and their Councils Abridged. 41; but wort will follow within three years] fighing and weeping out thefe ` words, his fpeech failed him and he died. And ibid.Mat, Paris faith, that the fame night that he died wonderful. Mufical founds and Ringings were heard near in the Air by feveral friars, and by Fu1k Bilhopof London (then not far off) who' faid whenhe heard ' it, that he was confident their reverend Father, Brother andMatter, the Venerable ' Bopof Lincolnwas paffing out of the World to Heaven. Id. ibid. The Bishop being dead, the Arch-Bishop of Canterburyand the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln fell out in 1lriving, who in the vacancy had the power of giidingPrebends :wherein theArch-Bithop.by Power utterly oppreffed them. And M. Pari p. 880. of&rmeth that Miracles were done after the death of this-Bill-lopby his virtues at Lincoln, and yet confeffeth force of his faults and his f 4rp thundring againfi Monks anti Nuns, &v. § 199. The fame Author tells us, p. 883.anno 14-54. that the Pope was ` fo unmeafureábley wrathful againfi this holy Learned Bishop , that when '`he was dead, he would have taken up his bones and raft theirs out of the `Church, and purpofed to precipitate him into fo great infamy, that he fhould ' be proclaimed a Heathen, a rebel and difobedient to the whole world; andhe ' commanded a Letter to that purpofe to be written to the King of England, ' knowing that the King would be mad enough againfi him and ready enough to prey -upon the Church But the next night the fetid Bilhop of Lincoln ap- * The ti_ ` peared to him in his epifcopalattire, with a feuere countenance, an auftere look, AP was ' and terrible voice, he came and fpake to the Pope that was relefs in his bed, .for arca d magna Ch ' pricking him in the fide with a violent thruftwith the point of his paforal the coupan_ `Rafe which be earried,and faid; miferable Pope Senebald ! 'Dolt thou purpofe in treys liber- '-difgrace of me, and the Church: of Lincoln to raft my bones out of the Church, tier. 'Whence did this timeritÿ' befal thee: It were better that thou, advanced and ' honoured by God, fhould honour thofe which are zealous for. God; even when t;they are dead: Henceforth God will give thee no more power over me: I wrote "to thee in the fpirit of humility and love; that thou Jhouldft correib thy many ' errours: But with a proud eye and -a bewitching heart thou haft defpifed wholefo»ee warnings : Wo to thee that defpifpeft : Shalt thou not be defpifed.] '-And the Bithop Robert departing, frik.ng as with a lance, thePope, who when. ' as is faid be was pricked, groaned aloud, be left him, half dead, and' with a "mournful voice groaning with fight ; His Chamberlainshearing him, being afta- ' nifhed, asked him, what the matter mat. 76c Pope anfwering with fight and 'groans, faid, The terrours,of thenight,have vehemently troubled me; norfhall I ever be well' again as I woos ! Oh, alas, how great is the pain of my fide! ' A ghoff bath pierced me with a lance: And be neither eat nor drank that day; feigning that he was inflamed with feavours that ftreightened. his breath 5 And 'Gods revenge and wrath did not fo leave him. 'Not long after the Pepe, not fenfible of Gods warnings by his Servants, but 'fitting about warlike and feciclar matters, he profpered not in them, though be ` laid out great care and labour and coif: But Wars, yea, the Lordof hafts . using againft-him, his areno which -at great, charges be had fnt againitr the 3 . . Apuli-..
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