Volume 1

The chronicle of William de Rishanger, of the Barons' War. The miracles of Simon de Montfort / Edited from manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, by James Orchard Halliwell.

  • William Rishanger
Date:
1840
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Credit: The chronicle of William de Rishanger, of the Barons' War. The miracles of Simon de Montfort / Edited from manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, by James Orchard Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MS. Harl. 4690, fol. 51, r°, 6. A contemporary autho- rity says—fuerunt qui dicerent ad sepulchrum ejus multa fieri miracula, et in loco ubi occisus est fontem nunc esse amenissimum et cunctis infirmantibus inde gustan- tibus saluberrimum ; sed non [ausus] est quisquam hujus- modi propalare propter timorem regis* et suorum.”— MS. Cotton. Cleop. A. 1. fol. 190, r°, «. William de Nangis, a credible authority, thus writes,~—“ porro corpus dicti Symonis monachi cujusdam abbatiz, que vocantur Entesem, juxta quam prelium commissum est, colligentes in suam szpeliendum ecclesiam portaverunt. Ad cujus tumulum, ut affrmant indigene, multi languen- tium sanitatis gratiam consecuti, Christum approbant ejus martyrium acceptasse.” It is unnecessary to add more from printed authorities.¢ * « De quo fama celebris quod multis post obitum radiaverit mira- culis, que propter metum regium non prodeunt in publicum.”— Chronicon Eveshamize, MS. Laud. 529, Bern. 1510, fol. 64, ro. Cf. Chron. Petroburgh. MS. Cotton. Claud. A. v. fol. 35, v°, a. + Spicilegium Luc. Dacher. tom. iil. p. 41. t Rishanger compares Montfort to Thomas 4 Becket, MS. Cotton. Claud. D. vi. fol. 120, v°, 8. William de Shepisheved, in his brief chronicle, thus speaks of Montfort and those who died with him at Evesham :—‘‘ qui pro justitia et juramento suo,servandum legitime agonizantes migraverunt ad Dominum. Sed non est hic breviter (sicut solito) transeundum de dicto comite, qui pro regni libertatibus CAMD. soc. 15. e