sic facit innu meros. Vida del S. Fr. de Borja. Por el Eminentiss. 50. WHEN the Empress Isabel, D. Manoel's daughter, was in labour of Philip II. she was told to groan, for it would relieve her. She answered, in Portugueze, “Morrer sim, queyxar me naõ.” At her death she requested that her body might not be embalmed, nor handled by any person except the Marquesa de Lombay. The Marquis was charged to attend the funeral from Toledo to Granada. "Ut reparet vires, prædam Jovis armiger It was in hot May, and the body, in obe ungue Diripit, et tepido rostra cruore notat. I licet, et tuus est quaqua patet arduus æther, Etheris in campis pascere, tuta via est. Ecce recens sudat madidis Aurora capillis, Et favet et pennas evocat aura tuas. I, matutinas combibe delicias. Sed tamen arguto quod capit ore, parum est. Non tibi Loiolidæ tenuis se conferat ales Dum nihil in terris, quo satieris, habes. dience to her will, had only been externally anointed. He never left the coffin, praying beside it at night in the churches, or sleeping on the church floor. At Grenada, when he gave up his charge, he deposed that what he delivered was the corpse of the Empress, and as a part of this formality, the coffin was opened, and he lifted up the face-cloth. The face was half consumed by worms, and excessively putrid. She had been of exceeding beauty, and the horror of this spectacle permanently affected Borja. This happened in the Puerta de Elvira, at his entrance, and was painted afterward over the gate.-P. 232. 69. From Barcelona he made it his employment to hunt out banditti. This was called cruelty. He said he found no such diversion in any other chase. "Porque le |