This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt:...sayt Theon an abbot in sythe of.iij.M. monkes/ a grete lerned man in dyuerse languages/ 1 of yl pfeccyon/ that in.xxx. yeres he neuer sware othe/ ne made ony lye/ nor yet spake ony voyd or ydleworde/ nor at ony tyme was wroth or impacyent/ 1 his sayenge was oftentymes/ that no thyng is more peryllous vnto a religyous persone/ than to kepe preuy from his souerayne his dedes or thoughtes. In yrelond ye feest of saynt Eugene/ fyrst an abbot/ 1 after made a bisshop by reuelacyon/ 1 euer of hygh pfeccyon/ he had reuelacyon of augels/ ' was of many myracles. The feest also of many other.1c. C To morowe. C The.xxiiij. day of August, the feest of saynt Bartholomewe the apostle/ that in ynde for prechynge Chryst was heded/ whose holy body was buryed in the yle of lyppary/ '1 after translated vnto beneuent/ where it is had in grete honour 1 reuerence. The feest also of.ccc. martyrs/ that by the emperours Valeriane 1 Galiene after many cruel turmetes were cast in to a lyme kylne 1 therof were they named the whyte lumpe or whyte hepe of martyrs. In normandy at rone ye feest of saynt Audoene a cofessour/ that despysed moche ye pompe of the worlde/ and yet by force he was made bisshop. In yrelond at nyucrne ye feest of saynt Patryke an abbot and of fo. xciii. b. saynt Gyldard a cofessour. f Addicyons. C The feest also of saynt Polymy a kyng of ynde/ that was couerted by saynt Bartholomewe/ t; made there a bysshop/ 1 well he gouerned his chirche.xx. yeres/ t than was buryed at the fete of his maister. In the yle of same the feest of saynt Gregory/ saynt Theodour/ saynt Leo cofessours/ yl were scculer knightes/ oftentymes by grete desyre they offred themselfe wylfully vnto martyrdom/ but for theyr honour they were exyled in to yc sayd yle/ where they...